Resources
| Socially Aware Organizations |
| Sustainability and Environmental Awareness |
|Spiritually Aware/Inspirational | | Peace/Nonviolence |
| Circle Work | | Media | |Volunteer/Community|
|Sustainable Economics | | Education
Resources |
Socially Aware Organizations and Action Links
Tom Paine (www.tompaine.com)
TomPaine.com seeks to enrich the national debate on controversial public
issues by featuring the ideas, opinions, and analyses too often overlooked
by the mainstream media.
COOP America (www.coopamerica.org)
A fantastic site to visit on a regular basis to keep updated on many social
issues and take action in your daily life. Also offers links to other informative
sites.
Wellstone Action! (www.wellstoneaction.org)
Wellstone Action is a non-profit organization dedicated to continuing Paul
and Sheila Wellstone's fight for economic justice and progressive social
change.
ACLU- The American Civil Liberties Union (www.aclu.org)
A great site dealing with many social justice issues involving the legal
system. A good way to keep up with crucial legal issues our nation is facing,
and ways that you can become involved in helping the process. A great site
to visit on a regular basis, information updated constantly.
Amnesty International (www.amnesty.org)
A non-profit organization working to protect human rights around the world.
There is much information here about what Amnesty International is focusing
on, and actions you can take.
Soulforce (www.soulforce.org) Soulforce is an organization determined to help end the suffering of God’s, gay and transgendered children.
Global Exchange (www.globalexchange.org)
Global Exchange is a non-profit research, education, and action center dedicated
to promoting people-to-people ties around the world. This site offers usable
information on many of the issues we face today.
Children's Defense Fund (www.childrensdefense.org)
Children's Defense Fund provides a strong, effective voice for all the children
of America (particularly poor, minority and disabled) who cannot vote,
lobby, or speak for themselves. CDF educates the nation about the needs
of children and encourages preventive investment before they get sick or
into trouble, drop out of school, or suffer family breakdown.
Student Action Network (www.studentactionnetwork.org)
A coalition of Student advocacy groups working for environmental and social
justice.
Common Cause (www.commoncause.org)
Common Cause is a nonprofit, nonpartisan citizen's lobbying organization
promoting open, honest and accountable government. Supported by over 250,000
members in every state across the nation, Common Cause represents a unified
voice of the people against corruption in government and big money special
interests.
RESULTS (www.results.org)
RESULTS is an international grassroots citizens' lobby, creating the political
will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty, and empowering people
to realize their own personal and political power. RESULTS identifies sustainable
solutions to the problems of hunger and poverty in the United States and
around the world and works to generate the resources necessary to make
them succeed. Their volunteer partners meet with legislators and their
aides; generate news, editorials, and letters to the editor, and work in
their communities to educate and mobilize the public.
Physicians for Social Responsibility (www.psr.org)
Physicians for Social Responsibility is working to create a world free of
nuclear weapons, global environmental pollution, and gun violence. PSR
uses its members' expertise and professional leadership, to address this
century's greatest threats to human welfare and survival.
CorpWatch (www.corpwatch.org) CorpWatch aims to foster democratic control over corporations by building a diverse movement for human rights, labor rights, and environmental justice.
Rockwood Leadership Project (www.rockwoodleadership.org)
The Rockwood Leadership Program is non-profit organization that promotes
social change through leadership training and consulting to progressive
non-profits.
Sustainability and Environmental Awareness
Bionneers (www.bioneers.org) Visionary and practical solutions for restoring the Earth.
Earth Island Institute: Innovative action for
the environment (www.earthisland.org)
A good source of information regarding worldwide environmental concerns,
also numerous opportunities to take action.
Sierra Club (www.sierraclub.org)
A good source of information on many of the environmental concerns facing
our communities, nation, and world.
Rainforest Action Network (www.ran.org/ran)
This organization spends a great deal of energy trying to protect the worlds
ancient rainforest's from destruction.
Friends of the Earth (www.foe.org)
Friends of the earth is an organization that has been looking at environmental
issues since 1969. Their site offers current environmental news and action
information.
Peace/Nonviolence
Association for Conflict Resolution (www.acresolution.org)
ACR represents and serves a diverse national and international audience that
includes more than 7000 mediators, arbitrators, facilitators, educators,
and others involved in the field of conflict resolution and collaborative
decision-making.
Peace Brigades (www.peacebrigades.org)
Peace Brigades International (PBI) is a non-governmental organization (NGO)
which protects human rights and promotes nonviolent transformation of conflicts.
When invited, we send teams of volunteers into areas of political repression
and conflict. The volunteers accompany human rights defenders, their organizations,
and others threatened by political violence.
