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THE SCHOOL MINDFULNESS PROJECT INC

Sustainable Wellbeing For Philadelphia Schools

Philadelphia, PA   |  http://www.theschoolmindfulnessproject.org

Mission

The School Mindfulness Project aspires to improve the physical, emotional and academic wellbeing of Philadelphia's public school communities by providing sustainable mindfulness and mindful movement education and training to students and staff on a school-wide basis.

Notes from the nonprofit

Before we do some visioning together, casting our imaginations into a future where school communities in underserved neighborhoods are bustling with students who are resilient, calm, focused, and physically and emotionally supported, where teachers are equipped with tools to engage and elevate their students and themselves, where whole school communities are supported in fostering a culture of wellbeing, we invite you to pause. Notice the sensation of the chair beneath you. With your eyes open or closed take a deep breath, filling from your belly to your chest. Then exhale slowly. If you’d like, take another breath, inhaling and filling your lungs, exhaling slow enough to feel that you’re breathing out. Now, let’s step together back to the future. If we take a look around, we might see that students that we once taught have joined the SMP as ambassadors, board members, educators, and can be seen cultivating the wellbeing that years earlier changed their own lives.

Ruling year info

2017

Executive Director

Gail Silver

Main address

413 S 3rd St

Philadelphia, PA 19147 USA

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EIN

81-4399519

NTEE code info

Youth Development Programs (O50)

Elementary, Secondary Ed (B20)

IRS filing requirement

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Programs and results

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Our programs

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What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

The SMPeaceful School Program

SMP partners with underserved Philadelphia schools to provide our SMPeaceful School program —a direct service model that enhances the physical, behavioral, and academic well-being of underserved school communities through school-wide, mind body education and social-emotional learning. At the heart of our integrative, five-phase model is the premise that the benefits of wellness programming can be best sustained when the practice that generates wellness is sewn into the fabric of the community, strengthening the community, until the practice is ultimately nurtured from within the community. Utilizing mindfulness as a whole child strategy for emotional wellbeing at the classroom level, classroom communities spend one to three years adopting mindfulness practices and integrating them into classroom life and beyond before matriculating to yoga classes for the duration of their school years. The result is a program that fosters a sustainable culture of wellbeing for entire school community.

Population(s) Served
At-risk youth
Children and youth

Where we work

Our Sustainable Development Goals

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How we listen

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Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We shared information about our current feedback practices.

  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

    We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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THE SCHOOL MINDFULNESS PROJECT INC

Board of directors
as of 08/07/2024
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board co-chair

Mr. Hugh Regan

CFO Intest (Retired)

Term: 2023 -


Board co-chair

Mrs. Erika Taxin

Main Line Yoga Shala

Term: 2023 -

Hugh Regan

Jasoleil Cineus

Brennan Robinson

MindKee Corp

Rachael Katz

Erika Taxin

Main Line Yoga Shala

Board leadership practices

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  • Board orientation and education
    Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes
  • CEO oversight
    Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No
  • Ethics and transparency
    Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
  • Board performance
    Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 5/25/2023
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Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
White/Caucasian/European
Gender identity
Female, Not transgender
Sexual orientation
Heterosexual or Straight
Disability status
Person without a disability

Race & ethnicity

Gender identity

Transgender Identity

Sexual orientation

Disability

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Equity strategies

Last updated: 09/27/2022

GuideStar partnered with Equity in the Center - an organization that works to shift mindsets, practices, and systems to increase racial equity - to create this section. Learn more

Data
  • We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
  • We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
  • We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
  • We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
Policies and processes
  • We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
  • We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
  • We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
  • We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
  • We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
  • We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
  • We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.