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G.E.M.S. (New Rochelle, NY, USA)

 

 

Girls Empowered and Motivated to Succeed

 

G.E.M.S. is a nonprofit agency providing mentoring programs for middle and high school young ladies in the United States. The program will form partnerships with local school districts and the juvenile court system. G.E.M.S.'s mission is to foster a commitment to young people that will promote pro-social friendships, strong interpersonal skills, and reassert a sense of hope in the future. Only through personal relationships can a sense of individual responsibility be reestablished that will give youth the commitment to follow through on the path to adulthood with a sense of pride and accomplishment.

More girls are living in poverty and low-income households today than ten years ago. This is significant because these low socioeconomic-status (SES) girls face considerable challenges that affect their health, happiness, and achievement.

In 2014, GEMS most lived in single-parent families in Florida (56 percent), New York (45%), and Georgia (45%). In 2015, one in five GEMS (19%) ages 12 to 15 lived in poverty. In 2015, 41 percent of GEMS ages 12 to 17 lived in low-income families. These rates are well above the national average (32%) and are highest for Hispanic/Latina girls (61%), black/African American girls (58%), and American Indian girls (61%).

Registration is open! Enroll your daughter today into her future. Where she will be surrounded by a group of girls that will grow as they are empowered and motivated to succeed. Each GEM has a unique story. As a community we will participate in enriched learning and explore career opportunities. Click HERE to get started!

Location: New York, NY, USA

https://www.girlsmotivated.org/

https://www.facebook.com/GEMSgirlsmotivated/

Gender Crosstalk (San Francisco, CA, USA)

 

Gendun Drubpa Buddhist Centre (Williams Lake, BC, Canada)

 

General Consul of El Salvador in Atlanta (Atlanta, GA, USA)

 

GH Community (San Diego, CA, USA)

 

 

by Peter Gabel

Peter Gabel is editor-at-large of Tikkun and the author of The Bank Teller and Other Essays on the Politics of Meaning (available at tikkun.org/store).

Like a rose that has sprouted in a weed garden and induced the weeds to back away in awe, the restorative justice movement has entered American legal culture and is posing an important challenge to core assumptions about human beings and about the very nature of human reality that our legal culture has taken for granted for more than two hundred years.

The United States itself was founded on a principle of human freedom that presupposed an inherent antagonism between self and other, a belief that the essential meaning of liberty was that we need to be protected against other people. This Fear of the Other was in part a rational response to the religious, social, and economic persecution that had in part characterized previous historical forms of social life, but it also introduced its own distortion into our liberal social fabric: it gave rise to a conception of social being that conceived of human beings as socially separated “individuals” who might form voluntary relationships with others through love, or through contracts, or through voluntary religious and civic organizations, or through democratically elected governments with strictly limited powers, but who at bottom needed always to hold in reserve the memory that the other posed a threat to one’s liberty and who therefore required a binding legal culture that placed “the rights of the individual” above all other social goods.

Implicit in this worldview has been the conviction that we are not inherently connected beings whose fulfillment comes through our mutual recognition of one another, through the inherent bond of our social nature that is completed through the embrace of love and solidarity, but rather that we are cast into the world as disconnected monads who only come into relation after the fact of our individual incarnations, with the borders between us being in need of constant policing to make sure that the seduction of trust never leads us to let down our guard. While we might “voluntarily” engage in any foolish de- pendency on the other that we choose, the law is always there to guarantee “as a matter of law” that nothing actually binds us except our mutual and solemn commitment to our everlasting ontological separation.

What if Lady Justice were omnipartial? A new legal culture based on empathy and care might inspire a better use for that blindfold of hers.

Liberty as Spiritual Separation in American Law

As you read this from within your own private space, as you float through the solitude of your day, consider how the institutions of American law condition and envelop you in the spiritual prison of your separation. You are a citizen in a democracy, but the most fundamental right that defines that democracy is the “secret ballot” rather than a process expressive of any communal bond that unites us. You are legally bound to all others through a “constitution” that protects you against, and therefore affirms the constant threat of, infringement on your right to freedom of speech, of religion, of association, and your right to be protected against others searching your house or making you quarter soldiers or taking away your guns ... but that binding constitution affirms nothing about our connection to one another and therefore offers no commitment to makingsure that our social connection will be realized through our legal process. The substantive law of property guarantees that we can own separate land parcels and exclude others from those parcels, but affirms no binding obligation to share the land, or the food that it produces, or the shelters that we construct upon it. The law of contracts guarantees our freedom to enter binding agreements with others, but in a social context that assumes we are competitors in a marketplace whose goal is to get the benefit of our bargains, rather than “cooperators” whose intention is to realize ourselves through mutual fulfillment and shared objectives. Tort law assures we are protected against others who might pull a chair out from under us as we sit down to the dinner table, or intentionally or negligently harm us on highways or in the operating room or through the consumer goods we buy in their stores, but it does not affirm that we have any duty to care for each other, to rescue each other if we are in distress, or to otherwise act in accordance with a bond emanating from our common humanity. Under the law of corporations, shareholders are assumed to be anonymous investors seeking as discrete individuals to maximize their short-term profits and to be bound to each other solely by that goal, rather than to be socially responsible beings united by a corporate aspiration that will further the well-being of the community or the planet. And finally there is the criminal law, which understands social violence of all kinds as freely chosen individual acts against the state calling for punishment of the individual actor rather than as social acts expressive of distortions within an inherently social fabric that call for repair of the social fabric itself.

The conviction that we can only be bound by our separation and not by our connection is reflected not only in the substance of law, but also in our forms of legal reasoning and our embodied legal processes themselves. We have learned to equate “due process” with the adversary system, which defines conflicts as contests between opponents who cannot trust each other to tell the truth and who therefore have every right to tear each other down through cross-examination even if one believes the other side is telling the truth. Each side in the gladiatorial combat is encouraged to aggrandize the correctness of his or her own position, to never admit weakness or doubt or frailty for fear of undermining one’s case, and to demean and minimize the other side ... because that is the only way to absolutely guarantee that no one in the proceeding— neither judge, jury, nor one’s adversary—will be taken in by misplaced trust. Evidence is limited to empirical proof of hard facts, past human experiences emptied of feeling and presented as mere observed behaviors, subject to relentless testing for misperception or hearsay, because “allowing in” the meaning and feeling of past events would be inherently subjective and could not be trusted to be presented or heard without bias and distortion. And hovering over the entire proceeding are the rules, with justice being defined as accurate application of the rules to the facts according to an analytical form of legal reasoning—the clever product of the much venerated “legalmind”—that excludes compassion or empathy or care or the aspiration to a world based on love and understanding, and instead valorizes logic and “common sense,” the common sense of a world based on individual self-interest and perception of the other as a stranger whose interests clash with rather than complete our own.

The Genius of the Liberal Legal Framework and the Harm Created By It

As unflattering a portrait as I have painted here of our inherited legal culture, we cannot but recognize the genius that animates it and that unifies all its elements. If one wished to construct a binding image of the social world that would maximally protect the individual against all of the possible evils of subjection to the other that have occurred throughout history—slavery, serfdom, the burning of millions of women at the stake for heresy and witchcraft, cruel and unusual punishments like drawing and quartering or the stockades, every form of demonization through superstition, projection, and magical thinking—the generations that preceded ours did a remarkable job of inventing a system of justice that was alert to the risk of the threat posed by the other at every turn. And we should admire and embrace the equally remarkable accomplishments for which this commitment to individual liberty has been in significant part responsible—the partial overcoming of the inherited social hierarchies of the aristocracy, and more recently of racism, sexism, and, increasingly, homophobia by gradually eliminating as a matter of law the legitimacy that these stereotypes and negative judgments could formerly claim. While the liberal revolutions of the late eighteenth century could not directly address and overcome the causes of these forms of social injustice because their own worldview recognizes only the rights of socially separated individuals rather than the need for a legal culture and process to heal the social distortions of an inherently socially connected, interhuman universe, it is nonetheless true that the historical affirmation of the dignity of the individual that was born in the Enlightenment and became binding on us one to the other at the end of the eighteenth century has made an immense contribution to our autonomy from the church, the state, inherited caste systems, and all other ways that exploitation and domination by the other had previously been legally justified.

Yet as we now look out at and live within the envelope of the world we have thus created, we must come to realize by a kind of evolution or enlightenment—by “waking up”—that the liberal framework, the framework of separation, is not only inadequate but harmful. It is harmful because it mischaracterizes a hopeful, potentially loving, potentially mutually confirming and anchoring collective destiny as a destiny of solitudes. And because the liberal worldview is not merely a matter of opinion, but is made binding through law on all citizens, it forms a kind of constant unconscious backdrop that others are receding away from us, that we must pursue our own self-interest, protect ourselves, and endure the pathos of our lives and deaths as solitary beings. Still more, because we in reality are not solitary beings but beings animated by the longing for mutual recognition, affirmation, and love, the liberal worldview inevitably generates a kind of chronic social paranoia that results from the contradiction between the interhuman truth of our social nature and the social message that the other cannot be trusted. As a way of “mediating” this contradiction, of trying to satisfy the need for connection with others in a social world in which others are presented as a threat to our individual safety and integrity, many of us are drawn to grandiose, imaginary collective identities of perfect unity (the Nation, God, the Family, the Gang) accompanied by demonization of other groupings who become the repository of our fear of nonrecognition and humiliation that our own longing for love, acceptance, and recognition will be rejected rather than reciprocated. In this way, the liberal paradigm actually tends to create and recreate the very forms of unfreedom and inequality that in its conscious aspect it seeks to delegitimize and eradicate. Thus as Dr. Seuss suggests in The Butter Battle Book, in the world as it is we may use legal means to eliminate racism, sexism, and other traditional forms of demonization only to turn to dividing the world between those who butter their bread on one side and those who butter it on the other.

Transcending Liberalism: A New Vision of Legal Culture

So as much as we support the great accomplishments of the liberal revolutions and as much as we should continue to fight for the remaining liberal gains not yet won (like the right to gay marriage) within that past and passing paradigm, we need also to support the transcendence of that paradigm toward a new vision of law and legal culture that seeks to foster empathy, compassion, reconciliation with the other, and the fundamental rediscovery that the other is not essentially a threat, but the source of our completion as social beings.

Along with the remarkable Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, which demonstrated that a legal process can be used in the service of healing even terrible acts
of social violence and which made possible the overcoming of Apartheid without the extensive bloodshed and counter- violence common to prior revolutions, the most significant harbinger of the new paradigm has been the restorative justice movement to which we are devoting this special issue of Tikkun. The critical difference between restorative justice and the liberal model of justice that we have inherited from prior generations is that restorative justice begins by embracing an ideal of justice not as a blind woman deciding without prejudice which of two equal individuals has the better right to be vindicated under the law, but rather Martin Luther King’s ideal of justice as “Love correcting that which revolts against love.” In other words, restorative justice begins with a worldview in which we are already in relationship, and in which our greatest aspiration is to realize the possibility of mutual understanding and acceptance through new spiritually alive legal processes that are designed to try to heal the distortions that have masked that possibility of healing and redemption from us.

As you read about the ways of restorative justice in the essays that follow, with their emphasis on the importance of taking responsibility, performing restitution to those harmed, and aspiring to apology and forgiveness as means of reintegrating broken relationships and sometimes knitting together and repairing whole communities, try to imagine a world in which restorative justice processes are being conducted on a daily basis in the city halls and other major civic buildings in the center of the cities or towns that you live in. Imagine how much this change in the legal culture of your city or town would alter the way you perceive your neighbors and the spiritual and moral character of communities and neighborhoods that surround you. For it is in the public manifestations of restorative justice that its true social impact will be felt: its capacity to establish through public visibility and legitimacy that we are coming to recognize and publicly acknowledge what we have known and longed for all our lives—that we are in this together, that we are not infinitely and eternally separated by what divides us, and that while acknowledging and respecting the contributions to us of our forefathers (or, if you like, our “founding fathers”), we can risk leaving them behind.

source: www.tikkun.org , http://tikkun.dukejournals.org/content/27/1/18.full.pdf+html?utm_source=NYC+restorative+practitioners+and+supporters&utm_campaign=17238e99a3-Tikkun_articles_10_2_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3a702473fa-17238e99a3-108926673

Gila (Austin, TX, USA)

 

Girl Talk (Atlanta, GA, USA)

 

OUR MISSION

We inspire all girls to be confident leaders through peer-to-peer mentoring programs.

OUR VISION

We envision a world where all girls live confidently, lead fearlessly, & support one another.

PEER TO PEER MENTORING WORKS

Girl Talk provides a framework where teenage girls can meet together to find strength, learn new skills and create a network of support.

High school girls develop leadership skills as they guide weekly meetings for middle school girls, and middle school girls learn vital skills during their most formative years.

 

Location: Atlanta, GA, USA

Girl Talk, Inc

GK Grant Writing (Hollis Hills, NY, USA)

 

Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation (Glencree, Wicklow, Ireland)

 

Glencree believes in a shared world where different communities live in cohesion; where human rights are protected; where diversity and different identities are cherished; where all can live free from the fear of violence, abuse and with dignity and respect; and where differences and conflicts are transformed peacefully and used to build shared and better futures for all.

Glencree’s mission is to help deepen reconciliation within and between communities on the island of Ireland and in selected contexts internationally. Glencree focuses on dealing with the legacies of violence, building peaceful and shared futures and transforming violent conflict. Glencree achieves its mission by helping the transformation and building of relationships through facilitated inclusive dialogue and capacity building of stakeholders.

Core to Glencree’s approach is facilitated dialogue aimed at bringing about new understandings, providing the opportunity to explore new possibilities and transforming problematic relationships. To help ensure greater understanding and open communication between the grassroots, civil society leaders and policy makers Glencree adopts a multi-level approach focusing primarily on civil society. This does not exclude however bringing in political actors if the context dictates this to be necessary.

To support its dialogue and relationship building work Glencree also helps to build people’s capacity to engage in what is often very challenging dialogue work. Glencree offers education and training to empower leaders, emerging leaders, communities and individuals to be better able to dialogue and interact effectively with the ‘other’, thereby facilitating their contribution to deeper reconciliation.

Finally, given our belief that all have to be involved to find sustainable solutions to violent conflict, Glencree makes deliberate efforts, when appropriate and the timing is right, to include those on the margins of a conflict – those who, for whatever reasons such as their socio-economic situation,ethnicity, past behaviour, ideological or political position or gender, find themselves excluded and dismissed.

