Clients
PROJECTS, FISCAL SPONSORHIPS & CLIENTS
Inquiring Systems, Inc. (ISI), a 501(c) (3) nonprofit corporation founded in 1978 with the overall charitable purpose of “improving the human condition” by providing “ethical and sustainable ecosystem management services” for NGO’s, nonprofit organizations, ethically-directed business entities, local communities, government agencies and countries throughout the world. Integrated into our comprehensive business management services are the most appropriate and compatible training and technical assistance required to obtain long-term economic viability, self-sufficiency and sustainability for the projects, the people, the communities and for the ecosystems with which we are involved. ISI is an implementing organization that translates good intentions into practical, effective and worthwhile outcomes that achieve our client’s goals and objectives. ISI has created, developed and managed our own projects, fiscally sponsored many others, and provided consulting services that have accomplished the following:
ISI has provided project management, business management, fiscal sponsorship services, training and technical assistance services to 3,650+ primarily nonprofit and NGO organizations, along with some value-driven, socially responsible for-profit entities. ISI is focused entirely on ethically-directed business planning and management, financial planning and management, market planning and management, capital acquisition, debt management, organization development, personnel policy planning, program planning and management, contract negotiation, business recovery, conflict resolution and systemic problem-solving. ISI also provides financial management, business development and business recovery assistance as we have to 280+ companies throughout the United States and in 32 countries. ISI has acquired in excess of $145 million in capital for our projects/clients through loans, grants, contributions, private investments, joint ventures and tax-exempt bond financing. We have also negotiated and obtained over $230 million in service contracts with industry and government agencies. ISI has provided workshop and seminar training to over 26,000 senior executives, project managers and board members in 35 states and in Canada. ISI does not advertise or solicit clients and for 35 years every ISI client has been, and continues to be, direct word of mouth referrals.
ISI operates differently than almost all other nonprofit organizations in that we drive responsibility and authority down in the ecosystems with which we are engaged and we bring accountability up through the system. ISI has a small Board of Directors while requiring that each project/client have a well-functioning and fully-engaged policy-making Advisory Board (Board of Directors) that is responsible for the oversight and policy directions of their respective project. ISI functions primarily as a resource and as a guarantor for: (1) the efficacy of the project, (2) adherence to mutually agreed to ethical values and principles, and (3) becoming economically viable and sustainable organization able to achieve its mission and charitable purposes.
Inquiring Systems, Inc. (ISI), a 501(c) (3) nonprofit corporation founded in 1978 with the overall charitable purpose of “improving the human condition” by providing “ethical and sustainable ecosystem management services” for NGO’s, nonprofit organizations, ethically-directed business entities, local communities, government agencies and countries throughout the world. Integrated into our comprehensive business management services are the most appropriate and compatible training and technical assistance required to obtain long-term economic viability, self-sufficiency and sustainability for the projects, the people, the communities and for the ecosystems with which we are involved. ISI is an implementing organization that translates good intentions into practical, effective and worthwhile outcomes that achieve our client’s goals and objectives. ISI has created, developed and managed our own projects, fiscally sponsored many others, and provided consulting services that have accomplished the following:
ISI has provided project management, business management, fiscal sponsorship services, training and technical assistance services to 3,650+ primarily nonprofit and NGO organizations, along with some value-driven, socially responsible for-profit entities. ISI is focused entirely on ethically-directed business planning and management, financial planning and management, market planning and management, capital acquisition, debt management, organization development, personnel policy planning, program planning and management, contract negotiation, business recovery, conflict resolution and systemic problem-solving. ISI also provides financial management, business development and business recovery assistance as we have to 280+ companies throughout the United States and in 32 countries. ISI has acquired in excess of $145 million in capital for our projects/clients through loans, grants, contributions, private investments, joint ventures and tax-exempt bond financing. We have also negotiated and obtained over $230 million in service contracts with industry and government agencies. ISI has provided workshop and seminar training to over 26,000 senior executives, project managers and board members in 35 states and in Canada. ISI does not advertise or solicit clients and for 35 years every ISI client has been, and continues to be, direct word of mouth referrals.
ISI operates differently than almost all other nonprofit organizations in that we drive responsibility and authority down in the ecosystems with which we are engaged and we bring accountability up through the system. ISI has a small Board of Directors while requiring that each project/client have a well-functioning and fully-engaged policy-making Advisory Board (Board of Directors) that is responsible for the oversight and policy directions of their respective project. ISI functions primarily as a resource and as a guarantor for: (1) the efficacy of the project, (2) adherence to mutually agreed to ethical values and principles, and (3) becoming economically viable and sustainable organization able to achieve its mission and charitable purposes.
ISI Projects
Advisory Board Project Manager/Staff (For each project/client)
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THE GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE
Rajesh Alreja
International Business Management Services Business Manager S. Loren Cole, Ph.D.,
Ethical and Systemic Implementation of Constructive and Sustainable Social Change There is an overwhelming need to take action towards addressing, alleviating and resolving the current global “situation” that presents itself to all of us on this planet that GSC has established its primary mission to engage in and facilitate the direct employment of practical, workable and effective collaborative efforts and endeavors that leads toward and directly implements activities that will positively transform our communities and cities, as well as all other human activities, into functional, efficient, reliable and thereby sustainable ecosystems.
To achieve this extensive set of goals and objectives, we shall focus our activities on enhancing, mentoring, supporting and directly engaging the full complement of government agencies, for-profit businesses, nonprofit businesses, NGO’s, community organization and such other entities as may be appropriate and desired to improve the likelihood of making profound and positive impacts on the viability and sustainability of the ecosystems in which we are engaged.
Social Responsibility and Sustainability Principles
As an integral aspect of working cooperatively in a collaborative environment we recommend, for all participating organizations, that they adopt and commit to ethical businesses principles, values and methods. Towards that end, GSC affiliates and enterprises are encouraged to adopt these principles and operate with the values inherent in, and in a manner that, ex ante, engages in a process through which they are able to systemically identify the potential impacts and implications of their actions and then take preemptive direct actions that will effectively minimize the disruption of the ecosystems within which they are engaged. Our approach is intended to enhance the likelihood that a set of “safe minimum standards” are maintained and sustained through which the ecosystem (i.e., organization) can recover from those impacts, however defined, and thereby restore the health and viability that ecosystem.
Rajesh Alreja
International Business Management Services Business Manager S. Loren Cole, Ph.D.,
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Ethical and Systemic Implementation of Constructive and Sustainable Social Change There is an overwhelming need to take action towards addressing, alleviating and resolving the current global “situation” that presents itself to all of us on this planet that GSC has established its primary mission to engage in and facilitate the direct employment of practical, workable and effective collaborative efforts and endeavors that leads toward and directly implements activities that will positively transform our communities and cities, as well as all other human activities, into functional, efficient, reliable and thereby sustainable ecosystems.
To achieve this extensive set of goals and objectives, we shall focus our activities on enhancing, mentoring, supporting and directly engaging the full complement of government agencies, for-profit businesses, nonprofit businesses, NGO’s, community organization and such other entities as may be appropriate and desired to improve the likelihood of making profound and positive impacts on the viability and sustainability of the ecosystems in which we are engaged.
Social Responsibility and Sustainability Principles
As an integral aspect of working cooperatively in a collaborative environment we recommend, for all participating organizations, that they adopt and commit to ethical businesses principles, values and methods. Towards that end, GSC affiliates and enterprises are encouraged to adopt these principles and operate with the values inherent in, and in a manner that, ex ante, engages in a process through which they are able to systemically identify the potential impacts and implications of their actions and then take preemptive direct actions that will effectively minimize the disruption of the ecosystems within which they are engaged. Our approach is intended to enhance the likelihood that a set of “safe minimum standards” are maintained and sustained through which the ecosystem (i.e., organization) can recover from those impacts, however defined, and thereby restore the health and viability that ecosystem.
Appalachian, Southwest Colorado & New Mexico Collaborative Waterboxx Pilot Project
Funded, in part, by a grant from the Mental Insight Foundation
Founder/Inventor Pieter Hoff
http://www.groasis.com/
The Groasis waterboxx is an 'intelligent water incubator' that produces and captures water from the air through condensation and rain. The condensation is caused by artificial stimulation and the water is captured because of the design of the device, without using energy. The Groasis waterboxx makes it possible to plant trees or bushes on rocks, on mountains, in gardens, in ashes of recently burned woods, eroded areas or deserts or any other place, without the help of irrigation with a 100% planting result.
The purpose of this project is to determine the viability, practicality, usefulness and cost effectiveness associated with improving the survivability and sustainability of the tree species associated with the reforestation requirements for each of the ecosystems in which these experiments are being conducted.
Project Manager, S. Loren Cole, Ph.D., Chairman & CEO, Inquiring Systems, Inc.
Project Team:
T. Allan Comp, Ph.D., Coordinator: OSM/VISTA Teams, Office of Surface Mining, Department of the Interior
Patrick N. Angel, Ph.D., Senior Forester/Soil Scientist, U.S. Dept of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Appalachian Regional Office.
Joseph Hansen, Conservation Forester (Colorado), Jefferson Conservation District, Denver, CO
Jeremy Kruger, State Forester (New Mexico), Bureau of Land Management, Santa Fe, NM
Scott D. Eggerud, Forester, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Ona, WV
Kelly Jo Drey, Director, Bridgemont Sustainability Institute, Workforce and Economic Development, Bridgemont Community & Technical College, Montgomery, WV
April Trent, Team Director, Appalachian Coal Country Team, Beckley, WV
Rachel Folk Team Director, Western Hardrock Watershed Team, Durango, CO
The purpose of this project is to determine the viability, practicality, usefulness and cost effectiveness associated with improving the survivability and sustainability of the tree species associated with the reforestation requirements for each of the ecosystems in which these experiments are being conducted.
Funded, in part, by a grant from the Mental Insight Foundation
Founder/Inventor Pieter Hoff
http://www.groasis.com/
The Groasis waterboxx is an 'intelligent water incubator' that produces and captures water from the air through condensation and rain. The condensation is caused by artificial stimulation and the water is captured because of the design of the device, without using energy. The Groasis waterboxx makes it possible to plant trees or bushes on rocks, on mountains, in gardens, in ashes of recently burned woods, eroded areas or deserts or any other place, without the help of irrigation with a 100% planting result.
The purpose of this project is to determine the viability, practicality, usefulness and cost effectiveness associated with improving the survivability and sustainability of the tree species associated with the reforestation requirements for each of the ecosystems in which these experiments are being conducted.
Project Manager, S. Loren Cole, Ph.D., Chairman & CEO, Inquiring Systems, Inc.
Project Team:
T. Allan Comp, Ph.D., Coordinator: OSM/VISTA Teams, Office of Surface Mining, Department of the Interior
Patrick N. Angel, Ph.D., Senior Forester/Soil Scientist, U.S. Dept of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Appalachian Regional Office.
