Boulder Institute
Board of Directors
Elias Amidon
Elizabeth Roberts, Ed.D.
Margo King
John Steiner
Virginia Jordan
Robert Gass, Ed.D.
Rick Paine, M.Div.
Lynnaea Lumbard, Ph.D.
William Ury, Ph.D.
The Boulder Institute for Nature and the Human Spirit, a non-profit 501(c)3 organization, was founded in 1994 by Elias Amidon and Elizabeth Rabia Roberts. Its Path of the Friend programs promote citizen diplomacy, cross-cultural awareness, spiritual awakening, and just relationships among people and between people and the land.
The Institute sponsors a variety of educational and leadership trainings, interfaith pilgrimages, and wilderness journeys, and directs micro-grants to grassroots development projects. It seeks to create modes of activism in which a spiritual and moral witness can be brought to bear upon the political, social and environmental issues of our time.
The Institute is entirely funded by large and small donations from people who want to support our form of independent citizen diplomacy in the world. We have received occasional grants from foundations such as the Threshold Foundation, the Kalliopea Foundation, the Rudolph Steiner Foundation, and the Soros Foundation. The Institute also serves as an incubator for new innovative projects related to the countries in which we work.
With the Iraq Peace Team in pre-invasion Baghdad (l); citizen empowerment at the Festival of Forest Communities, Thailand (c); interfaith dialogue in Syria (r).
The Boulder Institute for Nature and the Human Spirit is a not-for-profit corporation (501(c) (3)). Our programs are open to individuals of any religion, ethnicity, gender or heritage. A scholarship fund is made available whenever possible to help those on low income participate in our programs.
The Boulder Institute
1644 Pearl Street
Boulder, CO 80302
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The Path of the Friend is a project of the Boulder Institute for Nature and the Human Spirit,
a non-profit 501(c)3 organization. 1644 Pearl Street, Boulder, Colorado 80302 USA.