PROJECTS, FISCAL SPONSORHIPS & CLIENTS-2010Inquiring Systems, Inc. (ISI), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation founded in 1978 with the overall charitable purpose of “improving the human condition” by providing “ethical and sustainable ecosystem management services.” This purpose includes the goal of providing the training and technical assistance to obtain long-term economic viability and self-sufficiency for the projects, the people, the communities and for the ecosystems with which we are involved. ISI has organized, developed and managed our own projects and has provided many types of services including the following:* Project Management, business management, fiscal sponsorship services, training and technical assistance services to 3,600 primarily nonprofit and NGO organizations, along with some value-driven for profit entities, in all aspects of ethically directed business planning and management, financial planning and management, market planning and management, capital acquisition, debt management, organizational development, personnel policy planning, program planning and management, contract negotiation, business recovery, conflict resolution and systemic problem-solving. All of our clients come to us by way of direct word of mouth referrals—ISI does not advertise nor do we market our services.* Financial management, business development and business recovery assistance to 270 companies throughout the United States and in 17 countries. ISI has acquired in excess of $140 million in capital for our projects/clients through loans, grants, contributions, private investments, joint ventures and tax-exempt bond financing. We have also negotiated and obtained over $225 million in service contracts with industry and government agencies.* Workshop and seminar training to over 26,000 senior executives, project managers and board members in 35 states and in Canada.ISI operates differently than almost all other nonprofit organizations in that we drive responsibility and authority down in the ecosystems with which we are engaged and we bring accountability up through the system. ISI has a very small Board of Directors while requiring that each project/client have a well functioning and fully engaged policy-making Advisory Board and/or Board of Directors that is responsible for the oversight and policy directions of their respective project. ISI functions primarily as a resource and as a guarantor for the efficacy of the project, for adherence to mutually agreed to ethical values and principles, and we assist them in becoming economically viable, sustainable as an ecosystem and able to achieve their mission and charitable purposes. ISI is an implementing organization.
ISI Projects Advisory Board Project Manager/Staff(For each project/client)
Unity For Foundation 4 members Hatem Jabsheh, Aliza Hava, International Fiscal Sponsorship and Business Management Services Unity For Foundation was founded and is currently funded by a group of concerned, caring individuals who are united by a common goal to enhance the prospects for peace through an improved spiritual and physical quality of life for everyone living on our planet. We intend to achieve our mission by creating a global media and giving campaign that that is economically viable and financially sustainable via a continuing series of high profile concert event designed to enable “we the people” to be pro-active in making our voices heard and our actions felt in ways that help to solve the world's current major challenges. We shall initiate our campaign with a series of benefit concerts across the U.S. and Europe, leading to our first annual multi-country concert to be held in the Middle East. To kick-off our national campaign, we will hold our first event on March 12th at the Los Angeles House of Blues starring an eclectic gathering of International Artists to support our first cause: Peace in the Middle East. Simultaneous with this concert series, Unity For Foundation will launch our ‘open source’ web- and mobile-based social network that will bring individuals from around the planet into an action-based network where they can both speak their voice and verify the actual impact of their contributions within a fully transparent, philanthropic giving platform.We are an innovative and rapidly growing group of community-oriented individuals from across the planet that are investing time, energy and capital because Global Unity needs to occur NOW! The foundation has been designed to operate exclusively for the benefit of all people and does not allow contributions to be used for profit or personal benefit. Our goals are to promote peace, awareness, full transparency, innovation in philanthropy, financial sustainability and other positive values through mass media.
The Dream Institute of Northern CaliforniaFiscally Sponsored 8 members Meredith Sabini, DirectorBerkeley, CAThe Dream Institute is a participatory cultural center whose mission is to encourage interest in dreaming as a natural human resource, democratically available to all that can inform and inspire our cultural and personal lives. The programs of the Dream Institute emphasize the living reality of the psyche and its natural language of images, which appear in dreams, art, poetry, and meaningful events.
Fiscally Sponsored 15 members Grant Bennett, PresidentBAAKP has the charitable purpose to provide EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FOR BAY AREA KIDNEY PATIENTS. Founded in 2007, BAAKP is a core group of kidney patients and ancillary professionals who wanted to Educate and Support Bay Area Kidney Patients. Members and clients include people with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), persons who require and are currently on dialysis and transplant recipients. The organization conducts four educational meetings per year, which are very well attended by 60-75 people at each event. The organization also publishes a quarterly newsletter, which is distributed through a current mailing list of approximately 250 patients as well as doctors, dialysis and transplant centers and other interested parties such as Health Fairs.
