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 healing, justice, dignity, and holistic learning. 

​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 (peace-building; nonviolent credible messaging; upstander-modeling; transformative justice; conflict transformation; community counseling; mindfulness; restorative practices; restorative justice; 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 Chicago Wisdom Project primarily offers thought leadership on anti-oppressive education for health, wellness, and justice.

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

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

Board Members of Wisdom Projects, Inc.
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• Dr. Theodore Richards, President 
• Upāsikā Miss tree turtle, 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.
• 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.
• Click here Wisdom Projects, Inc. on TikTok. ​
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