Board and Management
Board of Directors
S. Loren Cole, Ph.D.
Loren is currently Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Inquiring Systems, Inc. (ISI),
founded in 1978, ISI provides ethical and sustainable ecosystem management services primarily to nonprofit organizations,
community-based projects, value-driven for-profit entities and selected government agencies throughout the world.
Selected accomplishments:
founded in 1978, ISI provides ethical and sustainable ecosystem management services primarily to nonprofit organizations,
community-based projects, value-driven for-profit entities and selected government agencies throughout the world.
Selected accomplishments:
- Founder, principal developer & administrator of the comprehensive, systemic & interdisciplinary Environmental Program: The Conservation and Resource Studies major at U.C. Berkeley.
- Assisted with the establishment of the California Environmental Education teaching credential.
- Developed & Coordinated the Ad Hoc Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program at U.C. Berkeley.
- Co-founder of the first urban recycling program in America.
- One of the founding members and developers of the Berkeley, CA Ecology Center
- One of the founding members of the First Earth Day and Co-coordinator of the first Earth Day activities on the U.C. Berkeley campus in 1970.
- Founder & CEO of Inquiring Systems, Inc., a nonprofit corporation founded in 1978 to improve the human condition through ethical and sustainable ecosystem management services.
- Co-founder and CEO of a deep ultraviolet energy company.
- Designed and built a universally designed, active and passive solar home in Sonoma, CA.
- Founder & business manager of a retail business providing assistive technology products.
- Member of the Board of Directors for 24 nonprofit and 9 for profit corporations.
- Provided ethically directed business management services to 3650 clients throughout the world.
- Founded/recovered & developed 268 ethically directed income producing entities supporting nonprofit missions.
- Conducted workshop & seminar training in ethically sustainable ecosystem management to 26,000 senior management executives & board members of socially responsible nonprofit & for-profit organizations.
- Acquired $145 million in capital & obtained $240 million in service contracts for clients.
Dr. Cole has won numerous awards and commendations, has been a keynote speaker & invited guest on radio, television and internet sites and has published articles and papers related to his areas of expertise.
He can be reached at cole@inquiringsystems.org
Secretary: Constance Grauds, R.Ph.
Connie is currently Director of Allied Health, Minneapolis Community and Technical College; President of the Association of Natural Medicine Pharmacists; Adjunct Faculty, University of Minnesota, Center for Spirituality and Healing; and Grauds is also Director of The Center for Spirited Medicine, and Director of nonprofit efforts for The Spirited Medicine Alliance dedicated to preserving the rainforest's medicinal plants and indigenous healing practices.Having completed fourteen years of shamanic apprenticeship with don Antonio Montero Pisco in the jungles of the Amazon, she has been appointed to carry on the teachings and healings of his ancient Cocama shamanic lineage.
Connie is currently Director of Allied Health, Minneapolis Community and Technical College; President of the Association of Natural Medicine Pharmacists; Adjunct Faculty, University of Minnesota, Center for Spirituality and Healing; and Grauds is also Director of The Center for Spirited Medicine, and Director of nonprofit efforts for The Spirited Medicine Alliance dedicated to preserving the rainforest's medicinal plants and indigenous healing practices.Having completed fourteen years of shamanic apprenticeship with don Antonio Montero Pisco in the jungles of the Amazon, she has been appointed to carry on the teachings and healings of his ancient Cocama shamanic lineage.
Grauds teaches and lectures internationally on natural and spirited medicines, and offers spirited medicine healing workshops in Peru and the United States.
Board Member: Gil Friend.
Gil Friend is President and Chief Executive Officer of Natural Logic.
A systems ecologist and business strategist with nearly 40 years experience in business, communications, and environmental innovation, Friend combines broad business experience with unique content experience spanning strategy, systems ecology, economic development, management cybernetics, and public policy. Tomorrow magazine called him “One of the country’s leading environmental management consultants—a real expert who combines theoretical sophistication with hands-on, in-the-trenches know-how.”
