Abraham Path Initiative - Cambridge, MA
Abraham Path Initiative seeks to develop and preserve a walking and pilgrimage route that follows the footsteps of Abraham through modern day Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, and Israel. The route commemorates Abraham's pilgrimmage over four thousand years ago, still held deeply in the landscape and memory of the Middle East, and records the origin of a spiritual tradition shared by more than three billion people in the world today. By retracing this journey and creating a shared international tribute, the path provides a place of meeting and connection for people of all faiths and cultures, inviting us to remember our common origins, to respect cultural differences, and to recognize our shared humanity.
www.abrahampath.org

Artship Foundation - San Francisco, CA
The Artship Foundation is a community of performing artists committed to the co-creation of an artistic process that births original, mythic work from communal intuitive depths. The ensemble's creative process or "art practice" is the central work of Artship. Themes draw on questions of identity, rootedness, community, and place in contemporary life. Kalliopeia supports the ensemble's production of Stories Without Words, an evening of telling, singing, playing, and giving voice and image to originally created or retold short stories.
www.artship.org

The Berkana Institute - Spokane, WA
The Berkana Institute partners with people around the world to build and strengthen their communities by lifting up the wisdom and wealth already present in their people, traditions, and environment. Berkana's programs help communities prepare for an unknown future by creating strong and sustainable relationships, wisely stewarding the earth’s resources, and by building resilience. Berkana's initiatives are based on a profound understanding of how life organizes in cooperative, generous, and interdependent systems, and are rooted in the clarity that "whatever the problem, community is the answer."
www.berkana.org
Watch "Living the Future Now," a short video about their work.

The Biomimicry Institute - Missoula, MT
Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is an emerging discipline that studies nature’s best "ideas" and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems. Based on the premise that the natural world has already solved many of the problems we are grappling with, the Biomimicry Institute works to nurture and grow a global community of people who are learning from, emulating, and conserving life's genius to create a healthier, more sustainable planet. Kalliopeia provides project support for The Biomimicry Institute’s educational outreach initiatives.
www.biomimicryinstitute.org
Two TED talks by Janine Benyus:
12 Sustainable Design Ideas from Nature
Biomimicry: Learning from Nature

Bioneers (Collective Heritage Institute) - Santa Fe, NM
Bioneers is a social and strategic hub for engaged citizens from all backgrounds and fields dedicated to solving urgent global problems within a holistic framework of interdependence. In its annual conference, Bioneers brings together leading-edge innovators to share solutions to environmental and social challenges, all based on the premise that nature's principles can serve as metaphoric guideposts for organizing an equitable, compassionate, and democratic society.
www.bioneers.org

Bread for the Journey International - Mill Valley, CA
This organization for neighborhood philanthropy believes that the natural impulse toward generosity unites communities through relationships of healing and trust. Bread for the Journey supports individuals and communities in using their own unique gifts to support dynamic programs that are responsive to their local culture. Bread for the Journey models a simple and effective process for creating positive change in communities across the country.
www.breadforthejourney.org

California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture - Hesperia, CA
Cal-Earth is dedicated to research and dissemination of simple, sustainable, and widely replicable earth building technologies for the benefit of humankind. Cal-Earth's primary initiative is to promote the philosophy and use of Superadobe, a technology developed by visionary architect Nader Khalili (1936 - 2008) who was inspired by the mystical poetry of Rumi to seek the equilibrium of earth, water, air, fire, and to unite them in design in service of beauty and human need. Cal-Earth's mission is guided by three principles: (1) shelter is a basic human right, (2) every human being should be able to build a house for him or herself, and (3) the best way to provide shelter for the exponentially increasing human population is by building with earth.
calearth.org

Cathedral of St. John the Divine - New York, NY
Kalliopeia provided project support for the 2011 collaboration "The Value of Water - Sustaining a Green Planet," an ambitious installation in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine to strengthen awareness of the value of water. Honoring water as the great artist that has shaped all land and life, the exhibition highlights the aesthetic and emotional dimensions of water, while bearing witness to the urgent political and economic need for clean water as a requirement for civilization and peace in our changing world. The innovative exhibition includes over forty contemporary art installations that encompass painting, sculpture, drawing, media art, and textile, installed in bays of the nave, in various chapels, and along the walls.
www.stjohndivine.org/valueofwater

Center for Earth Jurisprudence - Miami Gardens, FL
(Fiscal Sponsor: St. Thomas University)
The mission of The Center for Earth Jurisprudence is to advance legal principles, laws, and governance that support and protect the health and well-being of all beings and ecosystems that constitute the natural world. Based on the premise that a transformation of legal thinking is required to extend "appropriate consideration to the intrinsic, spiritual value of the Earth," the CEJ seeks to develop a philosophy and practice of law that respects the natural world in its own right and recognizes humanity as an integral member of the Earth community. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the CEJ works to extend legal protection to all human and non-human members of the Earth community, including the rights of future generations.
www.earthjuris.org

Center for Partnership Studies - Carmel, CA
Kalliopeia provides project support for the Alliance for a Caring Economy (ACE) Campaign, which works for a more just and prosperous world by redefining economic "productivity" to include the crucial work of caring and caregiving. Working with representatives from government, business, academia, and civil society, ACE innovates economic rules, measures, and policies that recognize the real value of caring – whether in market or nonmarket sectors, whether performed by women or men – to develop more caring policies and practices for our schools, workplaces, families, and environment.
www.partnershipway.org/html/acepage.htm
Watch a Global Oneness Project interview with Riane Eisler, founder of the Center for Partnership Studies.
“Building Cultures of Peace” an article by Riane Eisler in Yes! Magazine.

