Whole Community

I.  BUSINESS, ECONOMICS & ALTERNATIVE CURRENCY

American Sustainable Business Council

The American Sustainable Business Council is a network of businesses and business associations that have committed themselves to the triple bottom line of People, Planet, and Profit.  ASBC members believe that sustainable business is good business, and a sustainable economy is a prosperous and resilient one.

The B Team

The B Team is a not-for-profit initiative formed by a global group of leaders to create a future where the purpose of business is to be a driving force for social, environmental and economic benefit.

Balle

Building Local Economies by connecting leaders, spreading solutions, and attracting investment toward local economies, Balle advances the Localist Movement to create real prosperity for all.

CASSE Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy

The mission of CASSE is to advance the steady state economy, with stabilized population and consumption, as a policy goal with widespread public support. We pursue this mission by:

  • educating citizens, organizations, and policy makers on the conflict between economic growth and (1) environmental protection, (2) ecological and economic sustainability, and (3) national security and international stability;
  • promoting the steady state economy as a desirable alternative to economic growth;
  • studying the means to establish a steady state economy.

Caring Economy Campaign

The mission of CPS’ Caring Economy Campaign (CEC) is to shift economic measurements, policies, and practices from the current focus on GDP and Wall Street to a humane and prosperous economy that recognizes the enormous return on investment in the most important, yet undervalued, human work: the work of caring for and educating people, starting in early childhood.

Caux Round Table

The Caux Round Table (CRT) is an international network of principled business leaders working to promote a moral capitalism. The CRT advocates implementation of the CRT Principles for Business through which principled capitalism can flourish and sustainable and socially responsible prosperity can become the foundation for a fair, free and transparent global society.

Democracy at Work

Democracy at Work is a non-profit 501(c)3 that advocates for worker cooperatives and democratic workplaces as a key path to a stronger, democratic economic system. Based on the book Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism by Richard D. Wolffwe envision a future where workers at every level of their offices, stores, and factories have equal voices in the direction of their enterprise and its impact within their community and society at large.

Earth Dollar

Our mission is dedicated to replanting the Tree of Life and Mending the Sacred Hoop, so that is why the symbol of the Earth Dollar is the Tree of Life. We will usher in the new Living Economic System where wealth is generated by caring for our planet & caring for one another. This will allow us to heal our planet and to revitalize our global economy.

EARTHwise

EARTHwise has brought us together to build a Visionary Learning & Leadership HUB that supports the development of the best of our human potential.  Together with our clients and partners we explore, discover, innovate, invent and create strategies, learning pathways, business models, educational programmes, and innovation tools for the co-creation of a World and Future where all of us can flourish.

Ellen Macarthur Foundation

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation works with business, government and academia to build a framework for an economy that is restorative and regenerative by design.

Ethical Markets

ETHICAL MARKETS’ mission is to foster the evolution of capitalism beyond current models based on materialism, maximizing self-interest and profit, competition and fear of scarcity. As we move further into the Information Age, we learn that information and knowledge are not scarce, and our economic models can move toward sharing, cooperating and a new abundance. We believe capitalism combined with humanity’s growing knowledge of the interdependence of all life on Planet Earth, can evolve to serve today’s new needs and our common future—-beyond maximizing profits for shareholders and management, to benefiting all stakeholders. We deliver this message to our global market by featuring stories of success.

Evonomics Magazine

An online communication platform for the science of new economic thinking based on evolution and complexity science.

GAMECHANGERS 500

Changing the game of business from "maximize profit-at-all-cost" to "maximize benefit to people and the planet." Lists like the Fortune 500 have implied that success in business is based on maximizing revenue. By creating GameChangers 500 we are building aspiration for a new breed of organizations—organizations that define themselves as For-Benefit rather than For-Profit, and utilize business to not only make money but to also make the world a better place.

Global Giving

GlobalGiving is the first and largest global crowdfunding community that connects nonprofits, donors, and companies in nearly every country around the world. We make it possible for nonprofits from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe (and hundreds of places in between) to access the tools, training, and support they need to be more effective and make our world a better place.

Green America

Green America is a national, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, membership organization founded in 1982. (We went by the name "Co-op America" until January 1, 2009.)  Our mission is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.

Green Business Bureau

GBB membership offers the most recognized and trusted online green business certification program available for small and medium-sized businesses seeking market recognition for their commitment to sustainable business practices.  Green Business Bureau’s globally recognized and unique self-paced certification process credits member businesses for green efforts already completed, while empowering further improvement through step-by-step guides for implementing green best practices.