Pioneer Imprints 3 members Alden BevingtonSan Rafael, CA Fiscal SponsorshipThe charitable purpose of PI is to facilitate the professional and distribution of media, which promotes the positive progress and understanding of the individual in the global society. In addition, the organization intends to facilitate, encourage and inform the discussion and application of the application of media advances in human consciousness and health states of being.
The WOW Labs and WOW Foundation Project Falmer, East Sussex, England 3 members Patrick TreloarFiscal Sponsorship and Business Management ServicesTo engage and enthuse individuals, institutions and networks through an ambitious flagship project and its related mentorship, arts and entertainment programs focused on wonder, inspiration and discovery; with collaboration, creativity and communication as their key methodology; thereby also generating inevitable spinoffs to world benefit and the promotion of an ethical intelligence in line with this goal.'The WOW Project is based on what we call a ‘Simulacrum’, a simulation which does not copy reality but one which creates it, this principle is employed through all of the project’s levels and ultimately our ‘flagship’ project online ‘game world’ mythology of freedom and good overcoming greed and evil through an altruistic Artificial Intelligence. The ambition of this project is indeed audacious, however we feel that by the development of WOW Labs, we can approach this ‘High Concept’ in an iterative fashion, opening up significant capabilities for research & development, arts & media, consultancy, creativity and community mentorship programs. WOW intends to initiate profound enquiry, but in a disarmingly playful way.The WOW Foundation is intended to be the key resource for this enquiry. Based around the project’s mythos of a machine that experiences wonder, deep questions can be asked concerning not only A.I, but also the human condition, as well covering areas such as positive psychology, quality of life, enthusiastic collaboration and creative communication.
Appalachian Institute for Renewable Energy (AIRE)
(An initiative of Appalachian Coalition for Just and Sustainable Communities)Boone, North Carolina 5 members Steve OwenFiscal Sponsorship/Business Management ServicesThe overall charitable purposes of AIRE are to advocate for the use of affordable, efficient and community-based use of renewable energy production in rural Appalachia. More specifically, the firm researches market investment opportunities for manufacturing the several devices now available, keeps regional leaders abreast of public policy issues, and, finally, brings an Appalachian perspective to regional, state, and national discussions among elected officials who frame and implement energy policy. In addition, the nonprofit may employ engineering consultants, or other persons with highly specialized skills and experience in the areas of financial analysis, comprehensive due diligence, or to assist in starting a test-bed for inventors and investors. The AIRE test-bed, as envisioned, is to examine the design and operation of renewable energy devices by placing them in service with our members to demonstrate their effectiveness, durability and value before they are marketed. We also intend to work with for-profit entities in a cooperative manner to demonstrate how to effectively and efficiently bring renewable energy production to Appalachian homes, businesses, churches, sawmills, radio stations, fish farms, auto fleet recharge stations for auto fleets, and perhaps even coal mines. ISI provides fiscal sponsorship and business management services related to the development of the nonprofit organization and to the interrelationship between for profit and nonprofit activities. AIRE is an Appalachia network of diverse individuals, organizations, community groups, and institutions of educational institutions working on issues of social, economic, and environmental justice and sustainability.
Freedom Song 3 members Jonah RossUkiah, CA Fiscal Sponsorship/Business Management ServicesFreedom Song is a spiritually based organization intending to hold ceremonies and offer services in praise of love and refinement of the human spirit. Their intent is to create a greater access to the creative arts to all people of all ages. They feel that assisting an individual in connecting with their authentic self, through identifying with and expressing their creative interest, is one of the greatest services to human kind. This is one of the foundations to our spiritual connection to the source of all life. When this connection is attained, it creates an experience of lasting peace, joy, enthusiasm and passionate freedom.
Bay Area Track Club Tony Kauke San Francisco Bay Area 5 members Fiscal Sponsorship/Business Management Services The Bay Area Track Club (BATC) will develop American distance running in three primary ways. First, it will provide a much-needed training infrastructure for California’s elite athletes. Team training sessions at UC Berkeley, a collaborative coaching staff, a medical team with Olympic athlete expertise, accessible altitude training, and living stipends will be provided to members. Second, this will create a desirable training option for America’s aspiring distance stars. Third, BATC elites will promote track and field to thousands of local runners through instructional clinics; meet appearances, peer mentoring, summer running camps, and motivational seminars. There is a great need for such running leadership here, as competitive track and field athletes prevail in youth clubs, high schools, junior colleges, four-year colleges, and Pacific Association post-collegiate clubs. This group will be both a bridge and an epicenter, connecting and inspiring all parts of the thriving running community in northern California.