Center for Whole Communities - Fayston, VT
Center for Whole Communities (CWC) seeks to create a more just, balanced, and healthy world by deepening the connections between land, people, and community. Understanding that fragmentation between social justice and environmental conservation movements limit the success of both, CWC works toward a new land movement that integrates conservation, health, justice, spirit, and relationship. Kalliopeia provides project support for the Whole Thinking Program, which convenes nonprofit leaders from a wide variety of social, climate, land, and water issues for intensive weeklong retreats designed to build a more connected, effective, and resilient network of leaders in the movements for social and environmental change.
www.wholecommunities.org
Link to the site “Whole Measures.
Download a pdf of "What is a Whole Community," by Peter Forbes.

CharityFocus - Santa Clara, CA
(Fiscal sponsor: RSF Social Finance)
Kalliopeia provides funds in support of the Trust-Driven Philanthropy Project, an experimental pay-it-forward model of micro-grantmaking based on trust and the "viral power of the small." The project aims to help catalyze a new kind of philanthropy in which donors and recipients co-create the change they wish to see in the world. By participating equally in the transformative joy of giving, this model breaks down the barriers of grantor and grantee, facilitating a new model of giving based on oneness and trust.
www.charityfocus.org
Description of the Trust Driven Philanthropy Project: nipun.charityfocus.org/docs/tdp.html
Watch a Global Oneness Project interview with Nipun Mehta, a founder of CharityFocus and co-creator of the Trust-Driven Philanthropy Project.
Looking for new and cutting edge ideas and inspiration? Check out the CharityFocus Blog or subscribe to some of their diverse and interesting newsletters: here.

Contemplative Outreach, Ltd. - Butler, NJ
Contemplative Outreach is an international network of individuals and small faith communities devoted to fostering a deep inner connection to the universal meaning of the Christian scriptures through prayer and contemplation. Contemplative Outreach's primary focus is the instruction of contemplative practices through workshops and publications, especially the Centering Prayer taught by Father Thomas Keating.
www.contemplativeoutreach.org
Watch a Global Oneness Project interview with Father Thomas Keating.

The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions - Chicago, IL
The Parliament of the World's Religions brings together leaders of the world's various religious and spiritual communities to explore critical issues of peace, diversity, and sustainability in the context of inter-religious understanding and cooperation. The 2009 Parliament in Melbourne, Australia focused on faithful attention on global issues of Indigenous reconciliation, poverty, climate change and environmental degradation, voluntary and forced migration, and the mentoring of youth. Kalliopeia provides general support as well as scholarships for the participation of Indigenous Peoples.
www.parliamentofreligions.org
Read the 2009 Parliament Statement of Indigenous Peoples
Download a copy of Interreligious Insight: The Parliament of the World's Religions 2009, a summary article by Jan Pedersen describing the highlights of the 2009 Parliament in Melbourne.

Cultural and Educational Media Productions - Sausalito, CA
CEM Productions is a nonprofit film and video production and consultation group that uses film, video, and television technologies to promote new understanding, awareness and tolerance between peoples, cultures, nations, and faiths. Kalliopeia provided support for the post-production of Sound of the Soul, a film documenting the uniting power of music at the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music. Kalliopeia is contributing to the production of video and a new website One Through Love, which explores the state of nondual love realized in the legendary encounter of twelfth-century Sufi saints Jelaluddin Rumi and Shams of Tabriz – mystics whose story powerfully resonates across faiths and cultures.
www.cemproductions.org

Daily Acts - Petaluma, CA
Daily Acts is a community-based sustainability education network grounded in the principle that simple, mindful choices enrich our lives and world. Guided by a vision of a healthy, just and reverent culture, Daily Acts creates media, initiates and implements models of regenerative design in local communities, builds networks, and provides hands-on education. By sharing the powerful relationships, skills, and tools needed to create healthy lives and resilient communities, Daily Acts empowers citizens, strengthens leaders, and cultivates local self-reliance – all with a focus on the power of gratitude and mindful choice.
www.dailyacts.org

DreamWeather Foundation - Sebastopol, CA
DreamWeather Foundation is dedicated to exploring and celebrating the unique strengths of feminine spirituality. DreamWeather believes that women's unique spiritual capacities contain the wisdom of healing, interconnectedness, and transformation so profoundly needed by the world. Through workshops, retreats, and conferences around the country that provide time for women to gather, share dreams, meditate, and listen to the guidance of the heart, DreamWeather seeks to nourish feminine spiritual capacities for the good of the whole.
www.dreamweather.org

