Let’s create a better world
for our children
Why Movement and Mindfulness Are Urgently Needed Now
We are living in a time of continuous activation, social division, global instability, systemic inequity, and constant information overload, which are placing significant strain on the nervous systems of individuals of all ages. Without support for regulation:
- Learning becomes harder
- Relationships become more reactive
- Burnout accelerates
- Communities lose the capacity to respond thoughtfully
Mindfulness, particularly when rooted in movement and body awareness, provides a practical, evidence-based approach to restoring balance and agency. Your support ensures that these tools reach classrooms and communities before stress escalates into long-term harm.
How Your Donation Creates Sustainable Impact
Real change happens when practices are accessible, consistent, and embodied.
Your donation supports movement-based mindfulness programs, like Dynamic Mindfulness, designed for practical environments, not ideal conditions. Niroga’s approach emphasizes brief, repeatable practices that can be used daily in classrooms and community spaces, for all kids and their caretakers to build strong foundations for lasting wellbeing.
Prevention | Early Childhood, TK-12 Schools & Higher Ed
- Equipping students with vital life skills for learning, resilience and healthy coping
- Ensuring educator self-care to counter compassion fatigue and burnout
- Nurturing families with tools to deepen well-being and strengthen relationships
Intervention | Alternative Schools & Juvenile Halls
- Disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline with students most impacted by inequity
- Supporting incarcerated youth to provide trauma-informed tools for rehabilitation
- Guiding school staff and probation officers to enhance well-being and efficacy
Recovery | Schools & Communities
- Providing communities with mindfulness practices to augment trauma healing
- Training mental health professionals to support the needs of the whole person
- Building capacity in communities to recover, and prevent future tragedies
Our Mission: A Million Mindful Children
Help us bring mindfulness where it is needed the most. Your support is vital to create a ripple effect across our communities.
Learn more about our vision and Dynamic Mindfulness below.
Choose the Impact You Want to Make
Whether you give once or monthly, your donation supports trauma-informed mindfulness and can make a lasting difference. No matter the amount, your contribution helps expand access to practices that restore focus, balance, and connection. Here are some examples of what your gift can help support:
Adopt a Classroom
Provides a classroom with a year-long Dynamic Mindfulness program
Support a Teacher
Supplies a teacher with DMind training, coaching, and curricular supports
Enable a Student Leader
Equips a student leader with essential skills to support self and peers
Develop the Whole Child
Teaches social emotional skills to four students struggling with self-regulation
Your Generosity Deserves Transparency
Trusted Stewardship. Real Accountability.
Niroga Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with over 20 years of experience in delivering mindfulness programs that are based on neuroscience, trauma-informed care, and equity. We are dedicated to responsible stewardship, ensuring your donation results in significant impact. Your contribution is tax-deductible as allowed by law and supports programs that prioritize sustainability, inclusion, and long-term change.
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25,000+
Teachers Trained
A Message From Our Founder
Solutions for root causes
Chronic stress is the root cause of several interelated problems in health care, education, and public safety.
- Bidyut K Bose, Founder & Executive Director
Sponsor Access to Mindfulness for Underserved Communities
Finding power within
I'm not getting as mad anymore because I can calm myself now using mindfulness...We use it every morning so it helps me a lot to get the stress off of me, so I can move on.
- High School Student
Creating community leaders
My goal is to have our students show their parents how to breathe, how to calm themselves. They could teach their younger brother or little sister...create a snowball effect...that's beautiful! We're going to change this community, not just our school.
- Vice Principal, Middle School
Let's Invest in Empathy, Equity, and Empowerment
Equity means meeting stress with support, not silence. Many of the communities Niroga serves face the highest levels of stress and the fewest prevention resources. Your donations help ensure that access to mindfulness is not limited by budget or circumstance.
Other Ways To Contribute To Equity
Donate by check
Payable to: Niroga Institute
Mail to: 2363 Mariner Square Drive
Suite 149
Alameda, CA 94501
"Having kids realize, through mindfulness, that they have control over their bodies, over their mind, that’s really powerful.”
Michelle Matson, 3rd Grade Teacher at King-Chavez Elementary School
"I always felt like if you could create a culture where kids felt safe, they felt loved and they felt appreciated, and the staff felt the same exact way, you’d get the best from your staff and the best from your students.”
John Jimno, Principal at Park Middle School
“Instead of more stress and, like, hatred in your body, it’s more like calm and peacefulness in your mind so that you can get through the day better.”
Jayden, Student at Mission High School
Frequently Asked Questions About Your Donation
Niroga Institute is committed to fiscal responsibility. We use donations to:
- Subsidize services to schools and organizations with high need and limited financial means
- Innovate products that deepen our impact and are inclusive of marginalized communities
- Enhance the efficacy and efficiency of our systems to help us achieve excellence
Niroga Institute spends less than 12% on operational expenses. The industry standard for nonprofits is to use less than 15%. In our experience, spending less than 10% operationally starves necessary infrastructure.
In an effort to ensure wage equity, Niroga Institute's wage ratio is less than 3:1. The highest paid employee makes less than three times the lowest paid employee.
Niroga Institute is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and your donation is tax-deductible to the extent permitted by U.S. law. Please retain your email donation receipt for your records. Our EIN number is: 20-2620278.
Thank you for your interest in learning more about our impact in the community. Feel free to Email us at development@niroga.org with any questions that you have.
We are committed to transparency and responsible stewardship of donor resources. Please see our profiles on Candid (formerly GuideStar and Foundation Center) Charity Navigator. Additionally, please find our most recent IRS Form 990 here.
Thank you for your deep care of your community and support of Niroga's work. Please Email us at transform@niroga.org if you would like us to connect with your school, PTA, or other affiliated organization.