GreenMoney

GreenMoney is one of the world’s leading sustainable business and impact investing media brands with its monthly eJournal and website focused on publishing innovative solutions and responsible leadership. Every issue is filled with relevant news featuring top writers from the world of sustainable businessimpact investingrenewable energyorganic agriculture, and ethically-made products.

GreenWorld Restoration Foundation

At the GreenWorld Restoration Foundation we provide corporations a way to Pay-it-Back to the communities they serve, the foundation provides organizations and individuals a way to Pay-it-Forward to families affected by natural disasters, and for all of us, a way to Create-it-Forward so that we can re-establish balance with our planet. We accomplish this through education, and the delivery of sustainable homes and community solutions.

Groundswell

Unlocking communities' shared economic power to grow sustainability and expand prosperity on the local level.

Kairos Society

Kairos was founded around the question, “What if the world’s most influential leaders were friends 20 years ago, working together to tackle some of the biggest problems?”  Kairos has brought together a new generation of founders from over 50 countries around the world. These founders have, together, gone on to found companies such as Freenome, FiscalNote, Periscope, Digital Genius, Vital Vio and Nanoly, and collectively have raised over $600mm to push industries forward. Kairos is about finding the most innovative designers, engineers, scientists, and business students from around the world and focusing them on rethinking traditional industries through entrepreneurship.

Kindsta.org

Kindista is a social generosity network founded on the belief that sharing is good. Kindista helps you to connect with people who live near you so that you can share with each other and let other people know how much you appreciate them.

Mindful Market

Create a welcoming, trusted and transformational marketplace in an environment of conscious commerce. At Mindful Market we believe shopping can be an enjoyable, meaningful and mindful act. We bring together everything you need (from crystals to chiropractors to coconut oil and beyond) to live a healthy and happy life, making shopping easier, faster, and more values-aligned. Mindful Market lets you spend less time searching and more time living! It’s the world’s only marketplace designed to connect you to products and services that enrich your well-being and your life.

Mother Earth Trust

Mother Earth Trust is the issuer of the Earth Dollar and manages wildlife sanctuaries, designated as World Heritage Sanctuaries. The mission of  Mother Earth Trust is to preserve the life on our planet. In order to protect the World Heritage Sanctuaries,  Mother Earth Trust raises money by using the Natural Capital to support the Earth Dollar.

Mutual Aid Network

Mutual Aid Networks (MANs) are a new type of networked cooperative creating means for everyone to discover and succeed in work they want to do, with the support of their community. Through the HUMANs (Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks, formerly the Main MAN), a global umbrella cooperative, all pilot sites and members share their tools, experiences and resources. Together we demonstrate that the economy is what we make it.

New Economy Foundation

NEF is the UK's leading think tank promoting social, economic and environmental justice. Our aim is to transform the economy so that it works for people and the planet.

Pinpoint

Bridging the gap between profits and purpose.  We fund purpose-driven initiatives while increasing the bottom line.

praneo

praneo has been founded to promote a society beneficial for people, for profit and for the planet as a whole and not one at the expense of the other. It is born from the experience of its members who observed a lack of meaning in how society evolves and a lack of coherence and alignment between corporate objectives and economic, ecological and societal needs.

P2P Foundation

The P2P Foundation is a global network of researchers, activists, and citizens monitoring and promoting actions geared towards a transition to a Commons-based society.

The Real Economy Lab

The Real Economy Lab provides an interactive platform where the cumulative knowledge, aims, and resources of the new economy movement can be drawn together in order to seek common ground and drive coordinated action.

Sacred Economics & Charles Eisenstein

Traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme - but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being.

Shareable.net

Shareable is an award-winning nonprofit news, action and connection hub for the sharing transformation. What’s the sharing transformation? It’s a movement of movements emerging from the grassroots up to solve today’s biggest challenges, which old, top-down institutions are failing to address. Behind these failing industrial-age institutions are outmoded beliefs about how the world works – that ordinary people can’t govern themselves directly; that nonstop economic growth leads to widespread prosperity; and that more stuff leads to more happiness. Amid crisis, a new way forward is emerging – the sharing transformation. The sharing transformation is big, global, and impacts every part of society.

TimeRepublik

TIMEREPUBLIK is a community of people who freely exchange their talents, interests, and passions, and the currency is Time not Money.

Transition Network

Transition is a movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world.  It is about communities stepping up to address the big challenges they face by starting local.  By coming together, they are able to crowd-source solutions. They seek to nurture a caring culture, one focused on supporting each other, both as groups or as wider communities.  In practice, they are reclaiming the economy, sparking entrepreneurship, reimagining work, reskilling themselves and weaving webs of connection and support.

