Asking for Your Help!

“The warmth of the community, the commitment to practicing the Buddha’s teachings, and the generosity of SIM is felt each time I engage with the sangha as a teacher. I feel incredibly fortunate to be a part of all the wholesome offerings SIM continues to put forward into the world.”
~ Vance Pryor, SIM Legacy Project Teacher

Dear Friends,

For over 20 years, SIM has provided a safe and welcoming environment in which to explore the profound teachings of the historical Buddha in the Theravada/Insight Meditation tradition and to cultivate spiritual friendship and community. It has been a rich and precious experience as these teachings can change the way we understand living, relationships, and dying.

SIM has consistently provided a core set of offerings including weekly sit and Dharma talks, monthly daylong retreats, an annual residential retreat, the Beginning Meditation Course, and other courses designed to deepen our practice.

To continue to offer learning and practice opportunities and to ensure SIM’s future and long-term presence in Sacramento, we are launching two vital initiatives:

  • Legacy Teacher Project (LTP): This program will expand and deepen SIM’s core faculty to ensure the continuity of teaching and will result in new courses and practice opportunities by providing stipends to three new faculty.
  • Operations Manager (OM): The person in this part-time position will provide the long-needed role of central oversight, management, and coordination of SIM’s day-to-day operations.

Funding these initiatives will require an additional $55,000 to our annual budget each year going forward ($33,000 for the LTP; and $22,000 for the OM). And we need your help!

SIM is wholly sustained by the generosity of the community through financial contributions and volunteering. Thank you! To support these new initiatives now, you can help in the following important ways:

Thank you for your contribution and support! We appreciate this deeply and look forward to strengthening our sangha and practicing together in the coming year.

With gratitude,

Amy Kovak, on behalf of the SIM Board of Directors & Faculty

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