Gil Friend is President and Chief Executive Officer of Natural Logic.
A systems ecologist and business strategist with nearly 40 years experience in business, communications, and environmental innovation, Friend combines broad business experience with unique content experience spanning strategy, systems ecology, economic development, management cybernetics, and public policy. Tomorrow magazine called him “One of the country’s leading environmental management consultants—a real expert who combines theoretical sophistication with hands-on, in-the-trenches know-how.”
He was a founding board member of the Sustainable Business Alliance, Sustainable Berkeley, and the California Sustainable Business Council. He serves on the boards of directors of Open Data Registry, Inc. and Environmental Building Network, the executive board of OpenEco.org and the advisory boards of CleanFish, WattBot, Green World Campaign, and (past) San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Clean Tech Advisory Council (and has been named one of the Bay Area’s top 25 movers & shakers in cleantech). Friend served in the California Governor’s Of?ce, developing early sustainability policies and programs, was a founding board member of Internet pioneer Institute for Global Communications, was founder and Executive Director of Foundation for the Arts of Peace, and was cofounder and codirector of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a leading urban ecology and economic development “think-and-do tank,” where he pioneered the current “green roof” trend more than 35 years ago.
Friend is Adjunct Faculty at Presidio Graduate School, and guest faculty at California College of the Arts. He lectures widely on business strategy and sustainability issues and writes The New Bottom Line, offering strategic perspectives on business and environment. Friend is author of the acclaimed book The Truth About Green Business and the forthcoming book, Pro?t on Purpose: Risk, Fiduciary Duty and the Laws of Nature; was co-author of Biofuels Development and Soil Productivity (1982); and has contributed chapters to several books, including Worldchanging: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century, Sustainable Enterprise Report, Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook, Sustainable Food Systems, and Stepping Stones,
He holds an M.S. degree in systems ecology from Antioch University, has a black belt in Aikido, and is a seasoned practitioner of “The Natural Step” environmental management system.
Friend is Adjunct Faculty at Presidio Graduate School, and guest faculty at California College of the Arts. He lectures widely on business strategy and sustainability issues and writes The New Bottom Line, offering strategic perspectives on business and environment. Friend is author of the acclaimed book The Truth About Green Business and the forthcoming book, Pro?t on Purpose: Risk, Fiduciary Duty and the Laws of Nature; was co-author of Biofuels Development and Soil Productivity (1982); and has contributed chapters to several books, including Worldchanging: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century, Sustainable Enterprise Report, Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook, Sustainable Food Systems, and Stepping Stones,
He holds an M.S. degree in systems ecology from Antioch University, has a black belt in Aikido, and is a seasoned practitioner of “The Natural Step” environmental management system.
Board Member: John Stephens, M.B.A., .
John is an Entrepreneur who provides Strategic Leadership and Business Management services to for profit and non-profit companies. John is also a former Business Manager for ISI who was responsible for the management of over 23 nonprofit projects and organizations. He is currently a Business Planning and Management Consultant in Ohio.
John is an Entrepreneur who provides Strategic Leadership and Business Management services to for profit and non-profit companies. John is also a former Business Manager for ISI who was responsible for the management of over 23 nonprofit projects and organizations. He is currently a Business Planning and Management Consultant in Ohio.
Board Member: Vacant-to be filled.
ast Chairman Emeritus: C. West Churchman, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, California (deceased)
ast Chairman Emeritus: C. West Churchman, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, California (deceased)
Board Member: Vacant-to be filled.