Earth Charter International - San Jose, Costa Rica
(Fiscal sponsor: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors)
The Earth Charter International (ECI) is dedicated to promoting the Earth Charter, a declaration of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the human family. Developed through a unique decade long, cross-cultural, participatory drafting process, the Earth Charter articulates fundamental ethical principles for building a just global society. ECI stimulates and coordinates international grassroots activity around the charter, generates commentary and advocacy from global thought leaders, and works toward the charter's adoption as a UN declaration.
www.earthcharterinaction.org

East Bay Meditation Center - Oakland, CA
Founded in a celebration of diversity, the East Bay Meditation Center's mission is to foster liberation, personal and interpersonal healing, social action, and inclusive community building. EBMC offers mindfulness practices and teachings on wisdom and compassion from Buddhist and other spiritual traditions, with a profound commitment to diversity and welcoming all who seek to cultivate equanimity and happiness.
www.eastbaymeditation.org

Feminine Wisdom School - San Rafael, CA
(Fiscal Sponsor: Sandalwood Healing Grove)
The Feminine Wisdom School (FWS) aims to bring the practices of feminine wisdom to a greater audience in service of global transformation and awakening. Drawing inspiration from the feminine wisdom that has been transmitted through the world's spiritual traditions, FWS creates a wholesome atmosphere for women to inquire into, access, and embody their innate wisdom and wholeness, while mentoring women to bring this wisdom to bear on projects in their own communities.
www.femininewisdomschool.com

Genesis Farm - Blairstown, NJ
Genesis Farm is a learning center for Earth studies, focusing on the interrelationships between the health of our global commons – air, water, land, and nature – and the health of our local communities and bioregions. Rooted in Thomas Berry's cosmology that reverences Earth as a primary revelation of the divine, Genesis Farm offers a variety of programs and academic credit for graduate courses in "Earth Literacy" – an exploration of the mysterious unity and relationships binding Earth and all of life together within the unfolding of a single, living Universe. Kalliopeia provides general support and project support for Genesis Farms’ Transition Towns Initiative.
www.genesisfarm.org
Sister Miriam MacGillis Introduces Cosmology at Seven Pillars’ Inauguration (Video)

Global Peace Initiative of Women - New York, NY
Global Peace Initiative of Women (GPIW) was founded to help awaken and mobilize spiritual energies in places of great need with the goal of aiding in healing and unifying the world community. Under the stewardship of a group of women spiritual leaders and practitioners, GPIW gathers women and men of great insight, compassion, and dedication, many of whom are working quietly for the upliftment of the world. A major focus of GPIW's work is to aid in building a global network of contemplative leaders who through their inner work can help transform the causes and conditions that lead to suffering at both the individual and collective level. Kalliopeia recently provided project support for a dialogue of Sufi and Yogic mystics in India, an upcoming gathering of American contemplative leaders in the Midwest, and an upcoming event called "Experiences of the Divine" in Aleppo, Syria.
www.gpiw.org
Report on the Sufi-Yogi Dialogue by Dena Merriam

Global Systems Initiatives - Rockville, MD
(Fiscal Sponsor: Institute for Multitrack Diplomacy)
Global Systems Initiatives brings the principles and perspective of systems thinking – i.e. the observation and understanding of a whole system and its complex dynamics as opposed to its individual parts – to policy-making, international conflict resolution and climate change challenges.Systems thinking acknowledges that we live in an age of dynamic interdependence, and recognizes that solutions to "intractable" global problems can be found by understanding how systems function in nature. Kalliopeia provided project support for the Simple Rules of Systems Thinking for Complex Global Issues as well as the Breakthrough Initiative, which tests the hypothesis that when whole systems are in distress, the application of whole systems thinking can generate breakthrough results.
www.globalsystemsinitiatives.net
Download a pdf of: "A Systems Approach to Peacebuilding" an article by Louise Diamond.
Read The Global Systems Review a periodic e-newsletter that explores critical world issues through the lens of whole systems thinking.

Green Mountain Monastery - Greensboro, VT
Green Mountain Monastery is home to a community of Benedictine sisters dedicated to celebrating Earth as a sacred community. Inspired by mentor and co-founder Thomas Berry, the sisters engage their ancient monastic lineage with the emerging "planetary phase" of religion that understands the Earth as the immediate place in which the Divine is revealed. Kalliopeia provides project support for Monastic Wisdom: Sharing the Gift, which invites diverse groups of lay women to participate in the monastic wisdom of prayer, silence, simplicity, labor, farming, and arts within this expanded sense of the sacred.
www.greenmountainmonastery.org
Read “Discovering the Divine Within the Universe,” an article by Gail Worcelo, CP, in EarthLight, The Magazine of Spiritual Ecology.
Watch a vimeo about the Green Mountain Monastery: “The Evolving Nuns"