Pace e Bene (www.paceebene.org)
They work to develop within ourselves and to share with others the understanding
of active nonviolence as a way of being and living and as a methodology
for cultural transformation. They have a great workbook to practice nonviolnece
in group settings, check it out!
The Fellowship of Reconciliation (www.forusa.org)
Since 1915, The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) has carried on programs
and educational projects concerned with domestic and international peace
and justice, nonviolent alternatives to conflict, and the rights of conscience.
Nonviolent Peaceforce (www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org)
“Third Party Nonviolent Intervention” in areas of conflict is a proven
alternative to war. Peace teams are presently working in Colombia, the Balkans,
Israel-Palestine and other countries. Building on the experiences of many organizations,
the Nonviolent Peaceforce project seeks to bring Third Party Nonviolent Intervention
to a new level by creating a standing trained nonviolent “Peaceforce”.
Center for Nonviolent Communication (www.cnvc.org/main.htm)
Nonviolent Communicationsm (NVC) is a process that strengthens our ability
to inspire compassion from others and respond compassionately to others
and ourselves. NVC guides us to reframe how we express ourselves and how
we hear others by focusing our consciousness on what we are observing,
feeling, needing, and requesting.
Satyana Institute (www.satyana.org)
The Satyana Institute is a non-profit training organization. Our mission
is to support individuals, communities, and organizations to combine inner
work of the heart with outer service in the world. The Institute has two
major program areas, Gender Reconciliation and Leading with Spirit.
Celebrating Peace (www.celebratingpeace.com/index.html)
Each of their programs focus on four concepts of peace - Peace for Me, Peace
for Us, Peace for Everyone, and Peace for the Planet - and each engages
the children and their families through interactive experiential learning.
Circle Organizations
The Millionth Circle (www.millionthcircle.org)
A proliferation of circles with a spiritual center becomes a worldwide healing
force by bringing feminine values of relationship, nurturing, and interdependency
into a global culture in which hierarchy, conflict and competition, power
over others and exploitation of the earth's resources are dominant values.
Our aim is to celebrate the millionth circle as an idea whose time has
come.
From the Four Directions (www.fromthefourdirections.org)
In From the Four Directions, the conversation is focused on leadership. In
circle, people can explore deeply their intentions and actions as life-affirming
leaders. The circle develops over time as a community of practice, a place
where people can reflect, support one another, and develop both clarity
and courage to be a leader who knows how to supports nourish people’s
innate capacities. Our circles are intentionally diverse; we believe that
leaders, men and women, from all types of organizations, of all ages, benefit
greatly from thinking and learning together.
Wisdom Circles (www.wisdomcircle.org)
A wisdom circle is a way for small groups of people to create a safe space
within which to be trusting, authentic, caring and open to change. As an
organization, we offer the wisdom circle format to any person or organization,
free of charge.
Spiritually Aware/Inspirational Sites
The Friends Commitee on National Legislation (www.fcnl.org)
The Friends Committee on National Legislation is a nation-wide network of
thousands of Quakers and like-minded people who work together to bring
Friends' values to bear on public policy in our nation's capital. FCNL's
advocacy has touched a wide range of national issues, rooted in peace,
justice and equality for all.
Call to Renewal (www.calltorenewal.com)
A group of Christian leaders from diverse tradtions joined together in a "cry
for renewal," sending a message to the nations media and political leaders
that there is an alternative Christian voice.
WOVA (www.wova.org) Women of Vision and Action is a worldwide network of women from all backgrounds; women who are dedicated to a vision of positive change for the future and who are actively involved in making their visions real in the world.
Media
MediaReform.net (www.mediareform.net) 
A Project of Free Press. The birth of Free Press reflects a growing awareness
that media reform is essential to fostering a functional democracy and
advancing issues that most people actually care about. Free Press is working
with existing media reform organizations to make the media reform movement
a more bold and proactive force to advance meaningful media policy in the
public interest.
Center for Digital Democracy (www.democraticmedia.org)
The Center for Digital Democracy is committed to preserving the openness
and diversity of the Internet in the broadband era, and to realizing the
full potential of digital communications through the development and encouragement
of noncommercial, public interest programming.
Webactive (www.webactive.com)
A truly alternative/progressive source for news and information. With daily
real audio radio broadcasts of extremely important news. This site offers
critical information you won't get from most of our mainstream media. Check
out Jim Hightower's daily audio broadcast! A great site to visit on a regular
basis.
