Community Earth Councils Resources: Organizations, Websites, & Readings

The Resources listed here are an eclectic mix of organizations, websites and readings about Citizen Engagement/Democracy, Climate/Environment, Conversation/Community, Vital Aging, Youth Empowerment and other subjects, grouped alphabetically, by subject. The aim is to provide inspiration for you and your Earth Council through examples of what others are doing in their neighborhoods, and through direct links to organizations that may be helpful to you in your efforts.

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Climate/Environment »
Conversation/Community »
Enterprise Development »
Giving Time & Money »
Globalism »
Models for Community Action »
Vital Aging »
Youth Empowerment »
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"Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead

Citizen Engagement/Democracy

Everyday Democracy
Formerly known as the Study Circles Resource Center, Everyday Democracy provides ideas and tools for community change, with advice on how to think, discuss, and act on specific issues ranging from police-community relations to immigration, sprawl, and poverty.
www.everyday-democracy.org

Harmony Foundation
Harmony Foundation is a charitable education organization creating innovative training programs and educational materials about sustainable development.
www.harmonyfdn.ca/

MoveOn.org
With over 3.2 million members across America, MoveOn is a way for busy but concerned citizens to find their political voice in a system dominated by big money and big media. The MoveOn family of organizations is made up of a couple of different pieces. MoveOn.org Civic Action, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization, formerly known just as MoveOn.org, primarily focuses on education and advocacy on important national issues. MoveOn.org Political Action, a federal PAC, formerly known as MoveOn PAC, mobilizes people across the country to fight important battles in Congress and help elect candidates who reflect our values. Both organizations are entirely funded by individuals.
www.moveon.org

PACE (Philanthropy for Active Citizen Engagement)
PACE - Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement is a community of grantmakers and donors committed to strengthening democracy by using the power, influence and resources of philanthropy to open pathways to participation. Formerly known as the Grantmakers Forum on Community and National Service, PACE recently renamed itself to signal a broader approach to educating grantmakers about effective civic engagement strategies that strengthen our communities. These strategies include community problem solving, civic education, leadership training, and political reform.
www.pacefunders.org

PCDForum
The PCDForum envisions human societies in which three values serve as organizing principles of public policy: justice, inclusiveness, and sustainability. In the belief that voluntary citizen action is the necessary foundation of transformational change, the Forum works in close cooperation with the Positive Futures Network, which publishes YES! magazine, and with the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies.
www.pcdf.org

Points of Light Institute
On August 1, 2007, Points of Light Foundation and Hands On Network merged into Points of Light Institute. PLI promotes engaged citizenry by inspiring, equiping, and mobilizing people to take action that changes the world. At the center of the network are 370 affiliates serving 83% of the American population and 12 international communities. It is also a "network of networks" that includes partnering nonprofits, government agencies, faith-based organizations, and companies seeking to engage in service, numbering over 50,000 volunteer driven community impact projects managing millions of volunteers annually around the country.
www.pointsoflight.org

Public Agenda
For over a quarter of a century, Public Agenda has been providing unbiased research that bridges the gap between American leaders and what the public really thinks about issues ranging from education to foreign policy to immigration to religion and civility in American life. Nonpartisan and nonprofit, Public Agenda was founded by social scientist and author Daniel Yankelovich and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in 1975. Public Agenda's two-fold mission is to help: 1. American leaders better understand the public's point of view; and, 2. Citizens know more about critical policy issues so they can make thoughtful, informed decisions.
www.publicagenda.org

Climate/Environment

Breakthrough Institute
Founded in 2003 by "post-environmentalists" Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, the Breakthrough Institute is a small think tank with big ideas. Breakthrough is committed to creating a new progressive politics, one that is large, aspirational, and asset-based. We believe that any effective politics must speak to core needs and values, not issues and interests, and we thus situate ourselves at the intersection of politics, policy, philosophy, and the social sciences.
www.thebreakthrough.org

Earth Pledge Foundation
Earth Pledge partners with business, communities and government to accelerate the adoption of sustainable practices. We have a range of innovative eco-tech initiatives that share one common objective: to demonstrate economic viability today and make a real difference tomorrow. We work closely with public and private organizations to help them understand and implement new operating techniques that cost effectively reduce their environmental impact.
www.earthpledge.org