Joseph Hansen, Conservation Forester (Colorado), Jefferson Conservation District, Denver, CO
Jeremy Kruger, State Forester (New Mexico), Bureau of Land Management, Santa Fe, NM
Scott D. Eggerud, Forester, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Ona, WV
Kelly Jo Drey, Director, Bridgemont Sustainability Institute, Workforce and Economic Development, Bridgemont Community & Technical College, Montgomery, WV
April Trent, Team Director, Appalachian Coal Country Team, Beckley, WV
Rachel Folk Team Director, Western Hardrock Watershed Team, Durango, CO
The purpose of this project is to determine the viability, practicality, usefulness and cost effectiveness associated with improving the survivability and sustainability of the tree species associated with the reforestation requirements for each of the ecosystems in which these experiments are being conducted.
Objectives
- To design a planting and growing experiment at selected sites and in soil and environmental conditions that could benefit from the use of the Waterboxx technology.
- To conduct a scientifically valid research experiment using a comparative methodology in which selected tree species are planted in similar conditions with one set using the Waterboxx and the other not. In this way plantings can be monitored and data can be collected that will allow for a comparative analysis of the outcomes from the two methods.
- To conduct this experiment in 6 different areas within the Appalachian region, 4 different areas within the Southwest Colorado region and 2 different areas within the New Mexico region. These three areas represent a total of 12 distinct soil and environmental conditions from which a determination can be made regarding the suitability, viability and cost effectiveness of the Waterboxx technology.
To determine if sufficient evidence is available upon the conclusion of the experiments and analysis to justify the continued use, development and incorporation of the Waterboxx technology into the overall reforestation and restoration strategy and practices of the participating collaborative partners.
Ethiopia and United States Groasis “Food by Youth” Project
Project Team: The project in the United States will be lead by Mr. Dave Neubacher, teacher of the El Verano School in Sonoma. The project in Ethiopia will be lead by Dr. Aklilu Habtu, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology) and director of the Institute of Palaeoenvironement and Heritage Conservation of the Mekelle University in Mekelle Ethiopia.
The purpose of the ‘Food by Youth Project’ is to have 100 students plant fruit trees from the El Verano Elementary School in Sonoma, CA, USA and 100 students plant fruit trees from the Selam Elementary School in Wukro, Ethiopia using the Groasis Waterboxx technology. The objectives of the ‘Food by Youth’ Project are as follows:
To teach students in the USA and Ethiopia about food production through fruit trees.
To teach students in the USA about sound food production and sound food eating.
To find out whether it is possible through a structured model via the schools to teach the Ethiopian generation below 14 years, from now on, how to produce food, fodder, fuel-wood and restore biodiversity in their living areas.
To study whether the production knowledge, in both the USA and Ethiopia, is transferred to the parents without the Project Leader telling them to do this.
To study whether the subject of ‘eating sound food’ in the USA is discussed with parents after having taught the subject at school.
To raise awareness about the link between biodiversity and the link between agriculture, beekeeping, environmental protection, climate change.
The final objective of Mekelle University is to prevent Ethiopia from a food, fodder and energy crisis once the population increases to 210 million people. The results of this Project, especially about the transfer of knowledge from child to parent, will be used to write and provide advice to the Ethiopian Government about knowledge transfer of food production to traditional producing growers.
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| Funded, in part, by a grant from the Mental Insight Foundation Wukro, Ethiopia and Sonoma, CA, USA 4 members | Project Manager: S. Loren Cole, Ph.D. | Marty Barclay |
Project Team: The project in the United States will be lead by Mr. Dave Neubacher, teacher of the El Verano School in Sonoma. The project in Ethiopia will be lead by Dr. Aklilu Habtu, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology) and director of the Institute of Palaeoenvironement and Heritage Conservation of the Mekelle University in Mekelle Ethiopia.
The purpose of the ‘Food by Youth Project’ is to have 100 students plant fruit trees from the El Verano Elementary School in Sonoma, CA, USA and 100 students plant fruit trees from the Selam Elementary School in Wukro, Ethiopia using the Groasis Waterboxx technology. The objectives of the ‘Food by Youth’ Project are as follows:
To teach students in the USA and Ethiopia about food production through fruit trees.
To teach students in the USA about sound food production and sound food eating.
To find out whether it is possible through a structured model via the schools to teach the Ethiopian generation below 14 years, from now on, how to produce food, fodder, fuel-wood and restore biodiversity in their living areas.
To study whether the production knowledge, in both the USA and Ethiopia, is transferred to the parents without the Project Leader telling them to do this.
To study whether the subject of ‘eating sound food’ in the USA is discussed with parents after having taught the subject at school.
To raise awareness about the link between biodiversity and the link between agriculture, beekeeping, environmental protection, climate change.
The final objective of Mekelle University is to prevent Ethiopia from a food, fodder and energy crisis once the population increases to 210 million people. The results of this Project, especially about the transfer of knowledge from child to parent, will be used to write and provide advice to the Ethiopian Government about knowledge transfer of food production to traditional producing growers.
The School on the Hill
San Diego, CA
3 members Richard Sugerman & Jill Herschman Contra Costa County, CA
Fiscal Sponsorship :
Mission
To provide a high quality early childhood education program for preschool age children of varied socioeconomic backgrounds that will prepare them for school and life success.
Philosophy
Young children need background knowledge before they can participate fully in the public education system and reap the benefits that wonderful yet underfunded system provides. Young children build background knowledge by engaging with caring, interested, knowledgeable adults and other children in an environment that values discovery, curiosity, independence, differences, cooperation, problem solving and responsibility. Young children are drawn to nature and it is The School on the Hill’s belief that providing a “farm school” atmosphere for children who are mostly sequestered from nature by virtue of the city they live in is the best way to provide rich learning opportunities that matter to young children. Early childhood education studies and literature support this (Dewey, Piaget, Vygostsky, Meier, Ravitch, Krashen, Pink, and Sokol, among others). Learning by growing and then harvesting vegetables, raising and caring for small animals, playing in an idyllic natural setting and following ones’ bliss in a rich atmosphere filled with opportunities to engage by touching, manipulating, listening and seeing is what comes naturally, and The School on the Hill is able, ready and committed to providing that. The School on the Hill will provide an environment that is conducive to these ends by offering a program that will be: Child centered-Nature centered learning-Myriad activities-Diverse student population-Location and a strong Partner with the community.
San Diego, CA
3 members Richard Sugerman & Jill Herschman Contra Costa County, CA
Fiscal Sponsorship :
Mission
To provide a high quality early childhood education program for preschool age children of varied socioeconomic backgrounds that will prepare them for school and life success.
Philosophy
Young children need background knowledge before they can participate fully in the public education system and reap the benefits that wonderful yet underfunded system provides. Young children build background knowledge by engaging with caring, interested, knowledgeable adults and other children in an environment that values discovery, curiosity, independence, differences, cooperation, problem solving and responsibility. Young children are drawn to nature and it is The School on the Hill’s belief that providing a “farm school” atmosphere for children who are mostly sequestered from nature by virtue of the city they live in is the best way to provide rich learning opportunities that matter to young children. Early childhood education studies and literature support this (Dewey, Piaget, Vygostsky, Meier, Ravitch, Krashen, Pink, and Sokol, among others). Learning by growing and then harvesting vegetables, raising and caring for small animals, playing in an idyllic natural setting and following ones’ bliss in a rich atmosphere filled with opportunities to engage by touching, manipulating, listening and seeing is what comes naturally, and The School on the Hill is able, ready and committed to providing that. The School on the Hill will provide an environment that is conducive to these ends by offering a program that will be: Child centered-Nature centered learning-Myriad activities-Diverse student population-Location and a strong Partner with the community.
Breathexperience Support Network
The BSN has the charitable purposes to promote and support the Middendorf Breathexperience for people everywhere but primarily focused on educational and promotional activities in the SF Bay Area.
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| San Francisco Bay Area | Fiscal Sponsorship | Marty Barclay |
The BSN has the charitable purposes to promote and support the Middendorf Breathexperience for people everywhere but primarily focused on educational and promotional activities in the SF Bay Area.
Barksdale Foundation for Renewable Energy
San Diego, CA
3 members Arlen Barksdale, PhD, Phyllis Mabbett, PhD, Shane Barksdale
Fiscal Sponsorship :
The focus of the Barksdale Foundation for Renewable Energy (BFRE) is research and development of renewable energy applications domestically in the United States. We provide consulting, engineering and integration services in the development and deployment of solar power - an alternative clean energy source. BFRE specializes in solar photovoltaic (PV), collector-photovoltaic, and thermal CSP (concentrated solar power) technologies. SWS can provide your solar project with research, development, prototypes, planning, design, fabrication and/or installation resources. Our firm has a broad experience in R&D consulting, engineering and systems integration services. BFRE provides a coordinated engineering-based consulting approach which assists your firm in risk-reduction in technology selection, development and deployment. Our senior researchers and consultants average more than 25 years experience in the industry related fields, backed by a team of engineers and technicians with specialized expertise. We are solar experts. Whether it's identifying the emergence of opportunities, developing the technology application, executing a roll-out plan, or presenting the risks that various factors pose to your organization’s strategic plans, you can count on sound advice from us.
San Diego, CA
3 members Arlen Barksdale, PhD, Phyllis Mabbett, PhD, Shane Barksdale
Fiscal Sponsorship :
The focus of the Barksdale Foundation for Renewable Energy (BFRE) is research and development of renewable energy applications domestically in the United States. We provide consulting, engineering and integration services in the development and deployment of solar power - an alternative clean energy source. BFRE specializes in solar photovoltaic (PV), collector-photovoltaic, and thermal CSP (concentrated solar power) technologies. SWS can provide your solar project with research, development, prototypes, planning, design, fabrication and/or installation resources. Our firm has a broad experience in R&D consulting, engineering and systems integration services. BFRE provides a coordinated engineering-based consulting approach which assists your firm in risk-reduction in technology selection, development and deployment. Our senior researchers and consultants average more than 25 years experience in the industry related fields, backed by a team of engineers and technicians with specialized expertise. We are solar experts. Whether it's identifying the emergence of opportunities, developing the technology application, executing a roll-out plan, or presenting the risks that various factors pose to your organization’s strategic plans, you can count on sound advice from us.
Public Banking Institute
The Public Banking Institute (PBI) was formed in January 2011 as an educational non-profit organization. Its mission is to further the understanding, explore the possibilities, and facilitate the implementation of public banking at all levels -- local, regional, state, and national.
