MAGIC INCORPORATED

Programs

1. Valuescience - In interactions with 400 individuals, we researched ways to motivate people to identify as scientists and to measure strength of individuals' scientist identity. We initiated partnerships with Gandhi Camp and with the Mono Lake Committee Outdoor Education Program. In these, we tested methods to train people to administer an "Inclusive Scientist Identity" intervention and piloted variants with 100 youths. We prototyped a valuescience chatbot, which we're continuing to train using transcripts of recent conversations and hundreds of pages of writing we've completed over the past 50 years. We produced a pilot podcast for a contemplated series about valuescience applied to everyday living, and we've written three foundational blog entries that we're testing with small audiences. Valuescience was featured on the Giving Purpose Podcast, which spotlights small Bay Area public service groups.

   $149,159 spent$88,922 earned by the program
   49% of program spending

2. Cooperation & Individual Well-being - In Palo Alto 28 residents from 12 countries and 10 states and in Mammoth Lakes seven residents from two countries and three states flourished as valuescience based residential service learning communities. Four Palo Alto fellows, five Palo Alto residents, the Magic Mammoth fellow and two residents, a Magic founding board member, and four Magic affiliates joined in an organizational "advance" in the Eastern Sierra. We strengthened our partnerships within the communities movement by introducing to valuescience 40 people who are forming the Abundant Ponds community, advising a recent Magic resident in establishing Rainbow Junction Community, consulting with Montaia Community's founder about her new initiatives, publishing "Generational Bonding" in Communities magazine, hosting a Churchill Fellow community researcher from the UK, and becoming sponsors of the Foundation for Intentional Community. With Reduce Waste. Feed People. we collected 17 tons of surplus food from 24 California Avenue Farmers' Market vendors, sorted it, and delivered acceptable items to Community Services Agency and to 1,000 Grains for distribution to hundreds of hungry fellow…

   $116,801 spentof which $54,651 as grants$134,482 earned by the program
   39% of program spending

3. Environmental Stewardship - A hundred volunteers gave 600+ hours to plant 20 oaks, irrigate 200, and maintain 2,000 on public access open space visited by 500,000 people each year. We completed a partnership with Stanford's Fukami Lab to establish 512 plants at 16 research sites around the Stanford Dish. Magic was featured on the Plant a Trillion Trees Podcast and in The Tree Collectors by New York Times bestselling author Amy Stewart. We grew Silicon Valley Barcode of Life both on the SF Midpeninsula and the Eastern Sierra, deploying Malaise traps at five sites and hand collecting hundreds of unique specimens. We published, "So You Think You Don't Like Bugs?" in The Sheet, the Mammoth Lakes newspaper.SVBOL principal scientists were among 20 biodiversity researchers who participated in a California Insect Biodiversity Initiative strategic planning meeting with former California Governor Jerry Brown at his rural retreat. We received permits to collect on Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District lands, and we completed the first of several planned deployments of a dozen Malaise traps at Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Our affiliate Escondido Outings Club organized…

   $37,290 spent$91,676 earned by the program
   12% of program spending

4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

   $0 spent
   0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $303,250.