Unreasonable Institute

We envision a world in which any entrepreneur tackling the world’s greatest problems can access the people and skills they need to start and scale their company.  We provide entrepreneurs what they need to create scalable solutions to the world’s greatest problems.

WorldBlu ~ Freedom at Work

WorldBlu's purpose is to develop world-class freedom-centered (rather than fear-based), organizations and leaders.  They do this by offering a range of products and services that make it faster, easier and more fun to deliver Freedom at Work™.

World Business Academy

The World Business Academy is a non-profit business think tank, action incubator and network of business and thought leaders. Our Mission is to inspire business to assume responsibility for the whole of society and assist those in business who share our values.

YK Center

Over the next decade, YK Center’s primary mission is accelerating the transition to the New Economy – a 4D ecosystem (Economic, Social, Environmental and Consciousness) – that will make Earth a secure and hospitable home for present and future generations.

Yunity

Yunity encourages relationships where people can share their time, skills and resources unconditionally. Through these connections and communities we prevent waste and raise awareness for a sustainable way of living.

 

II.  COMMUNITY BUILDING, ECO-VILLAGES & INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES

Connecting the Good Worldwide

A community building model to catalyze a global renaissance!

Earth Rights Institute

Earth Rights Institute (ERI) is designed to be an equilateral knowledge platform, where local people collaborate with academics and development professionals, both local and foreign, by exchanging skills, experiences, and knowledge to solve crucial development issues such as widespread poverty, land right disputes and environmental degradation.

Blueprint Network

Blueprint is an alliance of organisations and individuals collaborating on integrated design solutions for regenerative human settlements - inspired by the ground-breaking work of Paulo Mellett.  The Blueprint Network is an alliance of multidisciplinary practitioners from the humanitarian and sustainability sectors. We  collaborate in research, development, promotion and capacity building of integrated and regenerative design solutions that can foster resilience in vulnerable communities around the world. 

EarthCode

EarthCode is a portal of information that hosts the findings of adventurers in search of an intentionally sustainable future.  By documenting the experiences whilst visiting or residing in settlements, eco-villages and communities, EarthCode’s discoveries report on sustainable aspects of life, be it for intentional or survival reasons.  It also documents on the efforts of individuals that contribute to the global awareness of positive life and values local expressions of emotion through whichever artistic mediums are employed.

Findhorn Foundation

A spiritual community, ecovillage and an international centre for holistic learning, helping to unfold a new human consciousness and create a positive and sustainable future.

Global Ecovillage Network

Inspiring examples of how people and communities can live healthy, cooperative, genuinely happy and meaningful lifestyles; beacons of hope that help in the transition to a more sustainable future on Earth. We foster a culture of mutual respect, sharing, inclusiveness, positive intent and fair energy exchange.

Hope Contained

The Mission is to design and develop a very low cost, rapidly deployable, highly scale-able and replicable model for basic housing arranged in sustainable villages in order to relocate large numbers of homeless in desperate poverty – Single Parents with kids first.

Hummingbird Community and Hummingbird Center for a Co-Creative World

A family of pioneering souls whose vision is to cultivate a joyful, vibrant, co-creative culture in service to the evolution of consciousness.

Integral City

Integral City serves all those who are interested in creating vibrant, healthy and happy cities.

Mutual Aid Network

Creating means for everyone to discover and succeed in work they want to do, with the support of their community.

One Sphera

We see a collaborative network of empowered communities that are rewarded for participating in the chain of activities that increase value within their community.  Every positive action within a community increases the value for everyone. The Community Platform is built so that you can participate in increasing that value.

Regen Villages

Engineering and facilitating the development of integrated and resilient neighborhoods that power and feed self reliant families around the world.

ReInhabiting the Village

COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR HEALTHY PEOPLE AND A HEALTHY PLANET - Bridging the wisdom of the past and the innovation of the future, we take action today to build resilient and interconnected communities working together towards a bright tomorrow.

Sarvodaya

Sarvodaya = Sarva (All)+Udaya (Awakening) = “Awakening of All” Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement is Sri Lanka’s most broadly embedded community-based development organization network.  Sarvodaya works with 26 district centres, 325 divisional centres and over 3,000 legally independent village societies in districts across the country, including war-torn northern and eastern provinces.  The Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement seeks a no-poverty, no-affluence society in Sri Lanka through community based efforts and volunteerism.

Together In Creation

ItsoisTogether in Creation and Ubuntu 4 Animals are platforms dedicated to contributing to  global health and vitality by articulating and initiating innovative healing pathways for a flourishing planet. 

Tribe of Awakening Sovereignty

A global network of ecovillages, micro-nations and sovereign beings choosing to unify our people, words, and actions as we create and empower solutions for every challenge we face as the human race.