PBI’s vision is to establish a distributed network of state and local publicly-owned banks that create affordable credit, while providing a sustainable alternative to the current high-risk centralized private banking system. This network would act in the public interest, using its counter-cyclical credit-generating capacity to stabilize potential credit crises, maintain the floor against threats of asset devaluations, build infrastructure, and fund expansion of critical industrial productive capacity. Most important, public banking would create jobs, by partnering with local banks to fund local business, advancing credit for public infrastructure, and augmenting government revenues.
PBI’s mission includes analyzing U.S. and global financial events to facilitate public banking, sharing best practices and lessons learned from research and initiatives in the U.S. and globally, using PBI’s online resources, website, webinars, blog, and in-person conferences.
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Sonoma, CA 5 members Marc Armstrong, Robert Bows , Ellen Hodgson Brown, Mike Krauss, Ann Tulinteff Shane Barksdale Fiscal Sponsorship : www.publicbankinginstitute.org |
The Public Banking Institute (PBI) was formed in January 2011 as an educational non-profit organization. Its mission is to further the understanding, explore the possibilities, and facilitate the implementation of public banking at all levels -- local, regional, state, and national.
PBI’s vision is to establish a distributed network of state and local publicly-owned banks that create affordable credit, while providing a sustainable alternative to the current high-risk centralized private banking system. This network would act in the public interest, using its counter-cyclical credit-generating capacity to stabilize potential credit crises, maintain the floor against threats of asset devaluations, build infrastructure, and fund expansion of critical industrial productive capacity. Most important, public banking would create jobs, by partnering with local banks to fund local business, advancing credit for public infrastructure, and augmenting government revenues.
PBI’s mission includes analyzing U.S. and global financial events to facilitate public banking, sharing best practices and lessons learned from research and initiatives in the U.S. and globally, using PBI’s online resources, website, webinars, blog, and in-person conferences.
Cittaslow Sonoma Valley
Sonoma Valley California
3 members Gary Edwards, Marc Armstrong, Tom Rusert
Fiscal Sponsorship
Sonoma Valley was designated the first Cittaslow in the USA on November 28, 2009, in Abbiategrasso, Italy. A community-wide celebration took place in Sonoma on January 27, 2010, with Cittaslow International President Gian Luca Marconi, and Director Pier Giorgio Oliveti presenting Cittaslow certification.
Cittaslow Sonoma Valley’s mission is to be a catalyst for sustainable well-being for all. Embodied
Sonoma Valley California
3 members Gary Edwards, Marc Armstrong, Tom Rusert
Fiscal Sponsorship
Cittaslow Sonoma Valley is about:
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Cittaslow Sonoma Valley’s mission is to be a catalyst for sustainable well-being for all. Embodied
Embodied Visionaries
Oakland, CA
3 members Magalie Bonneau-Marcil, CPCC
Fiscal Sponsorship : http://youtu.be/aQL_RT9aIfc
Our Commitment: Activate, Empower and Support the growth of impassioned change-makers who are committed to transform the world through their authentic presence and powerful voice, the inspiring projects they launch and grow, the community they mobilize and the thousands of lives they touch; reminding us what is possible when we combine heart, purpose and unstoppable commitment.
Creating a New Dream together: Embodied Visionary is joining thousands others who are redefining the way we lead, live in service to the birthing a regenerative culture – inviting a new positive dream to take shape – one that is anchored in the global heart of who we are – that unites us all as one global family.
System Thinking and Collaboration: Embodied Visionary is committed to support collaborative efforts across sectors focused on creating a new mythos for humanity, heal the divides, address root issues, identify leverage points, and support the design and emergence of new social architectures that are sustainable and inspired by the resilience reflected in nature. Embodied Visionary’s involvement with the Global Synergizer and Transition Town movement supports that commitment.
Oakland, CA
3 members Magalie Bonneau-Marcil, CPCC
Fiscal Sponsorship : http://youtu.be/aQL_RT9aIfc
Our Commitment: Activate, Empower and Support the growth of impassioned change-makers who are committed to transform the world through their authentic presence and powerful voice, the inspiring projects they launch and grow, the community they mobilize and the thousands of lives they touch; reminding us what is possible when we combine heart, purpose and unstoppable commitment.
Creating a New Dream together: Embodied Visionary is joining thousands others who are redefining the way we lead, live in service to the birthing a regenerative culture – inviting a new positive dream to take shape – one that is anchored in the global heart of who we are – that unites us all as one global family.
System Thinking and Collaboration: Embodied Visionary is committed to support collaborative efforts across sectors focused on creating a new mythos for humanity, heal the divides, address root issues, identify leverage points, and support the design and emergence of new social architectures that are sustainable and inspired by the resilience reflected in nature. Embodied Visionary’s involvement with the Global Synergizer and Transition Town movement supports that commitment.
Who We Are
- In the extraordinary power of young people to create remarkable change through creative ideas, lots of energy, some guidance and hard play - even in a short amount of time!
- We believe in the power of love rather than the love for power.
- We believe in the power of cultural, financial and social diversity - and the amazing fruits that we can bear as we roll our sleeves and play hard together.
- We believe in the power of rituals, rite of passage, ceremonies, indigenous wisdom as a mean to honor the sacredness of life.
- We believe in the value in transforming ourselves as a means to transform the planet.
- We believe in the importance to reclaim the value of sisterhood and brotherhood.
- We believe that art, authenticity, collaboration and community are core component to recreate the dream we want to see.
- We believe that one of the most powerful ways to unleash our creative genius, gifts and leadership is by doing it - in a supportive environment where you’re invited to fail forward, stretch yourself, and experience places and perspective you never dare.
- We believe that everyone who wants to be a change-agents and leader in the Green Movement deserves to take part of this program - we are committed to make this program accessible.
High Country Local First
Boone, NC
3 members Jeffrey Scott & Mary Scott
Fiscal Sponsorship : highcountrylocalfirst.org
Our members consist of independent, locally-owned businesses, farms and organizations as well as individuals that are committed to the High Country region of North Carolina, its unique identity and quality of life. High Country Local First strives to facilitate healthy, ongoing relationships amongst these key players in our community so that we can become supportive of one another’s efforts and to keep more of our money here in the High Country. We provide creative and effective marketing for businesses through our website and directory, resource sharing and learning, peer to peer consulting, community network building opportunities and other services to facilitate strong locally owned businesses and to encourage new ventures within our community.
Right here in the High Country there is an abundance of healthy businesses and farms that are owned locally and that contribute to the well-being of our community. If we can all make the choice to think locally first, before spending, we can keep more money circulating through our very own community.
Our Mission: To catalyze and strengthen the local economy through social entrepreneurship and locally driven collaborative structures.
Boone, NC
3 members Jeffrey Scott & Mary Scott
Fiscal Sponsorship : highcountrylocalfirst.org
Our members consist of independent, locally-owned businesses, farms and organizations as well as individuals that are committed to the High Country region of North Carolina, its unique identity and quality of life. High Country Local First strives to facilitate healthy, ongoing relationships amongst these key players in our community so that we can become supportive of one another’s efforts and to keep more of our money here in the High Country. We provide creative and effective marketing for businesses through our website and directory, resource sharing and learning, peer to peer consulting, community network building opportunities and other services to facilitate strong locally owned businesses and to encourage new ventures within our community.
Right here in the High Country there is an abundance of healthy businesses and farms that are owned locally and that contribute to the well-being of our community. If we can all make the choice to think locally first, before spending, we can keep more money circulating through our very own community.
Our Mission: To catalyze and strengthen the local economy through social entrepreneurship and locally driven collaborative structures.
The Fred Lane Memorial Himalaya Fund
Nepal, Tibet & California
3 members Brian Hofstetter, Michael Gill
Fiscal Sponsorship :
The mission of this project is to support charities related to Buddhism in Nepal and Tibet and to develop film documentaries to bring attention to this cause. One of the first events undertaken by the Fred Lane Fund will be the showing of the Film: Kyimolung, a Hidden Valley in the Himalayas. Produced by Brian Hofstetter for Nomadics with original soundtrack by Michael Gill.
Kyimolung is the sacred and secret Buddhist pilgrimage circuit in the mountains around Tsum Valley in a 30 km radius of the Nepal-China border. It is bounded by Lajyang Bhanjyang in the west, Thapla in the east, and goes through places such as Chhekam, Philim, Sirdibas, Dyang, Bihi, Namrung, Prok, Lho, Samagaon and Samdo in Nepal, and Rui Gaon, Ning, Sala Himal and Nyang in Tibet. Kyimolung takes its name from Kyimo, meaning “happiness” and Lung, meaning “stream”. That is why the area is called Kyimolung, or the “stream of happiness.” Kyimolung is the most sacred and secret pilgrimage in Buddhist Lamaism. Circumambulating the area means paying the highest homage to Guru Padmasambhava. Meditating at Kyimolung is akin to becoming close to Padmashambhava and obtaining bliss and complete salvation. Additional events are planned to support these charities.
Nepal, Tibet & California
3 members Brian Hofstetter, Michael Gill
Fiscal Sponsorship :
The mission of this project is to support charities related to Buddhism in Nepal and Tibet and to develop film documentaries to bring attention to this cause. One of the first events undertaken by the Fred Lane Fund will be the showing of the Film: Kyimolung, a Hidden Valley in the Himalayas. Produced by Brian Hofstetter for Nomadics with original soundtrack by Michael Gill.
Kyimolung is the sacred and secret Buddhist pilgrimage circuit in the mountains around Tsum Valley in a 30 km radius of the Nepal-China border. It is bounded by Lajyang Bhanjyang in the west, Thapla in the east, and goes through places such as Chhekam, Philim, Sirdibas, Dyang, Bihi, Namrung, Prok, Lho, Samagaon and Samdo in Nepal, and Rui Gaon, Ning, Sala Himal and Nyang in Tibet. Kyimolung takes its name from Kyimo, meaning “happiness” and Lung, meaning “stream”. That is why the area is called Kyimolung, or the “stream of happiness.” Kyimolung is the most sacred and secret pilgrimage in Buddhist Lamaism. Circumambulating the area means paying the highest homage to Guru Padmasambhava. Meditating at Kyimolung is akin to becoming close to Padmashambhava and obtaining bliss and complete salvation. Additional events are planned to support these charities.
HARAMBEE ARTS
San Rafael, CA and Africa
3 members Gloria Simoneaux
Fiscal Sponsorship : www.harambeearts.org
Harambee Arts: Let's Pull Together TM partners with African grassroots programs to train local caregivers to provide art programs for vulnerable children in an environment that fosters their sense of joy, creativity and exuberance. Through its arts programs, Harambee Arts strives to promote the well-being of homeless, orphaned and other neglected children, enhance the stability of their families and support systems, and develop their sense of self-worth and positive personal ethics by creating opportunities for children to help other children.
