Take ten minutes each day to simply allow God to love you. After Clarence Heller’s death in 1988, the founding trustees continued to incorporate his interests in the establishment of basic funding priorities for the foundation. With expanded board representation from the Heller and Mandell families, and the hiring of a staff, the foundation began full-time operation in November of 1990.
- A Piece of Goodness is a daily excerpt from one of Clarence’s poems, with convenient access to the entire poem for those who wish to engage.
- Clarence Heller’s reflections will leap straight into your heart, and his striking paintings bring his experience of the sacred to vibrant life.
- Organized on a monthly basis, this book explores twelve major themes, each one followed by prayer suggestions.
- Printed on high-quality coated paper with a matte interior that is perfect for note writing.
- It invites you into an intimacy with Jesus that is real, earthy, and vulnerable.
Food and Environment Reporting Network (The Sustainable Markets Foundation)
My Grandfather’s Blessings, Stories of Strength, Refuge and Belonging by Rachel Naomi Remen, 2001 The author shares life experiences through readings of brief story and spiritual nourishment. Through these stories, a table of attentive openness and invitation is spread for the reader. The meaning of strength, refuge and belonging exceeds one set of beliefs, encompassing life and living. The community of spiritual companions in this ministry has assembled a list of their favorite books which includes not only the title and author, but also brief descriptions for each book. Connecting New is Clarence’s monthly sharing of a poem, painting, prayer, and/or reflection with a spiritual message.
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Ignatianspirituality.com Ignatian Spirituality, a service of Loyola Press, a Jesuit Ministry. Prayer, spiritual direction, retreats and good decisions. Quite a comprehensive source for Ignatian Spirituality in today’s world. This lively book of poetry, prayers, and paintings will engage your heart and open your spiritual senses. It invites you into an intimacy with Jesus that is real, earthy, and vulnerable. Clarence’s candor and sincerity inspire a desire to enter into a closer relationship with God that is all-consuming, freeing, and life-giving.
Organic Farming Research Foundation
May this be for you and me, a Lent that enlightens the heart and brings freedom to the soul. The journey will never be more pure, more clear or more healing. Lent is (generally speaking) my least favorite season of the year.
Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation
This compilation of meditations beautifully transports you from today’s harried lifestyle to a tranquil awareness of the grace and beauty in everyday life. Or maybe it will serve you in the stillness of reverie when you know unconsciously that it’s time to connect new — to bring into your life an awareness of that which you already understand deep down but have lost or forgotten. Clarence E. Heller established the foundation in 1982 to support nonprofit initiatives consistent with the broad philanthropic purposes he pursued during his lifetime. The original trustees of the foundation were Clarence Heller, his brother Alfred Heller, and his sister Elizabeth H. Mandell.
Sustainable Economies Law Center
A Piece of Goodness is a daily excerpt from one of Clarence’s poems, with convenient access to the entire poem for those who wish to engage. It is available through a daily email or a post on Facebook. Lists the Scripture readings (no reflections are provided) for any day you choose. Sacredspace.ie An invitation to make a “sacred space” in your day, to spend ten minutes, praying here and now, as you sit at your computer, with the help of on-screen guidance and scripture passage chosen specially each day. By this process, we become active participants in our spiritual lives.
Loyolapress.com/3-minute-retreats-daily-online-prayer/Loyola Press three minute retreat offers quiet music, scripture, a reflection and two questions that lead the pray-er into some quiet time. Bridgesfoundation.org The Bridges Foundation is a St. Louis based non-profit organization that offers the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola in everyday life, as well as related programs. Clarence Heller has offered us in these Lenten poems and reflections an opportunity to engage in total affirmation and transformation in Christ. The Resurrection of Easter Sunday will never be clarence heller more real as day by day during your Lenten journey you reflect and pray with these poems, reflections and scripture readings to become the authentic you God created.
A delightful way to stay in touch with friends and loved ones. The foundation accepts unsolicited letters of inquiry from nonprofits with no deadlines. There are two rounds of funding each year in May/June and November.
Past grantees include the Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems at California State University, Chico and San Francisco’s Sustainable Conservation, which used funding to improve water quality in the San Joaquin Valley. Past grant recipients include Heart of Los Angeles, Education Outside, Community Alliance with Family Farmers, NatureBridge, StageWrite, Exploratorium and CoTa, which runs collaborative programs for teachers and artists in California. Bridgesfoundation.org/ Many people who participate in our retreats are introduced to some of the spiritual principles and prayer techniques employed in the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola. The Spiritual Exercises is offered in everyday life by the Bridges Foundation. Countless people have found this retreat program to be a life changing experience of God’s love.
Young Musicians Foundation
- The Resurrection of Easter Sunday will never be more real as day by day during your Lenten journey you reflect and pray with these poems, reflections and scripture readings to become the authentic you God created.
- Instead, I look forward to turning the page and discovering how I might yet experience God’s love anew tomorrow.
- You could stick it on your refrigerator or put it on your bulletin board, or you could put it in a drawer or book and let it find you when you need it.
- In music, it funds scholarships, artistic initiatives, and community-based programs.
- Ignatianspirituality.com Ignatian Spirituality, a service of Loyola Press, a Jesuit Ministry.
Established in 1982, The Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation supports initiatives aimed at sustainable practices, public health, and environmental protection. In music, it funds scholarships, artistic initiatives, and community-based programs. In education, it promotes environmental and arts education for children and youth, emphasizing teacher development and effective teaching strategies.
Since that time, the foundation has attempted to create a grantmaking program combining the focus necessary to have an impact, with the flexibility needed to address new issues as they arise. A Piece of Goodness is a daily excerpt from one of Clarence’s poems, with convenient access to the entire poem for those who wish to engage it. These positive and often provoking messages are available through a daily email or a post on Facebook. Hearing from visitors to this website is always appreciated.