River Ganga Foundation

Privacy Policy

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Thank you for visiting the RiverGanga Foundation website. Your privacy is very important to us, and the information you provide is safeguarded and protected to the best of our abilities.

Our fundamental policy regarding your privacy is that we will never sell, rent, or give away any information you provide about yourself for any reason

Security

We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online and over the telephone or through written communication.

The Information We Collect

At www.riverganga.org or by direct call to the River Ganga Foundation, you can order products, send us email, register to participate in our events, make donations and request to be added to our mailing list. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services. From time to time we may add other services to this site, and may request certain other information to support these services.

How We Use the Information You Give Us

We use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, and to respond to your inquiries about our offerings.

We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you of upcoming programs, to send you our email newsletters, or to contact you about your account with us.

If you send a letter or poetry to John, we may publish your letter or poetry anonymously with John's permission.

We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage, and to determine what services and products may be of interest to the sangha.

All staff and supervised volunteers who have access to any personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Notice.

Finally, we will not use or transfer personally identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you with an opportunity to opt out of these unrelated uses.

How You Can Access or Correct Information

For instructions on how you can access the personally identifiable information that this site has collected about you online, or how to correct factual errors in such information, or to request that such information be deleted from our databases, you may send an e-mail or letter to the following e-mail or street address. For verification purposes please include your first name, last name and e-mail address. To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

E-mail: info@riverganga.org
RiverGanga Foundation
PO Box 1566
Ojai, CA 93024-1566

 

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about the RiverGanga Foundation online policy for this site or its implementation you may contact us at webdevelopment@riverganga.org.

 

Funds Progress

We need to raise $40,000
in donations and new monthly pledges to fund our work for the rest of the year. Please help if you can. All donations are tax deductible. 

How to donate

Letter from John and Carla

Update from John and Carla

2009 Fundraising Progress - Thank You!

Date Donors Received Still Needed
Nov. 18 205 $33,376 $6,623
Nov. 13 197 $32,751 $7,248
Sept. 10 172 $29,596 $10,403
Aug. 1 143 $22,085 $17,915
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Sunday with John Sherman in Santa Monica, CA

Sunday, November 22, at 2:30 pm

Joslyn Park - Auditorium
633 Kensington Road
Santa Monica, California 90405-2417

All our events are always free of charge.
All are welcome, with no regard for religious and spiritual beliefs and practi
ces.

Spontaneous donations for the support of our work are always welcome and gratefully accepted.

 

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Podcast

A Meeting with John Sherman - October 17, 2009

We are deeply attached to the idea that the teachings of the wise ones of the past are perfect expressions of absolute truth, uncontaminated by the natural limitations of human understanding and communication. Our unconscious allegiance to this idea is very strong. But this is a simple misunderstanding, and is easily cleared up.

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Our Work

First, last, and always, my advice is only to look at the feeling of being you, without the mediation of understanding, the need to resolve paradox, or the requirement that this looking lead to any conclusion. Simply make every effort just to look, and persist in that effort as often as you can. In this effort, understanding is irrelevant, belief is irrelevant, even duration is irrelevant -- the briefest look, repeated over time, does all the work.

A Message from John Sherman, videotaped in Ojai, California on May 15, 2009.

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Our work is to bring the vichara to all who are interested.

The only problem anywhere to be found is the false belief that you are at the mercy of your life, and the only solution is the truth, which is everywhere and always present and self-evident. Ridding oneself of the false is as easy as repeatedly tasting the truth of being here, unmovingly, unchangingly here. This repeated looking directly at oneself is the infallible method of the vichara.

Although our meetings are free of charge, they are certainly not free of cost. The money needed for this work must come entirely from the generosity and compassion of those who, like us, have seen for themselves the immense worth of spreading this good news to all humanity.

Please help provide financial support for the work of making this method more widely available in the world by making a donation or a monthly pledge in any amount now.

All donations to the RiverGanga Foundation are fully tax-deductible.
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We need volunteer help in many areas. If you have any talent, skill or calling you'd like to give to this work, please contact us.  You can call us at (805) 649-1600 or email us:    volunteers@riverganga.org
contact us
RiverGanga Foundation
PO Box 1566
Ojai, California 93024-1566
Phone: (805) 649-1600
Email: info@riverganga.org

RiverGanga Foundation (FEIN 77-0561647) is a public not-for-profit organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS Code. All donations are tax-deductible according to IRS regulations.