2024-03-12T14:47:52-07:00 2023-12-31 990 2023-01-01 262969004 MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING AND SERVICE INC MOUN 9706822013 155 W Harvard Street Suite 202 Fort Collins CO 80525 William Bertschy President 9706822013 2024-03-12 William Bertschy 999009999 1 1 11 1 AAL2 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z Mountains and Plains Institute William J Bertschy 155 W Harvard Street Suite 202 Fort Collins CO 80525 1217938 0 X www.mpills.org X 2008 CO The Mountains and Plains Institute for Lifelong Learning and Service is a 501c3 non-profit corporation committed to providing high quality and affordable educational courses, travel, and service learning opportunities for adults. The Institute also supports service projects with focus on health and wildlife conservation activities. In 2023, 16 educational programs were provided serving 311 individuals, led by an additional 11 individuals. Also, 3 service projects provided nearly 7,000 individuals with services. 3 3 3 3 0 0 219130 197669 1141940 1013476 74196 6793 0 0 1435266 1217938 194437 213184 0 0 195299 197576 0 0 0 1015637 839721 1405373 1250481 29893 -32543 979748 1092977 238 224 979510 1092753 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. 0 0 52825 855 The San Benito Health Program supports community health workers for 25 rural communities in the Peten region of Northern Guatemala. The core health team, comprised of three 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 2023, over 3,500 general health clients were served. 145359 184014 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, Tanzania 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. 740 individuals were served in 2023 in visitations, and nearly 1,300 local residents attended 25 educational movie nights in 18 villages. Other projects included erecting and maintaining 6 farm based bee hive fences, and introducing sustainable poultry farms. 948570 1013476 Educational Travel Programs are provided in association with Elderhostel Inc., DBA Road Scholar a non-profit organization. In 2023, 311 individuals participated in 16 programs located across Colorado and Eastern Utah. 15000 12800 Mountains and Plains Institute was honored to serve as the fiscal sponsor for a UK based charitable project operating in the African country of Malawi. The grant for this came from ZooMiami. 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Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 The purchase and using the salary comparisons of the annual salary survey by the Colorado Non-Profit Association Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 18 The company documents are available by appointment for review at the company office. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The company documents are available by appointment for review at the company office.