A Letter From Our Founder

Welcome. The Inner Wisdom Foundation came about to help serve a need that has yet to be met. We strive every day to provide struggling populations with basic needs –education, clean water, basic healthcare, and food. The organization sprang out of the desire to help. But, more specifically, and more importantly, to help people in a way that both respected their way of life and allowed them to be as self-sufficient as possible. Our overarching goal in our work with international and local populations is to cultivate self-sufficiency and provide sustainable, lasting solutions. I founded the organization with the hope that as President of a non-profit, I would be able to multiply the efforts that so many individuals make toward improving the lives of others.

Our mission is simply that - to improve the lives of others. Inner Wisdom Foundation does this through local school initiatives, construction of healthcare facilities and schools, and education. With your support, through volunteering or through a charitable donation, I believe that our small Vermont-based non-profit can inspire the type of ethic that Vermonters have abroad. My goal is to take the positive authenticity that Vermonters share, and bring that to Honduras and Uganda.

I am always struck with how little it takes to make an incredible change in someone’s life. For some communities of rural Honduras and Uganda, as little as USD$20 is enough to do give an entire community a healthy meal. It is as easy as sacrificing one dinner out a month to give 10 children the opportunity to attend a bilingual school. It takes each person in one small community to donate $100 dollars apiece to build a solar powered schoolhouse that will ensure children of all ages and adults have a safe, clean, reliable place to learn. Often it just amounts to taking a few minutes out of your day to help spread the word.
I hope our website provides you with the information and inspiration that you are looking for, and I hope that you find our project and programs interesting. Please feel free to contact me, or any of the Inner Wisdom staff, with questions, concerns, or suggestions for new and creative ways in which we can continue to serve those in the greatest need.

I will end with a request. Help us continue our work by volunteering your time, collaborating with our organization, or donating to our cause.

Thank you, again, for your interest in our Foundation.
Coleen H. Krauss
Founder & President