Past Chairman Emeritus: Arnold M. Schultz, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Conservation & Resource Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Past Chairman Emeritus: Arnold M. Schultz, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Conservation & Resource Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Board of Directors—Membership Policy
ISI has been focused in our operations on a large, diverse set of organizational clients, ecosystem issues and concerns and on the implementation and sustainability of specific projects. During the first 25 years of our operations, ISI had a board of 9 to 15 members. However, over the years it became clear that the administration of ISI was not complicated and did not require the energy efforts and involvement of that many of our board members. Also, a number of board members were more concerned with, interested in and committed to specific projects that reflected their own experiences and capabilities. To address this issue, ISI decided to reduce the size of the board to a minimum of three and a maximum of five members and to transfer authority and responsibility for operational and management aspects of the organization to Advisory Boards who would oversee and be responsible for the projects that were part of ISI and for the client services that we would provide to other organizations. The Board of Directors of ISI remains responsible for all policies of the organization and for oversight on all activities and projects connected with ISI. In keeping with this policy, each project and/or each area of service delivery is held accountable to a Board of Advisors for that endeavor and for reporting back to the Board of Directors for their approval of all actions taken on behalf of ISI and to ensure that ISI activities are in conformance with our charitable purposes and with applicable laws and regulations
ISI has been focused in our operations on a large, diverse set of organizational clients, ecosystem issues and concerns and on the implementation and sustainability of specific projects. During the first 25 years of our operations, ISI had a board of 9 to 15 members. However, over the years it became clear that the administration of ISI was not complicated and did not require the energy efforts and involvement of that many of our board members. Also, a number of board members were more concerned with, interested in and committed to specific projects that reflected their own experiences and capabilities. To address this issue, ISI decided to reduce the size of the board to a minimum of three and a maximum of five members and to transfer authority and responsibility for operational and management aspects of the organization to Advisory Boards who would oversee and be responsible for the projects that were part of ISI and for the client services that we would provide to other organizations. The Board of Directors of ISI remains responsible for all policies of the organization and for oversight on all activities and projects connected with ISI. In keeping with this policy, each project and/or each area of service delivery is held accountable to a Board of Advisors for that endeavor and for reporting back to the Board of Directors for their approval of all actions taken on behalf of ISI and to ensure that ISI activities are in conformance with our charitable purposes and with applicable laws and regulations
Board of Advisors
The company retains supporters, beneficiaries and experienced professionals as Advisory Board members to oversee the operation of each project that is an integral part of or managed by ISI. The project/client advisory board members are selected to provide advice and to assist the ISI Board of Directors in identifying, reviewing and evaluating the services required to meet the needs of the true-clients for their respective projects. The advisory board will also assist the board in determining how to maintain high quality services at a low cost, how to ensure that ethical standards are an integral aspect of the company operations, and how to meet the needs of our clients consistent with achieving their specific missions and service objectives. Economic Viability and Client/Project Financial Sustainability For the first 20 years of ISI’s existence, we charged each client direct fees, including overhead and a modest 5-6% development fee for services rendered. The actual charges were based on either a direct hourly fee, an all inclusive fee for specific services (i.e., nonprofit incorporation or organizational assessment) and/or a predetermined not-to-exceed fee to perform a specific, measurable set of services. Because the vast majority of our clients and a majority of our projects were themselves not fully funded, we encountered an ethical as well as a practical dilemma regarding how to achieve the agreed to objectives, complete the required tasks and obtain the outcomes expected from the delivery of our services within the resources available and required. To address and resolve this situation, ISI began a process wherein most of the business that we conducted was contracted in such a manner as to allow our consultants and staff to be engaged directly by the client or to be compensated directly without having to have the overhead and other costs added into the direct costs required to deliver our services. That is, rather than employ or enter into independent contractor agreements with our consultants, we would have the client/project hire these individuals directly thereby eliminated the overhead costs normally associated with providing our services. In this manner, we could provide at least twice the amount of services to the client/project without diminishing the quality and level of expertise needed to achieve the desired and approved tasks and objectives. Using this approach, ISI, unlike any other nonprofit organization that we are aware of has chosen to reduce its overall revenue stream while correspondingly providing at least twice and often four or more times the amount of services for the same amount of money. Consequently, you will not see revenues in any one year that accurately and fully represent the amount of efforts, activities or achievements that ISI really provides and from which we have been truly responsible.