Green Seminary Initiative - Madison, NJ
Based on the premise that religious communities have a unique and significant calling to turn back human-caused environmental destruction and to participate in restoring the wholeness of creation, the Green Seminary Initiative (GSI) provides clergy and religious leaders information with tools and resources to lead their congregations in meeting this call. GSI fosters efforts by theological schools to incorporate care for creation into the identity and mission of the institution, offering clear scriptural and theological bases for eco-justice, and articulating the spiritual and ethical depths of the environmental crisis.
www.webofcreation.org

Images & Voices of Hope - New York, NY
Images & Voices of Hope is a global dialogue dedicated to strengthening the role of media as agents of world benefit and expanding awareness of the choices those in media make that raise public trust, generate constructive meaning, amplify human hope, and enhance humanity's capacity for life-promoting action. With the understanding that change in awareness precedes change in the outer world, IVOH collaborates with media professionals for the distribution of media that creates a "new world story of possibility."
www.ivoh.org
International Dialogues for Thought Leaders in Media

Institute for Jewish Spirituality - New York, NY
Through retreat-based leadership programs, the IJS works with rabbis, cantors, educators, and lay leaders to nurture and disseminate through mainstream Jewish institutions the stream of contemplative Judaism. The IJS uses a participatory model to teach Torah study, prayer, yoga, meditation, spiritual direction, and retreat, with the goal of enriching the inner lives of Jewish leaders, revitalizing the Jewish wisdom tradition, and connecting the search for inner wholeness with social and environmental activism.
www.ijs-online.org/
Listen to "Spirituality in Daily Life"a series of IJS podcasts.

Interfaith Youth Core - Chicago, IL
Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) builds mutual respect and pluralism among young people from different religious traditions by empowering them to work together to serve others. IFYC believes interfaith service work has potential go beyond mere tolerance for diversity to create a state of deep respect for one another's religious identity, develop mutually enriching relationships with each other, and work side by side for shared goals. IFYC organizes days of public service, networks young people around the world, provides training and education to support youth leaders, and works through media to promote its vision of dynamic interfaith cooperation.
www.ifyc.org

International Society for Ecology & Culture (ISEC) - Berkeley, CA
ISEC’s mission is to protect and revitalize cultural and biological diversity by strengthening local communities and economies worldwide. Through a variety of media and educational work, ISEC promotes localization as a systems solution to today’s social and environmental crises – from unemployment to climate change, from ethnic conflict to biodiversity loss. Kalliopeia provided support for ISEC's 2010 film The Economics of Happiness, which connects the dots between economic globalization, environmental degradation, and cultural fragmentation, taking a holistic approach toward the meaningful regeneration of human and ecological communities.
www.localfutures.org

Journey of the Universe Project - Woodbridge, CT
(Fiscal sponsor: Thomas Berry Foundation)
Kalliopeia provides support for the Journey of the Universe educational project which tells the 14 billion year story of cosmic, planetary, biological, and cultural emergence. By integrating humanity’s best scientific understanding of the universe’s birth with narrative form, Journey of the Universe contextualizes life on earth in an awe-inspiring cosmic process – bridging the divide between sacred and secular and providing an inspiring, scientific, and humanistic context to respond to the current environmental crisis.
www.journeyoftheuniverse.org
http://www.thomasberry.org
"Singing to the Dawn: Thomas Berry on our Broken Connection to the Natural World," "The Sun," Issue 317.

Karina Films - Berkeley, CA
(Fiscal Sponsor: Interfaze Educational Productions)
Kalliopeia provided support for the short film Phoenix Dance, a deeply moving portrayal of lifelong dancer Homer Avila's choice to continue his art after losing a leg to a rare form of cancer. The vulnerability, trust, interdependence, and overcoming of challenges in Avila's rehearsal and performance are visually brought to life through film. People from all walks of life – including those with disabling illness, wounds of war, and many other challenges – have been moved by its testament to the transcendent power of beauty.
www.karinafilms.us/phoenix.html

Kerulos Center - Jacksonville, OR
The Kerulos Center has the mission to use science, spirit, and service to create a world where animals live in dignity and freedom, and to create a community that fosters animal self-determination and wellbeing. Kalliopeia provides project support for Sacred Bones, an educational curriculum and healing journey that repatriates the confiscated remains of poached animals to their natural habitats, while teaching a holistic and interdisciplinary curriculum that covers each species' biology, habitat, and human interactions. This includes the species' cultural relationships with Indigenous peoples and the often-parallel histories of displacement and exile. Grounded in trans-species psychology, Sacred Bones journeys go beyond conventional science education to explore the need for atonement and healing within and between human and animal cultures.
www.kerulos.org

Kosmos Journal - Lenox, MA
Kosmos is an international journal and forum committed to tracking the birth of a "new planetary culture" that is aware of our intrinsic interdependence. Featuring dynamic new leaders who embrace a comprehensive approach to change, the bi-annual journal addresses multiple facets of individual, cultural, and global transformation including diversity of cultural values, new spirituality, and global activism. In design and content, Kosmos is a true celebration of beauty.
www.kosmosjournal.org
Emergence: Kalliopeia Gathering, by Steve Nation, Kosmos Journal, Spring.Summer 2010 (pdf)

