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Adbusters Media Foundation (British Columbia)
A global network of artists, activists, writers, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age.
African Well Fund (DC)
Raises funds to build potable water wells in Africa.
American Friends Service Committee (PA)
Carries out service, development, social justice and peace programs throughout the world; founded by Quakers in 1917.
Architecture for Humanity (NY)
Seeks out and promotes architectural and design solutions to global, social and humanitarian crises.
Artists for a New South Africa (CA & South Africa)
Dedicated to combating the African AIDS pandemic and advancing democracy and equality in South Africa.
Benevolent Planet (DE)
Offers suggestions to individuals to make a difference, addressing a wide range of issues from homelessness to hunger relief to helping at-risk youth.
BerkShares, Inc. (MA)
Promoting a local currency (instead of the U.S. dollar) for the Berkshire Region, in Massachusetts.
Bread for the Journey (CA)
A national network of local nonprofit charities serving the poor and underprivileged.
Broken Bread (NY)
A single father's thoughts on non-custodial parenting, work, life, love, and faith.
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (WA)
Strengthens, connects and promotes community-based, independent businesses.
Camphill Association of North America (NY)
Dedicated to social renewal through community building with children, youth and adults with special needs.
Center for Alternative Development Initiatives (Philippines)
Promoting sustainable development through three-fold partnerships involving civil society, business, and government, based in the Philippines.
Center for Visionary Leadership (DC)
Supporting values-based visionary leadership in all fields of human endeavor.
Centre for Social Markets (India & England)
An independent non-profit organization dedicated to making markets work for the triple bottom line - people, planet and profit.
Closer to Truth (CA)
Brings together leading scientists, scholars and activists to debate the fundamental issues of our times, now a television series.
Club of Budapest (Europe)
A catalyst for the transformation to a sustainable world, founded in 1993 by Ervin Laszlo.
Co-op America (WA)
Supports green businesses and provides economic strategies to address today's social and environmental problems.
Committee for Relief of Poor Children in Vietnam (VA & Vietnam)
Nonprofit relief and educational support organization founded by Anh-Huong Nguyen.
Context Institute (WA)
Explores how human society can become sustainable (able to meet the needs of the present without diminishing the prospects for the future) and serves as a catalyst for change toward a more humane and sustainable culture.
Dr. Joel & Michelle Levey (WA)
Developing organizational cultures in which team spirit, community, creative intelligence and inspired leadership can thrive.
Dress for Success (NY)
Provides clothing, career guidance and mentorship support to disadvantaged women returning to or entering the workforce.
Equity Trust (CT)
Nonprofit organization examining the issues of land, labor and capital.
Ethical Globalization Initiative (NY)
A human-rights based approach to globalization, directed by Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Fabindia (India)
Markets clothing, textiles and other products from village artisans all over India through a cooperative business model.
Facing the Future (WA)
Founded with the purpose of educating young people about the tremendous pressures rapid population growth exerts on natural, social and economic systems.
Free Range Studios (DC)
Offers top-quality design and publicity services to companies and organizations whose vision 'goes beyond turning the world into a strip mall'.
Free Trees and Plants (NE)
Provides meaningful jobs to the disabled by finding unsold nursery stock and having it packaged by disabled workers in sheltered workshops. Plants are free to anyone willing to pay $7.95 shipping/handling. Started by Cheryl Richter.
Global Fund for Women (CA)
An international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice, advocates for and defends women's human rights by making grants to support women's groups around the world.
Global Volunteer Network (New Zealand)
Places volunteers in community projects in China, Ecuador, Ghana, Nepal, New Zealand, Romania, Russia, Thailand and Uganda.
Green Cross International (Switzerland)
Cultivating a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility, founded by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1993.
Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership (IN)
Seeking to improve the caring and quality of all institutions through a new approach to leadership, structure and decision making.
Insight21 (Ontario)
Josef Graf presents articles that emerge from research into some of the brightest resources available, such as Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy, and the Association for Research and Enlightenment. 'The materialistic perspective, once a useful phase in our development, is now pass
Integral Institute (CO)
Think-tank founded by American philosopher, psychologist and mystic Ken Wilber to encourage the 'Integral Approach' based on the cross-pollination of Politics, Psychology, Business, Education, Medicine, Law, Art, Consciousness Studies and numerous other fields of activity.
Ithaca Hours (NY)
A local currency project in Ithaca, New York.
James Howard Kunstler (NY)
American social critic, writer, speaker and blogger. Author of 'The Geography of Nowhere', commentary and analysis of American suburbia and urban development.
Jhai Foundation (CA)
Promotes self-help development projects in villages in Laos, purveyors of fair-trade 'Jhai' coffee.
John Perkins (FL)
Author of 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man' and lecturer on global and personal transformation.