Red Oak Center for Creative Expression and Life Skills TrainingCenter Point, Oregon Fiscal Sponsorship Curtis Van De Voorenwww.redoakglass.com 6 members Louis Colosimo, Barbara MikulaBy incorporating the creative environment of an arts studio with the day to day responsibilities of running a small business, The Center strives to provide an environment where creative expression is fostered and encouraged while providing involvement of the more day to day aspects of decision making and results of those decisions. By allowing ourselves to be creative, expressive and genuine, we can improve our lives and the lives of those around us and by increasing self awareness we enhance and nurture self esteem and critical thinking. Currently developing programs for: youth-seniors-military-developmentally challenged and all of the rest of us with challenges.
Nepal Education Fund 3 members Haydi Sowerwine David SowerwineNepal/USA Fiscal Sponsorship An organization of volunteers who raise funds from donors throughout the USA and other countries in order to provide financial support for the education of young girls in Nepal as an integral aspect of preventing the sale of young girls into slavery.
World Peace Project Heather Salmon, High Priestess, BA, ACH, L.Rflx Harbin Hot Springs, CA Fiscal Sponsorship www.HeatherSalmon.com
This project provides training, education and associated services, events and activities that are designed to inspire sustainable, equitable, ethical and peaceful ways of living on the planet.
Equitable Trade On hold until funded S. Loren Cole, Ph.D.A well-thought through business plan has been developed for the establishment of an international trade association that expands the trading of real goods between markets and developing economies that goes beyond the concept of “fair trade” in order to reflect a broader commitment to ethical and sustainable business practices including improved, transparency, professional certification of standards and in the reinvesting in local communities and ecosystems from which the raw products and materials were obtained.
Spirited Medicine Alliance 7 members Connie Grauds, R.PH.Peru and Bolivia and Minnesota Fiscal Sponsorship www.spiritedmedicine.comA combined US, Peruvian and Bolivian project that intends to sustain indigenous Shamanistic medicine that would be fully integrated with selected aspects of Western Medicine in order to provide a more holistic approach to health and wellness. Currently the project is engaged in teaching courses in Minnesota, in guiding ecological travel programs, small research activities and developing business plans for establishing operations in the US, Peru and Bolivia.
Write On! 6 members Robert-Harry RovinMarin County, CA Fiscal Sponsorship www.writeonworkshops.orgThis project currently conducts writing workshops at homeless shelters, battered women’s shelters and organization’s serving the disadvantaged that is focused on assisting specific individuals who are taught how to use writing as a form of self-expression that enhances self-esteem, nurtures independence & improves functionality for the homeless participants. M.E.C.C.A.A 7 members Lauren Coffield, Alexandria Yalj Santa Monica, CA Fiscal Sponsorship www.meccaafest.orgA group of artists who are integrating art/music/dance in performance and community events in order to improve awareness of environmental issues and also to raise funds in support of wildlife recovery and restoration efforts primarily in the Los Angeles geographical area. Ocean Rudee & Company 6 members Paul Ennis, Diane EnnisSebastopol, CA Fiscal Sponsorship www.oceanrudee.com Ocean Rudee & Company (OR&CO) has been developed for the purpose of increasing children's interest in books, reading, reading aloud, laughter, radio theatre and the World Wide Web. OR&CO will educate by experience, through the development and distribution of interactive educational audio, video and computer media. These literature-based story-telling programs will provide children (along with their primary caregivers) increased opportunities to engage in giggle fests, creative visualization and active imagination exercises. These activities have been proven to enhance literacy skills, sharpen mental acuity, increase self-esteem, strengthen personal development and promote a more positive outlook on life. The primary initiatives OR&CO is focused upon have to do with: 1. Increasing 4 to 8-year old kids' and young families' interest in books, reading, radio theatre, the World Wide Web and literacy awareness; 2. Developing young children's pre-reading and early-reading abilities through read-aloud audio programs that utilize their imaginations and listening skills in creative, enjoyable and effective manners; and, 3. Quite simply - Bringing Children's Books to Life! Rogue Valley Resiliency Fund 7 members Joseph McCormick, Rich Whitley, Chaz Brown, Carolyn Shaffer, Jeff Reade, Garrett Furuichi, Merrily Miller Rogue Valley, Oregon Fiscal Sponsorship/Business Management ServicesRVRF is an organization developed and incorporated in order to provide funding for community development projects and socially/environmentally responsible businesses. The overall purpose of the company is based upon the thesis that “INVESTING THAT’S GOOD…for you, us, and our neighbors. RVRF is a small, committed group of citizens preparing to launch a pioneering vehicle for sound local investment opportunities. Their intent is to keep local money growing and circulating in the Rogue Valley to ensure a thriving local business climate, a bumper crop of new jobs, enough locally grown food to feed our families year-round, as well as abundant water, power and fertile soil to sustain us all for generations. RVRF is presently engaged in clarifying its vision, mission, purpose and goals, has establish a legal entity, and is currently developing the operating agreement, bylaws, and are recruiting the founding board of directors and officers.