Link TV - San Francisco, CA
Kalliopeia provided support for the production of the Global Spirit thirteen-part television series, which uses documentary and narrative film to explore the universal, cross-cultural dimensions of the spiritual quest. Kalliopeia supported the production of programs on Forgiveness and Reconciliation, Art and the Sacred, Indigenous Wisdom, Oneness, and The Spiritual Quest. Kalliopeia also provided project support for the documentary film From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers' Warning, which issues a prophetic ecological warning from the Indigenous Kogi people of South America.
www.linktv.org
More information about the film "The Heart of the World" can be found on their website.
More information about the Kogi can be found on the The Tairona Heritage Trust website.

The Living Universe Project - San Rafael, CA
(Fiscal sponsor: Rudolf Steiner Foundation)
Kalliopeia supports the educational work of Duane Elgin, author of Voluntary Simplicity and the forthcoming book, The First Miracle: Our Journey of Return to a Living Universe and How it Transforms Our Lives and Future. In the face of severe global challenges, Elgin uses archetypal "tools of imagination" that allow us to see the human journey in its larger cosmic and initiatory context. The Living Universe Project articulates specific archetypes in our collective imagination that can act as beacons to illuminate a more promising future.
http://www.awakeningearth.org
Watch a Global Oneness Project interview with Duane Elgin.
Read "A Garden of Simplicity is Growing in the World," an article by Duane Elgin.

Marin Interfaith Council - San Rafael, CA
With the belief that increased communication among people of different religions breaks down barriers, creates trust, and builds genuine relationship, Marin Interfaith Council brings religious leaders and members of various faith communities together for study and celebration throughout the year. Participants experience one another’s prayers, meditations and music, advocate for social justice, and build community based on deepened understanding and shared experiences.
www.marinifc.org

Mediators Foundation - Boulder, CO
The mission of Mediators Foundation is to foster global leadership for a peaceful, just and sustainable world by supporting and connecting visionary leaders. Kalliopeia provides project support for The Global Citizen’s Journey – a rite of passage experience that inspires authentic curiosity and respect for humanity, evokes a sense of unity, recognizes the complexity of being a global citizen, and activates the sense of personal responsibility to partner with others. The daylong experience is designed to shift participants' awareness from sectarian, culture-bound, nation-focused attitudes to a more inclusive worldview, thus helping to reframe everyday experience from a context of separation to one of unity.
www.mediatorsfoundation.org

The Merton Institute for Contemplative Living - Louisville, KY
(Fiscal sponsor: The Thomas Merton Center Foundation)
The mission of the Merton Institute for Contemplative Living is to awaken interest in contemplative living through the works of Thomas Merton and others. The Merton Institute works in the context of a broader contemplative living movement that sees an ever-increasing materialistic standard of living as antithetical to the pursuit of happiness, peace and joy, and detrimental to the relationships that are essential for personal and communal wellbeing. A particular contribution of the Merton Institute to the field of contemplative living is a focus on relationship – a strong theme in Merton’s writings that deeply resonates with Kalliopeia’s mission.
www.mertoninstitute.org

Mosaic Voices Multicultural Foundation - Seattle, WA
Mosaic Voices Multicultural Foundation uses mythic imagination and traditional knowledge to develop transformative mentoring relationships and innovative forms of community healing. Applying a rare and masterful blend of storytelling, mentorship, and ceremony, Mosaic works intensively with a variety of populations including homeless and gang youth, combat veterans, refugees, and communities in crisis. Grounded in a mythic perspective, Mosaic seeks to find dynamic remedies for the alienation, spiritual dislocation, and personal isolation that increasingly characterize modern life, and to combine traditional thinking with fresh insights to develop wiser and more soulful cultural forms.
www.mosaicvoices.org

Motion – Nina Wise and the Women's Performing Collective - San Rafael, CA
Kalliopeia provides support for Nina Wise's play The Kepler Project, which describes a contemporary astronomer’s personal and professional challenges due to her radical notions of the universe, and the guidance she receives from the pioneering astronomer Johannes Kepler. By investigating how the pre-modern mind gave way to the modern, the play casts light upon the current paradigm shifts in science that collapse the 17th-century schism between science and spirit, suggesting that while the existence of a designer may lay outside the purview of science, the existence of design may lie at its heart.
www.motioninstitute.com/kepler
www.ninawise.com
Watch a scene from a reading of "The Kepler Project."

The Nature Institute - Ghent, NY
The Nature Institute serves as a local, national, and international forum for research, education, and the exchange of ideas about the re-visioning of science and technology in an effort to realign humanity with nature. Inspired by integrative scientists such as Johann Goethe and Rudolf Steiner, the Nature Institute is dedicated to developing qualitative and holistic approaches to understanding nature and technology. Through research, publications, and educational programs, the Nature Institute works to create a new paradigm that embraces nature's wisdom in shaping a sustainable and healthy future.
www.natureinstitute.org
Read "Learning to See Life,"and"Seeing Nature Whole - A Goethean Approach" by Craig Holdrege.