The company retains supporters, beneficiaries and experienced professionals as Advisory Board members to oversee the operation of each project that is an integral part of or managed by ISI. The project/client advisory board members are selected to provide advice and to assist the ISI Board of Directors in identifying, reviewing and evaluating the services required to meet the needs of the true-clients for their respective projects. The advisory board will also assist the board in determining how to maintain high quality services at a low cost, how to ensure that ethical standards are an integral aspect of the company operations, and how to meet the needs of our clients consistent with achieving their specific missions and service objectives. Economic Viability and Client/Project Financial Sustainability For the first 20 years of ISI’s existence, we charged each client direct fees, including overhead and a modest 5-6% development fee for services rendered. The actual charges were based on either a direct hourly fee, an all inclusive fee for specific services (i.e., nonprofit incorporation or organizational assessment) and/or a predetermined not-to-exceed fee to perform a specific, measurable set of services. Because the vast majority of our clients and a majority of our projects were themselves not fully funded, we encountered an ethical as well as a practical dilemma regarding how to achieve the agreed to objectives, complete the required tasks and obtain the outcomes expected from the delivery of our services within the resources available and required. To address and resolve this situation, ISI began a process wherein most of the business that we conducted was contracted in such a manner as to allow our consultants and staff to be engaged directly by the client or to be compensated directly without having to have the overhead and other costs added into the direct costs required to deliver our services. That is, rather than employ or enter into independent contractor agreements with our consultants, we would have the client/project hire these individuals directly thereby eliminated the overhead costs normally associated with providing our services. In this manner, we could provide at least twice the amount of services to the client/project without diminishing the quality and level of expertise needed to achieve the desired and approved tasks and objectives. Using this approach, ISI, unlike any other nonprofit organization that we are aware of has chosen to reduce its overall revenue stream while correspondingly providing at least twice and often four or more times the amount of services for the same amount of money. Consequently, you will not see revenues in any one year that accurately and fully represent the amount of efforts, activities or achievements that ISI really provides and from which we have been truly responsible.
Administration
Principal management of the business is under the direction and guidance of the Chief Executive Officer, Dr. S. Loren Cole. Dr. Cole is an Ecosystemologist specializing in ethical and sustainable ecosystem management. For over thirty-five years, he has also provided ethical business consulting services for the start-up, development, recovery and management of both nonprofit and for profit business enterprises. As a key aspect of his systemic approach to management, he has served as President, CEO, COO, Controller, Business Manager and Director for over 37 organizations and corporations. He has personally created, developed and operated many types of businesses and he has provided technical assistance and training to over twenty-six thousand board members and senior managers of for-profit and nonprofit organizations. There are currently over 185 people directly involved with the management and operations of ISI fiscally sponsored projects and also providing services to our nonprofit and value driven for profit clients.
Principal management of the business is under the direction and guidance of the Chief Executive Officer, Dr. S. Loren Cole. Dr. Cole is an Ecosystemologist specializing in ethical and sustainable ecosystem management. For over thirty-five years, he has also provided ethical business consulting services for the start-up, development, recovery and management of both nonprofit and for profit business enterprises. As a key aspect of his systemic approach to management, he has served as President, CEO, COO, Controller, Business Manager and Director for over 37 organizations and corporations. He has personally created, developed and operated many types of businesses and he has provided technical assistance and training to over twenty-six thousand board members and senior managers of for-profit and nonprofit organizations. There are currently over 185 people directly involved with the management and operations of ISI fiscally sponsored projects and also providing services to our nonprofit and value driven for profit clients.
ISI also provides fiscal sponsorship and fiscal agent services to nonprofit organizations.
MANAGEMENT TEAM SUMMARY RESUMES
S. LOREN COLE, Ph.D.
Summary Resume
Dr. Cole is currently the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Inquiring Systems, Inc. (ISI) a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) corporation. Founded in 1978, ISI provides ethical and sustainable ecosystem management services primarily to nonprofit organizations, community-based projects, value-driven for profit entities and selected government agencies and supported projects throughout the world. Dr. Cole serves on the Board of Directors and Advisors for 14 companies including being Chairman of the Board for BeOn Holdings and Essential Living Foods, Inc.