Natural Step
Since 1988, The Natural Step has worked to accelerate global sustainability by guiding companies, communities and governments onto an ecologically, socially and economically sustainable path. More than 70 people in eleven countries work with an international network of sustainability experts, scientists, universities, and businesses to create solutions, innovative models and tools that will lead the transition to a sustainable future.
www.naturalstep.org

Northwest Earth Institute
Develops innovative programs that empower individuals and organizations to protect ecological systems and offers study guides and self-guided discussion courses.
http://www.nwei.org

Conversation/Community

Art of Hosting
The Art of Hosting is a practice for all who aspire to learn and find new ways of working with others to create innovative and comprehensive solutions. The current generation of Art of Hosting practitioners are using several practices such as Open Space Technology, World Cafe, Circle, and Appreciative Inquiry in creative and effective ways to foster synergy, unleash collective intelligence, and support deliberate action.
www.artofhosting.org

Berkana Institute
The Berkana Institute connects and supports pioneering, life-affirming leaders around the world who strengthen their communities by working with the wisdom and wealth already present in its people, traditions and environment. We define a leader as anyone who wants to help, who is willing to step forward to create change in their world. And we know that the leaders we need are already here.
www.berkana.org

Community Action Workshop Manual
Developed by an international team of experts in adult education and community development, this tool contains all the materials needed for people to work together to create community projects.
http://www.harmonyfdn.ca/publications/cawm.html

Conversation Cafes
Conversation Cafés are lively hosted conversations among small groups of people with diverse views but a shared passion for engaging with others. Held in public spaces like cafés, restaurants and bookstores, Conversation Cafés provide an open forum to talk about important topics over a cup of coffee or tea. People of every philosophical, political and personality stripe are welcome. There's nothing to join. Anyone can come, just once or many times. There are no books to read, no assignments, and no dues (except a bite to eat at the café).
www.conversationcafe.org

Council of All Beings
The Council of All Beings is a series of re-Earthing rituals created by John Seed and Joanna Macy to help end the sense of alienation from the living Earth that many of us feel. This workshop will renew the spirit and vision of those who serve the Earth and connect participants with deep sources of joy, and inspiration.
www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/coab.htm

Craigslist Foundation
Founded in 2000 by Craig Newmark and others, Craigslist Foundation is a publicly supported, non-endowed 501(c)3 operating foundation (i.e. not a grantmaking institution). Just as craigslist.org is about 'people helping people' by facilitating online connections, Craigslist Foundation creates community in the nonprofit arena by 'helping people help', regardless of cause or sector. The foundation provides free and low cost education opportunities to emerging nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs.
www.craigslistfoundation.org

Fetzer Institute
The Fetzer Institute develops research and educational programs to foster awareness of the power of love and forgiveness in the emerging global community. Fetzer endeavors to address the world's critical issues by going beyond political, social, and economic strategies to their psychological and spiritual roots.
www.fetzer.org

The Forge Institute
We serve humankind, particularly people interested in spirituality, in order to improve the world of our children and our children's children. Our purpose is to help develop spiritually mature human beings, engaging all beings on the basis of both our common humanity and our rich individuality. Forge Members have developed The Call to Global Spiritual Citizenship, whose principles offer a spiritual foundation for concrete mutual action towards the common good.
www.theforge.org

Surdna Foundation
Surdna is a family foundation established in 1917 by John Emory Andrus. The foundation makes grants in the areas of environment, community revitalization, effective citizenry, the arts and the nonprofit sector.
www.surdna.org

Rockwood Institute
The Rockwood Leadership Program specializes in delivering the best practices and methodologies in leadership development, collaboration and capacity-building to the progressive non-profit community. Since 2000, Rockwood has trained more than 1500 leaders from thousands of organizations in the United States and Canada.
www.rockwoodleadership.org

World Café
The World Café is a global community of people dedicated to awakening and engaging collective intelligence through conversations about questions that matter, to nourish and renew life. As a conversational process, the World Café is an innovative yet simple methodology for hosting conversations that link and build on each other as people move between groups, cross-pollinate ideas, and discover new insights into the questions or issues that are most important in their life, work, or community.
www.worldcafe.com

