Why Give to The Mindfulness Center?

The Mindfulness Center is an IRS approved 501c3 non-profit organization. All charitable donations to The Mindfulness Center are tax deductible. Donations to The Mindfulness Center support our educational, charitable and scientific programs. Your donations say that you value our work to bring self-healing and optimal wellness to the community. The health and mindfulness in mind, body and spirit of each individual in our community creates a ripple effect that carries into the larger community, to homes, schools and the workplace. This in turn fosters mindful stewardship of the wellness of the people and environment around us. See the list below of current educational, charitable and scientific programs conducted by The Mindfulness Center.

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Ways to Give

• Online giving
• Send a gift by mail
• Call Jacque Norris, Business Director, at 301-986-1090 or 301-252-0243.
• Stop by The Mindfulness Center

Educational Programs Supported by The Mindfulness Center

Mind Body Week DC

Visit www.MindBodyWeek.com for sponsorship opportunities.

The Mindfulness Center and other mind-body centers and practitioners in the Washington DC metropolitan area are committed to promoting and improving the health of our community, and thereby also contributing to the health of the nation. Mind-Body Week DC takes these efforts into the private sector, and considers evidence-based medical research and knowledge as the foundation for the appropriate application of mind-body therapies, and their role in the standard of medical care.

Objectives for Mind-Body Week:

1. Provide scientists, practitioners and interested consumers with evidence-based lectures on mind-body medicine and classes that highlight mind-body therapies, therapeutic application and mechanism of action. Each yearŐs Keynote Event(s) will focus on the evidence-basis for the use of mind-body therapies for treating a specific condition. The week-long program of lectures, posters, demonstrations and classes will address the broad range of mind-body therapeutic modalities, and their clinical applications across the spectrum of health care needs.
2. Provide scientists, practitioners and interested consumers with resources for delivering mind-body therapies for clinical application, to manage stress, and to improve quality of life.
3. Foster the exchange of information on mind-body medicine from mind-body experts, scientists, practitioners and the public.
4. Increase awareness of healthy lifestyle behaviors.

Charitable Programs Provided by The Mindfulness Center

The Sue Marcum Meditation Fund

Dr. Sue Marcum was a professor of accounting at The American University from 1999 to 2010 where she was Director of the Master's in Accounting program. Dr. Marcum believed in the importance of meditation as a pedagogical practice and as a practice for students to use to cope with the ever-increasing stressors of modern life. Dr. Marcum taught all of her students to meditate and began each class she taught with meditation. For Sue, meditation was a part of her lifestyle. She was a member of the Board of Directors of The Mindfulness Center until her untimely death in 2010.

This scholarship fund represents Dr. Marcum's loving work and desire to be helpful, supportive and involved with her students, and to teach them the benefits of meditation. It is provided to support students with financial need who would like to learn the practice of meditation as a tool for managing and reducing stress in their lives. It also supports the open studio time, when the meditation room is open for public use.

The Mind-Body for Cancer Support Group

This support group opportunity is provided to the community, for those whose lives are touched by cancer. Cancer patients who are newly diagnosed, in treatment, or in recovery, as well as family members and cancer care-givers are invited to learn and practice Mind-Body-Spirit tools which have proven effective through medical research to play a role in recovery from cancer. After decades of research, the data is compelling. Lifestyle changes make a difference in the well-being of people with cancer.

Support for this program pays tuition for those in financial need.

Research Programs supported by The Mindfulness Center (2010-2011)

1. The Effect of Qigong and Acupuncture Therapy on Disturbed Sleep or Perceived Stress in United States Military Veterans.
   (Needs funding. In conjunction with American University)
2. Chronic Pain in Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury: Effects of iRest Yoga Nidra on Perceived Pain, Cortisol, Interleukin-6, and Brain White Matter Integrity.
   (Fully funded. In conjunction with the Veteran's Affairs Medical Center)
3. Effects of Developing Meditative Mindfulness for Stress Management in the Workplace.
   (Completed.)
4. Effects of Meditation on Depression.
   (Needs funding)
5. A Comparative Analysis of Fast-acting Pain Management Interventions for Children in Distress.
   (Fully funded. In conjunction with Children's Hospital)
6. A Review of the Role of Exercise in Cancer Therapy: Biomechanisms of Action
   (Needs funding.)
7. A Correlational Analysis of Mental Health and Dietary Nutrition in College Age Students.
   (Completed. In conjunction with American University)
8. Clinical Exercise Prescription of Movement Therapy for Treatment of Low Back Pain.
   (Partially Funded.In conjunction with American University)
9. Detection Methods for Pancreatic Cancer.
   (Needs funding.)