Inspire Every Child 5 members John M. ThompsonBellingham, WA Fiscal Sponsorship http://www.inspire-every-child.org/ A Washington State nonprofit corporation, PO Box 1865, Bellevue, WA 98009, which has the following charitable purposes and mission: a) To provide books, educational materials and learning resources to children, especially low-income and disadvantaged children, who are in need of these resources, wherever they may exist; and b) To acquire the assets and operations of Illumination Arts, Inc. and to conduct ongoing operations as a nonprofit publishing company, specializing in inspiring, non-denominational media for children. Healing Seekers 7 members Amy Greeson Thomasville, North Carolina Fiscal Sponsorship www.healingseekers.com An ecologically focused travel program and multimedia project that explores remote regions of the world in search of therapies, plants and other living organisms that represent centuries-old medical traditions. Healing Seekers was founded in 2006 by Amy Greeson, a registered pharmacist of about 20 years who specializes in integrative medicine. Healing Seekers LLC has education as the basis of its mission: Through compelling film and interactive products, it endeavors to raise public awareness about the origins of medicine, recognize ancient medical traditions and highlight the importance of preserving global environments. Ultimately, Healing Seekers aims to be a catalyst for exploration and discovery of new cures for disease. Mycoverse Unlimited and Mycophilic Systems, Inc. Ashland, Oregon 5 members Joseph Cerecides S. Loren Cole, Ph.D.Fiscal Sponsorship and Business Planning and Management Services Mycoverse Unlimited Mycoverse Unlimited is a research, production, processing and marketing business that will utilize the full spectrum of complimentary mushroom related capabilities. These efforts will include the growing and marketing of gourmet mushrooms for food and the production, processing and marketing of specialty mushrooms for uses in anti-viral, anti-tumor and anti-microbial therapies for vulnerable and infected populations in the USA and abroad. MU intends to focus on the development of safe, effective anti-viral and anti-cancer therapies for those with compromised immune systems, but also in improving the quality of life of those who suffer from terminal illnesses. In addition, MU is in the process of preparing business plans that will include the eventual development of land and water bioremediation capabilities, and the expanding the use of fungi for other useful purposes such as housing insulation. MU also intends to develop and implement comprehensive, fully integrated agricultural systems that incorporate the growing of high protein fungi to enhance the use of waste products into edible protein and then the use the remaining mushroom compost as byproducts for the development of other protein production as an integrated ecosystem-based sustainable food growing system in developing countries. Mycophilic Systems, Inc. Mycophilic Systems, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation that will focus on improving the understanding of the critical roles and benefits of fungi and will engage in comprehensive, creative and entertaining education and training programs. These efforts will include field research projects, laboratory research, lectures, seminars and interactive workshops for schools, health care providers, medical researchers and the general public. As part of this mission, MSI will conduct and operate residential training programs in the field of Mycology and its associated bio-technologies for commercial production, from field collections and macro and micro identification, to tissue cell culturing techniques, commercial expansion of mycelium/spawn, and its use as inoculums for mushroom fruit body production, biopharmaceutical application and bio-remediation technologies. MSI intends to be an advocate for and to expand the understanding and appreciation for fungi in the life of every human being and in the ecosystems of which we are a part.In cooperation with MU, MSI will also undertake the development and operation of comprehensive, ecosystem compatible projects in developing countries that utilize the full complement of fungal capabilities to produce food and medicine in a fully integrated whole systems approach consistent with ecosystem cycles and natural processes.