KickStart (TX)
Promotes karate training programs for children and teens to serve the social good. The goal is to instill protective factors in these children, so that they will have the resiliency to combat pressures of getting involved with illegal drugs, stay away from participation in gangs, and remain in high school until they graduate. Supported by martial artist Chuck Norris.
Legal Grind (CA)
A legal resource center within a cafe-like atmosphere.
Malcolm Gladwell (NY)
Author of 'The Tipping Point', a best-selling book about the dynamics of social change. In particular, the book presents a new way of understanding why change so often happens as quickly and as unexpectedly as it does.
Monopolis (Germany)
Information about the unequal distribution of food, money, water and medicine in the age of globalization. Website created by journalist Peter Hetzler.
Native American Heritage Association (SD)
Dedicated to helping Native Americans living on tribal reservations in South Dakota.
New Economics Institute (MA)
Educational nonprofit organization examining issues of social, economic and environmental sustainability.'Our programs demonstrate that both social and environmental sustainability can be achieved by applying the values of human-scale communities and respect for the natural environment to economic issues.' Formerly known as the E.F. Schumacher Society.
No More Deaths (AZ)
A coalition of communities and individuals working in response to the escalating numbers of migrant deaths in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands.
Ode Magazine (Netherlands)
An independent publication about the people and ideas that are changing the world.
Orion Society (MA)
Publishers of Orion magazine, an influential forum for re-imagining humanity's relationship to nature, featuring America's foremost writers and artists.
Pacifica Radio (CA)
Broadcasting alternative, community, free speech, listener sponsored radio for over 50 years.
Paz Holandesa (Peru)
Supplying social and medical support to children in Peru.
Peter Russell (CA)
Writer and speaker on sustainable development.
Physicians for Social Responsibility (DC)
A leading public policy organization with 24,000 members representing the medical and public health professions and concerned citizens, working together for nuclear disarmament, a healthful environment, and an end to gun violence.
Resurgence Magazine (England)
Publishes articles on the cutting edge of current thinking, promoting creativity, ecology and spirituality.
Rockwood Leadership Program (CA)
Promotes social change through leadership training and consulting to progressive nonprofits.
Ruckus Society (CA)
Known for promoting a nationwide 'quarantine' of Wal-Mart, the Ruckus Society provides tools, training and support to environmental, human rights and social justice organizations.
Rudolf Steiner Foundation (NY)
Creates social benefit through innovative approaches to working with money that reflect the highest aspirations of the human spirit.
SPES (Togo)
SPES (Soutien Pour L'Enfance En Souffrance), helping orphaned children living in Togo, West Africa.
Serrv International (WI)
For more than 50 years, has worked with artisan groups around the world by marketing handcrafts and food products through a network of volunteers, churches, small stores and now the Internet.
SimpleChange.Org (NM)
Provides pro bono services for nonprofit organizations that are concerned with democracy, local economies, and social and environmental justice. Services include project development, management, research and investigation.
Sustainable Measures (MA)
Private consulting firm dedicated to promoting sustainable communities.
TakingITGlobal.org (Ontario)
An online community that connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action in their local and global communities.
The George Foundation (India)
Helps alleviate poverty, promotes environmental health, and strengthens democratic institutions and values in developing countries.
The Humanity Initiatives (MA)
Encouraging people to understand this planet as a common home.
The World Cafe (CA)
A worldwide initiative encouraging the use of conversation in small groups -- metaphorically known as 'cafe tables' -- to assist in problem solving and to 'access collective intelligence'.
Trends Research Institute (NY)
The Trends Research Institute is a think-tank founded in 1980 by Gerald Celente. It has earned a reputation as a one of the leading trends forecasting agencies in the world. Celente and his colleagues have been amazingly accurate in identifying major social, economic and business trends before they occur.
Tribe of Heart (NY)
Produces and distributes award-winning documentaries about ordinary people making an extraordinary difference.
Urban Homestead (CA)
Strives to inspire individuals to 'think globally, act locally' by motivating them to live a simpler and more fulfilling life.
Vamos! (Mexico)
Charitable organization serving the poor in and around Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Vesper Society (CA)
Private foundation providing tools, resources and expertise to meet social, health, educational and spiritual needs around the world.
WBAI (NY)
Listener sponsored alternative radio in New York City, 99.5 FM.
Working Assets (CA)
Long-distance telephone company that designates a portion of its revenue to nonprofit groups working for peace, human rights, equality, education and the environment.
Yes! Magazine (WA)
Invites readers to be part of a global community of change makers. According to the editors, 'We need deep change if we are to avoid the breakdown of society and the natural world'.
eRideshare.com (IL)
A free service for connecting commuters and travelers going the same way, by enabling and promoting carpooling.
iOrphan (AK, Russia & Ukraine)
Works in Russia and Ukraine to improve the situation for children in and graduating from orphanages. It is the orphanage directors in the countries who decide what programs and projects are essential. Run entirely by volunteers; 100% of all donations goes to children.
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