Nehirim - New York, NY
Nehirim (Hebrew for "lights") is the leading national provider of community programming for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Jews, partners, and allies. Their weekend spiritual retreats and multi-faith advocacy efforts regarding LGBT inclusion transform lives, and engage participants to be agents for change in their home communities. "Our activism is spiritual – we do not focus on policies and procedures, but on opening hearts." In both their immediate communities and in their national advocacy work, Nehirim is helping heal the powerful splits in Western culture between body and spirit, sexuality and spirituality.
www.nehirim.org

The New School at Commonweal - Bolinas, CA
The New School (TNS) is a growing community dedicated to dialogue on a range of issues "for people committed to lives of service." A part of Commonweal, a health, environmental and educational center in Bolinas, California, TNS focuses on emergent values, ideas, and movements across a range of fields. Through an eclectic and carefully-chosen variety of live conversations, art, music and theatre, as well as audio podcasts, TNS is building a resilient community that is global in reach. TNS is dedicated to the creation and nourishment of sustainable ways of living that are grounded in deep wisdom, ethical responsibility, and a connection to the heart across cultures.
www.commonweal.org/new-school/index.html

Numen: The Nature of Plants - Montpelier, VT
(Fiscal sponsor: United Plant Savers)
Numen: the Nature of Plants is a documentary film exploring an ecologically and spiritually grounded vision of herbal medicine and healing. Completed in July 2009, the film celebrates the healing power of nature, particularly as it is expressed in medicinal plants used in traditional herbal medicine. Numen offers ways to re-connect us with the living world in which we live and on which we depend, particularly the local places we call home. Kalliopeia provides project support for the film's audience engagement campaign.
www.numenfilm.com

One World Youth Project - Washington, DC
One World Youth Project is a youth-powered movement that connects schools globally for collaborative learning and community service. With a no-cost model that is accessible to under-resourced schools around the world, OWYP draws on university students to facilitate learning partnerships between international sister schools, which culminate in local community service projects. Driven by the philosophy that through participating in cultural exchange youth are inspired to take positive action, OWYP links classrooms in different countries to discover friendship across borders, connect more deeply with their own community, and learn the power of discerning and empathetic global citizens to face global challenges.
www.oneworldyouthproject.org
Watch a video about OWYP.

Pachamama Alliance - San Francisco, CA
The Pachamama Alliance's twofold mission is to preserve the earth's tropical rainforests by empowering the Indigenous Peoples who are its natural custodians, and to contribute to a new global vision of equality and sustainability for all. The Pachamama Alliance believes that our ability to meet the challenges of the new millennium depends on our ability to successfully combine the best elements of modern and Indigenous worldviews into a single global vision, an alloy that blends the intellectual and scientific prowess of the modern world with the deep and ancient wisdom of traditional cultures. Initiated at the request of the Achuar people of Ecuador, the Alliance works in the Amazon to support tribal leaders in strengthening their culture and empowering their ability to stand for and represent their own interests, and in the North to change the collective "dream" from one of exploitation and separation to one of respect and interconnection.
www.pachamama.org
Watch the short video “Awakening the Dreamer”

People's Grocery - Oakland, CA
People's Grocery works in the underserved neighborhood of West Oakland, CA to build a local food system that improves health, provides opportunity, and supports community. Through urban gardens, local farms, low-cost food distribution, educational outreach, youth programs, cooking classes, and a variety of community-building activities, People's Grocery supports a regenerative culture based on connection to the land and sustainable agricultural practices. Whether through ancestral trauma of being forced to work on land or simple lack of opportunity to leave the neighborhood, many marginalized urban residents have a diminished connection to nature, made worse by an unjust food system that does not provide fresh, healthy foods to poorer communities. People's Grocery uses food and community to redress these basic human needs and reconnect people to the ecological cycles that sustain us all.
www.peoplesgrocery.org
Watch a video about the People’s Grocery filmed by the Global Oneness Project.

Presencing Institute - Cambridge, MA
The Presencing Institute’s work emerged from interdisciplinary research demonstrating that the structure of awareness determines the quality and the outcome of a change process in individuals, organizations, and societies. With this core insight PI was founded to co-create awareness-based social technologies that create deep innovation and profound change across cultures. PI offers resources, education, an international network of changemakers in government, business and civil society, as well as a variety of working groups engaged in applying deeper structures of awareness to critical social and environmental issues.
www.presencing.com

