Organizations Filed Purposes:
The Mountains and Plains Institute for Lifelong Learning and Service is a non-profit corporation committed to providing high quality and affordable educational courses, travel, and service learning opportunities for adults. We believe that learning and giving back to others is a lifelong process and discovering new ideas, sharing challenges and experiences is the basis of lifelong rewards. We will partner and work with other non-profit organizations and educational institutions to provide the educational and service experiences.
The Mountains and Plains Institute for Lifelong Learning and Service is a non-profit corporation committed to providing high quality and affordable educational courses, travel, and service learning opportunities for adults. The Institute by formal adoption of the Board supports service projects with focus on health and wildlife conservation activities. In 2020, only 6 educational programs were provided serving 102 individuals, led by an additional 12 individuals. Also, 2 service projects provided nearly 6,400 individuals with services. Our educational programs were suspended after March 14 for the rest of the year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The San Benito Health Program supports community health workers for 25 rural communities. The core health team, comprised of four full time advanced promotores and an accountant, maintains a clinic in the central area of the region to support the regional network of health workers and to provide clinical services to 10 to 15 patients each day. The clinic and rural communities provide primary health care services to 6500 people each year including women's health care, prenatal care, common childhood illnesses, nutrition and oral health. As well they provide consistent year round services to patients with chronic illnesses like diabetes, high blood pressure and asthma. In 2020, over 2,500 general health clients were served.
National park boundaries have separated local people from wildlife, both physically and psychologically, to the extent that human communities no longer know how to coexist with wildlife and do not perceive any benefit of protecting wild animals. This growing divide threatens the lives of humans and wildlife species, particularly elephants. The goal of our Ruaha National Park visitation program is to begin repairing the disconnect between humans and wildlife, by offering local people the opportunity to directly benefit from living near wildlife in the most intuitive and perhaps meaningful way possible: through personal experience. This program increases peoples' opportunities to enjoy positive experiences with wild animals, and has begun a foundation of support for wildlife conservation among local people. 720 individuals were served in 2020 in visitations, and nearly 1,000 local residents attended 25 educational movie nights in 10 villages..
Educational Travel Programs are provided in association with Elderhostel Inc., DBA Road Scholar a non-profit organization. In 2020, 102 individuals participated in 6 programs. Unfortunately due to the Corona virus pandemic, all tour business was suspended on March 14, 2020 and continues. This resulted in near closure of this part of the business with reduced staffing.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Ryan W Kirkpatrick | Director of Operations | 40 | $93,420 |
| William J Bertschy | President | 40 | $60,000 |
| Kirk C Fieseler | Secretary-Treasurer | 0 | $0 |
| William C Sears | Vice President | 0 | $0 |
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