A.W.E. Institute (Abundance, Wellness & Enlightenment Institute) Marin County, CA Fiscal Sponsorship 3 Members Mark Chasan Project to build and live in a sustainable community using a for-profit/non-profit collaborative structure, subject you wisdom and guidance, as follows: - AWE, Inc. (“AI”) as a for-profit holding company with the following divisions: (i) Community Development, (ii) Transformational Wellness, (iii) Interactive and Media, (iv) Consulting, (iv) Education and Certification, (v) Agriculture and (vi) Venture Accelerator.
- AWE Bank – A community bank that will provide variable interest rates on deposits that reflect the success of the community. Using banking leverage to help develop community and community businesses, AWE Bank can provide funding for capital improvement, inventory, equipment and business loans to the community. Moreover, the bank may be used as a vehicle to allow unaccredited investors to become owners in the community without pass through and violation of securities law offering exemptions.
- AWE Global (“AG”) is a non-profit whose purpose it is to positively transform our world, lifestyles and economics by sustainably reconnecting people to community, to the earth and to spirit with goal of all people live in A.W.E.
- This will be accomplished by providing a principled foundation for living in AWE (“AWE Consciousness”), creating a sharing/giving economy through sustainable work-live A.W.E. Communities that teach us how to live in greater respect for each other and the planet, increase interpersonal relationship skills and a provide environments and tools that create a deeper sense of connection and a higher quality of life. For those that are unable to live in an A.W.E. Community, they can participate in AWElife.com’s online community and/or visit A.W.E. retreats, workshops and transformative wellness centers.
- AG will have the objective preserving a high percentage (e.g. 70%) of the land it receives for the enjoyment of those who desire to sustainably live on and/or enjoy the beauty of the land. The land itself may be conservatively harvested in accordance with strict guidelines. The other 30% can be used for the building of sustainable communities and agriculture.
- AG will generate revenues from the lease of land, conservation land management, publications, education, certification, events, workshops, appreciation in land value from improvements, donations of stock/equity, providing trained employees to sustainable businesses, research and participation in the incubation and operation of related ventures.
Daily Miracles 3 members Barry Stamos, Sheilah Evans Florida and California Fiscal Sponsorship www.dailymiracles.org To create online and local opportunities for individuals to make a difference in the life’s of others by sharing time, talent, resources, information and connection with those in need.
Green Century Institute 3 members Michael Gosney Mark Kasky San Francisco, CA Fiscal Sponsorship Marjorie Athwal MISSION STATEMENT
To foster the development of sustainable communities and an ecologically sound integration of human settlements and activities with the natural systems of the planet in the 21st Century. VISION STATEMENT
The solutions to the ecological problems facing humanity are all available and realizable, through comprehensive and effective dissemination of information, development of appropriate technologies, and ecologically informed systems of implementation. |
With an overarching mission of "evolving sustainable communities," the Green Century Institute (GCI) was established in 2002 as an independent research and development association. It was founded by Michael Gosney and Marc Kasky, pioneers in community-based development and new media technologies. GCI has developed a series of educational events under the fiscal sponsorship of RSF Social Finance, and advised on a range of green development projects including the Alameda Island and Concord Naval Weapons Center in the San Francisco Bay Area. GCI is working on various initiatives to put high technology resources to work on sustainability programs, as well as continuing research and outreach toward the development of a major "green city" project in the San Francisco Bay Area, Califia. GCI offers a range of consulting services to companies, civic entities and NGOs, including project development, technology support, design programs, media and publishing development, specialized
Jackson WellSprings 5 members Gerry Lehrburger, M.D. Ashland, Oregon Fiscal Sponsorship/Business Management Services http://www.jacksonwellsprings.com/ Health Research Institute: To provide effective tools through education, research, and clinical practice that teach self-responsibility, promote healing, and preserve the environment. People seeking alternative therapies are confronted by the rigid structure of modern medicine on the one hand and by a paucity of verifiable information on the other. Research supported by Wellsprings applies the scientific method toward frequently overlooked therapies that acknowledge total human potential and the regenerative capacity of Nature. This research serves as a bridge to a new medical paradigm which better equips, and addresses the needs of, an ailing population and planet. The WellSprings model ties health directly to the resources that promote wellness – sunshine, hot mineral waters, fresh air, and freshly grown and prepared food and herbs - thus enabling participants to conceptualize and realize wellness more readily. Wellsprings provides healthcare that is economically and ecologically sound and which bring man into harmony with his environment and himself. Honoring the uniqueness of each individual, WellSprings embraces physical health, not as an endpoint, but as a springboard for discovering the important relationship that exists between body, mind, spirit, and environment. Honoring Nature as the source of life, Wellsprings offers education on Natural Medicine and personal responsibility towards the goals of health promotion and environmental sustainability. WellSprings offers an environment where concepts of health and economics can be critically analyzed and where new concepts which are kinder both to mankind and the environment can be explored and implemented. The WellSprings campus offers young and old alike an opportunity to participate in rejuvenating and invigorating programs and the opportunity to develop sustainable, healthy lifestyle practices.
