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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.