Welcome to the website of Wisdom Projects, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to anti-oppressive community education and community health. We are building movements and organizing communities for peace, healing, justice, dignity, and holistic learning. We are creating and enhancing deep cultures of nurturance that actualize nonviolence.

​Headquartered in Baltimore City, Maryland, Wisdom Projects, Inc. has two divisions: the Chicago Wisdom Project (founded in 2010) and the Baltimore Wisdom Project (founded in 2013). ​

Wisdom Projects, Inc. is the result of the 2019 merger of both divisions into one nonprofit organization.
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The mission of Wisdom Projects, Inc. is to reimagine education and reimagine the world by enhancing the lives of youth and adults with holistic education, intercultural understanding, and anti-oppressive, liberationist thought leadership. ​

In our unique giving-service model, the Baltimore Wisdom Project organizes and builds communities undergoing socio-economic challenges and patterns of violence with predominately Black and Brown community members by offering the following:

1. Trauma-informed healing services (community participatory mindfulness; peace-building; nonviolent credible messaging; upstander-modeling; transformative justice; conflict transformation; community counseling; restorative practices; restorative justice; de-escalation; and health navigation);
2. STEM and arts education (life science; exercise science; health science; nutrition; environmental health; environmental justice; civic, social, and cultural studies); and
3. Institutional support (food service (if applicable); infrastructural support (counsel and limited resources for interior improvements for learning spaces); consultations for fundraising and development; consultations for justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (or JEDI principles); professional development for trauma-informed care and national standards for safety and security; and strategic communications).

The Baltimore Wisdom Project has offered high quality educational and health services in some of the epicenters of neighborhood violence in Baltimore in partnership with community centers like the former Penn North Kids Safe Zone in Sandtown-Winchester and the 29th Street Community Center in Greenmount East. We have also offered in-school restorative justice and mindfulness programs at institutions like Towson High School. We continue to offer these services in daily, deep collaboration with the McKim Center in Baltimore.

The Chicago Wisdom Project now primarily offers thought leadership on anti-oppressive education for health, wellness, and justice. This division previously offered ground-breaking out-of-school-time and summer holistic-educational and rite-of-passage programming to youth primarily from the South Side of Chicago. The Chicago Wisdom Project also trained practitioners in a unique course for holistic educators.

We often offer virtual guided mindfulness every last Sunday of the month at 6 PM EST in a series called "Learning to Love Ourselves". 

​Wisdom Projects, Inc. is grounded in the Wisdom Education movement. To learn more about this movement, please obtain and read Dr. Theodore Richards' Creatively Maladjusted: The Wisdom Education Movement Manifesto (Homebound Publications, 2013). 

Co-Executive Directors of Wisdom Projects, Inc.
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Dr. Theodore Richards
Director (CEO) and Founder 
​Chicago Wisdom Project 
Co-Director (Co-CEO) of Wisdom Projects, Inc. 

Upāsikā Miss tree turtle
Director (CEO), Lead Teacher, and Co-Founder
Baltimore Wisdom Project
Co-Director (Co-CEO) of Wisdom Projects, Inc.

Board Members of Wisdom Projects, Inc.
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• Upāsikā Miss tree turtle, President
• Dr. Theodore Richards, Vice President 
• Mr. Todd Hoskins, Secretary
• Ms. Mollie Dowling, Member
• Ms. Arianne Richards, Treasurer
• Ms. Sharon Williams, Member
• Ms. Laura Orem, Member​ ​
• ​Mr. Finn Schubert, Member

Administrative Essentials 
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• Click here for our BYLAWS.
• ​Feel free to contact us for recent financials.
• Our fiscal year runs from September 1 through August 31. We have completed an independent audit as well as a Form 990 for the last fiscal year of 2019-2020. 
  
• Click here for our nondiscrimination policy.

Connect 
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• Click here the Chicago Wisdom Project on Twitter.
• Click here the Chicago Wisdom Project on Facebook.
• Click here the Baltimore Wisdom Project on Twitter.
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• Click here Wisdom Projects, Inc. on Instagram.
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