United Citizen Movement For a Healthy Country

The Movement for a Healthy Country offers a framework and agenda for governance rooted in interdisciplinary wisdom that draws on best practices from across the world for social and environmental health and healing. It  provides a whole system approach to managing collective resources that puts the health of the land and all its inhabitants as the core purpose and organizing principle for governance.  It focuses on the whole-system health consequences of all policies and laws and demands full responsibility and accountability for these consequences.

The Zeitgiest Movement

The Zeitgeist Movement is a sustainability advocacy organization, which conducts community based activism and awareness actions through a network of global/regional chapters, project teams, annual events, media and charity work.  The movement's principle focus includes the recognition that the majority of the social problems that plague the human species at this time are not the sole result of some institutional corruption, absolute scarcity, a political policy, a flaw of "human nature" or other commonly held assumptions of causality. Rather, the movement recognizes that issues such as poverty, corruption, pollution, homelessness, war, starvation and the like appear to be "symptoms" born out of an outdated social structure.

III.  CONSCIOUS COMMERCE, SUSTAINABLE GOODS & GIVING BACK

Global Girlfriend

Global Girlfriend was founded by Stacey Edgar in 2003 to help women worldwide gain economic security while providing you unique products and a simple way to help women in need. Our fair trade brand offers a line of trend-setting, women-made, fair trade products including stylish apparel, accessories and gifts with one purpose ~ helping women in need help themselves. We believe passionately that economic opportunity for women holds the promise for real change in the world; because when women have an income, they reinvest in themselves and in their children’s health, education and nutrition, building stronger families and communities over time. 

Global Giving

GlobalGiving is the first and largest global crowdfunding community that connects nonprofits, donors, and companies in nearly every country around the world. We make it possible for nonprofits from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe (and hundreds of places in between) to access the tools, training, and support they need to be more effective and make our world a better place.

GreaterGood.com - Gifts that Give More

Connects a passionate audience with simple online tools to make the world a better place; tangible, documented support for charities that help people, save pets, and improve the planet; an online community with real power to change the world.

Greenheart International

Connecting people and planet to create a more peaceful and sustainable global community; a diverse collection of programs fostering cultural exchange, eco-fair trade, volunteerism, personal development and environmentalism.

GreenWorld Restoration Foundation

At the GreenWorld Restoration Foundation we provide corporations a way to Pay-it-Back to the communities they serve, the foundation provides organizations and individuals a way to Pay-it-Forward to families affected by natural disasters, and for all of us, a way to Create-it-Forward so that we can re-establish balance with our planet. We accomplish this through education, and the delivery of sustainable homes and community solutions.

Pacha Soap

Create prosperity for others and our Earth by practicing transparent and ethical commerce through our supply chain. Support clean water initiatives and hygiene education for healthier communities. Invest in communities and people through skill development and entrepreneurial opportunities to establish self-sustaining commerce. Instill confidence, strength and liberate people through economic freedom.

Sharable

Shareable is a nonprofit media outlet and action network that empowers people to share for a more resilient, equitable, and joyful world. We inspire social change by publishing stories, analysis, and tools in collaboration with our global partners.

Sustainable Brands

Sustainable Brands is home for the global community of business innovators who are shaping the future of commerce world wide. Since 2006, our goal has been to inspire, engage and equip today's business and brand leaders to prosper for the near and long term by leading the way to a sustainably abundant future.  

Thistle Farms

Thistle Farms is a powerful community of women who have survived prostitution, trafficking and addiction. We employ more than 50 survivors through our social enterprises which include a natural body care company, Thistle Stop Cafe, artisan studio, and global marketplace called Shared Trade.

 

IV.  GOVERNANCE & LEADERSHIP

Center for International Policy

The Center for International Policy promotes cooperation, transparency and accountability in global relations. Through research and advocacy, our programs address the most urgent threats to our planet: war, corruption, inequality and climate change.  CIP's scholars, journalists, activists and former government officials provide a unique mixture of access to high-level officials, issue-area expertise, media savvy and strategic vision. We work to inform the public and decision makers in the United States and in international organizations on policies to make the world more just, peaceful and sustainable.

Center for Visionary Leadership

Our purpose is to develop and support values-based visionary leadership in all fields of human endeavor, especially business and politics. We offer educational programs on spiritual development and social change, and a free electronic newsletter with articles and spiritual practices.

Code Pink

CODEPINK is all about taking action where it truly matters. We channel community grassroots democracy to where the power players are making (awful) decisions and make them listen. Wherever there is injustice we'll be there to highlight in bold PINK.

