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 Tenderstone, an intimate portrayal of the complexities of a learned woman in Islam, which evokes the ancient, nurturing wisdom hidden in the depths of the imaginative self.
www.artship.org

The Aspen Grove Project - CO
(Fiscal sponsor: Rudolf Steiner Foundation)
The Aspen Grove Project brings dedicated individuals together in community to build interconnection and relationship through silence, meditation, and dialogue. The essence of The Aspen Grove Project is a conviction that the source of peace on earth is a unity that underlies the diversity in the human family, nations, and religions, and the project's goal is to support and activate that unity through contemplative focus.
www.theaspengrove.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

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 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.

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.

Charity Focus - Santa Clara, CA
(Fiscal sponsor: Rudolf Steiner Foundation)
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.

Constellations of Hope: An Invitation to Organizational Collaboration - Petaluma, CA
(Fiscal sponsor: Gather the Women Global Matrix)
This gathering, held in the autumn of 2008, was dedicated to the premise that "now is the time to manifest powerful, affirmative answers" to the earth's cry for new paradigms of leadership that include feminine qualities. This conference was convened for groups working on behalf of women and women's issues to galvanize momentum and provide exchange of resources and ideas. Kalliopeia provided scholarship funds to ensure representation of women from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds.
www.constellationsofhope.com

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

Earth Hope - Dayton, WY
(Fiscal sponsor: Sisters of St. Francis)
Earth Hope seeks to integrate Earth care and spirituality through retreats, workshops, and community events in which participants explore ways to embrace, restore, protect, and nurture the sacred web of life. Earth Hope fosters a deep appreciation of Earth-based wisdom by providing experiential contexts for learning and transformative growth.
www.earth-hope.org

Edinburgh International Centre for World Spiritualities - Edinburgh, Scotland
(Fiscal sponsor: Shalem Center)
Kalliopeia provides support for the international Edinburgh Festival for Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace, a project of the Edinburgh International Center for World Spiritualities. 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

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, and a gathering of American contemplative leaders in Washington, DC, to "raise a new spiritual voice for the nation."
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.

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

Imago – EarthSpirit Rising 2009 - Cincinnati, OH
In bringing together cutting-edge thinkers, regional communities, local businesses, and grassroots organizations, ESR conferences are dedicated to mobilizing the wisdom that the Earth expresses through scientific and spiritual traditions toward sustainability and healing. The 2009 conference focused on replacing toxic economic systems with models that acknowledge the larger environmental context, toward the goal of a "planetary system of community-led, local, living economies." Networking and sharing of strategies is complemented by an exploration of the cultural and spiritual transformations needed to make this transition possible.
www.earthspiritrising.org

Integral Science Lab Project - Pondicherry, India
(Fiscal Sponsor: Dipti Trust)
Blending Western and Asian epistemologies, Integral Science Lab (ISL) conducts research and experimentation with the goal of reconciling modern science with ancient cosmological wisdom. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach to scientific inquiry, ISL aims to bridge the gulf between material and phenomenological knowledge, and works toward a paradigm shift that recognizes the underlying unity of natural forces and processes. 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.

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

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

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

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.

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”

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

Seasons Fund for Social Transformation - Santa Fe, NM
The Seasons Fund for Social Transformation is based on the premise that the best hope for lasting social change lies in incorporating contemplative practices into the process of societal transformation. To that end, the Seasons Fund mobilizes resources, makes grants, and sponsors learning activities that support, strengthen, and shed new light on the role of contemplation in social change organizations.
www.seasonsfund.org

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

ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation - Los Angeles, CA
ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation draws upon Indigenous wisdom and a profound understanding of destiny to mentor the human potential, restore vital wellness, and create intentional communities. ShadeTree is dedicated to providing sanctuary – an agreement of the heart that gives context for the recovery of the true Self. In supporting this most authentic ground of the individual, Shade Tree brings a transformative mentoring process and training to at-risk youth, prisoners, and various civil and cultural agencies.
shadetreefoundation.org
Watch a Global Oneness Project interview with Orland Bishop, founder of ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation.

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)

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

Soldier's Heart - Troy, NY
Soldier's Heart is a veteran's healing project addressing the emotional and spiritual needs of veterans, their families, and their communities. Understanding post-traumatic stress disorder as a "soul wound," Soldier's Heart guides community-based efforts to heal the effects of war using strategies presented in director Ed Tick's pioneering book War and the Soul. Kalliopeia provides general support and project support for Return Journeys, a program that brings veterans to former combat zones to seek healing and peace, uniting former combatants in a profound experience of shared humanity.
www.soldiersheart.net
"Like Wandering Ghosts: Edward Tick on How the U.S. Fails Its Returning Soldiers," The Sun, Issue 390.

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

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

Upper Gila Watershed Alliance Gila, NM
Kalliopeia provides support for the annual Gila River Festival, a three-day event focused on increasing the awareness of the natural and cultural heritage of the Gila River and its watershed, New Mexico's last free-flowing river and one of the most biodiverse wild drainage systems in North America. The unique festival celebrates the stories of all of the communities of life that have made the Gila River home for eons through the arts, history and science, and by broadening public awareness of biodiversity along the Gila. The festival unites a variety of environmental, municipal, cultural, and government agencies in a spirit of communion and reverent celebration of a local ecological treasure.
www.ugwa.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
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

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