Gloria Simoneaux founded DrawBridge: An Arts Program for Homeless Children in 1989 and she served as Executive Director until December 31, 2007. Over the past ten years, she has been offering trainings in working with children in crisis in Europe and Africa. Since 2000, Ms. Simoneaux has made six trips to Africa where she set up an arts program for children affected by HIV/AIDS in Eritrea, worked with young members of the Samburu tribe in Northern Kenya (hosted by Ol Malo Trust), trained HIV positive community health care workers in Tanzania (hosted by REPSSI), worked with orphans and street children in Eastern Ghana and Zimbabwe, trained pre-school teachers and orphanage staff, as well as offering individual art therapy sessions to sexually abused orphans in Zimbabwe and Ethiopia. She also taught expressive art and play therapy techniques at the University of Nairobi's Department of Psychology and at CONNECT, a family therapy institute in Zimbabwe.
San Rafael, CA and Africa
3 members Gloria Simoneaux
Fiscal Sponsorship : www.harambeearts.org
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Gloria Simoneaux founded DrawBridge: An Arts Program for Homeless Children in 1989 and she served as Executive Director until December 31, 2007. Over the past ten years, she has been offering trainings in working with children in crisis in Europe and Africa. Since 2000, Ms. Simoneaux has made six trips to Africa where she set up an arts program for children affected by HIV/AIDS in Eritrea, worked with young members of the Samburu tribe in Northern Kenya (hosted by Ol Malo Trust), trained HIV positive community health care workers in Tanzania (hosted by REPSSI), worked with orphans and street children in Eastern Ghana and Zimbabwe, trained pre-school teachers and orphanage staff, as well as offering individual art therapy sessions to sexually abused orphans in Zimbabwe and Ethiopia. She also taught expressive art and play therapy techniques at the University of Nairobi's Department of Psychology and at CONNECT, a family therapy institute in Zimbabwe.
CITTASLOW, USA
| 3 Members | Virginia Hubbell, Alana Coburn | |
| Sonoma, CA and USA | Fiscal Sponsorship | www.cittaslowusa.org |
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The mission of Cittaslow is to enlarge the philosophy of sustainability and quality of life of local communities, and to apply the concepts of environmental preservation, hospitality, infrastructure, new technology, social inclusion, and healthy food for all. Cittaslow USA was established in June 2010 for the purpose of expanding the Cittaslow philosophy and movement to towns with populations of 50,000 or less, across the United States.
GREEN FIELDS FOREVER
California & Canada
3 members J. N. RasManna
Fiscal Sponsorship & Business Planning :
Green Fields Forever (GFF) is an organization with the primary main objective to help create “Today’s Solution for Tomorrows World”. Green Fields Forever is committed to affecting a positive and direct impact on the state of life conditions for the peoples of society and the environmental ecosystems of our world. These ecosystems are the many diverse ecosystems that we as humans both simultaneously utilize as our habitats and derive our precious natural resources from. These resources are the many resources that supply and support our modern day lifestyles that we all so greatly enjoy. These resources today are running lower and lower each passing season at a time of ever increasing demand. Even with this known we see that there is a way we can keep these lifestyles, also that there is a way to thrive in these modern day lifestyles in a manner that will ensure that our future generations enjoy an even greater and better world; a world in time that our children will inherit from our generation. We see this love and concern for our lives and the lives of our children is the same common thread at the heart of humanity that joins us all as one human family. In this, is our commitment, not only to ourselves, or to Green Fields Forever, but truly it is a commitment and a global effort that belongs to our children and their children’s children. In order to achieve our mission, GFF will develop and manage a income generating related hemp-based farming and composting operation and business that will manufacture high-quality premium grade compost and blended growing mediums and fertilizers for a wide array of markets including specialized plant growing nurseries, professional growers, landscape management venues and farming operations. Some portion of the Net Income from this economically viable and sustainable business will be used to financially support the charitable purposes of GFF.
California & Canada
3 members J. N. RasManna
Fiscal Sponsorship & Business Planning :
Green Fields Forever (GFF) is an organization with the primary main objective to help create “Today’s Solution for Tomorrows World”. Green Fields Forever is committed to affecting a positive and direct impact on the state of life conditions for the peoples of society and the environmental ecosystems of our world. These ecosystems are the many diverse ecosystems that we as humans both simultaneously utilize as our habitats and derive our precious natural resources from. These resources are the many resources that supply and support our modern day lifestyles that we all so greatly enjoy. These resources today are running lower and lower each passing season at a time of ever increasing demand. Even with this known we see that there is a way we can keep these lifestyles, also that there is a way to thrive in these modern day lifestyles in a manner that will ensure that our future generations enjoy an even greater and better world; a world in time that our children will inherit from our generation. We see this love and concern for our lives and the lives of our children is the same common thread at the heart of humanity that joins us all as one human family. In this, is our commitment, not only to ourselves, or to Green Fields Forever, but truly it is a commitment and a global effort that belongs to our children and their children’s children. In order to achieve our mission, GFF will develop and manage a income generating related hemp-based farming and composting operation and business that will manufacture high-quality premium grade compost and blended growing mediums and fertilizers for a wide array of markets including specialized plant growing nurseries, professional growers, landscape management venues and farming operations. Some portion of the Net Income from this economically viable and sustainable business will be used to financially support the charitable purposes of GFF.
COFED
The Mission of CoFed is to empower communities of students across North America to create financially sustainable campus hubs for food and social justice activism. They will use a reproducible, cooperative development model to create a scalable network of independent student-run businesses, with a commitment to share skills, resources, and eventually, start-up capital. Their goals and objectives are:
| CalPoly SLO | City College of San Francisco | Humboldt State University |
| UC Santa Barbara | UC Davis | University of Washington |
| Fiscal Sponsorship | www.cofed.org |
- To train 200 new leaders in the food sustainability movement.
- To create 35 new financially-viable, student-run cooperatives in regional clusters in North America.
- To give 1 million college students the choice to actively participate in their food system.
To accomplish these goals they will create:
- An evolving best-practices model.
- A support network.
- A peer-based training program.
The Principles and Values of CoFed that will be useful guidelines for potential project teams include:
- Create an ethical food system through community-based, fair, ecologically sound and humane food as defined by the Real Food Guidelines.
- Insure broad participation by creating systems to engage all youth, from consumers and career organizers in paths of long-term growth and leadership.
- Exemplify the financial power of equitably and ethically pooled resources through operating cooperatively according to the ICA principles.
- Support collaboration by focusing on network driven strategies that utilize all resources and benefit all stakeholders.
KINGWAWA HAITI RELIEF PROJECT
Kingwawa has created a music video and will conduct musical tours in order to raise funds in support of an 8 acre village that will be used to house and support the children and families of Haiti. He has undertaken training in simple, low-cost and durable housing and building construction to be able to build efficient homes quickly. He is also working with other groups including Traci Amos of OPOL.
| KingWawa | Haiti/United States | |
| 3 Members | Fiscal Sponsorship | www.kingwawa.com/Home.html |
CREATIVE ENTITY
San Francisco, CA
3 members Amy Seidman, Tony Winders
Fiscal Sponsorship: Sheryl B. Cohen, Geoff Workman
www.Creative-Entity.org - Eco & Art Projects
www.IntoOutside.org – Getting Youth Outdoors
www.Incredible-Places.com - Nature & Culture
Creative Entity Org is dedicated to creating works of art and communications that enhance the quality of life for all beings. We operate as multimedia production company, publisher and producer of content, art and experiences. Our mission is to push the envelope of life using creativity to educate, inspire, and/or create community. Our area of focus is emerging media relating to art, cultural exchange, education through multimedia or similar engagement. Other projects Creative Entity produces revolve around nature and world culture, and are promoted under the banner of Incredible Places.
Creative Entity Org projects include films, interactive and photographic exhibits, Internet sites, DVDs, mobile applications, immersive experiences, fine art creation, publishing, and similar ventures.
Creative Entity Org has a perpetual license for intellectual property created by or owned by Amy Seidman. We have pro bono use of these assets (such as media and URLs) to serve projects at no cost. We are also the recipient of the percentage of profits generated by Creative Entity Productions and Creative Entity Music. Creative Entity Org is also pleased to offer the use of the photography and film licenses to other non-profits at reduced rates, while donating back a portion of the profits as a means to create sustainable income for Creative Entity Org.
San Francisco, CA
3 members Amy Seidman, Tony Winders
Fiscal Sponsorship: Sheryl B. Cohen, Geoff Workman
www.Creative-Entity.org - Eco & Art Projects
www.IntoOutside.org – Getting Youth Outdoors
www.Incredible-Places.com - Nature & Culture
Creative Entity Org is dedicated to creating works of art and communications that enhance the quality of life for all beings. We operate as multimedia production company, publisher and producer of content, art and experiences. Our mission is to push the envelope of life using creativity to educate, inspire, and/or create community. Our area of focus is emerging media relating to art, cultural exchange, education through multimedia or similar engagement. Other projects Creative Entity produces revolve around nature and world culture, and are promoted under the banner of Incredible Places.
Creative Entity Org projects include films, interactive and photographic exhibits, Internet sites, DVDs, mobile applications, immersive experiences, fine art creation, publishing, and similar ventures.
Creative Entity Org has a perpetual license for intellectual property created by or owned by Amy Seidman. We have pro bono use of these assets (such as media and URLs) to serve projects at no cost. We are also the recipient of the percentage of profits generated by Creative Entity Productions and Creative Entity Music. Creative Entity Org is also pleased to offer the use of the photography and film licenses to other non-profits at reduced rates, while donating back a portion of the profits as a means to create sustainable income for Creative Entity Org.
Unity For Foundation
San Francisco, CA
3 members Hatem Jabsheh,David Traub, Samuel Ing
International Fiscal Sponsorship and Business Management Services
www.unityfor.org
Unity For Foundation was founded and is currently funded by a group of concerned, caring individuals who are united by a common goal to enhance the prospects for peace through an improved spiritual and physical quality of life for everyone living on our planet. We intend to achieve our mission by creating a global media and giving campaign that that is economically viable and financially sustainable via a
continuing series of high profile concert event designed to enable “we the people” to be pro-active in making our voices heard and our actions felt in ways that help to solve the world's major challenges.
We shall initiate our campaign with a series of benefit concerts across the U.S. and Europe, leading to our first annual multi-country concert to be held in the Middle East. To kick-off our national campaign, we will hold our first event on March 12th at the Los Angeles House of Blues starring an eclectic gathering of International Artists to support our first cause: Peace in the Middle East.
Simultaneous with this concert series, Unity For Foundation will launch our ‘open source’ web- and mobile-based social network that will bring individuals from around the planet into an action-based network where they can both speak their voice and verify the actual impact of their contributions within a fully transparent, philanthropic giving platform. We are an innovative and rapidly growing group of community-oriented individuals from across the planet that are investing time, energy and capital because Global Unity needs to occur NOW! The foundation has been designed to operate exclusively for the benefit of all people and does not allow contributions to be used for profit or personal benefit. Our goals are to promote peace, awareness, full transparency, innovation in philanthropy, financial sustainability and other positive values through mass media.