Crowdocracy

Crowdocracy offers a radical new way forward, one that allows all of us - not just some of us - to participate in how we are governed.

CTZNWELL

CTZNWELL was created as a place for all of us: The people who think we can and need to do better by ourselves, our communities and our society, and are ready to stand up and act towards that end. We believe that when we come together in this way we can help change the course of our society, from disconnection and dysfunction, to connection and collective power.

EARTHwise

EARTHwise has brought us together to build a Visionary Learning & Leadership HUB that supports the development of the best of our human potential.  Together with our clients and partners we explore, discover, innovate, invent and create strategies, learning pathways, business models, educational programmes, and innovation tools for the co-creation of a World and Future where all of us can flourish.

Empathy Surplus Project

The Empathy Surplus Project is a grassroots community-based organisation working to spread compassion and empathy in local politics.

Global Hub for the Common Good

The Global Hub's vision is to co-creating a new political, economic and social system aimed at the global common good.  Their mission is connecting and filling the gap between civil society & business innovation and politics and promoting Governance for the Common Good.

Global Parliament of Mayors

The Global Parliament of Mayors is a governance body of, by and for mayors from all continents. It builds on the experience, expertise and leadership of mayors in tackling local challenges resulting from global problems. At the same time, it brings local knowledge to the table and thus participates actively in global strategy debates and underscores the need for practical, action oriented solutions.

Global Women's Leadership Network

Global Women's Leadership Network (GWLN) exists to help women step out of survival and dependence into their inherent power, enabling the transformation of world conditions - woman by woman. Our policy is to work for women, in partnership with individuals, NGOs and corporations, to create an environment conducive to broad participation for major social change around the world.

Greenheart Transforms

Greenheart Transforms empowers people of all ages to affect positive change through leadership and collaboration.

The Hague Center for Global Governance, Innovation, and Emergence

The Hague Center focuses on international societal challenges whose complexity requires collaboration between multiple stakeholders.

The Hague Institute for Global Justice

The Hague Institute for Global Justice is an independent, nonpartisan organization established to conduct interdisciplinary policy-relevant research, develop practitioner tools, and convene experts, practitioners and policymakers to facilitate knowledge sharing. Through this work the Institute aims to contribute to, and further strengthen, the global framework for preventing and resolving conflict and promoting international peace.

Higher Heights

Higher Heights seeks to elevate Black women’s voices to shape and advance progressive policies and politics. By strengthening Black women’s civic participation in grassroots advocacy campaigns and the electoral process; Higher Heights for America will create the environment in which more Black women, and other candidates who are committed to advance policies that affect Black women, can be elected to public office.

Ignite

IGNITE is building a movement of young women who are ready and eager to become the next generation of political leaders.

International Centre for Conscious Leadership

We are catalysts for the transformation of leaders and organizations and the elevation of consciousness in business around the world.  Our vision is to transform society by enrolling all leaders around the world to embrace Conscious Leadership as the new leadership paradigm to thrive in the new economy so that we can co-create a promising future for the next generations.

International Cities of Peace

International Cities of Peace is a powerful platform for leaders to build peace within their own communities.  Help reach the goal of 1000 cities of peace by year 2020.

Our Revolution

The next step for Bernie Sanders' movement is Our Revolution, which will fight to transform America and advance the progressive agenda that we believe in.

Popular Resistance

A growing culture of resistance is utilizing nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience as a primary tactic, and is forming real democratic organizations to empower local communities. PopularResistance.org is a resource and information clearinghouse for this movement.

Spirit of Humanity Forum

The Spirit of Humanity Forum is a new global network of organisations, communities and individuals committed to help bring about change in governance and decision-making, based on core human values. The Forum creates a safe space for deeper encounter, exploration and dialogue among leaders to discover new ways to move forwards.

Ways Women Lead

Ways Women Lead is a collaborative of women and organizations issuing a call for women and girls in leadership to work together for the common good.

Women of Spirit and Faith

Women of Spirit and Faith exists to invite the many brilliant threads of feminine spiritual leadership into relationship and to support emerging patterns for transformation.

WomenWise

WOMEwise is an EARTHwise collaborative initiative to empower women and men through Feminine Leadership Wisdom and WISEwoman Custodianship for our collective Thriveability. WOMENwise provides courses, mentorship, and coaching sessions for organisational, personal  & collective development. We also support the development of conscious partnerships and collaboratories for Thriveability. 

WorldBlu ~ Freedom at Work

WorldBlu's purpose is to develop world-class freedom-centered (rather than fear-based), organizations and leaders.  They do this by offering a range of products and services that make it faster, easier and more fun to deliver Freedom at Work™.