Location: Glencree, Wicklow, Ireland

http://glencree.ie/

https://www.facebook.com/Glencree-Centre-for-Peace-and-Reconciliation-42798097663/

 

Glitter & Razz Productions (Oakland, CA, USA)

 

Go Girls! Camp is more than just a summer camp. It’s a movement. Its mission is to ignite a Compassion Revolution by putting girls center stage. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, hundreds of Go Girls! ages 6-14 are creatively collaborating in this social experiment to prove that bold and brave girls really can change the world.

The thinking and science behind the “Go Girls! Culture Code” – a 5-point social-emotional philosophy designed to help young girls learn and practice the skills they need to:

• Keep themselves safe
• Regulate their emotions
• Maintain positive friendships
• Bounce back from disappointment
• Dare to stand up, stand out, and be leaders in their communities!

The Culture Code breaks down the big picture of the Go Girls! Camp mission into accessible, doable pieces that all of us can practice with our girls every day.

Location: Oakland, CA, USA

http://gogirlscamp.com/

Global Community, Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN, USA)

 

Global Mandala (Atlanta, GA, USA)

 

The Global mandala is an international Art piece collaboration, comprised of multi-sized and multi-textured circles representing many different cultures. Each circle represents a grain of sand, a seed, a person, a message, and a dream. The entire project is a symbol of the power of love, justice, peace and global community. As people from all over the earth contribute to this traveling work of art, it becomes a testimony to our Oneness!

The mandala is intended to be much more than a beautiful art piece. It is intended to unite artists, children, spiritual communities, activists and visionaries around the world. It is my hope that it will inspire a broader exchange of ideas, love and unity.

Location: Atlanta, GA, USA

http://www.globalmandala.org/

https://www.facebook.com/Globalmandalasoniaosio/

Global Moment of Joy (Seattle, WA, USA)

 

 

Feel The Power Of One Billion People Coming Together To Help Create A More Peaceful, Joyful, Loving and Abundant World.

Please join with people from around the world at 12 Noon in a Global Moment Of Joy – Today and everyday.

www.GlobalMomentOfJoy.com

Take a moment to reflect on:
1. The Joys In Your Life – Your Nobility – All That You Are Grateful For.
2. A New Joy You Can Bring Into Your Life And A New Joy You Can Bring Into The Life Of Your Loved Ones.
3. How You Can Bring More Joy Into The Lives Of Those In Your Community.
4. Sending Love And Healing To All Life, Especially To Those Who Are Hurting.

Let us come together to raise the level of Joy and Love in all Life. For where there is Love there is Joy, and where there is Joy there is Peace!

Please share this with 100 of your friends and ask them to share this with 100 of their friends.

Thank you for raising the level of Joy in you and in all Life.

Location: Seattle, WA, USA

https://www.facebook.com/GlobalMomentOfJoy/?ref=bookmarks

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For the Love of Joy! will help you raise your Joy Set Point so that your life will flow with greater Ease and Joy.

ExpandingJoy.org
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0974450472

Global Peace Film Festival (Winter Park, FL, USA)

 

The Global Peace Film Festival was established to use creative media as a catalyst to inspire and educate people to initiate positive change in their local communities and worldwide. Watch Films. Get Involved. Change Things.

Location: Winter Park, FL, USA

http://peacefilmfest.org/

https://www.facebook.com/PeaceFilmFest/

Global Peace Initiative 2nd World Parliament on Spirituality (Salt Lake City, UT, USA)

 

The First World Parliament on Spirituality was initiated and organized by The World United Foundation, headquartered in Hyderabad, India, under the leadership of Dr. Yugandhar.

At the first WPS there were 208 presentations, 60 plenaries, 2800 attendees at the live event, 25 spirituo-cultural activities, and 20 panel discussions.

Additionally, participants from 56 nations attended the event. And 42 million people participated in the Universal Meditation Hour on 21st Dec 2012, across the world. People from 165 countries watched the program online.

The Second World Parliament on Spirituality is a collaboration between The World United Foundation and Equity United International Foundation, under the leadership of Dr. Paula Fellingham, Founder, Women’s Information Network (www.WomensInformationNetwork.com) and the Global Women’s Association. It will be conducted on 17-21 November, 2016, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

People of all religions and spiritual schools of thought are welcome!

The goal of the Second World Parliament on Spirituality is to converge the collective wisdom of diverse spiritual thought across the planet and unite to create a Global Peace Initiative and Master Action Plan for Peace for the purpose of increasing the level of love and peace in the world.

Purposes of the 2016 World Parliament on Spirituality

• To discuss and develop a Global Peace Initiative regarding how to achieve increased love and peace in the world.
• To create a MASTER ACTION PLAN for PEACE that can be implemented in every nation, as we move forward with our Global Peace Initiative.
• To explore the underlying commonalities in a multitude of spiritual and holistic diversities.
• To share spiritual concepts and practices by inviting leaders of different origins and paths onto a common platform.
• To awaken more people from psychological and spiritual slumber.
• To reinforce inner-faith unity and highlight the positive and secular side of spirituality.
• To spread the concepts of inner transformation, synergistic living, love, peace, and sustained harmony throughout the world.
• To help individuals understand various paths of positive thinking and well-being that will help them in their everyday lives.
• To guide individuals to choose their paths by presenting various paths of spirituality.
• To identify solutions to today’s spiritual challenges.

Global Peace Initiative of Women (New York City, NY, USA)

 

Global Spirituality (Zurich, Switzerland)

 

Global Strategy of Nonviolence, For the Children (Newton, MA, USA)

 

Global Thinkers Forum (London, United Kingdom)

 

Global Tolerance (London, United Kingdom)

 

gmars Consulting (West Bend, WI, USA)

 

Golden Buddha (Central Singapore, Singapore)

 

Buddha Statues Now is a online retailer who connects the artisans of developing economies in Asia with potential customers. As a result, we are in the unique position to assist artisans in impoverished communities by helping them help themselves. 

Our Buddha statues are handmade original sculptures created by highly skilled traditional artisans. In addition to our wide selection of Dharma Buddha statues we offer hand crafted Tibetan ritual items. Each Buddha statue and ritual item was hand crafted using traditional means that was protected and passed down through the respected family caste. As a result, these special skills have been protected and passed down for many generations. 

The Buddhist statue meaning is imbued with the theological teachings of the three primary Buddhist schools in combination with the cultural attributes of that geographical region. The satisfaction of our customers is the top priority. We endeavor to make sure you have a first class experience beginning with your initial inquiry until the moment your new Buddha statue or ritual item is placed on your alter. 

 

Location: Central Singapore, Singapore

https://www.goldenbuddha.net/

Golden Rule Project (La Costa, CA, USA)

THE MISSION

The Golden Rule Project is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to popularizing the Golden Rule as an important step in creating a transformed world where

all people treat each other as they would want to be treated. Every day, in every way.

THE VISION

To create a national Golden Rule Day every May 15th, to serve as a shining example, a beacon of hope and a glorious celebration of how each day, in our private lives, schools, workplace, social and religious environments, people of all ages practice the Golden Rule. A day the rest of the world will look to, and one day, embrace.

The First National Golden Rule Day: Target date: May 15, 2016

Location: La Costa, CA, USA

http://www.goldenruleproject.us

Golden Rule Radical (Kingston, ON, Canada)

The Golden Rule Radical website was established to raise awareness of the universality of the Golden Rule in religious traditions, secular moral codes and in the very nature of life on our planet.

Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada

http://goldenruleradical.org

Golestan-Parast Productions (Irvine, CA, USA)

Highly celebrated film director and producer Jahangir Golestan of Golestan-Parast Productions is known for his success feature documentary Bam 6.6 Humanity Has no Borders, which illustrated the love and hope of an American Jewish couple amidst the devastating earthquake that hit the city of Bam, Iran in 2003.

Mr. Golestan is currently producing Achievers, a series of short documentaries that showcases Iranian Americans who have made significant contribution to the American society.

Location: Laguna Hills, CA, USA

 

http://golestanparastproductions.com/

 

Green Ink (Buckfastleigh, DEV, United Kingdom)

 

We're world leaders in communicating science for sustainable development in natural resources and related fields.

Our company provides a full range of production services, from concept to final product, on the web or in print. We also provide strategic support, enabling our clients to communicate more effectively and efficiently.

We cover all the major natural resources sectors, including agriculture, biodiversity, biotechnology, climate change, fisheries, forestry, livestock, pests and diseases, soils and water. We also cover the sectors and subjects that interact with natural resources, such as business, energy, gender, governance, health and nutrition. We specialize in communications for a policy audience.

Green Ink is a private limited company, registered in the UK but operating globally. It was founded in 1998, took on its first staff in 2001 and has since expanded steadily to reach its current complement of 15 core team members, supported by an array of freelance associates. Today the company has a turnover of GBP 850,000 a year and serves about 55 clients worldwide.

Green Ink aims to be a first-rate employer, offering its team members a fair reward for their work and attractive working conditions. The company’s core team members all work from their homes in different parts of the world, a set-up that reduces carbon emissions as well as the strains and stresses of commuting. Despite being decentralized, the company has a family atmosphere and an informal, flexible way of working with its clients, together with a strong team spirit.

Green Ink shares the vision of its clients – to create a world free of hunger, poverty and environmental degradation. Accordingly, the company’s vision of itself is:

To be the world’s leading communicator of science for change and development in natural resources and related fields.

Our mission is:

To contribute through communication to the knowledge base that informs sustainable development.

The company adds value to the R&D efforts of its clients by creating communication products and processes that:

• Inform global and national policy debates
• Raise funds and other forms of support for further R&D
• Raise awareness of research results, methods and approaches
• Develop the capacities of R&D professionals and institutions
• Lead to better lives and livelihoods for poor people.

These are the values that matter to us:

Compassion. This is the primordial virtue that drives both what we do andhow we do it. It is a value we share with our clients, whose mission is to eradicate poverty and hunger and to protect the environment in the developing world. It is also the value held by the world’s major spiritual traditions and embraced by the new socially minded businesses of the 21stcentury. Compassion is what we seek to practise anyway – whether or not it suits our material interests. Green Ink has signed the Charter for Compassion (http://charterforcompassion.org) and encourages its clients and suppliers to do so too.

Three other core values express how we do our work:

• Empathy. We aim to have a strong focus on the needs of others, especially our clients and colleagues. We try to tune in to their needs and respond to them – both their expressed needs and the ones they are less aware of.
• Expertise. This is the central value that matters to our clients. We are experts in science communication, enabling us to develop high-quality products and offer high-quality advice. And we specialize in agriculture and natural resources R&D, so we understand the issues and topics addressed by our clients.
• Enjoyment. We bring enjoyment to our work because it’s creative, serves good causes, and involves friendly and interesting colleagues and clients. We aim to attract and retain staff who enjoy being part of our team. We aim to give our clients an enjoyable time working with us, so that they come back for more.

Location: Buckfastkeigh, DEV, United Kingdom

 

http://www.greenink.co.uk/ 

Gretchen Martens and Associates (Dallas, TX, USA)

 

My work focuses on building cultures of happiness, the foundation of which is purpose and compassion. As a Buddhist anthropologist, my daily practices and worldviews are grounded in compassion, honoring the inherent worth and dignity of all human beings, and respecting the interdependence of all life on Earth.

Location: Dallas, TX, USA

http://gretchenmartens.com/

Gross National Happiness (Montpelier, VT, USA)

 

Gross National Happiness USA is a 501c(3) Tax-Exempt non-profit organization blazing new pathways to sustainable happiness and wellbeing in the United States. Recognizing our abundant wisdom and tapping into our collect impact potential, we work with local, national and global partners to celebrate and create resonance between what we value and how we live, taking care to include the wellbeing of all living creatures and the planet.

Location: Montpelier, VT, USA

http://gnhusa.org/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/145375412018/

Group i&i Consultancy (Union, New Jersey, USA)

 

Group i&i helps organizations achieve greater social impact. With decades of combined experience, we can help you assess, learn, and build your capacity for leadership and organizational development, outcome evaluation, and strategic fund development.

 

By providing leadership, counsel, and support to nonprofit organizations and educational institutions, we look to expand their ability to broaden their impact on their own communities.

Our intention is to remain an organization with a heart, working to build a society in which all individuals are empowered to achieve their full potential and lead fulfilling lives.

 

Location: Union, New Jersey, USA

https://www.groupi-i.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groupiiconsultancy

Group Relations International (San Diego, CA, USA)

 

Group Relations International's initiatatives are longer term projects that make the world a better place. Each initiative is related to one or more of GRI's tenets: social justice, community and spirituality. We nurture these initiatives and try to stay tuned to what emerges from them... 

• Coaches4Causes
• YES Youth Empowerment Services
• Writings
• Just Water
• Appreciation, Inspiration and Sacred Moments
• Meaningful Conversations
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Location: San Diego, CA, USA

http://www.grouprelations.org

Gwen Pinnington Consulting & Coaching (Hobart, Tasmania, Australia)

 

At Gwen Pinnington Consulting & Coaching, we facilitate individual and collective effectiveness that is purposeful, empowering and based on a higher-level consciousness so that individuals, cultures and communities can thrive.

Our aim is to build inspired and productive communities that practice shared leadership that is wise and effective. These communities can be sectors, organisations, teams, schools, global communities and even family/personal communities. Inspired and productive communities live and breathe compassion, honest high-integrity communication, shared conscious leadership, trust, and profound authenticity to deliver great results.

• We build trust by putting truth on the table and inviting different perspectives, whilst always coming from a place of compassion and highest intention for outcomes, people and the world.
• We have compassionate and crucial conversations with each other to let go of that which does not serve us, individually or collectively.
• Our work encompasses You, Me and We. We honour and allow each other’s genius to inform the team.
• We operate from the belief that people are doing the best they can at any given point in time with the resources and consciousness they are operating from.
• Courage and Vulnerability must exist together and are necessary in our team and in our work.
• We put our families first and we make time for fun… in addition to working hard

 

Location: Hobart, Tansmania, Australia

https://www.gwenpinnington.com.au/

https://www.facebook.com/gwenpinningtonconsultingandcoaching/

 

H.U.G.S.=HourlyUniversalGlobalSynchron-service (Munich, Germany)

 

We will form an hourly vibrating resonance field of Love, Gratitude, Compassion and Forgiveness that will benefit all, without depleting any resources, across all our diversity of language, traditions, nations and beliefs.

Synchronize. That is what Mother Earth is asking. Many people around the world have been doing just that. There are many global movements and events of prayer, meditation, light channeling, mindful focus, self-growth. All are welcome, and She celebrates you. However Mother Earth would like us to synchronize our separate, scattered meditation and prayer for round-the-clock H.U.G.S* Hourly.Universal.Global.Synchrony.

Location: Munich, Germany

http://syncgaiahug.wordpress.com

 

Habitat for Humanity (Fayetteville, AR, USA)

 

We don’t build for anyone. We build with everyone.