Enterprise Development

SCORE
SCORE provides expert advice, including email counseling, for entrepreneurs to start and grow their own small businesses. As a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), SCORE provides entrepreneurs with counsel on financing options, business planning, marketing strategies, product development and more. SCORE's more than 10,500 working and retired business professionals and 389 office locations help more than 350,000 people each year.
www.score.org

Giving Time & Money

Global Giving
Directly connects organizations and people around the world to those with resources to donate.
www.globalgiving.com

Heifer International
Helps families around the world achieve self-reliance through your gift of livestock and training. Gifts are passed from recipient to recipient until entire communities are transformed.
www.heifer.org

Kiva
Helps you lend to a specific entrepreneur in the developing world, empowering them to lift themselves out of poverty.
http://kiva.org/

Volunteer Match
Helps everyone find a place to volunteer and offers a variety of online services to support a community of nonprofit, volunteer and business leaders committed to civic engagement.
http://www.volunteermatch.org/

Globalism

GlobalPeaceIndex.org
The Global Peace Index is an attempt to measure the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness. It is maintained by the Institute for Economics and Peace and published annually by the Economist magazine. The study is the brainchild of Australian entrepreneur Steve Killelea and is endorsed by individuals such as the Dalai Lama, archbishop Desmond Tutu, Muhammad Yunus, former president of Ireland Mary Robinson and former US president Jimmy Carter. Factors examined by the authors include internal factors such as levels of violence and crime within the country and factors in a country's external relations such as military expenditure and wars.
www.visionofhumanity.org

Idealist
Helps people and organizations exchange resources and ideas, locate opportunities and supporters, and take steps toward building a world where all people can lead free and dignified lives.
www.idealist.org

International Forum on Globalization
The International Forum on Globalization (IFG) is an alliance of sixty leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization.
www.ifg.org

Natural Capital Institute
Committed to the restoration of the earth and the healing of human culture, Natural capital Institute does two things: describes pathways of change in books and research reports, and creates tools for connecting change-oriented individuals, information, and organizations. NCI launched WISER: the World Index for Social and Environmental Responsibility in 2007. It is a commercial-free, community-editable series of platforms where people, civil society, the private sector, and government can collaboratively define, address, and solve social and environmental problems.
www.naturalcapital.org

Wiser Earth
A community directory and networking forum that maps and connects more than 108,000 non-governmental organizations and individuals addressing issues of social justice, human rights, and environmental sustainability.
www.wiserearth.org/

Models for Community Action

American Leadership Forum
Builds stronger communities by joining and strengthening leaders to serve the public good. ALF was founded in Houston more than 20 years ago and now has chapters in nine cities nationwide. With an emphasis on experiential learning, ALF focuses it's program on three primary goals: 1.Establish a community of diverse leaders, built on trust and understanding; 2. Increase capacity for personal growth and integration; and, 3. Increase capacity for collaborative leadership.
www.alfnational.org/

Community Farm Alliance
A grassroots voice for Kentucky's citizens—farmer and non-farmer, urban and rural alike—on farm, food, and economic issues. They have created Farmers' Markets in underserved urban communities, developed Farm-to-Cafeteria, and more.
http://www.communityfarmalliance.org

Helping Other People Endure (H.O.P.E.)
Started as a middle-school bake sale raising funds to buy shoes for children in South Africa, this project exploded into a major fundraiser. In less than five years these young girls have raised over $500,000 for clothes, food, and schools for South African communities crippled by AIDS and poverty.
www.southafricanhope.org

Linden Hills Power & Light
LHP&L is an informal group of Minneapolis citizens who brainstorm how to reduce energy waste in their community. LHP&L persuaded the city of Minneapolis to collect organic scraps and pizza boxes from 4,000 homes and hopes to eventually turn the waste into bio-fuel.
www.lhpowerandlight.org/

Northfield Citizens Online
Northfield Citizens Online was born (as the Northfield Free-Net) out of a living room salon in December of 1991. NCO's mission is to create an electronic commons that strengthens the fabric of community in the greater Northfield area. We support this mission by publishing stories and event listings from any and all members of the community and providing access to existing community resources and online content from local citizens and organizations.
www.northfield.org