San Francisco, CA
3 members Hatem Jabsheh,David Traub, Samuel Ing
International Fiscal Sponsorship and Business Management Services
www.unityfor.org
Unity For Foundation was founded and is currently funded by a group of concerned, caring individuals who are united by a common goal to enhance the prospects for peace through an improved spiritual and physical quality of life for everyone living on our planet. We intend to achieve our mission by creating a global media and giving campaign that that is economically viable and financially sustainable via a
continuing series of high profile concert event designed to enable “we the people” to be pro-active in making our voices heard and our actions felt in ways that help to solve the world's major challenges.
We shall initiate our campaign with a series of benefit concerts across the U.S. and Europe, leading to our first annual multi-country concert to be held in the Middle East. To kick-off our national campaign, we will hold our first event on March 12th at the Los Angeles House of Blues starring an eclectic gathering of International Artists to support our first cause: Peace in the Middle East.
Simultaneous with this concert series, Unity For Foundation will launch our ‘open source’ web- and mobile-based social network that will bring individuals from around the planet into an action-based network where they can both speak their voice and verify the actual impact of their contributions within a fully transparent, philanthropic giving platform. We are an innovative and rapidly growing group of community-oriented individuals from across the planet that are investing time, energy and capital because Global Unity needs to occur NOW! The foundation has been designed to operate exclusively for the benefit of all people and does not allow contributions to be used for profit or personal benefit. Our goals are to promote peace, awareness, full transparency, innovation in philanthropy, financial sustainability and other positive values through mass media.
The Dream Institute of Northern California
The Dream Institute is a participatory cultural center whose mission is to encourage interest in dreaming as a natural human resource, democratically available to all that can inform and inspire our cultural and personal lives. The programs of the Dream Institute emphasize the living reality of the psyche and its natural language of images, which appear in dreams, art, poetry, and meaningful events.
| 3 Members | Fiscal Sponsorship | Meredith Sabini, Director Berkeley, CA |
The Dream Institute is a participatory cultural center whose mission is to encourage interest in dreaming as a natural human resource, democratically available to all that can inform and inspire our cultural and personal lives. The programs of the Dream Institute emphasize the living reality of the psyche and its natural language of images, which appear in dreams, art, poetry, and meaningful events.
Bay Area Association of Kidney Patients
BAAKP has the charitable purpose to provide EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FOR BAY AREA KIDNEY PATIENTS. Founded in 2007, BAAKP is a core group of kidney patients and ancillary professionals who wanted to Educate and Support Bay Area Kidney Patients. Members and clients include people with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), persons who require and are currently on dialysis and transplant recipients. The organization conducts four educational meetings per year, which are very well attended by 60-75 people at each event. The organization also publishes a quarterly newsletter, which is distributed through a current mailing list of approximately 250 patients as well as doctors, dialysis and transplant centers and other interested parties such as Health Fairs.
| Fiscally Sponsored | 15 members | Grant Bennett |
| San Francisco Bay Area | www.baakp.org |
Pioneer Imprints
San Rafael, CA
3 members Alden Bevington
Fiscal Sponsorship
The charitable purpose of PI is to facilitate the professional and distribution of media, which promotes the positive progress and understanding of the individual in the global society. In addition, the organization intends to facilitate, encourage and inform the discussion and application of the application of media advances in human consciousness and health states of being.
San Rafael, CA
3 members Alden Bevington
Fiscal Sponsorship
The charitable purpose of PI is to facilitate the professional and distribution of media, which promotes the positive progress and understanding of the individual in the global society. In addition, the organization intends to facilitate, encourage and inform the discussion and application of the application of media advances in human consciousness and health states of being.
The WOW Labs and WOW Foundation Project
Falmer, East Sussex, England
3 members Patrick Treloar
Fiscal Sponsorship and Business Management Services
To engage and enthuse individuals, institutions and networks through an ambitious flagship project and its related mentorship, arts and entertainment programs focused on wonder, inspiration and discovery; with collaboration, creativity and communication as their key methodology; thereby also generating inevitable spinoffs to world benefit and the promotion of an ethical intelligence in line with this goal.'
The WOW Project is based on what we call a ‘Simulacrum’, a simulation which does not copy reality but one which creates it, this principle is employed through all of the project’s levels and ultimately our ‘flagship’ project online ‘game world’ mythology of freedom and good overcoming greed and evil through an altruistic Artificial Intelligence. The ambition of this project is indeed audacious, however we feel that by the development of WOW Labs, we can approach this ‘High Concept’ in an iterative fashion, opening up significant capabilities for research & development, arts & media, consultancy, creativity and community mentorship programs. WOW intends to initiate profound enquiry, but in a disarmingly playful way.
The WOW Foundation is intended to be the key resource for this enquiry. Based around the project’s mythos of a machine that experiences wonder, deep questions can be asked concerning not only A.I, but also the human condition, as well covering areas such as positive psychology, quality of life, enthusiastic collaboration and creative communication.
Falmer, East Sussex, England
3 members Patrick Treloar
Fiscal Sponsorship and Business Management Services
| Falmer, East Sussex, England | 3 members | Grant Bennett |
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The WOW Project is based on what we call a ‘Simulacrum’, a simulation which does not copy reality but one which creates it, this principle is employed through all of the project’s levels and ultimately our ‘flagship’ project online ‘game world’ mythology of freedom and good overcoming greed and evil through an altruistic Artificial Intelligence. The ambition of this project is indeed audacious, however we feel that by the development of WOW Labs, we can approach this ‘High Concept’ in an iterative fashion, opening up significant capabilities for research & development, arts & media, consultancy, creativity and community mentorship programs. WOW intends to initiate profound enquiry, but in a disarmingly playful way.
The WOW Foundation is intended to be the key resource for this enquiry. Based around the project’s mythos of a machine that experiences wonder, deep questions can be asked concerning not only A.I, but also the human condition, as well covering areas such as positive psychology, quality of life, enthusiastic collaboration and creative communication.
Freedom Song
Ukiah, CA
3 members Jonah Ross
Fiscal Sponsorship and Business Management Services
Freedom Song is a spiritually based organization intending to hold ceremonies and offer services in praise of love and refinement of the human spirit. Their intent is to create a greater access to the creative arts to all people of all ages. They feel that assisting an individual in connecting with their authentic self, through identifying with and expressing their creative interest, is one of the greatest services to human kind. This is one of the foundations to our spiritual connection to the source of all life. When this connection is attained, it creates an experience of lasting peace, joy, enthusiasm and passionate freedom.
Ukiah, CA
3 members Jonah Ross
Fiscal Sponsorship and Business Management Services
Freedom Song is a spiritually based organization intending to hold ceremonies and offer services in praise of love and refinement of the human spirit. Their intent is to create a greater access to the creative arts to all people of all ages. They feel that assisting an individual in connecting with their authentic self, through identifying with and expressing their creative interest, is one of the greatest services to human kind. This is one of the foundations to our spiritual connection to the source of all life. When this connection is attained, it creates an experience of lasting peace, joy, enthusiasm and passionate freedom.
Bay Area Track Club
San Francisco Bay Area
5 members Magdalena Lewy
Fiscal Sponsorship and Business Management Services
http://bayareatrackclub.com/
The Bay Area Track Club (BATC) will develop American distance running in three primary ways. First, it will provide a much-needed training infrastructure for California’s elite athletes. Team training sessions at San Francisco Bay Area locations, a collaborative coaching staff, a medical team with Olympic athlete expertise, accessible altitude training, and living stipends will be provided to members. Second, this will create a desirable training option for America’s aspiring distance stars. Third, BATC elites will promote track and field to thousands of local runners through instructional clinics; meet appearances, peer mentoring, summer running camps, and motivational seminars. There is a great need for such running leadership here, as competitive track and field athletes prevail in youth clubs, high schools, junior colleges, four-year colleges, and Pacific Association post-collegiate clubs. This group will be both a bridge and an epicenter, connecting and inspiring all parts of the thriving running community in northern California.
San Francisco Bay Area
5 members Magdalena Lewy
Fiscal Sponsorship and Business Management Services
http://bayareatrackclub.com/
The Bay Area Track Club (BATC) will develop American distance running in three primary ways. First, it will provide a much-needed training infrastructure for California’s elite athletes. Team training sessions at San Francisco Bay Area locations, a collaborative coaching staff, a medical team with Olympic athlete expertise, accessible altitude training, and living stipends will be provided to members. Second, this will create a desirable training option for America’s aspiring distance stars. Third, BATC elites will promote track and field to thousands of local runners through instructional clinics; meet appearances, peer mentoring, summer running camps, and motivational seminars. There is a great need for such running leadership here, as competitive track and field athletes prevail in youth clubs, high schools, junior colleges, four-year colleges, and Pacific Association post-collegiate clubs. This group will be both a bridge and an epicenter, connecting and inspiring all parts of the thriving running community in northern California.
Red Oak Center: Creative Expression and Life Skills Training
Center Point, Oregon
6 members Curtis Van De Vooren,Louis Colosimo, Barbara Mikula
Fiscal Sponsorship and Business Management Services
http://bayareatrackclub.com/
By incorporating the creative environment of an arts studio with the day to day responsibilities of running a small business, The Center strives to provide an environment where creative expression is fostered and encouraged while providing involvement of the more day to day aspects of decision making and results of those decisions. By allowing ourselves to be creative, expressive and genuine, we can improve our lives and the lives of those around us and by increasing self awareness we enhance and nurture self esteem and critical thinking.
Currently developing programs for: youth-seniors-military-developmentally challenged and all of the rest of us with challenges.
Center Point, Oregon
6 members Curtis Van De Vooren,Louis Colosimo, Barbara Mikula
Fiscal Sponsorship and Business Management Services
http://bayareatrackclub.com/
| Center Point, Oregon | Fiscal Sponsorship | Curtis Van De Vooren |
| 6 members | Louis Colosimo, Barbara Mikula | www.redoakglass.com |
Currently developing programs for: youth-seniors-military-developmentally challenged and all of the rest of us with challenges.
Nepal Education Fund
Nepal/USA
3 members Haydi Sowerwine, David Sowerwine,
Fiscal Sponsorship
An organization of volunteers who raise funds from donors throughout the USA and other countries in order to provide financial support for the education of young girls in Nepal as an integral aspect of preventing the sale of young girls into slavery.
Nepal/USA
3 members Haydi Sowerwine, David Sowerwine,
Fiscal Sponsorship
An organization of volunteers who raise funds from donors throughout the USA and other countries in order to provide financial support for the education of young girls in Nepal as an integral aspect of preventing the sale of young girls into slavery.