Project Censored (www.projectcensored.org)
The Primary Objective of Project Censored is to explore and publicize the
extent of censorship in our society by locating stories about significant
issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for one reason
or another. Thereby, the project hopes to stimulate responsible journalists
to provide more mass media coverage of those issues and to encourage the
general public to demand mass media coverage of those issues or to seek
information from other sources.
Adbusters (www.adbusters.org/main/index.html)
This site takes a critical look at pop culture and the mass media in America,
particularly the dumbing down of culture by an overly consumeristic advertising
mentality. These folks are very sharp and witty.
Fairness- Accuracy in Reporting (www.fair.org)
A great site that takes a critical look at the media. Very broad in scope,
with much informative and interesting information on the media in this
country.
New Dimensions Radio (www.newdimensions.org)
New Dimensions is dedicated to presenting a diversity of views from many
traditions and cultures, and strives to impart practical knowledge and
perennial wisdom. New Dimensions fosters the process of living a more healthy
life of mind, body and spirit while deepening our connections to self,
family, community and the environment.
WolrdLink TV (www.worllinktv.com)
WorldLink TV is the first national network offering a global perspective
on news, current events and culture, presenting viewpoints seldom covered
in the U.S. media. We present first-run documentaries on global issues,
current affairs series, international news, classic foreign feature films,
and the best of world music.
BullFrog Films (http://bullfrogfilms.com)
Over the last 29 years, Bullfrog Films has become the leading US publisher
of independently-produced, environmental and social justice videos, that
point the way to living healthily, happily, and with greater concern for
the other inhabitants of this planet, and for our descendants.
Please visit our NEWS section for other media related online news sites
Volunteer/Community Service Work
Volunteer Match (www.volunteermatch.org)
Great place to find somewhere to tap into.
Charity Focus.org (http://my.charityfocus.org)
This site helps you find and form volunteer/community service projects and
programs in your community that you could give a more long term and specified
service to.
Sustainable Economics
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
(www.ballenetwork.org/balle/index.cfm)
BALLE is an initiative of Social Venture Network (www.svn.org). These leaders were already active in their communities and nationally. Their intention was to assist others in their communities to develop local economies that some writers call "living" — economies that are socially just and environmentally sustainable, based on positive and compassionate values, that bring genuine and lasting wealth to their communities.
Social Investment Forum (www.socialinvest.org)
A national non-profit membership organization promoting the concept, practice,
and growth of socially responsible investment.
Green Money Online (www.greenmoney.com) "We promote the awareness of socially and environmentally responsible business, investing and consumer resources. Our goal is to educate and empower individuals and businesses to make informed financial decisions through aligning their corporate and financial principles."
United for a Fair Economy (www.stw.org)
United for a Fair Economy is a national, independent, nonpartisan organization
that puts a spotlight on the dangers of growing income, wage and wealth
inequality in the United States and coordinates action to reduce the gap.
The Natural Step (www.naturalstep.org)
The Natural Step (TNS) is a non-profit environmental education organization
working to build an ecologically and economically sustainable society.
TNS offers a framework that is based on science and serves as a compass
for businesses, communities, academia, government entities and individuals
working to redesign their activities to become more sustainable.
Transaction Net (www.transaction.net)
Looks at community sustainable alternatives to our current monetary system.
Gives ideas and a forum for discussing ways to re-think money in America.
Education Resources
All Kinds of Minds (www.allkindsofminds.org) provides programs, tools, and a common language for parents, educators, and clinicians to help students with differences in learning achieve success in the classroom and in life. Founded in 1995, All Kinds of Minds is a private non-profit Institute, affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, that offers a powerful system of programs for helping kids succeed.
Great Ideas in Education (www.great-ideas.org)
Great Ideas in Education is the joint website of Holistic Education Press,
Psychology Press, and the publishing division of the Foundation for Educational
Renewal.
New Horizon's for Learning: (www.newhorizons.org) Since 1980, New Horizons for Learning has served as a leading-edge resource for educational change. They have identified, communicated, and helped to implement successful educational strategies. Dee Dickensen is the founder and Cheif Learning Officer (CLO) and wrote an essay for Imagine on Education.
Global Education Associattes: (www.globaleduc.org)
Global Education Associates (GEA) is a partnership of individuals and organizations
in 90 countries working to enable people to understand and respond constructively
to the crises and opportunities of today's interdependent world. Emphasis
is on the development of global ethics, values, and systems related to
peace, economic well-being, ecological balance, human rights, and democratic
participation.
Safer Saner Schools: (www.safersanerschools.org)
SaferSanerSchools offers training, print materials and videos to teach new
ways of responding to problem behavior which simultaneously: hold young
people accountable; enhance relationships among students, faculty, administrators
and parents; build a sense of community in the school.