A Small Group
There are many groups in Cincinnati who want to better it one way or another—more than 7,000, in fact. Committed to "restoring and reconciling Cincinnati," ASG hopes to open a dialogue so groups can work together—as citizens committed to change—to make this city a better place to live. Just opening up a discussion can change a lot for the better.
www.asmallgroup.net

Vail Leadership Network
The Vail Leadership Institute is a non-profit Colorado-based learning organization that convenes emerging, developing and seasoned leaders for programs, retreats and forums focused on "inside-first" leadership. It was created to help leaders develop the strength and conviction to lead from the heart. The VLN's Council of Elders is a group of senior leaders whose purpose is to foster the development of the Vail Valley community. These elders carry out this charge by supporting emerging leaders through grants and personal mentoring to advance specific community development initiatives.
www.vailleadership.org

Walking School Buses
A walking school bus is a group of children walking to school with one or more adults. It can be as informal as two families taking turns walking their children to school to as structured as a route with meeting points, a timetable and a regularly rotated schedule of trained volunteers. A variation on the walking school bus is the bicycle train, in which adults supervise children riding their bikes to school. The flexibility of the walking school bus makes it appealing to communities of all sizes with varying needs.
http://www.walkingschoolbus.org/

Vital Aging

The Atlantic Philanthropies, Ageing Program
Through our Ageing Program, we seek to bring about lasting change in the lives of older adults, with a special emphasis on those who are disadvantaged and vulnerable because of ageism, poverty or poor health. We aim to help transform how ageing is viewed within society, to improve the way older persons are treated, and to enable them to actively contribute their expertise and abilities for the good of society.
www.atlanticphilanthropies.org/ageing

Center on Aging, University of Maryland
Our Mission: "to serve as multi-generational ambassadors who are committed to preserving the wisdom of the past, applying knowledge to community need in the present, and transferring these gifts to future generations." Our objectives include implementing a national service model to attract/retain 50+ adults for volunteer community service, creating new meaningful roles and service opportunities for older adults to volunteer, and recruiting multi-generational service teams for co-learning and service experiences.
www.sph.umd.edu/AGING/

Center for Intergenerational Learning
"Coming of Age," Temple University
Promotes fifty-plus civic engagement, lifelong learning, and community leadership.
http://comingofage.org/

Civic Venture's "Experience Corps"
Connects adults over 55 with children in urban public schools and after-school programs, where they help teach children to read and develop the confidence and skills to succeed in school and in life.
http://www.civicventures.org/experience_corps.cfm

CharityFocus.org
CharityFocus is an experiment in the joy of giving. Our services enable inspired people to contribute in meaningful ways to the world around them. Together, we hope to "be the change we wish to see in the world."
www.charityfocus.org

The Elders
Counting Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, Muhammad Yunus, Gro Bruntland, and others among their ranks, "the only agenda of the Elders is humanity ... their only purpose is to ease the suffering of people."
http://theelders.org/

Gerontological Society of America
The GSA is a multidisciplinary society for professionals in the field of aging. Focuses on promoting the scientific study of aging.
www.geron.org

National Council on Aging
Founded in 1950, the National Council on Aging (NCOA) is a nonprofit organization with a national network of more than 14,000 organizations and leaders. Our members include senior centers, area agencies on aging, adult day service centers, faith-based service organizations, senior housing facilities, employment services, consumer groups, and leaders from academia, business, and labor. Our programs help older people remain healthy and independent, find jobs, access benefits programs, and discover meaningful ways to continue contributing to society.
www.ncoa.org

Vital Aging Network
Promotes the self-sufficiency, community participation, and quality of life of older adults.
www.vital-aging-network.org/

Youth Empowerment

Americans for Informed Democracy
Americans for Informed Democracy empowers and equips young people in the United States to address global issues—poverty, health, climate change, peace and security—through awareness-raising and actions that promote just and sustainable solutions on their campuses, in their communities, and nationally. Our vision is that every American young person is empowered to effectively contribute to peaceful, healthy, just and sustainable solutions to the world's greatest challenges.
www.aidemocracy.org

Americorps VISTA
AmeriCorps is a network of local, state, and national service programs that connects more than 70,000 Americans each year in intensive service to meet the US's critical needs in education, public safety, health, and the environment. Since 1993, more than 200,000 Americans have served in AmeriCorps. Most AmeriCorps members are selected by and serve with local and national organizations.
www.americorps.org