VillageTech Solutions 5 Members David SowerwineInternational/California Fiscal Sponsorship http://www.villagetechsolutions.orgThe purpose of this corporation is to improve living conditions in developing countries as follows:· To stimulate innovation in technology and in programs which enable needy beneficiaries to acquire such technologies.· To provide job training services and facilities.· To collaborate with other nonprofit organizations in their non-profit activities.· To aid, support, and assist by gifts, contributions, training, technical assistance, or otherwise, other corporations, funds, and foundations organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individuals, and no substantial part of the activities of which is carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation.· To do any and all lawful activities which may be necessary, useful, or desirable for the furtherance, accomplishment, fostering, or attaining of the foregoing purposes, either directly or indirectly, and either alone or in conjunction or cooperation with others, whether such others be persons or organizations of any kind or nature, such as corporations, firms, associations, trusts, institutions, foundations, or governmental bureaus or agencies.Activities - To create novel products and programs that improve living conditions
- To provide job training services to the underprivileged of the community
- To assist needy beneficiaries to acquire beneficial technologies and practices
- To help other nonprofit organizations in business and operational development
- To undertake such other community outreach programs for achieving the purposes and utilizing the powers set forth in its Articles of Incorporation, subject to the limitations expressed in its Articles of Incorporation.
========================================================================== Current Consulting Clients Board of Directors/Advisors====================================================================Shannon Rowbury www.shannonrowbury.com San Francisco, CA Business ManagerShannon is one of the top professional and elite runners in the world. She is current ranked 3rd in the world in the 1500 meter outdoor events and has demonstrated that she is a runner of tremendous potential who has already established herself as an exceptional athlete. Shannon is our current U.S. National Women’s 1500 meter Champion and was our top qualifier for the recent Olympics in China. She is also the Bronze Medal winner for the 2009 World Championship Women’s 1500 meter race. ISI is currently Shannon’s Business Manager and responsible for the management of all of her professional business operations and activities.
Vicchi OleskiSebastopol, CA Business Management ServicesThe vision/mission is to establish an operating foundation that will support, nurture and help to create a New Economic World. This approach will include establishing creative, imaginative, and democratic thought. Our intention for such a foundation is to bring forth financial health, healing and beauty to individuals/communities in a diverse uplifting tangible way.We also intend to focus our activities around the inventive individuals that contribute their lives towards the uplifting and healing of others through hands-on modalities and other forms of creative beauty wellness; such as bodywork, acupuncture, chiropractic, astrology, energy medicine, ministry, artistry, writing, hairdressing, to name a few, are recognized as lay leaders in the evolving field of Conscious Living.
Edison Innovation Network Board of 3 members Larry MacDonaldKenwood, CA and San Francisco Bay AreaEdison Innovations, Inc., a company focused on delivery of “innovation as a service,” with a collaborative development initiative for its RealGov.com project, an evolving online resource designed to help build new, citizen-controlled bridges and communications channels linking government with the governed, in any locality and nation-wide. RealGov.com is a public “wiki” for which any interested citizen can contribute, edit, or comment upon content. RealGov.com is directly inspired by Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia, and is based on the same supporting technologies and principles. Citizens, employees of government agencies, politicians, and others interested in increased government accessibility, responsiveness, and transparency are invited to visit the RealGov.com Web site (at http://www.realgov.com), and to contribute to its features, development, and support. Another project is “Kids Teaching Kids” (KTK): · A web-based video platform that empowers kids to teach other kids educational subjects via compelling video content. · A vast selection of free videos for teachers to use in classrooms, covering all topics and standards being studied. · Target the primary and secondary education market (K-12) in the U.S. We expect our product will also be useful to college levels and potentially the military. · A unique, elegant, and intuitive user experience designed for K-12 engagement and education.· Parental safeguards to ensure that parents are made aware of site registration and posts. · Community features, such as a ratings system so kids can select the most useful videos for a given subject or problem.· Competitions and incentives for students to create, share, view, and rate videos.· Tracking and monitoring on the site to show certain site activity and to track how kids are making progress towards learning goals and mastering subject matter. · Ability to cross-reference videos back to specific topics in major textbooks and curricula. · Ability to connect educational institutions and students throughout the world.· Integration with other platforms such as mobile phones and Facebook.