We are a nonprofit Christian housing ministry. Your Fayetteville Area Habitat for Humanity seeks to eliminate poverty housing in Cumberland County to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Affordable housing improves neighborhoods and communities by increasing the tax base while building better citizens through the cooperative efforts involved in construction and rehab.

We are making houses into homes that are:

• Energy Efficient
• Affordable
• Easy to Maintain
• Beautifying the Community
• Generating Property Tax Revenue

Location: Fayetteville, AR, USA

http://www.fayettevillenchabitat.org/

https://www.facebook.com/Fayetteville-Area-Habitat-for-Humanity-1430524083842548/

Hakshava NGO (Meona, Israel)

 

Council is the practice of speaking and listening from the heart. Through compassionate, heartfelt expression and empathic, non-judgmental listening, Council inspires a non-hierarchical form of deep communication that reveals a group's vision and purpose.Council offers effective means of resolving conflicts and for discovering the deeper, often unexpressed needs of individuals and organizations. Council provides a comprehensive means for co-visioning and making decisions in a group context. Council is about our personal and collaborative story.

The non profit organization in Israel was established by two elders: Ronit Rinat, who came to Israel with the vision of bringing the council into the education system, so council will welcome each child every day at school, and Leon Berg from Los Angeles, who brought council to Israel and Palestine as a path to peace. Ronit and Leon had many partners both in the U.S. and in Israel who helped create Amutat Maagal Hakshava. We are grateful to them all.

Recognizing the need for speaking and listening from the heart allow for the expansion into non formal educational systems, social organizations, businesses, hospitals, local councils, Para medical workers, among others.

To mention some of our activities – all over the country we bring council into  schools for specific group of students. In Ma’Ayanot a school in Kibutz Cabri, the Way of the Council is practiced by the teachers, students and parents already four years creating special atmosphere and improved communication.

The NGO- Amuta gives council facilitator courses for educational staff so they can bring the council to the work with students they are in contact with.

We have on constant basis councils with teachers in different schools to introduce the way of council receiving very positive feedback.

We bring council to create improved communication in “mixed” cities where Arabs and Jews live together. We created a leadership group of Arabs and Jews which work towards a peaceful coexistence.

Our vision expands -through the many councils we have all over the country with different groups of people , ages, genders, religions…

We experience and believe that when the heart speaks and listens miracles happens

Location: Meona, Israel

http://hakshava.org/?page_id=1379

Handy Entertainment (Atlanta, GA, USA)

Connect with unique and individualized entertainment.

Mission Statement: to graciously serve and bring joy to people of all ages, walks of life, and beliefs while empowering them in following their passions and sharing the message with which we have been charged.

Location: Atlanta, GA, USA

https://handyentertainment.xyz/ 

Hanoar Hatzioni (London, United Kingdom)

 

Hanoar Hatzioni is a pluralist movement that welcomes Jewish youths no matter which stream they follow, creating an equal environment within the religion. We wish to broaden this and promote equality among religions.

Location: London, United Kingdom

http://www.hanoar.co.uk
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hanoar-Hatzioni-UK/117421165027960

 

Harmonia (Fayetteville, AR, USA)

 

Genre: women's vocal ensemble
Band Members: Becky Hauck, Dian Williams, Elizabeth Bullock-Rest, Joy Fox, Judith Matthews, Julie Minkel, Lani Froelich, Leslie Oelsner (director), Marcy Benham, Michelle Welch, Mira Holiman

Get our CD Deep Peace at cdbaby.com or IndieRhythm.com

Location: Fayetteville, AR, USA

https://www.facebook.com/Harmonia-201246615894/

Harmony Interfaith Initiative (Kyle, TX, USA)

 

“Spreading the message of harmony to people of all faiths.”

Location: Kyle, TX, USA

http://www.harmonyii.org/

Harmony: Atlanta's International Youth Chorus (Atlanta, GA, USA)

 

HARMONY offers 6-18 year old youth from diverse backgrounds high quality choral training and performance opportunities.

HARMONY provides leadership training, encourages mentorship of younger singers by their senior counterparts, supports boys during the adolescent voice change and nurtures all singers as they mature musically, emotionally and socially. It is a community dedicated to friendship, teamwork, peace, and social justice, expressed through a music repertoire sung in over 40 languages and spanning many nationalities, cultures and religions.

HARMONY is dedicated to the positive difference youth and music can make in the world.

Location: Atlanta, GA, USA

http://harmonychorus.org/

https://www.facebook.com/HARMONY-Atlantas-International-Youth-Chorus-9619528553/

Healium Center Foundation (Atlanta, GA, USA)

Our Mission:
To connect, uplift and empower ordinary people with their inner creative. 

What we believe:
In a country faced with high rates of depression, drug use and loneliness, how can America become healthy again? Simple. We prescribe an ancient proven healing medicine that exists in all of us; our inner creative. We know it works because we've seen amazing results at our center. Since our inception in 2014, Healium Center has nurtured thousands of ordinary individuals from all walks of life to experience the undeniable power of the arts. 

At Healium, our vision is to have a society enriched by a limitless connection with the creative and healing arts. By providing a judgment-free, compassionate and fun environment for adults we have seen transformation in people that is simply priceless. Our unique healing-with-the-arts interactive model has been effective in uplifting and putting more joy and laughter into peoples daily lives. Healium's revolutionary concept works by first deconstructing societal conditioning that art is a childhood activity and/or that requires academic training. These falsehoods paired with judgment and pretense are the main reasons most adults never use art as a wellness regimen; until they discover Healium. By removing the inner critic and activating the inner creative in an individual, we allow each person to 'let loose' in their art activity of choice without any rules. When attending Healium on a regular basis, people have reported; rediscovery of their inner-child, stimulation of dialogue, opening of the mind, healing of past trauma, connecting with loved ones, reduction of anxiety, stress-release, decreased sense of loneliness, reduction in drug use, less depression, improved self esteem and, more inner peace & joy. At Healium, we value authenticity and believe each person is uniquely beautiful with all its perfect imperfections. It is with this honest partnership with each participant that their self-transformation takes place. A less feared individual now dives deeper into the soul. It is with this journey that the individual is able to feel connected, uplifted, empowered and balanced. It is with this metamorphosis of the inner creative that the Healium participant is now healthier and more capable of pollinating the community-at-large with goodness, love and their higher self.

Location: Atlanta, GA, USA

https://www.healiumcenter.com/

Heartful Solutions for Families (Phoenix, AZ, USA)

 

Providing therapy for children and families who are suffering due to trauma using a model based on mindfulness and compassion.

Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA

http://www.heartfulsolutions.com/

Heights Christian Church (Kent, WA, USA)

Heights Christian Church is part of the Christian Churches, Disciples of Christ, an ecumenical denomination with 3000 congregations across North America. Our congregation consists of approximately 120 members who are diverse in many aspects. When Heights Christian Church was designed, the founding members envisioned a complete facility that not only would serve the church as a place of worship, study and fellowship, but also serve the community. Our building houses many community programs, such as the Cooperative Nursery School, the Shaker Youth Center, the Elegant Flea thrift shop, and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. In addition, Heights Christian Church donates its facilities for 3-4 weeks each year to the Interfaith Hospitality Network, which temporarily houses and helps place homeless families. In 1985, members of our congregation worked with the City of Shaker Heights and the Department of Housing and Urban Development to develop Campbell Court, an apartment building housing 81 senior citizens in comfortable, affordable surroundings. This continues to be one of our most important ministries outside of the church building, as we still donate our resources and have members serving on the Campbell Court board of trustees.

As a Shalom congregation, Heights Christian Church is open to and affirming of all people, celebrating and finding strength in our diversity and affirming the dignity and worth of every person. We welcome into full membership and participation in the life of the church, per-sons of every gender, race, age, culture, ethnic background, sexual orientation, economic circumstance, and difference in ability. All are welcome as beloved children of God.

Location: Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA

 

http://www.heightschristianchurch.org/index.php/

 

HERMESensemble (Wijnegem, Antwerp, Belgium)

 

Over the past fifteen years the Antwerp based HERMESensemble has been exploring and crossing the limits of contemporary music. Apart from creating contemporary repertoire and new music, the ensemble often works with video and multimedia, and prefers researching adventurous encounters with popular music, jazz and early music. Apart from regularly performing in the most renowned Belgian theatres and festivals, HERMESensemble often performs in The Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom and Austria, and has been a returning guest of the Philharmonie de Luxembourg and the Venice Biennial Festival.

Location: Wijnegem, Antwerp, Belgium

http://hermesensemble.be/

https://www.facebook.com/HERMESensemble/

HighSpin Consulting (Smith Falls, ON, Canada)

Mission

 

HighSpin Consulting mission is to work with business owners and manager to help them:

• Understand and use the financial information they have, without math and without bookkeeping;
• Adopt a holistic approach to organizational management that reflects the triple bottom line—people, profit and planet; and
• Establish sustainable and community-oriented organizations.

Vision

HighSpin Consulting will be known for:

• Helping those who need it the most (e.g., SME's, charities and not-for-profit organizations);
• Achieving a global reach;
• Serving as a work-life balance supporter;
• Providing peer support in unlikely places (e.g., MasterMind);
• Enlightening business owners and managers responsible for managing the financial resources of the organization;
• Removing the fear factor(s) related to business and financial management; and
• Challenging the status quo and conventional wisdom as it relates to business and financial management.

Value Proposition

HighSpin Consulting's unique qualities include :

• Teaching financial management without the need to know math or bookkeeping.
• Teaching financial management in plain English!
• Focusing on the triple bottom line—people, profit and planet.
• Exposing and exploring the weaknesses of accounting.
• Offering a wide range of topics and training curriculum.
• Offering entertaining training environments.

Location
Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada

http://www.highspin.com

 

 

Hikayetna (our story) (London, United Kingdom)

Storytelling From Syria.

Hikayetna, meaning ‘our story’ in Arabic, is a new art project that brings people together to talk about the human side of Syrian society. Apolitical & independent project which develops communities,& supports Syrian refugees.

Location: London, United Kingdom

https://hikayetna.com/ 

https://www.facebook.com/Hikaytna?ref=hl 

Himalayan Mountain Shop (Fayetteville, AR, USA)

 

Locally-owned, 'Block Street Business' located on Block Ave near the Square.

Many unique handcrafted gifts, fashionable clothes, incense, prayer flags, singing bowls, jewelry, purses, and more from Nepal, India, and Bhutan. Lama Thinley is originally from Bhutan, which is a small country in the Himalayan Mountains. We work directly with many small, family-owned businesses in these countries.

Location: Fayetteville, AR, USA

www.facebook.com/Himalayan-Mountain-Shop-162160263848162

 

 

HimB4i (San Diego, CA, USA)

 

The idea is being a billboard for GOD. Everything you see or hear is trying to get rid or keep GOD quiet. But NOT us, not this generation!

Location: San Diego, CA, USA

https://www.facebook.com/HowWemetJESUS/

Holy Spirit Catholic Community (Toledo, OH, USA)

 

The Holy Spirit Catholic Community is an inclusive lay-administered intentional community formed in the tradition of Vatican II. Christ-centered through the Word and the Eucharist, we are challenged to love and respect all of God’s creation and to live out Christ’s teachings with guidance from the Holy Spirit.

We began gathering as an inclusive Vatican II Eucharistic community on February 10, 2013. We meet weekly for Mass at 4:30 p.m on Saturday and at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday in rented space at 3535 Executive Parkway in Toledo, just off Secor Road.

If you’re looking for a Catholic community that welcomes everyone to the table, if you’ve been alienated from our hierarchical Roman Catholic structure for any reason, if you’ve been turned away because of your marital status, your gender orientation, or your progressive and egalitarian Vatican II views, or if you’re just curious, please stop by and see if Holy Spirit can be a place for you.

We’re serious about social justice here, so we try to practice it inside our community as well as in our lives at home and in the marketplace.

 Location: Toledo, Ohio, USA

http://www.holyspirittoledo.org
http://www.facebook.com/toledoholyspirit

 

Holy Trinity Parish School (Louisville, KY, USA)

 

Holy Trinity Parish School is a Catholic School for children in grades Pre-K through 8th and is located in Louisville, Kentucky. The school is central to the educational mission of the parish of which it is a vital part. The staff of 73 joins with parents and parish resources to provide both academic and religious instruction for its over 750 students with the goal of empowering these students to become contributing members of their local, national, and global communities, both now and in the future.

Location: Louisvile, KY, USA

http://www.ht-school.org/page

Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii (Honolulu, HI, USA)

Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii (Hawaii Kyodan) is a religious organization belonging to the Jodo Shinshu Sect of Mahayana Buddhism. Hawaii Kyodan follows the Teaching of Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji (True Essence of Pure Land Buddhist Teaching) whose founder is Shinran Shonin. We are affiliated with the head temple Ryukoku-zan Hongwanji (Nishi Hongwanji) which is located in Kyoto, Japan.

Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii, an eleemosynary, ecclesiastical and educational corporation was incorporated in the State of Hawaii on October 4, 1907. Hawaii Kyodan acts as the principal entity representing the Jodo Shinshu denomination in Hawaii. It is located at 1727 Pali Highway, just on the outskirts of downtown Honolulu and represents 37 temples spread throughout the state on the islands of Hawaii, Maui, Lanai, Oahu, and Kauai.

The authority of Hawaii Kyodan is vested in the Legislative Assembly which represents the temples and affiliated organizations. A 36 member board of directors, comprised of lay leaders and ministers, governs the organization. Eight (8) standing committees and 19 special committees have been established to carry out various functions of the organization. Daily operations are conducted by Hawaii Kyodan’s headquarter which is staffed by eight (8) employees including the Bishop.

Hawaii Kyodan strives to provide the resources, direction, and support to its affiliated temples and organizations for the propagation and appreciation of the Buddhist doctrines as well as to promote a range of services to meet spiritual and secular needs of its members and communities throughout the State. Among these are religious services, educational and cultural programs and support, as well as outreach services.

Hawaii Kyodan and its affiliated temples sponsors accredited, independent educational institutions such as the Hongwanji Mission School (preschool to eight grade) and the Pacific Buddhist Academy (high school), regardless of race, color, creed, or religious orientation. It also sponsors the Fort Gakuen Japanese School as well as after school and summer programs. Other Hawaii Kyodan affiliated organizations and programs include the Buddhist Women’s Association, Buddhist Study Center, Jr. Young Buddhist Association, and Project Dana.

MISSION STATEMENT

"The mission of Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii is to share the living Teachings of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism so that all beings may enjoy lives of harmony, peace, and gratitude."

Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

http://www.hongwanjihawaii.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Honpa-Hongwanji-Mission-of-Hawaii/528681867268518

 

 

Hope in Life Foundation (Irvine, CA, USA)

HOPE IN LIFE FOUNDATION is a US 501(C)(3) charitable organization established in 2013. The organization advances equity for women, men and children through advocacy, training, education and research. It works to end Violence Against women (VAW).

Hope in Life Foundation is a Council of Organization (COO) of United Nations Association, USA, Orange County Chapter http://www.una-oc.org/. UNA-USA is a program of the United Nations Foundation and its local chapter nominated Hope in Life Foundation to lead the Cities for CEDAW Task Force. CEDAW is the Convention for Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1980. Unfortunately, the United States, one of the most industrialized nations in the world is yet to embrace it along with Iran, Sudan, South Sudan, Tonga and some others. Thirty four years later, in March 2014, Cities for CEDAW Program was launched to implement a CEDAW ordinance in 100 or more cities at the municipal level. In cities where CEDAW ordinance has been passed, it has lowered crimes against children and women. Chances are it may reduce human trafficking and domestic abuse. It also has the potential to decrease income disparity between men and women and increase disposable income for households. Join Orange County, CA residents to bring CEDAW to your City. E-mail hopeinlifefoundation@gmail.com for more information. Learn more at http://citiesforcedaw.org/

Hope in Life Foundation is a Cooperation Circle (CC) of United Religions Initiative http://www.uri.org/, a global grassroots interfaith network. As a URI CC, the organization works both locally and globally to cultivate peace and justice by engaging people to bridge religious and cultural differences and work together harmoniously. For more information, visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCja_6EAQcGjyEwz-9Dof4xw.

Hope in Life Foundation works in the following ways for social and economic equity:

(a) Proactively the organization works with children to educate them about the values of loving, caring and supportive families. Children actively engage in their communities to create awareness about social and economic issues via fashion shows, interviews and fund-raising events.

(b) Via the Reactive approach IPV victims receive support and guidance to contact resources that can help them immediately. The organization also works to end religiously motivated violence and develop supportive interfaith communities.

Location: Irvine, CA, USA

http://hopeinlifefoundation.org/

https://www.facebook.com/hopeinlifefoundationorg/

HopeLines Church (New York, NY, USA)

WELCOME TO THE EVOLUTION OF CHURCH

At HopeLines, we prefer to replace dogma, contradiction, and irrationality with intelligence, awareness, and clarity.

We speak to the essential teachings, the fundamental message, and the pervasive wisdom from the words attributed to the Master Messengers -- Jesus, Siddhārtha Gautama, Mohammad, Confucius, Handsome Lake, Lao Tzu, White Buffalo Calf Woman, The Peacemaker, Zoroaster, Mahavira, Mani, to name a few.

At HopeLines, it is not our aim to defend or offend any particular religion or belief system. Our goal is to personify the Truth through the words of the Masters, and make it our lifestyle and mindset in order to:

• Build and maintain excellent character, as is our birthright.
• Embody active compassion as a celebration of life and living.
• Clarify and awaken the god within and without as both a journey and a destination.
• Reunite the positive with the powerful in us all to actualize our awesome potential.

That's what we do and that's all we do.

With 78% of the American population claiming to be some form of Christian, we use the metaphysical instruction of the Gospel of Matthew during our fellowship. We may also use the Bhagavad Gita, the Gospel of Thomas, the Tao Te Ching, the Qur'an, gnostic books, the Dhammapada, Native American texts, the Zend Avesta, the Wisdom books, and the Kabbala, to name a few. With this in mind,

HopeLines welcomes all and all are welcome

Location: New York, New York, USA

https://hopelines.org/
http://facebook.com/hopelines.org

 

Horizon House (Indianapolis, IN, USA)

 

Horizon House is the only day shelter in Indianapolis, IN, USA, that connects homeless individuals (we call "neighbors") with integrated, comprehensive services. We provide a safe place and basic and in-depth services for our community's homeless, serving them with respect, dignity and hospitality, as they take steps towards a more stable life. This includes street outreach, legal services, job readiness training, housing programs, medical and mental health services and basic needs such as clothing, food, showers, laundry facility and mail delivery.

From shelter for a day . . . to stability for a lifetime.

Location: Indianapolis, IN, USA

https://www.horizonhouse.cc/

https://www.facebook.com/horizonhouseindy/

Horton Interactive Media (Palm coast, FL, USA)

INVOLUTION, EVOLUTION, REVOLUTION

YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH OUR FIRM WILL CAPTURE THE IMAGINATION, PROVOKE ACTION, AND GROW YOUR BOTTOM LINE.

Horton Interactive Media is a lean, custom business solutions provider. Our team of professionals devour information, learning something every day that may make the difference for your firm. What was yesterdays big news might be today's middle of the road. We never lose sight of that fact. We provide a unique, personalized approach to anticipating, meeting, and exceeding your needs. We put results above flash. For every dollar you spend, we expect you to see a return on your investment.

We like to solve problems, problems that confound. This is not magic. There is no trick. We know that there is a science and a methodology that creates results. However, there is a human being at the end of everything we do, and we never lose sight of that truth. Remember, people don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it.

We provide a holistic approach to interactive digital media. Advertising is changing. Social media is changing. Web design is changing. You have to change, too. We engage with your clients and future customers. They know what they want. They know what they need. By learning to anticipate their needs, you become invaluable.

We develop brand strategies and communications plans that utilize all formats of digital media. At Horton Interactive Media, we always use proofs of concept, small tests to be sure that we are moving in the right direction. We can manage and support your firm in today's digital environment. We know that discipline, not desire, is the great separator.

Location: Palm Coast, FL, USA

http://hortoninteractivemedia.com/

House of Friendship - Crown Domain of Friendship in Maastricht (Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands)

House of Friendship offers modern spirituality and ancient teachings, courses, workshops, lectures and more.

Location: Maastricht, Netherlands

Houseless Interfaith Mission (Portland, OR, USA)

The Mission of the Interfaith Homeless and Housing Coalition is to provide communities of faith in Multnomah County with a forum and resources for organizing, information sharing and advocacy regarding housing and homeless issues. 

Location: Portland, Oregon, USA

 

http://himpdx.blogspot.com/

 

Hudson Valley Center for Kindness & Compassion (Goshen, NY, USA)

The Center’s primary focus is to provide classes and programs that enlighten the mind and enable people to live more meaningful and happy lives. When people are happier, they naturally want to spread it to others through random acts of kindness and compassion. Yet everywhere you turn it seems people are feeling less happy and more disconnected from one another.  

Location: Goshen, NY, USA

http://hvckc.com/

Humanity in Business (Sydney, Australia)

 

Our Vision
A leadership revolution that supports authentic leaders to create purposeful businesses for positive social change.

What is the Humanity in Business Leadership Community?

A community of values based leaders that support each other to stay true to their values to improve business and community outcomes.

Why is this Peer Group Different?

• Our by invitation only community is driven by values.
• Focus on link between values and better business & community outcomes.
• Creating stakeholder centric businesses.

We Believe

• Leaders driven by values have a bigger purpose than just making a profit.
• Values based Leaders have a bigger responsibility to serve their teams and their community.
• A community of values based business leaders can better address community and environmental challenges collectively.
• A community of values based leaders can better influence industry and government agenda to put humanity before profit.
• Authentic leaders need to be seen and heard to bring back trust in business and government.
• Business can be done on a handshake.

Who is Humanity in Business?

Founded by Muneesh Wadhwa (Founder, CIO Network) who connects values based business leaders and thought leaders to help create more humane and purposeful businesses. We are group of collaborators who are passionate about creating change through business.

Location: Sydney, Australia

www.humanityinbusiness.com.au
muneesh@humanityinbusiness.com.au

 

 

 

 

Humanizing Business (Vleuten, UT, Netherlands)

 

Humanizing Business enables organizations and their relationships to achieve optimal business results from their joint enthusiasm. Scientifically, it has been shown that together everything is more fun, and results are better too!
    
Gladly we help you to take full advantage of your Enthusiasm · Engagement · Alignment Returns. With interim management, consultancy, coaching and training. From push to dialogue, and lasting results!
    
With pleasure, I realize strategic communication, engagement and change programs and interim management projects.

Location: Vleuten, UT, Netherlands

https://humanizingbusiness.nl/

hywtas (Rockwood, Ontario, Canada)

hywtas (hi-wa-tass) is the acronym for hitch your wagon to a star. This is the business name under which I offer my life coaching, training and speaking services. I support individuals in realizing self-love and self-care that enables them to find happiness and fulfillment that can then be paid forward to others within their sphere of influence. My focus is on supporting caregivers. Compassion for others must begin with self-compassion.

Location: Rockwood, Ontario, Canada

https://www.facebook.com/hywtas/

 

I = You Nameste (Westbury, NY, USA)

What do we mean by I=U Namaste?

It is our way of expressing and reinforcing that I, You, All of us here on planet earth are One. And as One we are united through love for each other and all other life forms on this planet. 

We can make this world a better place and a beautiful place one by one.  We can all become the one flame that lights a thousand candles. How?  Read on friends......

It is our desire to promote love, unity, consideration, joy, respect, harmony, peace, empowerment and enlightenment to make this world we live in a better place for all.  Using the light within, we hope to inspire and spread the light one by one throughout the Universe. 
How will we do this?  Through our products here, we hope to inspire everyone to carry this message with them in one form or another and spread the message about getting back to the basics of loving, honoring and respecting one another.  Living and loving all beings in the Universe.

Be the Light, and help us to promote love, kindness, consideration and peace and make this World a better place for us all to live in as one.

How can you do this?  By using our products in your everyday life to promote oneness in love.  
Wearing them, having them displayed in your home or office, giving them as gifts, etc. are all forms of passing the light through passing on the message of Namaste....... _/\_  

I = U meaning "I" and "You", we are equally divine and in our divinity we are all ONE~  

Location: Westbury, NY, USA

https://www.facebook.com/IU-Namaste-186164001538816/timeline/

I Declare World Peace (New York, NY, USA)

The I Declare World Peace project is a power-of-intention global art experiment that seeks to raise peace consciousness. The project and its genesis is fully explained at www.ideclareworldpeace.org. IDWP also promotes various equality, justice, kindness, anti-bullying and humanitarian initiatives through an international network of cross-promotional partnerships. IDWP accepts no donations. We self-fund and sell products with our trademarked logo. Our hashtag is #IDWP.

Location: New York, NY, USA

http://www.ideclareworldpeace.org/

https://www.facebook.com/DeclarePeace

iact: Interfaith Texas (Austin, TX, USA)

 

 

iact: Interfaith Texas (Austin, Texas, USA)

 

The idea of shared public service lies at the very heart of the mission for Interfaith Action of Central Texas.

Location: Austin, Texas, USA

http://interfaithtexas.org

 

iCompassion-Ubuntu (Leuven, BRU, Belgium)

 

iCompassion-Ubuntu is a Social Movement with mission to connect Empathy and Action to inspire daily actions of compassion to others.

Location: Leuven, BRU, Belgium

http://www.icompassionubuntu.org/

https://www.facebook.com/iCompassionUbuntu

Ignatius House Retreat Center (Sandy Springs, GA, USA)

“Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.” (Mk 6:31)

Ignatius House is a place to withdraw from the demands of daily life, to rest and become more fully aware of the work of the Spirit in our lives. It is a quiet place where generations have lifted up their struggles, questions and gratitude to God. Prayerfulness resounds throughout the grounds while the sacred spaces and liturgies at Ignatius House nourish the soul.

Opened in December 1960 Ignatius House Jesuit Retreat Center was created by the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) to provide spiritual renewal for those seeking to discover and live out God’s will in their lives. The center offers weekend silent retreats, 5-8 day retreats, Days of Reflection, special audience retreats and the full Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in both the 30 day and daily life form.

Located in Sandy Springs, GA Ignatius House is a Retreat Center for all seasons. Open year long, the facility occupies 20 heavily wooded acres overlooking the Chattahoochee River. With expansive grounds featuring walking trails, a waterfall, natural creeks and quiet resting places for introspection, the surroundings are quiet, peaceful and inspiring. With a focus on silence and solitude, accommodations include a private bedroom with a private bath.

 

Location: Sandy Springs, GA, USA

https://ignatiushouse.org/

https://www.facebook.com/IgnatiusHouse/

IMAN Research (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Founded by writer Dina Zaman and her colleague, Nicholas Chan, IMAN is a boutique research outfit that studies how religion impacts studies how religion and perceptions impact multicultural societies using Malaysia as a prime example from the aspects of society, politics and policy, and how faith drives the politics and economics of the country. IMAN aims to provide reliable ground data and analysis to members of government, stakeholders and the public to inform policy making processes and to contribute to a healthy discourse of religion, perception and society.

IMAN’s objectives are to provide informed data to a young Malaysia on how religion is practiced and perceived, and secondly, strategy, intelligence and data to policy-makers and investors. Thirdly, inspired by the best in the world, and there is none if not little in the Muslim world, IMAN analyses public perception and information of religion and the reality of it in Malaysia/ASEAN: this is crucial in multi-religious societies where Muslims may be a small majority or minorities, for example. The lessons learned here can be used worldwide by all societies and to combat xenophobia. IMAN aims to also study religious movements around the region, from multiple aspects: for example, the philosophy and strains of Islam.

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

 

http://www.imanresearch.com

 

Immanuel Presbyterian Church (Tacoma, WA, USA)

Inclusive

All are welcome at Immanuel:

• young and old
• single, married, coupled
• for people of faith and uncertain faith

We affirm the gift of diversity and the image of God in all people.

Thoughtful

IPC is a place that blends spirituality with thoughtful reflection on what tradition and experience mean and how to live a life full of God in today's world. Asking the questions and searching for the answers is valued at Immanuel.

Creative

Marimbas, poetry, world music, traditional hymns, the blues, the visual arts and film are some of the creative expressions that are aspects of our worship, fellowship, and educational programs with children and adults.

Involved

IPC is involved in the community and the world. We share our space with many community groups. As a congregation, we encourage the involvement and participation of members and friends in the life of the church, the community and the world. Our members are involved in programs to fight hunger, work for justice and improve the environment.

Location: Tacoma, WA, USA

http://ipctacoma.org/ 

Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society of Prince George (Williams Lake, BC, Canada)

Our Vision: To build a healthy and just society that values Canada’s Cultural Diversity

Our Mission: The Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society (IMSS) of Prince George is a non-profit community serving agency providing settlement and integration services to immigrants and refugees throughout Prince George and the northern region of British Columbia. It strives to promote multiculturalism and racial harmony and to eliminate racism in the pursuit of equality and social justice for all Canadians.

Our Goals

• The Society is interested in contributing to the development of any area furthering human understanding.
• The Society is an important resource to the existing ethnic groups in Prince George.
• The Society works to promote multiculturalism and to develop cross-cultural understanding in schools and in the community.

