Welcome to the RiverGanga Foundation

We hope you will find the site easier and more pleasing to move around in.

If you get a moment, please email us to let us know what you think of the new look.

Please help build the financial foundation we need to bring the news of the incredible gift of inward looking to all of humankind.

Please consider making a monthly pledge in any amount to secure the day-to-day operating expenses of the practical foundation of our work.

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Just One Look results

People all over the world called in to give their reports of the results of the looking.
They were recorded via telephone in July and August 2011.

More reports in our Community Center

Just One Look. Are you in?

What is the RiverGanga Foundation?

RiverGanga Foundation is the organization that makes possible the work of John and Carla Sherman. The Foundation serves this purpose by using the money donated to it to purchase the equipment, services, and utilities needed to conduct that work.

RiverGanga Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation that operates as a 509(a)(2) public charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, and under the authority and supervision of the Internal Revenue Service and the California Franchise Tax Board. The Foundation is required by law to substantiate the basis of its not-for-profit, tax-exempt status by filing annual financial reports and statements of activities with the IRS and the State of California Franchise Tax Board.

Since practically all of the income to the Foundation comes from relatively small donations, the Foundation is considered a Public Charity by the IRS. And that means that if you itemize your deductions, you will pay no income tax on donations made to us.

Because of its status as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation, the RiverGanga Foundation is able to purchase many goods and services, including computers, software, and services at steep discounts, since corporations can deduct donations of goods and services from their taxable income. The online webinar software, donated by Citrix, is an example of this. To take advantage of the level of service that we enjoy now because of their donation, it would cost the foundation $500 a month, which is to say there would be no online meetings at all.

RiverGanga Foundation also has purchased and owns all of the computers, software, audio and video equipment, web services, and even the van we use to travel to events.

Who is the RiverGanga Foundation?

In more down-to-earth terms, RiverGanga Foundation is John and Carla Sherman, living in a rental house in Ojai, California. The top half of the house is given over to five computers, three desks, three chairs, a couple of folding tables, two closets full of office supplies and computer paraphernalia, a couple of file cabinets full of the paper records of our work, many books and several bookcases, audio and video equipment, three working printers, one CD-DVD duplicator, two internet routers, three external hard drives, and all the stuff accumulated in more than twelve years of operation.

RiverGanga Foundation is John and Carla spending an average of ten hours a day, every day:

• planning, writing, designing, creating and managing six websites;


• organizing and conducting several in person events — annual 5-Day Retreats, Public Meetings, Intensives, and Afternoon Events — as well as a good number of online events — monthly Saturday Worldwide Online Meetings, Wednesday Open House Meetings three times a month, video and audio interviews, and an average of 4 Private Conversations with people all over the world every month;


• performing, from beginning to end, the painstaking, time-consuming recording, editing, production and publication of every audio recording, every video, everything you have ever read, listened to or watched on our websites, on our YouTube channels, on the iTunes Podcast, and on websites all over the world that reproduce our feeds.


• and, one of the great satisfactions of this work, albeit time consuming, reading hundreds of emails, forum postings, blog comments and other communications from people all over the world every day.

And now, RiverGanga Foundation, which is to say us — all of us since nothing happens without your support — has taken on a breathtaking project: the worldwide propagation of the simple idea of inward looking at the experience of being me to at least 700 million people. Just to see what happens.