This year we are celebrating IASD’s birthday. Over the past twenty-five years a small organization of dreamers has grown to encompass the globe. Our efforts have aided hundreds of people worldwide. This year, we are asking you to give IASD a birthday gift!

Why? Because your gifts are applied immediately toward programs which aid other dreamers, and which strengthen the outreach of the organization. Programs such as Research Grant Awards, Student Awards, conference scholarships, Art Awards, and publications are all supported by donations.

In today’s economy, troubled as it may be, we would like to ask that you give even more to IASD than usual. IASD’s strength lies in providing a path toward solutions: Dreams.

Let me share an IASD success story with you, which exemplifies why gifts to IASD really can make a concrete difference. During the first three years of the partnership between IASD and the DreamScience foundation we have been able to provide seven Dream Research Grant Awards totaling $14,900. Grant awards depend totally on private donations received by IASD from donors like you, as well as those received from the DreamScience foundation. Grants are awarded based on research proposals rated by an IASD Research Committee made up of peer researchers. Although each grant is moderate, these grants have fully funded smaller research efforts and prov ided “seed” funding to larger studies, which have in many cases stimulated additional grant funding for those efforts permitting them to proceed where they may not have without the IASD/DSF approval and awards. To date grant awardees are as follows:

1. "Self-Altering Forms of Awareness in Dreams following Loss and Trauma;" $2500 award to Ming-Ni Lee, MSc, and Don Kuiken, PhD. at the University of Albertaat the University of Alberta:

2. "The Relationship between Subjective Sleep Complaints and Disturbed Dreaming to Daily Levels of Stress, Coping and Emotional Regulation"; $2500 award to Ross Levin and Gary Fireman

3.  “Effects of REM sleep deprivation on dreaming and episodic memory”; $3000 award to Canadian researchers Philippe Stenstrom, M.Sc. and Tore Nielsen, PhD. at the Sleep Research Centre, Sacré-Coeur Hospital

4.  “Dream Work in Ongoing Therapy”; $3000 award to the research team of Clara E. Hill, PhD, and Charles J. Gelso, PhD. at the University of Maryland 5) “Emotion and Reflective Awareness in Dreaming: An Integration of Content and Process Approaches”; $2500 grant to the California research team of Tracey L. Kahan, Ph.D. and Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D.

5.  “Video Game Play, Dream Bizarreness an d Creativity”; Small donation grant of $900 to Canadian researcher Jayne Gackenbach, Ph.D.

6.  “Treating the nightmares of persons who have recently experienced trauma, loss, or traumatic loss with a toll-free voice-mail system”; Special donation grant of $500 for Trauma related research, to to the Canadian research team of Tore Nielsen, Ph.D., Don Kuiken, Ph.D., and Connie Svob, B.A.

Please help IASD to continue its work by sending a Happy Birthday IASD Pledge today!

Jean Campbell, Chair
IASD Development Committee

Donations can be made online at IASD Donations

Many major areas of IASD's work and programming are supported by your pledge and donation dollars. To designate your preferred program, all you need to do is include your area of support in the "comments" section of the online form, or mark it on the Pledge return form you receive in the mail.

Here are some areas where your donation to dream work can make a difference:

	Support Students! Declare a personal goal of donations for 10 student members or $650.
	Support Research! Join the IASD/Dream Science Foundation research grant partnership. Your dollars have provided nearly $15,000 in Research Grant Awards.
	Support Outreach! Seeking funding for IASD publications, web building, and print literature.
	Support Dream Art! Add to the Nancy Brzesky IASD Dream Art Awards
	Support Conference Scholarships! Match Curt Hoffman PhD's pledge of one dollar per dream.
	Support IASD's General Operating Expenses Keep IASD up to date with equipment to function smoothly and efficiently.

And Don't Miss the Fun of Submitting a Pledge Challenge
or Your IASD Dreams

IASD is an international, charitable (nonprofit), 501(c)3 organization. All donations are tax deductible.

Use our secure server to donate online

or send checks to:

IASD Central Office
1672 University Avenue
Berkeley, California 94703
 

Check this thermometer to watch IASD Pledges grow!
 

PLEDGES:

I pledge $518 as a continuation of my Dollar-A-Dream idea! C. Hoffman

Research Grant Awards

Student Awards

Lifetime Achievement Awards

2009 IASD Conference: Earth Dreaming