Vahiguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Vahiguru Ji Ki Fatih!

As SikhRI enters its eleventh year, the whole team joins me in thanking you for your leadership, guidance, and financial support in enabling and sustaining the organization. During the past decade SikhRI has delivered quality educational resources and programming to Sikhs worldwide—over 385,000 attendees in 75 cities have been touched by programs like Mahima, Saneha, Liv, Sidak, and Sojhi.

We continued to build on this tradition of success in 2012. A series of Model Sarbat Khalsa workshops enabled Sikhs to come together and understand the mechanics and dynamics of making Panthak decisions. Such workshops, we believe, were timely, relevant, and community-empowering. Last summer, our flagship leadership development retreat, Sidak, coincided with the Wisconsin gurduara shooting and resulted in a spontaneous and powerful outreach organized by Sidakers in downtown San Antonio.

In its own way, 2012 also brought unique challenges. Changes in family situations for some key team members required them to move from SikhRI’s base in San Antonio, and our operations specialist left to start a family. The disruptive physical moves, reduced work schedules, and virtualization of our operations posed considerable tests. We are actively streamlining our operations and simultaneously planning for a relocation of our physical offices to the Northeast U.S. We meet these challenges in the spirit of Chardi Kala and ask for your continued support and patience as we evolve into this new phase of SikhRI and prepare to offer an expanded range of programming and a spate of resources suited to the 21st century learner and educator.

The SikhRI Board met in September, establishing long-term strategic direction toward the establishment of a Leadership Academy and SikhRI schools. In that vein, we approach 2013 and beyond with a renewed sense of purpose and added resolve in our commitment to serve the Panth. As always this journey is a collective effort. Your contributions help us sustain and enhance our programs and achieve Panth ki jit and Sarbat da Bhalla. We hope you will continue to support us through your tax-deductible financial contributions.

Guru Rakha!

Ravinder Singh Taneja, Executive Director