Temple of Light & Sound
This project provides training, education and associated services, events and activities that are designed to inspire sustainable, equitable, ethical and peaceful ways of living on the planet. Heather Salmon considers herself to be a Spiritual Midwife to the New Earth -- a Sustainable, Equitable, Ethical and Peace Filled World. She is an ordained minister of the Essene lineage, Bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Toronto, practices numerous healing modalities including hypnotherapy, reflexology, living foods, cleansing, aromatherapy, Reiki, Hawaiian Huna, Deep Emotional Release Bodywork and Transpersonal Energy Healing and 30 years of experience in applied healing practices.
| Heather Salmon, High Priestess, BA, ACH | ||
| Harbin Hot Springs, CA | Fiscal Sponsorship | www.HeatherSalmon.com |
Spirited Medicine Alliance
A combined US, Peruvian and Bolivian project that intends to sustain indigenous Shamanistic medicine that would be fully integrated with selected aspects of Western Medicine in order to provide a more holistic approach to health and wellness. Currently the project is engaged in teaching courses in Minnesota, in guiding ecological travel programs, small research activities and developing business plans for establishing operations in the US, Peru and Bolivia. The mission of the Spirited Medicine Alliance is to support the health and spirit of the earth and its inhabitants by fostering the spirit of good medicine through an alliance of medicine, spirit, and ecology.
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Peru and Bolivia and Minnesota 7 members Connie Grauds, R.PH. , Fiscal Sponsorship Spirited Medicine Alliance |
- We support, conserve, and sustain the wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of indigenous people, especially as it relates to medicinal plants, healing and spiritual practices, cultural and ecological traditions of indigenous people.
- We support and aid the healers, shamans, and medicine people of indigenous communities as well as our own modern communities in the continuation of medical,cultural, natural medicine, and spiritual traditions.
- We bring aid in bringing this knowledge to the United States and the greater modern world at large so as to integrate appropriate use of these healing traditions and medicines into Western healthcare as viable, complementary therapies, and in doing so in a way that provides economic benefits to the indigenous people as well.
- We reciprocate this wisdom sharing by making available Western medical assistance within the indigenous communities, as viable complementary therapies.
- We act as a bridge for these healing traditions and medicines, as well as ecologically sustainable perspectives, in order to sustain their viability into the future.
- We act to conserve and preserve the environments where these medicines are found.
- We support indigenous ownership of our indigenous projects.
- We promote good medicine” as a medicine that includes reciprocity, interconnectedness, indigenous wisdom, community, nature, ecology, sustainability, activism, conservancy, and healing, health, and wellness for all.
- We promote Spirited Medicine as a medicine of “right relationship” between people, the earth, and spirit.
- We promote “reciprocity” as an important aspect in all we do, and these acts of reciprocity also include helping ourselves in the greater modern world as we help those in the indigenous worlds.
- We promote the “spiriting” of all of actions and all of life.
- We act in the name of social justice to make this Spirited Medicine more readily available and acceptable within Western healthcare, and to enable the indigenous to benefit from the technological and pharmaceutical benefits of modern Western medicine.
In this way, the Spirited Medicine Alliance seeks to build a powerful alliance of spiritual and natural medicines with scientific and technological medicines in order to improve the health and welfare of all globally.
Write On!
San Francisco & Marin County, CA
6 members Robert-Harry Rovin,
Fiscal Sponsorship
www.writeonworkshops.org
www.relationshipvision.com/write-on
The creative writing program that nurtures well-being through self-expression
This project currently conducts writing workshops at homeless shelters, battered women’s shelters and organization’s serving the disadvantaged that is focused on assisting specific individuals who are taught how to use writing as a form of self-expression that enhances self-esteem, nurtures independence & improves functionality for the homeless participants.
San Francisco & Marin County, CA
6 members Robert-Harry Rovin,
Fiscal Sponsorship
www.writeonworkshops.org
www.relationshipvision.com/write-on
The creative writing program that nurtures well-being through self-expression
This project currently conducts writing workshops at homeless shelters, battered women’s shelters and organization’s serving the disadvantaged that is focused on assisting specific individuals who are taught how to use writing as a form of self-expression that enhances self-esteem, nurtures independence & improves functionality for the homeless participants.
Inspire Every Child
Bellingham, WA
5 members John M. Thompson,
Fiscal Sponsorship
www.inspire-every-child.org
A Washington State nonprofit corporation, PO Box 1865, Bellevue, WA 98009, which has the following charitable purposes and mission: a) To provide books, educational materials and learning resources to children, especially low-income and disadvantaged children, who are in need of these resources, wherever they may exist; and b) To acquire the assets and operations of Illumination Arts, Inc. and to conduct ongoing operations as a nonprofit publishing company, specializing in inspiring, non-denominational media for children.
Bellingham, WA
5 members John M. Thompson,
Fiscal Sponsorship
www.inspire-every-child.org
A Washington State nonprofit corporation, PO Box 1865, Bellevue, WA 98009, which has the following charitable purposes and mission: a) To provide books, educational materials and learning resources to children, especially low-income and disadvantaged children, who are in need of these resources, wherever they may exist; and b) To acquire the assets and operations of Illumination Arts, Inc. and to conduct ongoing operations as a nonprofit publishing company, specializing in inspiring, non-denominational media for children.
A.W.E. GLOBAL Institute (Abundance, Wellness & Enlightenment)
Marin County, CA
3 Members Mark Chasan ,
Fiscal Sponsorship
Project to build and live in a sustainable community using a for-profit/non-profit collaborative structure, subject you wisdom and guidance, as follows:
Marin County, CA
3 Members Mark Chasan ,
Fiscal Sponsorship
Project to build and live in a sustainable community using a for-profit/non-profit collaborative structure, subject you wisdom and guidance, as follows:
- AWE, Inc. (“AI”) as a for-profit holding company with the following divisions: (i) Community Development, (ii) Transformational Wellness, (iii) Interactive and Media, (iv) Consulting, (iv) Education and Certification, (v) Agriculture and (vi) Venture Accelerator.
- AWE Bank – A community bank that will provide variable interest rates on deposits that reflect the success of the community. Using banking leverage to help develop community and community businesses, AWE Bank can provide funding for capital improvement, inventory, equipment and business loans to the community.
- AWE Global (“AG”) is a non-profit whose purpose it is to positively transform our world, lifestyles and economics by sustainably reconnecting people to community, to the earth and to spirit with goal of all people live in A.W.E.
- This will be accomplished by providing a principled foundation for living in AWE (“AWE Consciousness”), creating a sharing/giving economy through sustainable work-live A.W.E. Communities that teach us how to live in greater respect for each other and the planet, increase interpersonal relationship skills and a provide environments and tools that create a deeper sense of connection and a higher quality of life. For those that are unable to live in an A.W.E. Community, they can participate in AWElife.com’s online community and/or visit A.W.E. retreats, workshops and transformative wellness centers.
- AG will have the objective preserving a high percentage (e.g. 70%) of the land it receives for the enjoyment of those who desire to sustainably live on and/or enjoy the beauty of the land. The land itself may be conservatively harvested in accordance with strict guidelines. The other 30% can be used for the building of sustainable communities and agriculture.
- AG will generate revenues from the lease of land, conservation land management, publications, education, certification, events, workshops, appreciation in land value from improvements, donations of stock/equity, providing trained employees to sustainable businesses, research and participation in the incubation and operation of related ventures.
Daily Miracles
Illinois, Florida and California
3 members Barry Stamos, J.P. Morgan,
Fiscal Sponsorship
www.dailymiracles.org
“Believe in Daily Miracles!” Live One. Give One. ™
"Daily Miracles enriches the experience of doing good for everyone by helping ordinary people do extraordinary things."
Daily Miracles has been organized and is being operated for purposes that are beneficial to the public interest. Daily Miracles is focused on charitable efforts addressing the relief of the distressed, or underprivileged, as well as the advancement of social, community and human awareness, aid, and collaboration. Daily Miracles’ aims to connect those with gifts to give with those who are in need of receipt of these gifts, within their local communities, through leveraging its grass roots community and optimizing their interactions, communications and fulfillment of needs through innovated technologies.
Illinois, Florida and California
3 members Barry Stamos, J.P. Morgan,
Fiscal Sponsorship
www.dailymiracles.org
“Believe in Daily Miracles!” Live One. Give One. ™
"Daily Miracles enriches the experience of doing good for everyone by helping ordinary people do extraordinary things."
Daily Miracles has been organized and is being operated for purposes that are beneficial to the public interest. Daily Miracles is focused on charitable efforts addressing the relief of the distressed, or underprivileged, as well as the advancement of social, community and human awareness, aid, and collaboration. Daily Miracles’ aims to connect those with gifts to give with those who are in need of receipt of these gifts, within their local communities, through leveraging its grass roots community and optimizing their interactions, communications and fulfillment of needs through innovated technologies.
Green Century Institute
San Francisco, CA
3 members Michael Gosney, Mark Kasky ,Marjorie Athwal ,
Fiscal Sponsorship
MISSION STATEMENT
To foster the development of sustainable communities and an ecologically sound integration of human settlements and activities with the natural systems of the planet in the 21st Century.
VISION STATEMENT
The solutions to the ecological problems facing humanity are all available and realizable, through comprehensive and effective dissemination of information, development of appropriate technologies, and ecologically informed systems of implementation.
With an overarching mission of "evolving sustainable communities," the Green Century Institute (GCI) was established in 2002 as an independent research and development association. It was founded by Michael Gosney and Marc Kasky, pioneers in community-based development and new media technologies. GCI has developed a series of educational events under the fiscal sponsorship of RSF Social Finance, and advised on a range of green development projects including the Alameda Island and Concord Naval Weapons Center in the San Francisco Bay Area. GCI is working on various initiatives to put high technology resources to work on sustainability programs, as well as continuing research and outreach toward the development of a major "green city" project in the San Francisco Bay Area, Califia.
GCI offers a range of consulting services to companies, civic entities and NGOs, including project development, technology support, design programs, media and publishing development, specialized
San Francisco, CA
3 members Michael Gosney, Mark Kasky ,Marjorie Athwal ,
Fiscal Sponsorship
MISSION STATEMENT
To foster the development of sustainable communities and an ecologically sound integration of human settlements and activities with the natural systems of the planet in the 21st Century.
VISION STATEMENT
The solutions to the ecological problems facing humanity are all available and realizable, through comprehensive and effective dissemination of information, development of appropriate technologies, and ecologically informed systems of implementation.