Our Objectives

• To assist in the needs and promote the welfare of immigrants.
• To coordinate with agencies serving immigrants in Prince George and neighboring areas on issues such as employment, immigration, multiculturalism and racism.
• To encourage immigrants to integrate into the community.
• To promote cultural pluralism in Prince George.
• To assist various ethno-cultural groups and organizations to develop and preserve their cultural identities and to further their ideas.
• To enlist the active participation of citizens in the service of immigrants.
• To encourage, promote, preserve and foster an awareness and respect for Canada’s cultural diversity.

Our Structure
The Society is comprised of a local membership of individuals and ethnic groups. Representatives from ethnic organizations, similar clubs or organizations are welcome to join the Society. The Board of Directors is elected from the members at the Annual General Meeting. Membership in the Society is open to all Canadian citizens, permanent residents and others with legal status in Canada regardless of their race, colour, religion, gender, or country of origin

Location: Williams Lake, BC, Canada

http://www.imss.ca/

https://www.facebook.com/Immigrant-and-Multicultural-Services-Society-IMSS-of-Prince-George-274005189316931/

Impophoma Youth Production (Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa)

 

Impophoma Youth Production (IYP) is a performing arts Organisation established in 2005, with a vision of empowering young people with artistic skills.

The organization provides free performing arts classes to various schools in Soweto and the surrounding community. The main focus of our productions are issues that affect young people. We work to ensure that young people respect and are tolerant of each others' traditional backgrounds.

Mission: 

To promote and educate the youth on the importance of culture through performing arts.

Location: Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa

https://www.facebook.com/Impophomayp/

InfoCision Management Corporation (Uniontown, OH, USA)

 

InfoCision is a marketing consulting company that is expert in strategizing, designing and implementing a full spectrum of customer touch-point applications. InfoCision is the amalgamation of the words “INFOrmation” and “deCISION”. From day one, InfoCision has utilized information to help our clients make the right decision. We are much more than just a teleservice provider.

InfoCision’s mission is to be the highest quality direct marketing provider of the 21st century. The focal services InfoCision provides are inbound and outbound telemarketing; e-commerce and e-business solutions; and full service internet, letter shop, print and product fulfillment services.

Location: Uniontown, OH, USA

https://www.facebook.com/InfoCision/

https://www.infocision.com/

Initiatives of Change (Richmond, VA, USA)

 

Initiatives of Change (IofC) is a global network open to people of all nationalities, cultures, religions, and beliefs, who work towards change, locally and globally, starting with change in their own lives. Formerly known as MRA, this network has been active on every continent for over 60 years.

IofC works on the principle that changes in people’s motives, attitudes and behaviour are not only possible but are the only sure basis on which wider lasting change in society can be brought about.

Location: Richmond, Virginia, USA

http://www.us.iofc.org
http://www.facebook.com/InitiativesofChangeUSA

 

Innovations in Kindness (Atlanta, GA, USA)

Innovations in Kindness facilitates a community of people dedicated to the practice of kindness in their daily lives.  The mission is to keep the idea of being good to others in the forefront of everyone's mind (even when it's really hard!).  Being kind to others creates community and being kind helps us to remember the needs of others... which are often similar to our very own needs.  

Innovations in Kindness supports the idea that good is possible and hopes that these small reminders make it a little more probable to see kindness each day.  Transformation is possible in every moment.  Being kind to others helps us to grow and to become better.  More importantly, kindness strengthens the feeling of community across neighborhoods, states, and countries.  Perhaps most importantly, it just feels plain good when people are good to each other.  

Embrace the goodness you get and create some for others too!

Location: Atlanta, GA, USA

 

Inspiration Divine (San Francisco, CA, USA)

 

There is a magnificent life available to each and every one of us. Happiness, Joy and Love are all waiting for us to simply insert the keys that are already in our hands. Finding the lock and turning the key is not only possible but it is truly your destiny. But first, you need to connect with your true self and discover your purpose.

Location: San Francisco, California, USA

http://www.inspirationdivine.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Darwin-Stephenson/57584366939

 

Inspired Hampers and Gifts (Perth, WA, Australia)

 

 

Inspired Hampers and Gifts...

We are a registered business established in 2013 and located in Perth, Western Australia. What we think you’ll like about Inspired:

We’re affordable with hampers and gifts starting from just $25; we deliver Australia wide and can arrange international deliveries

We don’t use props, what you see is what you get and as we want you to know exactly what you’re purchasing, we'll always present all of the product details particularly the size

We offer value for money with durable and reusable items - our products last unlike chocolate, food and alcohol

We offer a 14 day exchange on products and we will pay the postage and handling for the return of damaged/faulty products if it’s our fault, and send a replacement

We support sustainability and incorporate the hamper packaging as part of the gift wherever we can

We support our community through donations to not for profit organisations and research bodies; we also offer heavily discounted products to community agencies

We encourage you to compare our site with others and see for yourself.

How we came about

We could write pages about this but we're sure you're not that interested. In a nutshell, the seed was sewn two years ago when we were searching for a hamper to thank a work referee. All we could find were chocolates and flowers. Although it was very nice, we wanted something a little more. And more recently, while visiting a relative in the Coronary Care Unit for a recent heart attack, we watched as friend after friend were asked to bin their beautiful flowers.

We are surrounded by people who are dieting, watching friends experience illness, divorce and job loss....and have always wondered what we could do, when there was actually very little we could do.

So...we became inspired and started looking around. We noticed that things hadn't changed all that much and chocolate, food and alcohol were still the staple for hampers and gifts. We started looking for those lovely things that you probably wouldn't buy for yourself (or maybe you would!) but would love to receive. We focussed on items that promote self-care, and of course this includes the odd cheeky item that we hope will induce a laugh. And so Inspired Hampers and Gifts was created. We're having fun and we hope you do too....

How we’re giving back

Members of the Inspired Team have worked in the aged care and disability fields for some time and have been touched by cancer, chronic illness and heart disease personally and through family members and friends. We understand the impact of disability and ageing on people and families. We support not-for-profit organisations and research bodies striving to improve our collective health and well-being.

The Inspired Team also recognises the significant contribution individuals in the community make when they donate their time, effort and bodies to a variety of health and well-being related causes to support not-for-profit organisations and research bodies.

The Inspired Team have committed to supporting an individual or group in their quest to raise funds for health and well-being related causes through featuring the individual or group and their cause on this site, linking to their donation page (if applicable) and donating a hamper for raffle or a $1 donation from each sale (whichever is most suitable) to their particular cause. The Inspired Team will support a cause a minimum of four times a year.

The Inspired Team also offers heavily discounted items to not for profit organisations.

Location: Perth, WA, Australia

www.inspiredhampers.com.au

www.facebook.com/inspiredhampersandgifts

 

Inspired Vision Compassion Center (Mesquite, TX, USA)

 

Inspired Vision Compassion Center was started with one mission... to feed the hungry of Dallas. If anyone could take on such a daunting task, it's the visionary founder, Karen Belknap. If you meet Karen and see her passion, you will know that this is her calling and many have basic needs met because of it.

With the assistance of Dr. Teadran White, her daughter, and Trevalon Belknap, her son, she proceeds every day to organizes the receipt and distribution of semi truck loads of food and necessities for families of our community. 

Inspired Vision Compassion Center has a vision. Our vision is to change the spiritual, emotional and educational brokenness and poverty in the City of Dallas, and then to other regions.

Goal: To bring change and transform the lives in our community, through salvation, mentoring, educating and support systems.

Location: Mesquite, TX, USA

https://www.ivcompassion.org/

Institute For Compassionate Leadership (New York, NY, USA)

 

 

An authentic leadership training and job placement organization. Do something awesome with your life.

The Institute for Compassionate Leadership prepares and trains authentic leaders to tackle tomorrow’s toughest challenges. Combining authentic relationship building as popularized by the Obama campaign, mindfulness and empathy tools from the Buddhist tradition, and conscious business techniques we empower leaders to become more open to who they are through our training and job placement organization. In turn, they can awaken lasting change in society.

We focus on taking young, talented leaders and offering them a six month program wherein they receive the following services:

• Executive coaching on not just what you want to do but who you want to be as a leader
• Mentorship from within the area of social change you aspire to
• An in-depth authenticity training program that offers philosophy and practical tools
• Networking to get you a job doing the work you find meaningful

Location: New York, NY, USA

http://instituteforcompassionateleadership.org

https://www.facebook.com/InstCompassionateLeadership

 

 

Interfaith Action of Central Texas (Austin, TX, USA)

 

 

Interfaith Action of Central Texas exists to build healthy relationships between the faith communities of Central Texas.

We believe the work of bridging the faith divides of our community is not just a “nice” thing to do – it is essential. Any honest assessment of the threats to our children’s future would take into account the very real possibility of interfaith conflict. But, while the threat is global – our response must also be local.

We believe that the work of “cultivating peace and respect” cannot be left to diplomats anddignitaries – we, the faithful, have to play a leading role.

We invite all good-hearted people to join us in this work. You may be Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Baha’i, Unitarian, Sikh, secular, or simply a spiritual seeker – but your voice, your talents, and your commitment will be welcomed by the iACT community.

We believe that a future of peace and respect begins with you – and that together we can all be the “i” in iACT… our individual actions can and will make a difference – join us as we cultivate peace and respect through interfaith dialogue, service, and celebration!

Location: Austin, Texas, USA

http://interfaithtexas.org/

 

Interfaith Alliance of the Ozarks (Springfield, MO, USA)

The Interfaith Alliance of the Ozarks works to promote interfaith dialogue and understanding in Springfield, MO and throughout the Ozarks. Our monthly meetings are held on the second Monday of each month at noon at South Street Christian Church - 500 South Avenue, Springfield, MO 65806.

Location: Springfield, Missouri, USA

http://sites.google.com/site/ozarksfaith/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/417-Interfaith-Alliance-of-the-Ozarks/12715980407...

 

Interfaith America (Chicago, IL, USA)

 

There are millions of religious young people in the world interacting with greater frequency. That interaction tends either toward conflict or cooperation. Where so many of these interactions tend towards conflict, the Interfaith Youth Core aims to introduce a new relationship, one that is about mutual respect and religious pluralism. Instead of focusing a dialogue on political or theological differences, we build relationships on the values that we share, such as hospitality and caring for the Earth, and how we can live out those values together to contribute to the betterment of our community.

The Interfaith Youth Core is creating these relationships across the world by inspiring, networking, and resourcing young people, who are the leaders of this movement. We provide young people and the institutions that support them with leadership training, project resources and a connection to a broader movement.

Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA

http://www.ifyc.org
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Interfaith-Youth-Core/29924369552

 

Interfaith Center of New York (New York City, NY, USA)

The Interfaith Center of New York seeks to make New York City and the world safe for religious difference by increasing respect and mutual understanding among people of different faith, ethnic, and cultural traditions and by fostering cooperation among religious communities and civic organizations to solve common social problems.

Location: New York City, New York, USA

http://www.interfaithcenter.org
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Interfaith-Center-of-New-York/129012853736

 

Interfaith Community Church Seattle (Seattle, WA, USA)

Brahmacharini Rema Devi, a disciple of Amma (Mata Amritananda Mayi) will be our Guest for Sunday September 6th. She will give a talk and lead a meditation. Bri. Rema Devi will share her perspective about the guru/disciple relationship in Indian Hindu tradition and what it is like to be with a Living Master. She met Amma 28 years ago and is one of Amma’s senior disciples in the West. Bri. Rema Devi is also a pujari – a person trained to perform ancient sacred ceremonies, pujas (Hindu prayer ceremonies) and homas (fire ceremonies) in the Kerala tradition. Having lived full time in India with Amma for several years, Bri. Rema Devi is now based in Amma’s first North American ashram in Castro Valley, California and travels to different Amma centers in the West leading programs.

Location: Seattle, Washington, USA

http://interfaithcommunitysanctuary.org

Interfaith Community Initiative (Atlanta, GA, USA)

 

At ICI we do our best to offer programs that inspire deep engagement. Our accessible, affordable interfaith programs bring together people of different faith, race, gender, age, and ethnicity in a variety of formats. ICI programs include yearly World Pilgrimages, quarterly weekend Interfaith Immersion classes, monthly Interfaith Contemplative Groups, and Leadership workshops.

Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

 

http://www.interfaithci.org/
https://www.facebook.com/interfaithci

 

Interfaith Community Sanctuary (Seattle, WA, USA)

 

Interfaith Community Sanctuary considers all faiths as paths toward one God. Our mission is to encourage personal growth in unconditional spiritual Love. Our purpose is to create a home of Love and Truth as a center of Light for all seekers of Divine Wisdom.

We open ourselves, our community, and our building to individuals from all faith and spiritual traditions. May we celebrate, learn, meditate, pray, and worship together in harmony.

Location: Seattle, Washington, USA

http://www.interfaithcommunitysanctuary.org

 

Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington (Washington, DC, USA)

Created in 1978, the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington (IFC) brings together eleven historic faith communities to promote dialogue, understanding and a sense of community among persons of diverse faiths and to work cooperatively for social and economic justice in metropolitan Washington.

IFC members are the Baha’i, Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Jain, Jewish, Latter-day Saints, Protestant, Roman Catholic, Sikh and Zoroastrian faith communities. (Click Here for a Full List).  We work towards creating a just community through coalition-building, education, training and advocacy, by uniting diverse faith leaders to speak and act together, networking with other groups, publishing community resources and holding public events involving music, award ceremonies and lectures. We also work to deepen mutual interfaith understanding through a thoughtful process of dialogue.

IFC is committed to protecting religious liberty through education and outreach, advocacy and policy. IFC staff and members also are available as speakers and workshop participants to congregations, schools, community groups and others interested in fostering understanding among people of different faiths and traditions.

For youth, IFC participates in and leads a variety of service programs where young people of many faiths come together to clean up the environment, help build houses with needy families and other socially constructive projects, with time for discussion as they learn about each other. We also sponsor an annual scholarship essay contest for high school, college and graduate students, based on our annual lecture series on a topic at the intersection of faith and social justice.

Location: Washington, DC, USA

http://www.ifcmw.org
http://www.facebook.com/pages/InterFaith-Conference-of-Metropolitan-Washington/1...

 

Interfaith Initiative of Santa Barbara County (Santa Barbara, CA, USA)

 

Our Mission

The mission of the Interfaith Initiative of Santa Barbara County is to welcome, stand with, and celebrate the major faith and spiritual traditions in our community, promoting understanding, respect, and cooperative activities while partnering with other organizations to realize our common values and goals.