Primordial Tradition (formerly The Peter Kingsley Foundation) - Asheville, NC
Through lectures, publications, and experiential workshops, the work of Primordial Tradition is "to bring back to life, and make accessible again, the extraordinary mystical tradition that lies forgotten right at the roots of the western world." Using the groundbreaking research of scholar Peter Kingsley, Primordial Tradition works with the forgotten but immensely powerful tradition that underlies western civilization and has the power to bring the human being to a direct and immediate experience of life in its depths.
www.peterkingsley.org
Watch a Global Oneness Project interview with Peter Kingsley.
View the trailer for the film, "Finding Our Ancient Wisdom"

Regenerative Design Institute - Bolinas, CA
The Regenerative Design Institute (RDI) holds a vision of a world in which people, inspired by nature, enhance fertility and biodiversity on the planet. Rooted in permaculture and wilderness awareness, RDI offers a variety of courses and programs with the conviction that humans can be a positive, healing presence on Earth. Kalliopeia provides support for Regenerative Youth Leadership and Peacemakers Council projects, which offer the leadership and awareness skills of permaculture to a network of urban leaders in the Bay Area working with at-risk youth.
www.regenerativedesign.org
Watch a Global Oneness Project interview with Penny Livingston, co-founder of the Regenerative Design Institute.

Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South - Durham, NC
Kalliopeia provides project support for the Meinrad Craighead documentary film Meinrad Craighead: Praying with Images. This film offers an introduction to the lifelong pilgrimage of visionary artist Meinrad Craighead and her mystical encounters with the Divine Feminine. Inspired by her own dreams and inner journeys, Craighead's work is characterized by unusual depth, mystery, and beauty, with a focus on images of the Divine Mother and animals as emissaries of the divine.
www.meinradproject.org
Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South

Seven Pillars House of Wisdom - New Lebanon, NY
Kalliopeia provides support for Seven Pillars, a forum inspired by the tradition of ancient wisdom schools to support the advancement of wisdom in global culture. Through dialogues, seminars, courses of study, and special projects, Seven Pillars aims to galvanize momentum for the emergence of wisdom in such forms as interfaith solidarity, spiritual growth, ecological awareness, and moral culture.
www.sevenpillarshouse.org

Shalem Center: Abwoon Resource Center - Worthington, OH
Inspired by native Middle Eastern wisdom traditions, the Shalem Center is dedicated to religious understanding and peace. The center publishes and distributes the work of Dr. Neil Douglas-Klotz, whose acclaimed translations of the Lord's Prayer and Beatitudes from the original Aramaic language highlight the message of universality, interdependence, and care for the cosmos at the heart of Christian and other native Middle Eastern spiritualities. The center organizes outreach and study in the Aramaic prayers, native Middle Eastern spirituality, and interspiritual leadership through retreats, workshops, and seminars.
www.abwoon.com
Dr. Neil Douglas-Klotz reciting The Lord's Prayer in Aramaic (Video)

Shalem Center - Worthington, OH
Shalem Center is the fiscal sponsor for the Edinburgh International Center for Spirituality & Peace, which mounts the annual Edinburgh Festival for Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace in Edinburgh, Scotland. This annual event is a spiritual, educational, artistic, and cultural gathering held in a spirit of peace and understanding. The festival provides a forum for the engagement and celebration of diverse Middle Eastern cultures and spiritual traditions.
www.mesp.org.uk

Social Healing Project - Crestone, CO
(Fiscal sponsor: Intersections International)
Kalliopeia provides support to the Social Healing Project for research and publication in the emergent field of "social healing" – an evolving body of theory and practice that seeks to enhance our understanding of the nature and transformation of social conflict. Social healing integrates current approaches to restorative justice, transitional justice, and reconciliation with emerging insights about human potential, consciousness, and the nature of reality. Learning from the successful strategies of deeply traumatized and war-torn societies, the Social Healing Project aims to cohere and establish these insights through publications and collaboration.
www.jamesodea.com/James_ODea/Home.html

Sophia Institute - Charleston, SC
The Sophia Institute provides a wide range of programs, retreats, and conferences addressing the needs of people engaged in personal and interpersonal transformation. A forum for leading-edge thinkers and teachers in wisdom and spiritual growth, the Sophia Institute is distinguished by its model of spiritual partnership and integration between feminine and masculine values, and its devotion to the "radical wisdom of the heart"that arises from such integration. Kalliopeia provides support for programming and scholarships.
www.thesophiainstitute.org

Spiritual Paths Foundation - Santa Barbara, CA
Spiritual Paths Foundation is dedicated to the emerging field of interspirituality, "a new consciousness drawing its inspiration from perennial spiritual and moral insights, intuition and experience." While honoring the distinct dignity of each tradition, Spiritual Paths Foundation works for the increased spiritual creativity emerging from the meeting of and dialogue between the world’s major religious traditions. A diverse faculty offer in-depth courses of study, retreat programs, media, and other resources exploring the contemplative traditions of the world.
www.interspiritualwisdom.org

Tides Foundation - San Francisco, CA
Kalliopeia’s grant to Tides Foundation was used to support the Integral Science Lab Project which is a program of Dipti Trust in Pondicherry, India. Blending Western and Asian epistemologies, Integral Science Lab (ISL) conducts research and experimentation with the goal of reconciling modern science with ancient cosmological wisdom. ISL’s current work explores the historical role of the etheric principle in ancient and modern sciences, explores theoretical models of the ether through computer simulation, and conducts experiments to test these models.
Watch a Global Oneness Project interview with Sraddhalu Ranade, founder of the Integral Science Lab Project
For more talks, videos and articles by Sraddhalu Ranade, please go to the Wisdom-Splendour website.