With an overarching mission of "evolving sustainable communities," the Green Century Institute (GCI) was established in 2002 as an independent research and development association. It was founded by Michael Gosney and Marc Kasky, pioneers in community-based development and new media technologies. GCI has developed a series of educational events under the fiscal sponsorship of RSF Social Finance, and advised on a range of green development projects including the Alameda Island and Concord Naval Weapons Center in the San Francisco Bay Area. GCI is working on various initiatives to put high technology resources to work on sustainability programs, as well as continuing research and outreach toward the development of a major "green city" project in the San Francisco Bay Area, Califia.
GCI offers a range of consulting services to companies, civic entities and NGOs, including project development, technology support, design programs, media and publishing development, specialized
VillageTech Solutions
International/California
5 Members David Sowerwine ,
Fiscal Sponsorship www.villagetechsolutions.org
The purpose of this corporation is to improve living conditions in developing countries as follows:
* To stimulate innovation in technology and in programs which enable needy beneficiaries to acquire such technologies.
* To provide job training services and facilities.
* To collaborate with other nonprofit organizations in their non-profit activities.
* To aid, support, and assist by gifts, contributions, training, technical assistance, or otherwise, other corporations, funds, and foundations organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individuals, and no substantial part of the activities of which is carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation.
* To do any and all lawful activities which may be necessary, useful, or desirable for the furtherance, accomplishment, fostering, or attaining of the foregoing purposes, either directly or indirectly, and either alone or in conjunction or cooperation with others, whether such others be persons or organizations of any kind or nature, such as corporations, firms, associations, trusts, institutions, foundations, or governmental bureaus or agencies.
International/California
5 Members David Sowerwine ,
Fiscal Sponsorship www.villagetechsolutions.org
The purpose of this corporation is to improve living conditions in developing countries as follows:
* To stimulate innovation in technology and in programs which enable needy beneficiaries to acquire such technologies.
* To provide job training services and facilities.
* To collaborate with other nonprofit organizations in their non-profit activities.
* To aid, support, and assist by gifts, contributions, training, technical assistance, or otherwise, other corporations, funds, and foundations organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individuals, and no substantial part of the activities of which is carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation.
* To do any and all lawful activities which may be necessary, useful, or desirable for the furtherance, accomplishment, fostering, or attaining of the foregoing purposes, either directly or indirectly, and either alone or in conjunction or cooperation with others, whether such others be persons or organizations of any kind or nature, such as corporations, firms, associations, trusts, institutions, foundations, or governmental bureaus or agencies.
- To create novel products and programs that improve living conditions
- To provide job training services to the underprivileged of the community
- To assist needy beneficiaries to acquire beneficial technologies and practices
- To help other nonprofit organizations in business and operational development
- To undertake such other community outreach programs for achieving the purposes and utilizing the powers set forth in its Articles of Incorporation, subject to the limitations expressed in its Articles of Incorporation.
Appalachian Institute for Renewable Energy (AIRE)
(An initiative of Appalachian Coalition for Just and Sustainable Communities)
AIRE’s mission is to help ensure that the benefits of our nurturing planet will remain available to current and future generations by reducing our society’s continued use of fossil fuels for power generation. We will accomplish this by being a leading voice for renewable energy in the Southeast and Appalachian region and by educating individuals and organizations about the choices and benefits of community based renewable energy.
We will work in collaboration with other community groups, non-governmental organizations, renewable energy professionals, and individuals to assist with project design and implementation, and to improve access to and enhance the availability of affordable financing, including use of tax credits and other incentives, for purchasing and installing renewable energy systems.
We will hasten the growth of “green” jobs and a robust economy in our promotion of renewable energy by the establishment of a cooperative association of renewable energy professionals to operate with an ethical code of conduct and quality standards that shall be third-party verified and transparent. This cooperative will become the recognized standard for integrity, competence and professionalism in the renewable industry.
We will advocate for favorable public policies that improve the acceptance and adoption of community based renewable energy.
AIRE’s workplace environment will be supportive, equitable, and cooperative, and will provide each employee the opportunity to achieve his or her greatest potential. We will respect diversity and protect the rights of others.
AIRE intends to advocate for the use of affordable, efficient and community-based use of renewable energy production in rural Appalachia. More specifically, the firm researches market investment opportunities for manufacturing the several devices now available, keeps regional leaders abreast of public policy issues, and, finally, brings an Appalachian perspective to regional, state, and national discussions among elected officials who frame and implement energy policy. In addition, the nonprofit may employ engineering consultants, or other persons with highly specialized skills and experience in the areas of financial analysis, comprehensive due diligence, or to assist in starting a test-bed for inventors and investors. The AIRE test-bed, as envisioned, is to examine the design and operation of renewable energy devices by placing them in service with our members to demonstrate their effectiveness, durability and value before they are marketed. We also intend to work with for-profit entities in a cooperative manner to demonstrate how to effectively and efficiently bring renewable energy production to Appalachian homes, businesses, churches, sawmills, radio stations, fish farms, auto fleet recharge stations for auto fleets, and perhaps even coal mines.
AIRE is an Appalachia network of diverse individuals, organizations, community groups, and institutions of educational institutions working on issues of social, economic, and environmental justice and sustainability.
(An initiative of Appalachian Coalition for Just and Sustainable Communities)
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Boone, North Carolina 7 members Steve Owen, Business Management Services www.aire-nc.org |
We will work in collaboration with other community groups, non-governmental organizations, renewable energy professionals, and individuals to assist with project design and implementation, and to improve access to and enhance the availability of affordable financing, including use of tax credits and other incentives, for purchasing and installing renewable energy systems.
We will hasten the growth of “green” jobs and a robust economy in our promotion of renewable energy by the establishment of a cooperative association of renewable energy professionals to operate with an ethical code of conduct and quality standards that shall be third-party verified and transparent. This cooperative will become the recognized standard for integrity, competence and professionalism in the renewable industry.
We will advocate for favorable public policies that improve the acceptance and adoption of community based renewable energy.
AIRE’s workplace environment will be supportive, equitable, and cooperative, and will provide each employee the opportunity to achieve his or her greatest potential. We will respect diversity and protect the rights of others.
AIRE intends to advocate for the use of affordable, efficient and community-based use of renewable energy production in rural Appalachia. More specifically, the firm researches market investment opportunities for manufacturing the several devices now available, keeps regional leaders abreast of public policy issues, and, finally, brings an Appalachian perspective to regional, state, and national discussions among elected officials who frame and implement energy policy. In addition, the nonprofit may employ engineering consultants, or other persons with highly specialized skills and experience in the areas of financial analysis, comprehensive due diligence, or to assist in starting a test-bed for inventors and investors. The AIRE test-bed, as envisioned, is to examine the design and operation of renewable energy devices by placing them in service with our members to demonstrate their effectiveness, durability and value before they are marketed. We also intend to work with for-profit entities in a cooperative manner to demonstrate how to effectively and efficiently bring renewable energy production to Appalachian homes, businesses, churches, sawmills, radio stations, fish farms, auto fleet recharge stations for auto fleets, and perhaps even coal mines.
AIRE is an Appalachia network of diverse individuals, organizations, community groups, and institutions of educational institutions working on issues of social, economic, and environmental justice and sustainability.
Shannon Rowbury
San Francisco, CA
Business Manager S. Loren Cole, Ph.D.
www.shannonrowbury.com/
Shannon is one of the top professional and elite runners in the world. She is current ranked 3rd in the world in the 1500 meter outdoor events and has demonstrated that she is a runner of tremendous potential who has already established herself as an exceptional athlete. Shannon is our current U.S. National Women’s 1500 meter Champion and was our top qualifier for the recent Olympics in China. She is also the Bronze Medal winner for the 2009 World Championship Women’s 1500 meter race.
She is also committed to helping young women become involved with athletics as an integral aspect of their life and for running as a means to improve the quality of life of people of all ages.
ISI is currently Shannon’s Business Manager and responsible for the management of all of her professional business operations and activities.
San Francisco, CA
Business Manager S. Loren Cole, Ph.D.
www.shannonrowbury.com/
Shannon is one of the top professional and elite runners in the world. She is current ranked 3rd in the world in the 1500 meter outdoor events and has demonstrated that she is a runner of tremendous potential who has already established herself as an exceptional athlete. Shannon is our current U.S. National Women’s 1500 meter Champion and was our top qualifier for the recent Olympics in China. She is also the Bronze Medal winner for the 2009 World Championship Women’s 1500 meter race.
She is also committed to helping young women become involved with athletics as an integral aspect of their life and for running as a means to improve the quality of life of people of all ages.
ISI is currently Shannon’s Business Manager and responsible for the management of all of her professional business operations and activities.
Edison Innovation Network
Santa Rosa, CA and San Francisco Bay Area
Board of 3 members
Larry MacDonald,
Edison Innovations, Inc., a company focused on delivery of “innovation as a service,” with a collaborative development initiative for its RealGov.com project, an evolving online resource designed to help build new, citizen-controlled bridges and communications channels linking government with the governed, in any locality and nation-wide. RealGov.com is a public “wiki” for which any interested citizen can contribute, edit, or comment upon content. RealGov.com is directly inspired by Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia, and is based on the same supporting technologies and principles. Citizens, employees of government agencies, politicians, and others interested in increased government accessibility, responsiveness, and transparency are invited to visit the RealGov.com Web site (at http://www.realgov.com), and to contribute to its features, development, and support.
Santa Rosa, CA and San Francisco Bay Area
Board of 3 members
Larry MacDonald,
Edison Innovations, Inc., a company focused on delivery of “innovation as a service,” with a collaborative development initiative for its RealGov.com project, an evolving online resource designed to help build new, citizen-controlled bridges and communications channels linking government with the governed, in any locality and nation-wide. RealGov.com is a public “wiki” for which any interested citizen can contribute, edit, or comment upon content. RealGov.com is directly inspired by Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia, and is based on the same supporting technologies and principles. Citizens, employees of government agencies, politicians, and others interested in increased government accessibility, responsiveness, and transparency are invited to visit the RealGov.com Web site (at http://www.realgov.com), and to contribute to its features, development, and support.
- A web-based video platform that empowers kids to teach other kids educational subjects via compelling video content.
- A vast selection of free videos for teachers to use in classrooms, covering all topics and standards being studied.
- Target the primary and secondary education market (K-12) in the U.S. We expect our product will also be useful to college levels and potentially the military.
- A unique, elegant, and intuitive user experience designed for K-12 engagement and education.
- Parental safeguards to ensure that parents are made aware of site registration and posts.
- Community features, such as a ratings system so kids can select the most useful videos for a given subject or problem.
- Competitions and incentives for students to create, share, view, and rate videos.
- Tracking and monitoring on the site to show certain site activity and to track how kids are making progress towards learning goals and mastering subject matter.
- Ability to cross-reference videos back to specific topics in major textbooks and curricula.
- Ability to connect educational institutions and students throughout the world.
- Integration with other platforms such as mobile phones and Facebook.