Our Values

Interfaith Cooperation

In the face of the great divisions among the major religions and their grave local and world-wide ramifications, we will work together to bring an end to religious discrimination and hatred wherever it arises in our communities and educate the public by highlighting our common religious beliefs while appreciating and learning from our differences.

Compassion

Compassion, the core value of all the great religions, provides the foundation for our work of bringing faith groups together and in addressing community issues.

Human Dignity

We join together seeking to promote human dignity and bringing about genuine empowerment, security, and self-determination for every member of our community, irrespective of their religious affiliation.

Courageous Spiritual Leadership

Our faith and spiritual foundation compel us to lead in the struggle to bring interfaith understanding, while challenging needlessly divisive agendas.

Teamwork

Our role as convener and catalyst requires us to engage people, build trust, and establish significant working relationships with and among diverse groups.

Continually Improving, Learning, and Growing

We are an organization dedicated to remaining relevant, learning the most effective ways to gather and motivate people, and operating in the most effective manner possible for interfaith advocacy.

Location: Santa Barbara, CA, USA

http://www.interfaithinitiativesbc.org
https://www.facebook.com/ifisbc

 

 

Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston (Houston, TX, USA)

 

Mission Statement

Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston brings people of diverse faith traditions together for dialogue, collaboration and service, as a demonstration of our shared beliefs.

Core Beliefs

IM works with 10 communities of faith, including Bahá'i, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jain, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Unitarian Universalist and Zoroastrian. Together they provide the foundation upon which IM provides direct service, builds collaborative partnerships to serve seniors and refugees, and channels the faith community's preparedness and response to disaster.

Please visit our Volunteer Opportunities section to learn more about how you can get involved.

Areas of Service

IM believes that through service and dialogue it is possible for very diverse people to come to know one another and to find common ground, while maintaining their personal beliefs and keeping their cultures intact.

IM manifests the strength of share beliefs through four areas of service to the greater Houston community:

* Meals on Wheels for Greater Houston delivers more than one million meals each year to seniors in Harris county.

* Refugee Services in conjunction with the U.S. State Department, resettles hundreds of refugees in Houston each year.

* Office of Disaster Preparedness and Response facilitates communication on behalf of Houston’s faith communities during relief and recovery efforts.

* Interfaith Relations provides a safe harbor for greater Houston through its many interfaith programs and dialogue efforts.

History

In 1955, the Houston Council of Churches launched IM's predecessor organization, the Church Welfare Bureau, to organize the Protestant community to minister to those in need. In 1964, the Bureau was reorganized as Protestant Charities, a group that was joined and strengthened by the Jewish community. Officially chartered as Houston Metropolitan Ministries in 1969, IM has been a leading force in bringing together people of all faiths to serve people in need in the greater Houston area.

IM was renamed Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston in 1992 to reflect support from increasingly diverse faith traditions.

Location: Houston, Texas, USA

https://www.imgh.org

 

 

Interfaith Partners of South Carolina (Columbia, SC, USA)

 

The mission of Interfaith Partners of South Carolina is to foster understanding and cooperation among the religious groups of our community, our state, and our world.

Our vision is that all religious groups within the state will interact harmoniously so that:

All people are treated with dignity and respect
The religious freedom of all groups is protected
Each religious group’s practices and teachings are given respectful consideration
Interfaith discussions will become conversation models that others will want to emulate

Interfaith Partners of South Carolina is a statewide partnership with local groups. The purpose of these groups is to:

–Develop relationships of friendship and trust across religious lines
–Learn each religion’s history, teachings, and practices
–Recognize the similarities and differences between the major religious traditions
–Present events and activities that contribute to the mission and vision of Interfaith Partners of South Carolina

Location: Columbia, South Carolina, USA

 

http://interfaithpartnersofsc.org/

 

 

Interfaith Peacebuilding Initiative (Addis Abba, Ethiopia)

 

The purpose of IPI is to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation; to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the earth and all living things. In line with this, IPI commits itself to build and strengthen the culture of peace, non-violence, reconciliation, cooperation and collaboration among different religions in Ethiopia, Africa and the World. In addition, IPI promotes the Golden Rule which is found in the Holly Books of 13 globally recognized religions that reads as, “Don’t Do To Others That You Don’t Want To Be Done On You” as a Guiding Rule that enhance the spirit of Peace, harmony, togetherness and unity that should endure in every religion; and as a witness for proving no religion preaches violence. Generally, IPI is a peace organization dedicated to promoting harmony among different religions, interfaith dialogue, and building a culture of peace and reconciliation.

InterfaithFamily/Atlanta (Atlanta, GA, USA)

 

InterfaithFamily is the premiere resource supporting interfaith couples exploring Jewish life and inclusive Jewish communities. We offer educational content; connections to welcoming organizations, professionals and programs; resources and trainings for organizations, clergy and other program providers; and our new InterfaithFamily/Your Community initiative providing coordinated comprehensive offerings in local communities.

Location: Atlanta, GA, USA

https://interfaithfamily.com/community/atlanta/

International Association for Religious Freedom (London, United Kingdom)

 

The International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) is a UK-based charity working for freedom of religion & belief at a global level.

We have a century-plus history of encouraging interfaith dialogue & tolerance, with member groups in 25 countries, from faith traditions including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Shinto & Zoroastrianism.

With member organisations, regional co-ordinators, and national chapters around the world, IARF is well placed to obtain local perspectives on religious freedom concerns and issues.

Location: London, United Kingdom

http://www.iarf.net
http://www.facebook.com/groups/103137603065/

 

International Association for Religious Freedom (Osaka, Japan)

 

The International Association for Religious Freedom(IARF) is a UK-based charity working for freedom of religion & belief at a global level.

The world’s oldest global inter-religious organization, we have a century-plus history of encouraging interfaith dialogue & tolerance, with member groups in 25 countries, from faith traditions including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Shinto & Zoroastrianism.

With member organizations, regional coordinators, and national chapters in 16 countries, IARF is well placed to obtain local perspectives on religious freedom concerns and issues.

Our work & activities are guided by the principles expressed in Article 18 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

International Cities of Peace (Dayton, OH, USA)

 

International Cities of PeaceTM is a nonprofit, tax-exempt association dedicated to connecting, promoting, and encouraging the global cities of peace movement. An Advisory Council of leaders from global Cities of Peace organizations is working to create an all-inclusive, non-polarizing network of world citizens working to bring peace to their communities. We have over 130 cities around theworld in South America, North America, Asia, Africa, and Europe.

VISION: To foster peace as a consensus value in Cities of Peace around the world.

MISSION: To network, encourage, document, and provide resources and information for leaders and organizations working to make peace a consensus value through the global Cities of Peace movement.

GOALS:

• Network individuals, villages, and cities of peace, internationally.

• Provide an independent, unaligned resource for Cities of Peace.

• Act as a non-polarizing source of information on worldwide peace issues.

• Encourage, honor, and connect peace adherents and organizations.

• Document the history, scholarship, and formation of cities of peace.

• Expand the concept of the American Dream to the World Dream of peace.

Is Your Community an International City of Peace?

Safety, prosperity, and quality of life are the consensus values of Peace around the world. Creating an International City of Peace ensures a sustainable platform for the entire community to begin working toward a culture of peace. Is it time for your community to be a part of this hopeful and practical movement? Hereʼs how.

To create an initiative is very simple and costs no money. You can emphasize the work you are currently doing, or create a new organization for community peace building. We believe that each community has a legacy of peace that can be highlighted, especially in terms of giving hope and encouragement to children and adults alike. We are not a funding organization but individual cities of peace have the option of working with other cities through our Global Family Program.

One person, perhaps you, will be included on our Advisory Council of Leaders. We will make the announcement about your initiative when the following are received:

1. Letter of Intent with signatures (print, get signatures, and scan to return)

2. A vision, mission, and goals statement (as detailed as possible)

3. Photos and captions of local events, locations, or historical events

4. A photo and bio for the leader of the group

5. If possible, a statement about the peace legacy of your community

Please go to our website under “How to Create a City of Peace” to find the Letter of Intent pdf as well as the document Becoming a City of Peace.

Contact: J. Fred Arment, Executive Director, International Cities of Peace, 1740 E. Stroop Rd.; #291-761, Dayton, Ohio 45429-9988, arment@fredarment.com

Location: Dayton, OH, USA

http://www.internationalcitiesofpeace.org/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/internationalcitiesofpeace/

 

International Interfaith Peace Corps (Herndon, VA-USA)

Mission IIPC’s mission is to: 

Encourage interfaith work in order to bridge the gap between different religious cultures through tolerance, respect and understanding. 

The Concept: 

IIPC is a new paradigm for interfaith cooperation, collaboration and activities aimed at connecting individuals and organizations in the areas of, health care, education, socioeconomic development and peacebuilding. IIPC promotes programs to celebrate, support, and enhance existing interfaith initiatives and catalyze the new ones. The cornerstones programs of IIPC include interfaith summits, conventions, capacity development, as well as education and research. IIPC also promotes religious literacy through interfaith research and innovation and the development of innovative mechanisms for conveying concepts and values common to all religions.

Location: Herndon, Virginia, USA

 

http://www.iipcnet.org/

 

 

International Order of the Compassionate Light (Mount Healthy, OH, USA)

International Headquarters
P. O. Box 31077
Mount Healthy, Ohio 45321-31077
Telephone: 513-593-5629

The International Order of the Compassionate Light is the Monastic and Lay Monastic Order of the Mount Healthy Zen Monastery International and was founded by Buddhist Monk Thich Thiền Tuệ in 2015.

THIS IS OUR VISION: The International Order of the Compassionate Light, collectively and individually, cultivate hearts that are overflowing with boundless joy and compassion in Right View, Speech and Action through Engaged Inter-Faith Practice.

Collectively and individually, we acquire wisdom so that our compassionate work benefits all suffering beings. Our sitting and walking is a space to cultivate peace within ourselves and in the world. The flame of the compassionate light within us shines and provides brightness in the darkest places in our world. Our inter-being is recognized and acknowledged, truly joining our hearts to plant seeds of loving kindness, grace, and compassion. Our Vows of Intention guide us in living the compassionate life we have freely chosen. Our faith grows stronger each day in the work that is set before us.

If you would like to join this inter-faith order and bring your light into the truly poor, suffering and dying poor, please ask about joining the order.

Listed below are the vows lay monastics take when being ordained in the order:

The Twelve Mindful Vows of Intention for the International Order of the Compassionate Light

1) I vow to shine the light of compassion in all I do.

2) I vow to honor and respect all sentient beings.

3) I vow to serve as a role model of kindness and non-discrimination.

4) I vow to work for the welfare of all beings, protecting the health and resources of our planet

5) I vow to put this work above personal greed.

6) I vow to advocate for national and global welfare.

7) I vow to protect our animal brothers and sisters.

8) I vow to bring light to those in greatest need, suffering from poverty, deprivation, injustice and discrimination.

9) I vow to work for the relief of those in great physical pain: the starving, the sick, the maimed and the dying.

10) I vow to be a voice for the voiceless: those who are weakest – the rejected, disenfranchised and oppressed.

11) I vow to respect and honor my brothers and sisters of all religions, faiths, and practices.

12) I vow to be an advocate of peace, and to work for social justice.

 

International Seminary for Interfaith Studies (New York City, NY, USA)

 

The International Seminary for Interfaith Studies (ISIS) is created from our twenty years of Interfaith Seminary leadership experience. As we watch the world changing, we realize that what we taught in the past is not enough to deal with the global issues of this time. The world is changing at a rapid rate and there is a shift in the awareness. Future Interfaith Ministers need to be taught in a different way, something more substantial and spiritually grounded is needed. It is time to train Interfaith Ministers, as Gloria Karpinsky puts it, “to minister into the shift of consciousness that is happening on this planet right now.”

Location: New York City, New York, USA

http://isis-edu.org/
http://www.facebook.com/ISISinterfaith

InterSpiritual Centre of Vancouver Society (Vancouver, BC, Canada)

 

The InterSpiritual Centre of Vancouver Society (ISC) is a network of diverse spiritual and/or religious organizations that share common values and work together to contribute to personal spiritual health and the common good. We endeavor to model global peace and inner calmness by acknowledging the oneness of the natural world and humankind, and by honoring the richness of diversity.

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

http://interspiritualcentresociety.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/InterSpiritual-Centre-of-Vancouver-Society/163614...

 

InTRUEitive Coaching (Kamloops, BC, Canada)

 

 

Personal Coaching, Alternative and Holistic Health

Life Coaching. Inspiring people around compassion and self compassion.

Location: Kamloops, BC, Canada

 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/InTrueitive-Coaching-Wellness/568155596542787?sk=info&tab=overview

Islamic Center of Nashville (ICN) (Nashville, TN, USA)

 

Part of our mission at ICN is to participate in the general welfare of the of the society through community service. We regularly participate in community service projects: Habitat for Humanity Builds, Second Harvest Food Bank, Red Cross, mobilize walks, fundraising, coat drives, soup kitchens, disaster relief, etc. Every year ICN holds its International Yard & Bake Sale and donates the proceeds to either local mosque projects or community service and charitable events. Also, free monthly Health Fairsare offered by the Nashville Muslim Medical Services. ICN values its relationship with its neighbors: 'Serve God and Associate None With Him. Show Kindness To Your Parents And Kinsfolk, and To The Orphans, To The Needy, To Your Near And Distant Neighbors,...' (Qur'an, Chapter 4, verse 36) Recently, ICN partnered with the Organized Neighbors of Edgehill (ONE) to explore areas of involvement.

Our history: in the mid-1970s, there were very few Muslims in Nashville. Only a handful used to offer Jumu’a prayer (weekly Friday congregation) at the Afro House (now known as the Black Cultural Center) of Vanderbilt University. As time progressed, attendance in Jumu’a prayer gradually grew from 5 to 40 by 1979. At that time, the Nashville Muslims got together and organized themselves for the first time, paving the way for the formal emergence of the Islamic Center of Nashville (ICN).

With a collection of $30,000 and a generous donation from Yusuf Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens) of England, the ICN purchased an old house in 1979 on the corner of Twelfth Ave. and Sweetbriar Street. The community continued to use it as a Mosque until 1989 when the old house was demolished and a new Mosque was built.

The Muslim community of Nashville kept growing at a fast rate throughout the 90’s when we were blessed to have an influx of Kurdish and Somalians move to Nashville. In 1995, the ICN bought a 10.6 acre land on Charlotte Pike near exit 199 off of I-40 West. Development of this land constitutes the core of the present day challenge for this community. Besides the mosque, ICN’s major achievements include the purchase of land for Muslim graveyard, the purchase of land for Muslim Community Complex for a full-time Islamic school, community center and mosque, the establishment of a full-time Islamic school (founded in 1995) as well as a weekend Islamic school, and the launching of many other social, religious and educational activities. On December 1, 2008, the first phase of the new school building was completed and opened, from Pre-K thru 6th grades.

