Cultural Exchange Program

The Cultural Exchange Program promotes global understanding between diverse cultures. Recent exchanges occurred between the Hopi and the Toltec who share a common ancestry.

Coloring Book Program

In collaboration with Project Palette, the Memnosyne Foundation created, published and distributed coloring books to children in Tanzania, Rwanda, Mexico, Haiti, and the Hopi Nation. The coloring books are designed to introduce young people to diverse cultures, races, geography, and religious traditions. They contain illustrations of children throughout the world in their native dress.

Community Development

The Joppa Women’s Entrepreneur Project is designed to empower women in the Joppa community of South Dallas with the opportunity to develop entrepreneurial skills. The program will provide the women with mentorships and access to small grants to start their own businesses. Partnering with business organizations the project will pair these Joppa women with successful women in similar businesses. 

Memnosyne is collaborating with Hope Contained to provide an economical and easily deployable protype home created from the conversion of steel shipping container to Dallas building standards.

Grants

The Ambassador Program provides travel for scholars, practitioners and spiritual leaders to attend and/or participate in events that foster the Foundation’s mission.

• Memnosyne awarded Ricardo Cervantes, founder of the Cultural Center for the Indigenous People of Teotihuacán, an opportunity to attend the Seeds of Compassion event in Seattle and meet with indigenous people from the Pacific Northwest and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. During his visit, Mr. Cervantes also consulted with the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco, California; conducted several “blessing ceremonies” in Austin, Dallas, New York City and the Hopi Nation.
• The Foundation sponsored Bob Syzman, a renowned wheelchair basketball coach to travel to Guatemala to teach disabled youth how to improve their health through basketball.
• Memnosyne made a grant to physical therapist Sara Khanzadeh to travel to Viet Nam to teach workers to treat on the job injuries.

Other Grants

• Memnosyne sponsored a Muslim, Christian, Jewish Interfaith HIV/AIDS awareness caravan in Mauritania, Africa with CRRR  (The Regional Coordination of Religious Networks in West/Central Africa) helping communities respectfully deal with issues of marginalization and discrimination of people inflicted with AIDS.
• Micro empowerment grants provide communities with small one-time financial grants to provide a financial push to generate economic sustainability. Memnosyne funded the reconstruction of a broken kiln for a Batwa village in Rwanda which allowed villagers to create pottery for sale.