Tri-CED Community Recycling
Union City, CA
Board of 7 members
Richard Valle,CEO,
Business Management Services
www.tri-ced.com
TRI-CED Community Recycling is a nonprofit corporation founded in 1981 as a community based recycling organization located in a “state-of-the-art” urban waste processing facility in Union City, California. Tri-CED's mission is to reduce the waste stream, employ youth and needy adults and to share residual proceeds with the community. Tri-CED forms partnerships with community based organizations, schools, teachers, and faith based organizations to promote source reduction, recycling collection, composting and community education programs designed to reduce waste and raise awareness about our environment. For the past 20 years, TRI-CED has been recycling urban household waste, yard waste and managing a buy-back program under contracts with the Cities of Union City and Hayward. The direct benefits to the community and the environment of TRI-CED’s recycling activities are enhanced by employment and training opportunities for low-income residents of the community, undertaken in partnership with the Alameda County workforce development system. Tri-CED has used sound business management techniques, methods and skills to operate a recycling business in a cost effective manner that has saved money for the residents of the communities the company serves. Tri-CED is the largest, economically viable, fully sustainable, community-based recycling operation in California.
ISI provides comprehensive business management assistance in all aspects of the operating and development of one of the most successful nonprofit recycling company in the US. ISI is also responsible for many aspects of the business operations including financial analysis, project development, capital acquisition, municipal recycling collection contract negotiations with the cities of Union City and Hayward and assisting the management team in maintaining the terms and conditions of the contracts and related operations. ISI also provides, when required, comprehensive, systemic and ethically direct business management services, bank and bond financing, grant writing, project management and other related services.
Union City, CA
Board of 7 members
Richard Valle,CEO,
Business Management Services
www.tri-ced.com
TRI-CED Community Recycling is a nonprofit corporation founded in 1981 as a community based recycling organization located in a “state-of-the-art” urban waste processing facility in Union City, California. Tri-CED's mission is to reduce the waste stream, employ youth and needy adults and to share residual proceeds with the community. Tri-CED forms partnerships with community based organizations, schools, teachers, and faith based organizations to promote source reduction, recycling collection, composting and community education programs designed to reduce waste and raise awareness about our environment. For the past 20 years, TRI-CED has been recycling urban household waste, yard waste and managing a buy-back program under contracts with the Cities of Union City and Hayward. The direct benefits to the community and the environment of TRI-CED’s recycling activities are enhanced by employment and training opportunities for low-income residents of the community, undertaken in partnership with the Alameda County workforce development system. Tri-CED has used sound business management techniques, methods and skills to operate a recycling business in a cost effective manner that has saved money for the residents of the communities the company serves. Tri-CED is the largest, economically viable, fully sustainable, community-based recycling operation in California.
ISI provides comprehensive business management assistance in all aspects of the operating and development of one of the most successful nonprofit recycling company in the US. ISI is also responsible for many aspects of the business operations including financial analysis, project development, capital acquisition, municipal recycling collection contract negotiations with the cities of Union City and Hayward and assisting the management team in maintaining the terms and conditions of the contracts and related operations. ISI also provides, when required, comprehensive, systemic and ethically direct business management services, bank and bond financing, grant writing, project management and other related services.
Chabot College/Tri-CED Community Recycling:
Tri-CED, Hayward & Union City, CA
TREE PROJECT
A Partnership of Tri-CED, The City of Union City, The City of Hayward & Chabot College
There is sound evidence that environmental education could support and enhance academic curriculum goals and to identify program trends that could improve and expand environmental education programs in Southern Alameda County. The TREE program intends to accomplish the following:
1. To assist the environmental education community in designing, developing and delivering programs to address student academic achievement outcomes. Our intent is to help build environmental education capacity and quality in Southern Alameda County and to enhance and expand environmental literacy.
2. To educate K-12 public school students throughout Southern Alameda County about waste reduction and responsible environmental behaviors through the 4Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle, and rot) concepts. The TREE program offers a comprehensive experiential approach, including educational programs, teacher trainings, and technical support for school districts, with the following three goals: Students are empowered to engage in, practice 4Rs behaviors in school and apply 4Rs behaviors in everyday life.
3. To reduce materials going into landfills by mounting a comprehensive educational effort that will result in behavior change to maximize waste reduction at many levels for Alameda County communities.
4. To stimulate and to change the consciousness of people of all ages that will help lead to an improved system of resource conservation, reuse, renewal and recycling that will be sustainable into the future.
5. To achieve these goals, the TREE program is focused on recycling infrastructure and education that will work hand-in-hand to provide students with waste reduction education (awareness, knowledge, attitude and skills) and the opportunity to practice what they are learning. To enhance the recycling infrastructure at schools throughout the districts to reinforce each other and provide positive role models.
Tri-CED, Hayward & Union City, CA
TREE PROJECT
A Partnership of Tri-CED, The City of Union City, The City of Hayward & Chabot College
There is sound evidence that environmental education could support and enhance academic curriculum goals and to identify program trends that could improve and expand environmental education programs in Southern Alameda County. The TREE program intends to accomplish the following:
1. To assist the environmental education community in designing, developing and delivering programs to address student academic achievement outcomes. Our intent is to help build environmental education capacity and quality in Southern Alameda County and to enhance and expand environmental literacy.
2. To educate K-12 public school students throughout Southern Alameda County about waste reduction and responsible environmental behaviors through the 4Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle, and rot) concepts. The TREE program offers a comprehensive experiential approach, including educational programs, teacher trainings, and technical support for school districts, with the following three goals: Students are empowered to engage in, practice 4Rs behaviors in school and apply 4Rs behaviors in everyday life.
3. To reduce materials going into landfills by mounting a comprehensive educational effort that will result in behavior change to maximize waste reduction at many levels for Alameda County communities.
4. To stimulate and to change the consciousness of people of all ages that will help lead to an improved system of resource conservation, reuse, renewal and recycling that will be sustainable into the future.
5. To achieve these goals, the TREE program is focused on recycling infrastructure and education that will work hand-in-hand to provide students with waste reduction education (awareness, knowledge, attitude and skills) and the opportunity to practice what they are learning. To enhance the recycling infrastructure at schools throughout the districts to reinforce each other and provide positive role models.
International Andreas Gruentzig Society
International/San Francisco, CA
7 members Paula Rowbury
Business Manager S. Loren Cole, Ph.D.
ISI provides comprehensive business and financial management services to this nonprofit organization with over 300 doctors, medical professionals, researchers and medical industry professional members from around the world who are engaged in and focused on research and practical medical applications for heart related health issues and the use of angioplasty. IAGS conducts bi-annual conferences on issues related to achieving its mission, goals and objectives
International/San Francisco, CA
7 members Paula Rowbury
Business Manager S. Loren Cole, Ph.D.
ISI provides comprehensive business and financial management services to this nonprofit organization with over 300 doctors, medical professionals, researchers and medical industry professional members from around the world who are engaged in and focused on research and practical medical applications for heart related health issues and the use of angioplasty. IAGS conducts bi-annual conferences on issues related to achieving its mission, goals and objectives
Collaborations In Learning
Oakland, CA
3 members Ralph Cantor
Business Management Services
CIL has a mission to restore & operate programs and services that conduct school focused programs that are effective in reducing tension, frustration & anger among young people that is primarily related to racial and ethnic issues and concerns. CIL uses unique and very effective techniques and methods that substantially improve communication among and between individuals in different racial and ethnic groups by enhancing mutual respect for different cultures, backgrounds, races, beliefs & values. CIL provides a comprehensive set of activities that are self-directed by the participants and give ownership to everyone involved in a manner provides continuity and consistency in behavior beyond the actual events and activities.
Oakland, CA
3 members Ralph Cantor
Business Management Services
CIL has a mission to restore & operate programs and services that conduct school focused programs that are effective in reducing tension, frustration & anger among young people that is primarily related to racial and ethnic issues and concerns. CIL uses unique and very effective techniques and methods that substantially improve communication among and between individuals in different racial and ethnic groups by enhancing mutual respect for different cultures, backgrounds, races, beliefs & values. CIL provides a comprehensive set of activities that are self-directed by the participants and give ownership to everyone involved in a manner provides continuity and consistency in behavior beyond the actual events and activities.
The Shieloh Foundation
San Diego, California
4 members Bob Robinson, Edward Castillo-Rubio ,Susan Gold, Laurel Beeman
Business Management Services
The Shieloh Foundation, a non-denominational church dedicated to the Discovery of Divinity Within. Shieloh creates and nurtures an environment that guides the process for individuals who are seeking a higher consciousness, who are committed to each individual’s own evolution and who are willing to assist others along the path in further expressing and embodying their own divine natures. The organization and its ministers are engaged in and dedicated to processes that enhance healing, through prayer and ceremonial services that awaken and provide a greater understanding of the Divine Presence within us all. We all want a new and different world and Shieloh helps create the change we want to see, one person at a time, beginning with our self.
San Diego, California
4 members Bob Robinson, Edward Castillo-Rubio ,Susan Gold, Laurel Beeman
Business Management Services
The Shieloh Foundation, a non-denominational church dedicated to the Discovery of Divinity Within. Shieloh creates and nurtures an environment that guides the process for individuals who are seeking a higher consciousness, who are committed to each individual’s own evolution and who are willing to assist others along the path in further expressing and embodying their own divine natures. The organization and its ministers are engaged in and dedicated to processes that enhance healing, through prayer and ceremonial services that awaken and provide a greater understanding of the Divine Presence within us all. We all want a new and different world and Shieloh helps create the change we want to see, one person at a time, beginning with our self.
Society for the Restoration of Art
Berkeley, CA
3 members Richard Whittaker
Business Management Services
A magazine created in the early 1990s with the mission to explore artists' experiences and reflections about their own art making. What came from that is a series of deeply thoughtful interviews with a wide range of artists, and a magazine called works & conversations. Although humble in its subscription base, the magazine attracted a growing number of readers touched by a quality of content missing in other art world publications. Institutional subscribers, ranging from the Metropolitan Museum, SFMOMA to Harvard, Stanford and Columbia University, and from to RISD, The Art Institute of Chicago to CCA, SVA and SFAI, subscribed and archived all of the back issues in their libraries.
Berkeley, CA
3 members Richard Whittaker
Business Management Services
A magazine created in the early 1990s with the mission to explore artists' experiences and reflections about their own art making. What came from that is a series of deeply thoughtful interviews with a wide range of artists, and a magazine called works & conversations. Although humble in its subscription base, the magazine attracted a growing number of readers touched by a quality of content missing in other art world publications. Institutional subscribers, ranging from the Metropolitan Museum, SFMOMA to Harvard, Stanford and Columbia University, and from to RISD, The Art Institute of Chicago to CCA, SVA and SFAI, subscribed and archived all of the back issues in their libraries.