The ICN provides educational opportunities for people of other faiths to learn about Islam. Schools, classes, churches, individuals, institutions, etc. visit our mosque on a weekly basis, as well as our members being regularly invited to speak to groups such as schools, workplace, law enforcement, interfaith, etc. Also, our center prides itself in working towards making our great city of Nashville a better community through community service programs such as Habitat for Humanity, M.S. Walk, Walk as One, etc.

The Muslims in Nashville are well diverse with ethnic representations mainly from Kurdistan, Somalia, Afghanistan, Palestine, Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia and United States, and many others from Yemen, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, U.A.E., Oman, Kuwait as well as African countries. Yet, the community is quite cohesive, well organized and closely tied together.

Presently, the greater Nashville community has over 30,000 Muslims and five major mosques in Nashville (Islamic Center of Nashville, Salahadeen Center of Nashville, Masjid Al-Farooq, Islamic Center of Tennessee and Masjid Al-Islam). The greater region includes the Islamic Center of Clarksville, the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, the Islamic Center of Williamson County, the Islamic Center of Columbia and the Masjid Al-Salam Shelbyville.

Location: Nashville, Tennessee, USA

http://www.icntn.org
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Islamic-Center-of-Nashville/245442595491338

Islamic Society of Central Jersey (Monmouth Junction, NJ, USA)

 

The Islamic Society of Central Jersey (ISCJ) is a non-political, non-profit, religious organization that encourages its members to be model citizens of the United States and to actively participate in the running of the local, state and national governments through volunteering and voting. ISCJ invites community leaders, elected officials and those seeking public office to address its members and to discuss important issues and their positions on those. The ISCJ never endorses any candidate for any office.

Click here for ISCJ Constitution

Location: Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, USA

http://iscj.org
https://www.facebook.com/ISCJ1

 

Jackson's African Safaris (Howick, KZN, South Africa)

As a company we desire in our work to make ethical decisions where by everyone in our process benefits, including local people, wildlife and the environment.

Location: Howick, KZN, South Africa

http://jacksonsafricansafaris.com/

JEKELY (Berlin, Germany)

In my art events, screenplays and books I refer to important issues regarding compassion and the loss of it in our society. I help by signing petitions, on stage I talk about issues, and together with animal rescuers we try to find new ways of getting the people in touch with things they don't want to see, because it is a large part of reality. A lot of things of our daily life have to do with murder and slavery. I want to promote that the new lifestyle in western Europe should be a natural care about these issues and that it's normal to go on demonstrations, sign petitions and take some free time to help others.

Location: Berlin, Germany

http://www.jekely.net/

https://www.facebook.com/lilly.jaeckl

Jewish Voice for Peace (Atlanta, GA, USA)

JVP opposes anti-Jewish, anti-Muslim, and anti-Arab bigotry and oppression. JVP seeks an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem; security and self-determination for Israelis and Palestinians; a just solution for Palestinian refugees based on principles established in international law; an end to violence against civilians; and peace and justice for all peoples of the Middle East.

Jewish Voice for Peace-Atlanta is a chapter of the national organization of JVP. We are a Jewish organization with many allies working to end the Israeli occupation; as an anti-racist organization we are starting to center the voices of Jews of Color along with Palestinians and other non-Jewish people of color, in the struggle for equality, human rights and freedom---for Palestinians and in ending racism and all other forms of structural oppression. Through education and advocacy, multi-faith, mutli-racial and multi-ethnic coalition building, meetings with members of congress, and campaigns focusing on disrupting the status quo of Israeli occupation, we act in solidarity with Palestinians continuing to struggle for their freedom. We also see the value of building community in order to restore a sense of shared ethical values and humanity. We work to transform the Jewish community, inspired by diverse Jewish values and traditions to work toward social justice, support the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions as a nonviolent strategy to end and resist the occupation; we call for the end to US military aid to Israel until the almost 50 year occupation ends, and we support allies in all of our work for justice.

Location: Atlanta, GA, USA

https://www.facebook.com/jvpatlanta/

Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group (San Francisco, CA, USA)

American Jews, Palestinians, and supportive "others" on the San Francisco Peninsula, after 15 years and 185 meetings, continue to be committed to face-to-face Sustained Dialogue, continually learning to change strangers into friends and "enemies" into partners, moving from confrontation to collaboration and concrete projects to help people and the public peace process, here and overseas.

Location: San Mateo, CA

 

JGA (Saugatuck, MI, USA)

JGA, Ltd. works to nurture sustainable land use, natural features and wildlife conservation consciousness with internationally recognized industrial firms and small business leaders. JGA, Ltd. is headed by Joseph Gorka.

Location: Saugatuck, MI, USA

http://www.bizapedia.com/mi/JOSEPH-W-GORKA-AND-ASSOCIATES-LTD.html

 

JMF Communications (Atlanta, GA, USA)

 

Jason Max Feldman is a communications & business development consultant based in Atlanta, GA. Since graduating from Boston University with a degree in Public Relations, his client portfolio includes top consumer, R&D & technology companies (Keurig, Jiffy Lube, CLEAR, Indiegogo, Orvis) to the nation’s leading education & research institutions (NYU, The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation).

Currently he assists a range of companies & clients based in Atlanta, including Blue Sky Agency, The Berman Center, Babbit Bodner PR, Jewish Educational Loan Fund (JELF), Trade Talks USA, Setup, & Jewish Interest Free Loans of Atlanta (JIFLA).

Jason’s continued business success is a testament to his thorough understanding of the media landscape, strong communication tactics, & ability to listen, strategize & act efficiently on behalf of clients.

Location: Atlanta Georgia

Home | JMF Inc. https://www.jmfinc.us/

 

Joe Sturgill & Company (Hot Springs, AR, USA)

Joe Sturgill & Company offers superior Interior Decorating, Event/Wedding Planning, Floral Display, and Window Display. Residential and Commercial.

 

Location: Hot Springs, AR, USA

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Joe-Sturgill-Company-Interior-Design/190907147594182?sk=timelinehttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Joe-Sturgill-Company-Interior-Design/190907147594182?sk=timeline

 

 

 

Johnson Roberts Associates (Somerville, MA, USA)

 

“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space” - Phillip Johnson

 Libraries. Churches. College Campus Facilities. Schools. Courthouses. Town Halls. Senior Centers. 

…How do you design buildings with purpose and beauty, sustainability and suitability for the people who will use them?

We believe that great architecture is about more than harmony of form and function. It’s about more than thoughtful design and close collaboration with clients – which are crucial.

It is a relationship with communities – seniors and children, parents and students, librarians and readers, policemen and politicians. They make a building what it is. Not us.

Since 1996, Johnson Roberts Associates has earned a reputation for architecture that reinforces the sense of place of the community it serves.  We strive to create buildings that are appropriate to the context they serve and the people who use them.

Our diverse portfolio includes public libraries, town offices, public safety facilities, court facilities, public and private schools, college and university facilities, churches, and historic preservation and restoration projects.

Location: Somerville, MA, USA

 

http://johnson-roberts.com/JRA/ 

Jothi Creative (Ajax, Ontario, Canada)

We teach community members that are not always given the opportunity to use their voice or are unable to use their voice how to tell/change their story through visual art. When folks feel heard, they can begin to heal, find their true purpose and build better communities.

Location: Ajax, Ontario, Canada

https://www.jothi.ca/

Joy-Us (Fayetteville, AR, USA)

The husband and wife team of Jeremy Hess and Peggy Treiber talk, tell stories and play music so people of all ages can smile, chuckle and feel good for the sheer joy of it!

With an overall theme of discovering the gift of the present in each moment, the couple offers a series of interactive programs musical dialogues that give people tools to dig up the joy in their own back yards, or as Jeremy quips, find "rapture in the rocks!"

Location: Fayetteville, AR, USA

http://www.joy-us.us/

JustOne Organics (Paia, HI, USA)

JustOne Organics™ is a new organic brand applying state-of-the-art technologies to create nutrient, flavor and color-rich dehydrated fruit and vegetable flakes and crystals. Our supplemental foods are convenient and delicious! Add them to your favorite meals, soups and smoothies anytime of the day for an instant boost of variety, flavor and vitality!

At JustOne Organics™ we see the opportunity to make these foods available as a powerful wellness foundation for everyone’s diets, but we need your help to make this happen.

Yes, we CAN feed the world. We are launching a campaign where you can buy these foods at a discount, enjoy them anytime, and allow us to make more food for those in need. How? Our direct relationship with you saves $ normally charged by distributors and stores. We simply apply some of the savings to a lower price for you, and the rest to making more food for others.

So, for every pound you buy, we’ll produce an extra half-pound and donate it to participating food banks and homeless shelters. Imagine how it will feel to enjoy more delicious and convenient meals, know you are taking great care of yourself, and that someone else is eating better too!

And, there's more: Our campaign will pay organic farmers across the country to grow more food, so you’ll also be supporting regenerative land practices that build our soil for future generations. All this, while adding more convenience and flavor to your life.

JustOne Organics is committed to the practical and urgent task of building regenerative, compassionate and just food systems in every community. We do this through: 

Supporting organic growers with consistent high volume purchasing at fair prices that allow farmers to earn a living wage

Providing the highest quality convenient and delicious organic dehydrated fruit and vegetable flakes and crystals to be used as ingredients and in smoothies, salads, soups, meals of all types and for all ages in our active lifestyle culture 

Ensuring that all community members have daily access to nutritious, flavorful and life sustaining organic food

Location: Santa Rosa, CA, USA

 

http://www.justoneorganics.com/

https://www.facebook.com/JustOneOrganics

 

 

Kaalogii (Tempe, AZ, USA)

 

Transformation and Wholeness through Hohzo

Kaalogii (the butterfly) is a business created to share Native American traditional and cultural teaching on a wide variety of topics.

Yá'át'ééh, my name is Belinda Eriacho.  I am from the Dine’ (Navajo) and Zuni lineage.  I was born and raised on the Dine’ reservation.  My maternal clan is Honágháahnii (One-Walks-Around), born for the Naasht’ézhí (Zuni Pueblo) people. I'm the child of the Mula:kwe (Macaw Parrot). My maternal grandparents clan is Díbéłizhíní (Black Sheep) and my paternal grandparents is Naasht’ézhí (Zuni Pueblo). I hold advance degrees in Health Sciences, Public & Occupational Health, and in Technology.  I am certified in Integrated Energy Therapy.

I believe our true nature is freedom.  I believe that everyone deserves to be and feel free. Through my personal healing I have experienced the awakening and healing process.  It is through my personal journey on the corn pollen path of life, love, loss, grief, abuse, healing, illness, foregiveness and renewal of the self that I am able to assist you in this process of finding your Self, your true nature.

To assist you in this transformation process I have established Kaalogii LLC which means the butterfly in the Dine' language.  As I was establishing this business my life was evolving just like the butterfly in a chrysalis.

Location: Tempe, AZ, USA

https://kaalogii.com/

https://www.facebook.com/Kaalogii-1199417390235569/

Karuna Center for Peacebuilding (Amherst, MA, USA)

OUR VISION
Karuna Center for Peacebuilding envisions a just and peaceful world in which difference is a source of creativity and strength.

OUR MISSION
Our mission is to empower people divided by conflict to develop mutual understanding and to create sustainable peace.

OUR WORK
Karuna Center for Peacebuilding innovates approaches for transforming conflict across divides by supporting people in all sectors of society to discover their shared capacity for building peace.

Through dialogue and collaborative projects, we work with local partners to heal the destructive divides that are left in the wake of violence and threaten future stability. Those who have been separated by war or injustice discover their common aspirations. By creating strategic multi-sector relationships, our local partners form alliances to advocate for policy changes that will ensure inclusive participation and prevent future violence. Our approach is always context specific. It develops new skills while building on local strengths and local culture.

Since our founding in 1994, we have implemented multi-year peacebuilding programs and offered trainings and consultancies in over 25 conflict-affected countries. Working in partnership with in-country organizations, the Karuna Center leads programs specifically designed to develop local capacity to address ongoing challenges and to enhance a healthy civil society capable of supporting viable democratic institutions and sustainable economies. We offer training and peacebuilding programs in English, French, and Spanish.

OUR APPROACH

Building Local Capacity - Karuna Center programs are developed in response to requests from in-country groups or organizations. We maximize the building of local capacity to develop local solutions to local problems. We engage those who will have the broadest and most significant impact in their sectors or communities and collaborate with them to design programs that are specifically suited to the local context.

Conflict Transformation – Our programs explore the interweaving of social, political, and economic factors that contribute to conflict, recognizing that conflict transformation requires both individual and systemic change. Our trainings are practical and experiential. They engage participants in analyzing the root causes of conflict, identifying strategic opportunities for intervention, and building skills for conflict resolution and prevention. At the same time we make sure that our approach fits with local culture and respects the needs of those deeply impacted by violence and trauma. Guidance and mentoring in participant-led peacebuilding projects provides opportunities to put theory into practice and learn from challenges as they emerge.

Dialogue - Central to the work of Karuna Center is the skillful use of facilitated, structured dialogues. People who have become alienated from or dehumanized by one another through war or structural violence are able to develop mutual understanding, discover their common aspirations, and find ways to work together.

Sustainable Peace - Our longer-term programs include a "training of trainers" and mentoring in the design and delivery of peacebuilding training and projects. Former participants of Karuna Center programs not only bring social healing to their communities, but also facilitate dialogues and teach peacebuilding skills throughout their countries. Many go on to found local peacebuilding entities that remain Karuna Center partners.

Location: Amherst, MA, USA

http://www.karunacenter.org/

Karuna Community Services (Toronto, ON, Canada)

Identifying, advocating, nurturing and supporting healthy, equitable and sustainable community development activities and initiatives in the greater Toronto area of Ontario, Canada.

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

Kashi Foundation (Sebastian, FL, USA)

Kashi Ashram was founded in 1976 by Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, who served as its spiritual director until she passed away on April 13, 2012. Kashi is a residential spiritual community located on 80 acres in Sebastian, Florida. Shrines and temples dedicated to many of the world’s great spiritual traditions surround the sacred “Ganga” pond at the center of the Kashi Ashram's grounds.

Kashi ashrams are also located in New York, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, with several small centers and thousands of associated individuals around the world. Kashi Ashram offers retreats, weekly classes in Kali Natha Yoga, meditation & chanting, and other programs through the Kashi School of Yoga.

In keeping with the teachings of Ma Jaya, Kashi Ashram does service work through all its ashrams, as well as work in Africa and India, coordinated through the River Fund. Kashi Ashram is currently in the process of developing its land through the sale of residential lots.