Tri-CED Community Recycling Board of 7 members Richard Valle Union City, CA www.tri-ced.comTRI-CED Community Recycling is a nonprofit corporation founded in 1981 as a community based recycling organization located in a “state-of-the-art” urban waste processing facility in Union City, California. Tri-CED's mission is to reduce the waste stream, employ youth and needy adults and to share residual proceeds with the community. Tri-CED forms partnerships with community based organizations, schools, teachers, and faith based organizations to promote source reduction, recycling collection, composting and community education programs designed to reduce waste and raise awareness about our environment. For the past 20 years, TRI-CED has been recycling urban household waste, yard waste and managing a buy-back program under contracts with the Cities of Union City and Hayward. The direct benefits to the community and the environment of TRI-CED’s recycling activities are enhanced by employment and training opportunities for low-income residents of the community, undertaken in partnership with the Alameda County workforce development system. Tri-CED has used sound business management techniques, methods and skills to operate a recycling business in a cost effective manner that has saved money for the residents of the communities the company serves. Tri-CED is the largest, economically viable, fully sustainable, community-based recycling operation in California.ISI provides comprehensive business management assistance in all aspects of the operating and development of one of the most successful nonprofit recycling company in the US. ISI is also responsible for many aspects of the business operations including financial analysis, project development, capital acquisition, municipal recycling collection contract negotiations with the cities of Union City and Hayward and assisting the management team in maintaining the terms and conditions of the contracts and related operations. ISI also provides, when required, comprehensive, systemic and ethically direct business management services, bank and bond financing, grant writing, project management and other related services
Chabot College/Tri-CED Community Recycling: Environmental Education Center Hayward & Union City, CA A Partnership of Tri-CED Board (7 members) & Chabot Board of Trustees (7 members) Currently on hold until further funding is obtained. This EEC is a joint venture with Chabot College and Tri-CED Community Recycling to design and build a $4.4 million EEC facility and to operate multi-faceted K-12 environmental education & college-level environmental job training programs. The EEC will also provide a full-service education and training facility and associated services related to enhanced environmental awareness and recycling activities. International Andreas Gruentzig Society 7 members Paula Rowbury International/San Francisco, CA Business Manager ISI provides comprehensive business and financial management services to this nonprofit organization with over 300 doctors, medical professionals, researchers and medical industry professional members from around the world who are engaged in and focused on research and practical medical applications for heart related health issues and the use of angioplasty. IAGS conducts bi-annual conferences on issues related to achieving its mission, goals and objectives Collaborations In Learning 3 members Ralph CantorOakland, CAISI provides full business and financial management services for a nonprofit with the mission to restore & operate programs and services that conduct school focused programs that are effective in reducing tension, frustration & anger among young people that is primarily related to racial and ethnic issues and concerns. CIL uses unique and very effective techniques and methods that substantially improve communication among and between individuals in different racial and ethnic groups by enhancing mutual respect for different cultures, backgrounds, races, beliefs & values. CIL provides a comprehensive and set of activities that are self-directed by the participants and give ownership to everyone involved in a manner provides continuity and consistency in behavior beyond the actual events and activities.
The Women’s Giving Circle 5 Members Barbara Sachs, Ph.D.Sonoma, CAISI provides business and financial management services to enhance the operation and sustainability of this nonprofit, which has the aim of to establish an effective and powerful channel of giving for women of any means at any level. They are designed to create a joyful collaboration and provide opportunities to grow together, around giving, in a small group of like-minded women. This collaboration offers a rich tapestry of activities leading to new insights into ourselves and others. The intention is to make "philanthropy" rewarding for all and have fun together in the process. Collaboration, empowerment and learning set the tone for The Women’s Giving Circles. In the world we live in today, giving to others and of ourselves is essential for the advancement of humanity. When a woman is empowered, she nourishes the whole village, not only herself. The Women's Giving Circle was formed with the “philanthropy” of social investing focusing on projects that impact the lives of people in an empowering way. In a Women’s Giving Circle, women participate as colleagues around giving and at the same time have fun learning and growing together. Most have not funded with others before. The collaborative process is part of the giving and through it women themselves are nourished. The generosity we experience in the process of giving is magnified and transformed into lasting bonds of love.