Ashoka
Ashoka is the global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world's most urgent social problems. Since 1981, we have elected over 2,000 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows, providing them with living stipends, professional support, and access to a global network of peers in more than 60 countries.
www.ashoka.org

Campus Compact
Campus Compact is a national coalition of more than 1,100 college and university presidents — representing some 6 million students — dedicated to promoting community service, civic engagement, and service learning in higher education. Over the past 20 years, Campus Compact has engaged more than 20 million students in service and service-learning, both locally and globally, to provide services such as: tutoring at-risk youth in reading and math; building houses for low-income families; conducting environmental safety studies, caring for the sick, the hungry, the homeless, and the elderly. These students provide more than $7 billion annually in service within their communities.
www.compact.org

Cascade Climate Network
The Cascade Climate Network (CCN) is the regional network of Northwest youth united to end the climate crisis and build a sustainable, just, and prosperous future for all!
www.cascadeclimate.org

Center for the Advancement of Youth, Family & Community Services
The Rite of Passage Experience®, also known as ROPE®, is a school and community-based initiative designed to guide children in grades 6-12 though adolescence and into adulthood while avoiding the pitfalls of alcohol, drugs and negative peer pressure. There is also a first year college experience.
www.rope.org

Center for Spirituality & Healing, University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota's Center for Spirituality & Healing enriches health and well-being by providing high-quality interdisciplinary education, conducting rigorous research, and delivering innovative programs that advance integrative health and healing. Among its offerings are the Purpose Project, exploring new ground in vital aging and retirement, and Whole Systems Healing, a series of undergraduate courses designed to enable students to develop their inner capacities while preparing them to be agents of social healing and environmental restoration.
www.csh.umn.edu

City Year
City Year unites young people of all backgrounds for a year of full-time service, giving them skills and opportunities to change the world.
www.cityyear.org

Energy Action Coalition
Energy Action is a coalition of 48 organizations that supports and strengthens the youth climate and energy movement. The partners of Energy Action and the youth who are building this movement have been at the forefront of the movement to stop global warming and create a just and sustainable energy future. Energy Action is a founding partner and endorser of the 1 Sky Platform.
www.energyactioncoalition.org

Fired Up Media
Fired Up Media is a growing network of videographers, editors, and journalists reporting from the front lines of the youth climate movement and disseminating through the Fired Up Virtual Newsroom. The network has grown out the diverse media projects of the youth climate movement, such as It's Getting Hot in Here, I Shot Power Shift, and CSSC TV.
www.firedupmedia.org

Generations United
Focuses on improving the lives of children, youth, and older people through intergenerational strategies, programs, and public policies.
www.gu.org/

Green for All
Green For All is a national organization dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty. By advocating for local, state and federal commitment to job creation, job training, and entrepreneurial opportunities in the emerging green economy — especially for people from disadvantaged communities — Green For All fights both poverty and pollution at the same time.
www.greenforall.org

Interim Programs
The Center for Interim Programs is a consulting service that helps young people find meaningful gap year placements. Since our inception in 1980 as the first organization of its kind in the United States, Interim has designed creative gap year opportunities for over 5,000 young people. We have built relationships with organizations worldwide and offer a database of over 5,200 program opportunities.
www.interimprograms.com

Leapnow
Students travel to India, Bali, or Central America with a group during their first semester while studying languages, doing service work, helping the environment, staying with homestay families, and studying the culture first-hand. The second semester is spent in one of 126 countries doing an internship of your choice - teaching, working in an orphanage, saving endangered animals, working with the UN, learning kung fu and Chinese, apprenticing with an artist or artisan, or hundreds of other options.
www.leapnow.org/leapyear

Men's Leadership Alliance
The Men's Leadership Alliance (MLA) is dedicated to inspiring authentic manhood. We encourage and support soulful living in the service of a just, joyful, and sustainable world. We are devoted to supporting men and youth at all of their transition points, variously called thresholds, passages, or gateways. MLA's non-denominational programs are numerous, and are meant to address the needs of men and youth in their journey through life.
www.mensleadershipalliance.org

National Rights of Passage Institute
NRPI's vision is to institutionalize a process that will result in the development, support and regeneration of healthy and authentic community. NRPI provides training, programming, evaluation, international field trips and dissemination of information to develop a community of servant leaders.
www.ritesofpassage.org

National Youth Leadership Council
NYLC links youth, educators, and communities to redefine the role of young people from recipients of information to valuable, contributing members of society. Each year, nearly 3,000 participants gather at The National Service-Learning Conference, and thousands of practitioners attend NYLC youth and adult trainings. NYLC provides research to transform the field of service-learning and influence public policy.
www.nylc.org.