Location: Sebastian, FL, USA

http://www.kashi.org/

https://www.facebook.com/Kashi-Ashram-71184717391/

KDA [Kualasimpang Development Aid] (Kuala Simpang, Indonesia)

KDA is a-not for profit- local NGO which was established in 2006. We are comprised of volunteers who have been working in support of small holder farmers within the district to improve their income in the rubber sector.

Location: Kuala Simpang, Indonesia

Key Química (Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico)

Over the years, the knowledge of our markets and the level of expertise we have achieved led us to consolidate different lines and business units, each focused on a specific market.
KEY® is a 100% Mexican. Beyond offering cleaning products and supplements, KEY® offers solutions tailored to its customers, all supported by a great team committed to service and the promotion of cleaner and healthier spaces

Location: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

http://www.key.com.mx/

Keys to Peace (Tavernier, FL, USA)

Keys to Peace is a grassroots non-profit organization that is aimed at building awareness and promoting practices of peace through education and social connection in the Florida Keys. 

We act as a catalyst to peace. Our mission is to create a more compassionate, peaceable, and sustainable Florida Keys community through education, affiliation, and innovation. We believe that a peaceful community is committed to relationships based on acceptance, respect, tolerance, justice, and dignity.

We offer opportunities for people to choose projects where they can use their gifts and graces to participate in activities that help create peace. From strengthening spiritual and emotional well-being to building lasting social connections, all of our events and efforts strive to educate and inspire others to join together to help create a more peaceful and compassionate community.

10 Keys to Peace

1. BE HERE NOW: Keep your attention in the present moment. Being upset about the past and worrying about the future are self-defeating.

2. FORGIVE: We do not forgive because we "should" or because someone deserves it. We forgive to free ourselves from the bondage of resentment. Die to the past every moment. Live this moment fully.

3. OBSERVE: Notice your thoughts. Which ones make you upset? Which ones make you feel better? Remember, you can choose your thoughts.

4. FOCUS: Focus on thoughts that help you feel better. You can be master of your own mind.

5. QUESTION: Often, thoughts that upset you are not true. They are beliefs you have carried with you from the past. Question thoughts and beliefs. Can you see things differently?

6. MEDITATE: Practice quieting your mind. Make a connection to your Higher Self (Higher Power, God, Universal Energy).

7. REMEMBER: Remember your True Self. You are not your thoughts. Remember the awareness behind the inner thinker.

8. LISTEN: Listen to your inner Voice. It is the voice that guides you, comforts you, and gives you strength.

9. SURRENDER: Accept what is. Release all resistance to what is. What we resist will persist. Breathe. When we accept life the way it is, we find peace.

10. EXPECT: Expect positive results.

Location: Tavernier, FL, USA

http://www.keystopeace.com/

Kites for Peace (Puerto Princesa, Philippines)

 

A GLOBAL CALL BY CHILDREN TO END ARMED CONFLICT IN THEIR GENERATION 

“Children are both our reason to eliminate the worst aspects of armed conflict and our best hope of succeeding in that charge.” — Graça Machel, Humanitarian and author of the 1996 UNICEF Report on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children 

In 2011, thirteen thousand children from Gaza taking part in the United Nations’ Relief and Works Agency’s Gaza Summer Games beat the world record for the largest number of people flying kites simultaneously. It was a beautiful day at the beach with almost every colour of the rainbow painting the sky. 

Over the last few weeks, hundreds of children have died in the current battle between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Some of these children may have been those who flew their kites on that beach one sunny day. Today, the world grieves knowing they will no longer fly their kites and we watch in horror as the numbers of children dying continue rising. 

Kites for Peace is a continuation of this earlier kite-led initiative in the backdrop of the June 2014 escalation of violence between Israel and Hamas. It is a creative response to the ongoing crisis in the Middle East that has displaced and killed so many children. It not only speaks for the children of Gaza that lost their lives to a war they inherited without having a choice but it speaks for all children living in armed conflict areas around the world. 

Our dream is to fly more than 13,000 kites to go beyond the total number that the Gaza children met on that beautiful day in 2011 by November 20, 2014 for the World Day of Prayer and Action for Children which is also celebrated as Universal Children’s Day. It is our hope that by this time, other children in the world that are displaced, traumatised, or wounded from conflict or violence may be able to fly their kites again.

A Creative Response for the Children of Gaza and all Children Affected by Conflict and Violence Around the World.

Dear Friends,

I write with the intention to connect from my heartspace. I have been observing its wave of stillness and movement for the last few weeks as we as a global community bear witness to the increase of violence in the Middle East. I held back because I know I have too many things on my plate right now and I still carry guilt from pausing in peace building work to pursue ecovillage and disaster rehabilitation work. It is only the last 5 days that I made a choice to respond even just in a small way, trusting that this is never my work alone and this plan of action must be open to be shared.  

As an artist, vision and imagination are my tools in supporting individuals, communities, and movements in transitioning from crisis into resilience. If we do not hold a vision, then we have forgotten how to trust in our capacity to dream another reality - to believe that our highest nature as humans is to co-create anything into being. Whether it be our own children or our civilisations - the gift of manifesting our personal and collective experience is precious power. 

Every day now we are witnessing the number of dying children rising in the Middle East along along with the uncertainty if we will be able to keep to the 2 degrees that would save us from future mass extinction from climate change in the typhoon vulnerable parts of Asia where I live. Even having worked in both post - conflict and post- disaster relief and rehabilitation and the advocacy platforms that "prevent them" through peace building and environmental education, I could honestly say, “Sometimes I feel a little lost with what to do.” Despite this, I trust we are in this great transition where we are facing a question - where are we going and how do we get there?

One of the important stories that I work with in evacuation centres is the butterfly's metamorphosis. As we pick up the pieces of the sudden unexplainable and unforeseen loss of life and property, all we have left that is still intact - is the story of how we survived together. In this temporary time of piecing together remnants of broken parts while rebuilding back in remembrance of our wholeness, we are actually in a very potent space which shamans would refer to as, "to dream the world into being again.”

Like the caterpillar in its chrysalis stage in the cocoon, its old world is dying and it starts dealing with uncertainty. In this uncertainty, all we really have is either to accept that our end has come or to hold on to the idea that something else is in the other end of the darkness. 

As an artist in the surviving communities I have worked with, I have been helping co-create spaces for a possible future to be imagined as we move from important emergence-see(ing) and cry-sees. It is with this same seeing that I am inviting you to this simple and collaboratively replicable project into the world today as a response. 

In 2011, thirteen thousand children from Gaza flew a rainbow of kites on the beach to break a global record of simultaneous kite flying. This beautiful story of hope and reading about the "miracle" of a baby girl rescued from her 23-year old dead mother's womb after an airstrike in Gaza the last few days have inspired me to conceive "Kites for Peace."

In the last 3 days as I listened to my soul speak just as I have done before when it spoke so loudly that inspired me to design the previous children-led ritual actions that I've co-initiated for the resumption of the peace talks and the signing of the peace agreement between the Philippine Government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. My most important learning was to trust even in the small but meaningful action. With this trusting, I seek alignment and resonance with those asking the same questions that birth it. As our question marks meet, we form a heart with the other… and then hopefully another, then another until the circle of shared hearts beating together grows. 

“Instead of rockets, what if we let our dreams of peace fly with our kites as we imagine a future that we want?” 

This is the dream of Kites for Peace by amplifying the voices of the Gaza children from that beautiful sunny day at the beach with their kites. We will go beyond the 13,000 kites by November 20, Universal Children’s Day wherein we celebrate the World Day of Prayer and Action for Children with a global mass action to end armed conflict and violence in this present generation. Together, we will save more children from being born into war in our lifetime. 

I would like to engage you in reading through the preliminary website for this action (you can click on the links) that features 

1. the Story Behind the Call http://kitesforpeace.tumblr.com/story  and 

2. the Global Call to Circle  http://kitesforpeace.tumblr.com/call 

The action is inspired by restorative practices that engages the human story of transcendence. Should you resonate, the invitation is for everyone to own the call and take part in the circle by working with children in making and flying (a) kite/s

Partnerships may require some shared energy use like requiring young people from the organisation to help in improving and maintaining the site or share specific replicable peace education and child rights platforms. Participating dream weavers may take on their own local action without necessarily needing to be involved in the operations and maintenance of the action. Something beautiful is about to emerge and I want to engage you in the first circle of this birthing process. There will be a lot of changes as more and more people share ideas and that is something welcome in this process. 

Currently, we are in partnership with The Charter for Compassion and Unify, with an initial intention to take action by some INGOS which I will mention later. It's still a simple platform for now but I am currently in conversation with other local and global organisations who are now keen to share the circle. 

Words cannot describe how it feels to be writing wide awake every time something like this is to be birthed.  True to the rhythm of my past actions with children and peace building, this one has been a special conceiving process. One cannot “NOT” do anything but respond not just to the call of my generation, but to the call of my own spirit. Thank you for continuing to co-journey with me and for taking time to share presence with this invitation today. As always, I come in an unconditional space and I am grateful to whatever resonance that circles back.

To follow the journey via Facebook, visit https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kites-for-Peace/605488949550453

In community,

Sarah Queblatin
Mandala Earth Story Project

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

* Special thanks to Gidon Windecker for listening to the design and message of the call. Thank you for your patience in running back and forth with suggestions and  revisions. Thank you most especially for your compassion to all children affected by armed conflict and violence in the world. Immensely grateful for your wisdom and for sharing the dream. 

*Thank you Rebecca Tobias of the United Religions Initiative for the mentorship and for bridging with Unify.org.

* Thank you Angelina Herrera and the interfaith youth of Binhi ng Kapayapaan Inc (Seeds of Peace) for inspiring restorative circles in my work. 

*Thank you Edmark Del Mundo and the entire community of Muslim Christian Youth for Peace and Development for engaging the young people of Tala to make their kites and share their messages. 

*Thank you Red Constantino for sharing the story of the Gaza kites on Facebook which led to the conception of this project.

REFERENCES:

1.The Butterfly's metamorphosis as metaphor  was inspired by the book Hope for the Flowers by Trina Paulus which eventually inspired my modules on Psycho Social Support for disaster survivors.  I also refer to Bruce Lipton's work and through the story shared by Nicanor Perlas in its translation to global changes. 
2. Question marks meeting as hearts and the word "Emergence-seeing" were inspirations from Pi Villaraza
3. Crisis as Cry-sees" from Rem Tanauan
4. 100 year anniversary of World War 1 as the "war to end all wars" was lifted from Charles Eisenstein's essay A Restorative Response to MH17 - http://charleseisenstein.net/a-restorative-response-to-mh17/

 *2011 Gaza Kite Photos used for the Social Media sites (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+) are all copied via Google Images
Visit this link to find references to websites they were copied from. http://kitesforpeace.tumblr.com/post/93077277040/in-2011-thirteen-thousand-children-from-gaza-flew

Some Photos are by Anne Paq, Amber Fares, Eman Mohammed and Soad Abu Esheba, copyright 2010-2014.

Location: Puerto Princesa, Philippines

 

KNWA (Fayetteville, AR, USA)

Get all the news, weather and sports stories that matter most to Northwest Arkansas! Watch us nightly at 5, 6 and 10pm or online at www.nwahomepage.com

Location: Fayetteville, AR, USA

http://www.nwahomepage.com/

https://www.facebook.com/KNWAnews/

Knysna Tourism (Knysna, WC, South Africa)

 

Knysna is one of the Garden Routeˊs best known travel destinations and was recently named as one of the Top 100 Destinations in the World and one of the Top 25 in Africa in the Trip Advisor Travellers’ Choice Destinations Awards.

It is then not surprising that both France and Denmark listed properties in the area under their top three base camp destinations.

Surrounding Knysna are the towns of Sedgefield, Brenton, Noetzie, Rheenendal and Buffalo Bay. Indigenous forests, fynbos, lakes, rivers and mountains and beautiful coastlines combined with a moderate climate, make the Knysna area a natural Eden for flora and fauna lovers.

Knysna Tourism is a proud member of Greenline. This programme measures our ability to practice internationally competitive standards of responsible business and is benchmarked against national and international guidelines and accepted norms in this field.

Location: Knysna, WC, South Africa

http://www.visitknysna.co.za/

 

Köln und die Welt (Cologne, Germany)

 

Mueck Intercultural Consulting advises and supports individuals, teams or companies and organizations in the international environment.

If you want to work successfully, harmonious and be motivated in your business or organization--despite or because of personal, linguistic and cultural differences between individuals, then you will want to work with Mueck Intercultural Consulting.

Mueck works with management and the workforce to achieve success in a timely manner when dealing with intercultural projects employees to work with their counterparts in the international arena, especially involving mergers, the establishment of subsidiaries abroad and on joint international projects.

Location: Cologne, Germany

 

 

 

KUAF Radio (Fayetteville, AR, USA)

KUAF, 88.9FM went on the air in 1973 as a 10-watt student radio station supervised by a faculty member in the Department of Journalism at the University of Arkansas. In 1985, a new, commercial station (carrier-current/cable) was built for students at the University of Arkansas and KUAF was changed to a professional public radio station featuring NPR news, classical music, jazz, folk, blues and other public radio programs like Car Talk and A Prairie Home Companion.

Now operating at 91.3FM with a powerful 100,000 watt transmitter, KUAF provides a 14-county area of west and northwest Arkansas, parts of eastern Oklahoma and southern Missouri with the only source of national and international news from NPR as well as a daily local news magazine “Ozarks at Large”. Serving a potential audience of over 600,000 people, KUAF offers classical music during the mid-morning and night time hours and a variety of public radio programs on the weekends.

In 2006, KUAF was the first station in the region to broadcast in HD and developed HD-2 and HD-3 stations which provided even more public service to the area. HD-2 features classical music 24 hours a day and HD-3 is all news/talk with large doses of programming from the BBC.

Owned by the University of Arkansas, KUAF was originally located on campus in a run-down, old house on Duncan Avenue and then in a university owned apartment complex. That complex was demolished in 2010 to make room for a new academic building. By December, 2009, KUAF staff had raised more than $2-million, bought property and built a state-of-the-art radio building off campus, close to the Fayetteville square. Located across the street from the Fayetteville Public Library, at 9 S. School Avenue, KUAF is at the center of the intellectual and artistic hub of northwest Arkansas.

KUAF Mission Statement

KUAF's mission is to be a broadcast leader serving our listening area with programs that challenge, entertain, educate and inform.

Location: Fayetteville, AR, USA

http://kuaf.com/#stream/0

Kutainen Sääntö (Helsinki, Finland

 

Finnish interfaith education society and proponent of The Charter for Compassion.

Location: Helsinki, Finland

http://kultainensaanto.wordpress.com/