The Shieloh Foundation 4 members Susan Gold, Laurel Beeman,San Diego, California Bob Robinson, Edward Castillo-RubioBusiness Management Services The Shieloh Foundation, a non-denominational church dedicated to the Discovery of Divinity Within. Shieloh creates and nurtures an environment that guides the process for individuals who are seeking a higher consciousness, who are committed to each individual’s own evolution and who are willing to assist others along the path in further expressing and embodying their own divine natures. The organization and its ministers are engaged in and dedicated to processes that enhance healing, through prayer and ceremonial services that awaken and provide a greater understanding of the Divine Presence within us all. We all want a new and different world and Shieloh helps create the change we want to see, one person at a time, beginning with our self.
www.conversations.org Berkeley, CA Business Management ServicesInspired by the following insights and perspectives on the human condition:"The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist." --Ananda K. Commaraswamy "How hard I find it is to see what is right in front of my eyes!" --Ludwig Wittgenstein "To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perception. The act of art is a tool for extended consciousness..." --Robert Irwin "From the traditional point of view, there could hardly be found a stronger condemnation of the present social order than in the fact that the man at work is no longer doing what he likes best, but rather what he must, and in the general belief that a man can only be really happy when he gets away and is at play." --Ananda K. Commaraswamy A magazine created in the early 1990s with the mission to explore artists' experiences and reflections about their own art making. What came from that is a series of deeply thoughtful interviews with a wide range of artists, and a magazine called works & conversations. Although humble in its subscription base, the magazine attracted a growing number of readers touched by a quality of content missing in other art world publications. Institutional subscribers, ranging from the Metropolitan Museum, SFMOMA and the Kandinsky Library at the Pompidou Center in Paris to Harvard, Stanford and Columbia University, and from to RISD, The Art Institute of Chicago to CCA, SVA and SFAI, subscribed and archived all of the back issues in their libraries. ISI provides business and financial management services to enhance the operation and sustainability of this nonprofit.
Additional ServicesISI is currently providing pro bono advice, guidance, education and training services in ethical and sustainable business management services to an additional 12 nonprofit organizations who are not under contract at this time but have indicated their intentions to do so.
Selected Prior Clients (from 3600)Affordable Housing Initiative—California
American Friends Service Comm.—San Francisco
American Indian Center—San Francisco, CA
Asian American Health Consortium—CA
Audubon Nature Training Center—Oakland, CA
Bay Area Black United Fund—Oakland, CA
Botswana Biointensive Nutrition Project—Botswana
California Child, Youth and Family Services—CA
Calif. State Dept. of Food and Agriculture—CA
Center for Independent Living—Berkeley, CA
Children’s Aid Center—Nepal
Citizens for Affordable Housing—CA
City of Fremont—Fremont, CA
City of San Jose Youth Services—San Jose, CA
Cleveland Services for Independent Living—Ohio
Count of Alameda Technical Assistance Prog.—CA
Delancy Street—San Francisco, CA
East Bay Center For Performing Arts—CA
Falasha Refugee Program—Ethiopia/Kenya, Africa
Friends Outside—Salinas, CA
Global Educators—Oakland, CA
Huichol Center Cultural Survival/Arts—Mexico
Insituto Familiar de la Raza—Marin County, CA
Latin American News Service—El Paso, Texas
Greater Nevada Health Systems. Agcy—Las Vegas
Highline-West Seattle Mental Health Center—WA
Laotian-American Economic Develop. Corp.—CA
Lutheran Social Services—Seattle, Washington
Mgt. Assistance Project—Minneapolis, MN
Mississippi Paralysis Association—Baton Rouge, LA
National Endowment for the Arts—Washington, DC
National Plant, Animal & Microbial Gene Resource
Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation—Nepal
The Navajo Nation—Window Rock, Arizona
Oklahoma Dept. of Rehabilitation Services—Okla.
Oakland SPCA—Oakland, CA
Ontario Curriculum Clearinghouse—Canada
Organization for Assistance to Haiti—Haiti
The Pathways Society—Santa Clara, CA
Pickle Family Circus—San Francisco, CA
Planned Parenthood—USA
Science Interchange—San Rafael,
Self-Employment Dev. Initiatives—Toronto, Canada
Senior Outreach Services—Contra Costa, CA
State of California Direct Marketing Program—CA
TRI-CED Community Recycling—Union City, CA
The Trust for Public Lands—United States
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