Links

Here are some of the websites associated with our speakers:

Ashoka's Changemakers Changemakers is pioneering a transparent online community that "open sources" innovative solutions to social problems worldwide. With its focus on thematic, collaborative competitions, Changemakers has sourced over 500 high-impact action blueprints for solving social problems. It has also built an extensive library of original articles and resources on the growing citizen sector and its historic role in changing the world in positive ways. This collected knowledge serves as the foundation for Changemaker's social change community that is spreading, refining, and replicating these innovations globally.

Center for Courage & Renewal The Center for Courage & Renewal (CCR) is an educational non-profit that strengthens individuals, professions, and communities through programs that renew our spirits and reconnect who we are with what we do. The Center prepares Courage & Renewal Facilitators who offer retreats and programs that foster personal renewal, professional integrity, and vocational clarity.

CharityFocus is an all volunteer run nonprofit organization that endeavors to leverage technology for inspiring greater volunteerism and providing meaningful volunteer opportunities for all who want them.

Concord Institute This educational institute was founded in 1990 to provide post-graduate education for professionals interested in broadening the theoretical and practical scope of their work with individuals and/or groups to include the spiritual dimension and its integration with the more familiar bio-psycho-social dimensions of human experience. The programs and services of the Institute enable the professional to build on the best of his/her previous training and experience, to revise, or discard, what no longer works, and to develop the new skills necessary to render professional service to others more effective and satisfying. Different programs/services speak to the needs of different professions and settings, but all offer training in the principles and practice of holding a spiritual context for professional work.

Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View This website provides extensive information about Richard Tarnas' book, including essays, interviews, excerpts and more.

Dean Radin is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in Petaluma, CA. His work focuses on scientific research into psi phenomena.

Environment and Social Development Department at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Their approach to Environmental and Social Sustainability is a dynamic process where professionals with a wide range of expertise help clients identify and solve complex problems and find value-added opportunities in their business operations. The range of issues they cover is continually expanding to meet the emerging challenges of the global business environment.

Forum on Religion and Ecology The Forum recognizes that religions need to be in dialogue with other disciplines (e.g., science, ethics, economics, education, public policy, gender) in seeking comprehensive solutions to both global and local environmental problems.

Environmental Health Sciences a not-for-profit organization founded in 2002 to help increase public understanding of emerging scientific links between environmental exposures and human health.

The Fetzer Institute develops research and education programs that explore how love and forgiveness can effect transformation and healing for individuals and communities and are informed by both scientific rigor and spirituality.

Global Greengrants Fund Over the past 12 years, they have provided over 3,000 grants in 120 different countries. They believe that grassroots groups are a key to solving the intractable problems of poverty, powerlessness and environmental destruction.

Jacob Needleman, is a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and serves as a consultant in the fields of psychology, education, medical ethics, philanthropy, and business, and has been featured on Bill Moyers's acclaimed PBS series A World of Ideas.

Keystone seeks to influence development practice through a model of civil society accountability that requires civil society organizations to be inclusive in their engagement with stakeholders and transparent and open in their public reporting. Keystone sees accountability as a potential driver of social activity and performance rather than a constraint upon organizations.

Miami Workers Center is based in the Liberty City area of Miami, Fl. We were founded as a volunteer organization in 1999 by former union organizers Gihan Perera and Tony Romano. The Center helps working class people build grassroots organizations and develop their leadership capacity through aggressive community organizing campaigns and education programs.

On the Commons.org a project of the Tomales Bay Institute. The commons is an emerging new paradigm for understanding how groups of people can create and preserve value in more sustainable ways. Unlike the conventional market paradigm, the commons consists of a diverse set of models rooted in social norms and ecological principles. A growing number of scholars, activists and policymakers is beginning to recognize the power of the commons matrix and its importance in creating and managing resources.

Passageways Institute is dedicated to transforming the culture of classrooms, schools and districts so that the inner life of students and teachers is safe, nurtured and welcomed. By "inner life" we refer to that essential aspect of human nature that yearns for deep connection, grapples with difficult questions about meaning, and seeks a sense of purpose and genuine self-expression.

Peter Kingsley's work is to bring back to life, and make accessible again, the extraordinary mystical tradition that lies forgotten right at the roots of the western world.

Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies A growing consensus of scientists, scholars, and visionaries now recognize that the Earth community is facing an unprecedented evolutionary challenge. The ecological, political, and spiritual crisis of late modernity calls for a fundamental reorientation of our civilization, including a transformation of both our institutions and our own consciousness. The cultural historian Thomas Berry has called this task "the Great Work."

The Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness (PCC) program has been designed to help shape the intellectual, moral, and spiritual leadership necessary for meeting this historic challenge. Drawing upon some of the most powerful ideas and impulses of our philosophical, scientific, and religious traditions, the faculty has constructed an intensive multidisciplinary course of study to help accelerate students' journeys into their particular leadership roles within this work.

Ram Dass' website is a portal for Ram Dass' current teachings and activities from his home base on Maui. Within this site is Ram Dass Satsang, a subscriber-based Spiritual Community which will serve as his platform for reaching out.

The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Based at Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, the Rosenthal Center is one of the first comprehensive programs at a major medical center to examine alternative therapies with academic focus and scientific rigor. The Rosenthal Center's mission is to contribute to the informed research and practice of complementary and alternative medicine and to foster the development of a more comprehensive and inclusive medical system.

Sandra Steingraber's website gives information about her books, media appearances, talks and articles.

Science & Environmental Health Network Since 1998, SEHN has been the leading proponent in the United States of the Precautionary Principle as a new basis for environmental and public health policy. SEHN has worked with issue driven organizations, national environmental health coalitions, municipal and state governments, and several NGO/government teams to implement precautionary policies at local and state levels. The Science and Environmental Health Network engages communities and governments in the effective application of science to protect and restore public and ecosystem health.

Tides Foundation Since 1976, Tides Foundation has provided professional and innovative services to individuals and institutions committed to accelerating positive social change through philanthropy. Tides Foundation offers donor advised funds and other grantmaking vehicles as well as professional philanthropic advice, institutional regranting services, comprehensive grants management and much more. It also creates opportunities for learning and builds community among donors and grantees committed to fairness, equality and the sustainability of this world.

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