PassageWorks Institute
The PassageWorks Institute (previously known as PassageWays), founded and directed by Rachael Kessler, is dedicated to transforming the culture of classrooms, schools and districts so that the inner life of students and teachers is safe, nurtured and welcomed.
www.passageworks.org

Peace Jam
The mission of the PeaceJam Foundation is to create a new generation of young leaders committed to positive change in themselves, their communities and the world through the inspiration of Nobel Peace Laureates. Since its launch in 1996, more than 600,000 youth have participated in the PeaceJam program. Over one million service projects have been created and implemented by participating youth, and over 140 PeaceJam youth events have taken place in 10 different countries throughout the world.
www.peacejam.org

Power of Hope
Since 1996 the Power of Hope has offered arts-centered intergenerational and multicultural Youth Camps for 14-18 year-olds. The programs unleash the positive potential of youth to create community and social change by encouraging self-awareness, leadership, and having a great time in the process.
www.powerofhope.org

School of Lost Borders
The School of Lost Borders offers vision quest and rites of passage trainings that cultivate self-trust, responsibility, and understanding about one's unique place within society and the natural world. Its programs provide guided opportunities, perspectives, teachings, and self-reflection time in a non-judgmental yet challenging environment — often a wilderness setting. Our purpose is to encourage the skills and attitudes necessary to discover, affirm, and authentically share one's unique gifts.
www.schooloflostborders.org

Search Institute
Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities.
www.search-institute.org

Sierra Student Coalition
The Sierra Student Coalition (SSC) is a network of high school and college students from across the country working to protect the environment. The SSC is the student-run chapter of the Sierra Club, the nation's oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization.
www.ssc.org

Stanford Center on Adolescence
The Stanford Center on Adolescence aims to promote the character and competence of all young people growing up in today's world. The Center's work provides guidance for parenting, for improved educational practice, and for youth development in a wide variety of community settings.
www.stanford.edu/group/adolescent.ctr

Taking It Global
TakingITGlobal.org is an online community that connects youth to find inspiration, access information, and take action in their local and global communities. TIG's website provides a platform for expression, connection to opportunities, and support for action.
www.takingitglobal.org

Teach for America
Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates and professionals of all academic majors and career interests who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity.
www.teachforamerica.org

Upward Bound
Upward Bound is a federally funded, U.S. Department of Education equal educational opportunity program. Specifically, Upward Bound is a college preparatory program for low-income and educationally disadvantaged high school students. Upward Bound works with students on a long-term and intensive basis and helps generate the skills needed for selected high school students to succeed in post-secondary education.
www.ed.gov/programs/trioupbound

Other Resources

EXCERPTS
(coming soon)
Excerpts from Bill Clinton's Giving
Marc Freedman's Encore
Richard Leider's Something to Live For
Margaret Wheatley's Turning to One Another

RECOMMENDED READING
Banker to the Poor
Muhammad Yunus
www.muhammadyunus.org

Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World
Bill Clinton
www.giving.clintonfoundation.org

The Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-it-Yourself Guide to Placemaking
Jay Walljasper
www.pps.org

How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs & the Power of New Ideas
David Bornstein
www.howtochangetheworld.org

How to Re-imagine the World: a Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries
Anthony Weston
http://org.elon.edu/philosophy/ptp/weston.htm

Something to Live For: Finding Your Way in the Second Half of Life
Richard Leider & David Shapiro
www.RichardLeider.com

MAGAZINES
Utne Reader
www.utne.com

Yes: a Journal of Positive Futures
www.yesmagazine.org

WEBSITES
www.Worldchanging.com
www.Treehugger.com
www.Grist.org
www.Globalideasbank.org