2024-05-10T14:14:04-07:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 824982519 RESILIENT ACTIVIST INC RESI 9139151971 15 W 108th Terr Kansas City MO 64114 Sami Aaron Executive Director 9139151971 2024-05-10 Sami Aaron 999009999 1 1 11 0 AAL2 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X www.theresilientactivist.org X X 33231 X 23354 3021 0 0 0 0 0 0 6856 1712 5144 0 0 0 0 31519 0 0 25085 4465 0 270 9762 39582 -8063 18910 0 10847 X 19214 10937 0 0 0 0 19214 10937 304 90 18910 10847 Through our efforts, current and future generations will live in a healthy, diverse, and regenerative environment. The world needs inspired and visionary activists who have the resilience to see us through these unprecedented times. We cultivate resilience to environmental stress by supporting community, personal well-being, and vital ecological health. In 2023, TRA offered 46 events, workshops, and speakers' bureau programs to 717 participants. Eight professionals provided 165 volunteer hours as in-kind donations amounting to $12,665 for program development, management, and presentation. The Resilient Activist's (TRA) Speakers Bureau offers educational and inspiring presentations and workshops designed to help audiences better understand ways they can create a healthier planet while nurturing themselves. These presentations offer an overview of climate anxiety and ecological grief along with simple practices that are hopeful and imbued with self-care. In 2023, five of our presenters offered eight Speakers Bureau Presentations for 12.5 hours of programming to 294 participants from various communities including faith-based groups, international activists, high school and university students, and Parents-As-Teachers program leaders. Topics included: Climate Resilience, Five Essentials of Self-Care, Five Essentials for Earth-Care under the Pope's Climate Encyclical, Gardening for Pollinators, Deepening Nature Connection, Developing Emotional Resilience for Climate Action, Sustaining Activists Panel Discussion, Conversation & Meditation: Holding Grief in Community. Our presenters offered these programs through TRA with $5,310 in-kind donated hours. 0 5310 In 2023, we hosted two programs for librarians through the American Library Association in collaboration with their Sustainability Roundtable sub-committee. These programs included customized content to expose librarians across the U.S. and Canada to the emotional impacts of climate change on the communities they serve and to give access to resources available through The Resilient Activist and other climate change/mental health organizations. The first program was "Climate Resilience 101: The Intersection Between Mental Health, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice". The second was "Promoting Climate Change Resiliency: The Intersection of Climate Change and Mental Health." Both programs shared the growing language and terms around climate anxiety and related conditions and content from information provided to SAMHSA in response to their Request For Information on the intersection of climate change and mental health. Details were provided about the effects of severe weather events, environmental destruction, and social justice issues for distinct groups: ~ Black and Brown communities, ~ Teens, Tweens, and Children, ~ Young Adults and their decision-making angst on the professions they choose and whether to bring children into the world, ~ the Elderly, and ~ Environmental Activists and their experience of moral injury. These events were presented to 110 librarians and resulted in a collaborative relationship with the American Library Association for The Resilient Activist to create ongoing Climate Café programs for libraries around the country. This collaborative programming is under development in 2024. These programs were developed and presented through in-kind donations of $2,453 and $787 in reimbursed speaker's stipend and travel expenses. 0 3240 In February 2023, we were honored to present our unique program, Four Steps for a Resilient Life, to participants at the Midwest Climate Collaborative Summit. Attendees at this summit were environmental and social justice activists in a twelve-state area from the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, universities, governmental sustainability directors at all levels, and grassroots organizations. There is an extraordinary burden of burnout, frustration, and grief in this community as the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continue to rise and as more and more communities experience extreme weather events, increased temperatures, droughts, and more. Two experienced activist facilitators from The Resilient Activist presented this 90-minute program to 32 participants, to assist them in refocusing, reframing, and rebooting their activism to reduce feelings of overwhelm and exhaustion. Utilizing the Ryff Scales of Emotional Resilience survey pre- and post-event, the "Purpose in Life" scores increased from 44.1 to 45.8. This difference was statistically significant (F(18)=1.99, p=.031) The Resilient Activist offers this workshop to organizations, customized for their participants to practice self-care, self-reflection, and reimagining techniques so they can recognize, honor, and celebrate what brings joy and energy into their lives while noticing where stress or difficulty arises. This workshop was developed and presented through in-kind donations of $2,220. 0 2220 In March 2023, TRA offered a one-hour Visionary Activist Workshop through the Midwest Climate Collaborative to 63 environmentally aware activist university students from a 12-state region. Our Visionary Activist Workshop shares the art of taking action to bring forth creative and inspired ideas that are bubbling up from participants' hearts to heal Earth and create a regenerative, just future for all beings. Through a combination of deep nature-connected meditations, journaling, conversation, and focused time on the seven steps of this program, students were able to visualize and refine the environmental justice issues they cared most about, and to develop a plan for how they could manifest those visions and turn them into action in ways that feel joyful and sustainable. Participants journaled in a content-driven workbook to sustain their visionary activism as they formulated their plans for future action and advocacy. This workshop was offered as an in-kind donation totaling $720. 0 720 11490 Sami Aaron Board Chair, Executive Director 40 12000 0 0 Anne Melia Vice Chair 20 0 0 0 Anna Graether Secretary 3 0 0 0 Naomi Latini Wolfe Board Member 2 0 0 0 Heather Newhard Operations Director 3 6240 0 0 Anna Gilmore Administrative Assistant 3 4929 0 0 Pam Hausner Board member at large 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sami Aaron 15 W 108th Terr Kansas City MO 64114 9139151971 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 4822 7566 22268 13975 30210 78841 114 2137 1976 15806 3021 23054 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4936 9703 24244 29781 33231 101895 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 101895 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 100 0 100 300 4936 9803 24344 29781 33331 102195 0.99706 0.9972 0 0 X Schedule A, Part III, Line 12 Credit Card Rewards Income RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Description;Amount^Bank Fees;724|Computer and Related;4422|Dues Memberships Subscriptions;710|Gifts;260|Meals;8|Office Supplies;243|Professional Development;903|Meeting and Event Registration Fees;81|Government Registration Fees;36|General Liability Insurance;1640|Travel Expenses including Lodging and Transportation;735^Total;9762^ Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 Outstanding Credit Card Expense