Tides Foundation - San Francisco, CA
Through a grant to the Tides Foundation, Kalliopeia provided project support for production of the film Aluna, a film made by and with the Kogi, an indigenous community in Colombia whose culture is based on preserving the natural functioning of the Earth, and who have deliberately minimized contact with modern society. In 1990 Kogi Mamos (seers) issued a dire warning about the spiritual and ecological consequences of the trajectory of industrial civilization in the BBC film From the Heart of the World – The Elder Brothers' Warning, before withdrawing again from all foreign contact. Seeing that the modern world's fundamental misperception of the earth as an exploitable resource has not changed, the Kogi Mamos are coming forward with a new film to give a final warning and explain the subtle spiritual dynamics that keep the Earth in balance, and how the 'Younger Brothers' (i.e. the modern world) must change their worldview.
www.taironatrust.org

United Religions Initiative - San Francisco, CA
The United Religions Initiative serves to promote enduring interfaith cooperation to end religiously motivated violence, and to create cultures of peace, justice, and healing for the earth and all living beings. URI hosts programs and conferences, and sponsors hundreds of local co-operation circles around the world dedicated to interfaith dialogue and service. Kalliopeia provides support for URI's Youth Interfaith Leadership Development Program, and provides scholarships for Indigenous Peoples to attend URI's world assemblies and gatherings.
www.uri.org

The Water Research Institute - Blue Hill, ME
Through research and education, the Water Research Institute works to transform attitudes toward water and develop new criteria for the management of water quality based not on the absence of pollutants, but rather upon the positive nature of water itself. WRI's innovative research and observation of water’s natural behavior and the conditions it needs to serve life goes beyond the mechanistic notion of water as an inanimate, inert, and commodifiable substance. WRI contributes to the growing awareness that by studying the intelligence within nature we can learn to evolve efficient, sustainable, and respectful systems of living that serve all of life.
www.waterresearch.org

Wildflowers Institute - San Francisco, CA
Through a dynamic combination of cultural study, social investment, and grassroots leadership training, Wildflowers is dedicated to "unleashing the inherent power in communities." Wildflowers works with community leaders to uncover the implicit core values within a culture that lead toward greatest social health, unity, and sense of meaning; to make those principles explicit; and to help mobilize them toward effective social change.
www.wildflowers.org
"Making Visible the Invisible Power of Community," Article by Hanmin Liu and Jennifer Mei of the Wildflowers Institute.

Women's Earth Alliance - San Francisco, CA
(Fiscal sponsor: Earth Island Institute)
Women's Earth Alliance is a global organization that unites women working on the frontlines of environmental causes through the coordination of resources, training, and technology based on the premise that "when women thrive, communities thrive." WEA's method of networking women around the world at the grassroots level models oneness in action: by joining the technical, social, and spiritual resources of individual women in a dynamic collective, the Alliance empowers each members’ local efforts toward sustainability with the power of the whole.
www.womensearthalliance.org

Works & Conversations - Berkeley, CA
Works and Conversations (WC) is a print and online magazine with the goal of exploring artists’ experiences and reflections about their own art making. Each issue is a collection of deeply thoughtful interviews with a wide range of social artists, presented in a remarkably beautiful and ad-free format. Besides creating a magazine of rare quality, WC is exceptional in its commitment to the values of the gift economy; since 2007 the magazine and archives have been offered entirely as an experiment in unconditional giving. Embodying the featured artists’ passion for a world of transformative beauty, WC’s pay-it-forward model is “a whisper in the ear of the collective, a whisper insisting against the odds that there's another way of encountering this world and each other: generosity.”
www.conversations.org

YES! Youth for Environmental Sanity - Soquel, NY
YES! connects, inspires, and collaborates with committed young changemakers who seek to live and work more consciously in alignment with their values. Working with youth leaders in unique peer-facilitated retreats, YES! focuses on integration of internal, interpersonal, and systemic transformation in a safe, dynamic, and supported format. Primary programs include Global Leadership, Leveraging Privilege for Social Change, and Supporting Aligned Movements.
www.yesworld.org

Zócalo Public Square - Los Angeles, CA
Zócalo's goal is to restore the tradition of the Public Square by connecting people and ideas in an open, accessible, non-partisan, and broad-minded spirit. With the belief that specialization and narrowcasting undermine human connectedness and social cohesion, Zócalo uses a web magazine, lectures, panels, screenings, and conferences, to take on ideas that enhance our understanding of community, restore the best traditions of civic discourse, and explore how we see and relate to one another, be it locally, regionally, nationally, or globally.
www.zocalopublicsquare.org