Dr. Cole’s educational background is both unique and extensive, he has four university degrees including being the only person ever awarded a Ph.D. in Ecosystemology from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a specialist in the understanding, management and appreciation of whole ecosystems, is also an implementation specialist by translating good intentions into practical actions. He has a continuing commitment to ensuring that ethical values and principles are the hallmark of his endeavors and his clients. Dr. Cole has successfully demonstrated his comprehensive and systemic problem-solving capabilities across natural, social, economic and environmental issues as follows.
MANAGEMENT TEAM SUMMARY RESUMES
S. LOREN COLE, Ph.D.
Summary Resume
Dr. Cole is currently the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Inquiring Systems, Inc. (ISI) a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) corporation. Founded in 1978, ISI provides ethical and sustainable ecosystem management services primarily to nonprofit organizations, community-based projects, value-driven for profit entities and selected government agencies and supported projects throughout the world. Dr. Cole serves on the Board of Directors and Advisors for 14 companies including being Chairman of the Board for BeOn Holdings and Essential Living Foods, Inc.
Dr. Cole’s educational background is both unique and extensive, he has four university degrees including being the only person ever awarded a Ph.D. in Ecosystemology from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a specialist in the understanding, management and appreciation of whole ecosystems, is also an implementation specialist by translating good intentions into practical actions. He has a continuing commitment to ensuring that ethical values and principles are the hallmark of his endeavors and his clients. Dr. Cole has successfully demonstrated his comprehensive and systemic problem-solving capabilities across natural, social, economic and environmental issues as follows.
- In clarifying and resolving complex problems and situations using an inquiring system approach;
- In effectively managing ecosystems by making complex energy flows and relationships less confusing, more understandable, and with enhanced appreciation for their role in the health of any ecosystem;
- In enhancing the ownership interests in the problem-solving process to improve long-term usefulness and sustainability for any decisions that are mutually agreed to by all involved;
- In translating and implementing meaningful insights, ideas and perceptions of others into well thought through ethical, comprehensive, compatible, worthwhile, economically viable and sustainable outcomes;
- In establishing resiliency in all of the systems in which he works so that when problems or diseases occur, and it is guaranteed that they always will; then recovery becomes possible and the health of that ecosystem can be restored. Health in any ecosystem is the ability to recover, which is the essence of sustainability.
While Dr. Cole has been a socially conscientious and principled person throughout his life, he is also one of the many people who helped to establish the environmental activist movement in America. His expanded interest in environmental issues began over 50 years ago while serving as a Leading Petty Officer and Sonarman in the U.S. Navy (1958-62). He had a number of life-altering experiences while in the service including being responsible for communication and tracking of the bathyscaphe Trieste, during its 35,800 ft. Marianas Trench deep dive (the world record) with Dr. Jacques Picard and Lt. Don Walsh. He is also an “Atomic” veteran having participated in nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific. These events were dramatic demonstrations of how human actions have impacts and implications for the viability of earth’s complex ecosystems and, combined with other experiences in Asia, he later committed his life to ecosystem sustainability and the “Improvement of the Human Condition”. He a founder, leader and contributor to many of the most important social issues of our time including, but not limited to, the following areas of social change and improvement: (1) respect for the rights of, and our responsibilities to, all living things, (2) resource use and energy conservation, (3) population and environmental issues, (4) civil rights and social justice including the rights of women, the disabled, seniors, immigrants, minorities and, (5) in the areas of education, organic farming, hunger, refugee issues, employment and training, equitable trade, international development and other pertinent issues and conditions that effect people, communities and the ecosystems with which they are involved.
Dr. Cole’s skills and capabilities are extensive, comprehensive and effective at every level of resolution in all ecosystems, however defined. His many accomplishments include the following:
Dr. Cole’s skills and capabilities are extensive, comprehensive and effective at every level of resolution in all ecosystems, however defined. His many accomplishments include the following:
- Founder & principal developer of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Program: The Conservation and Resource Studies major at U.C. Berkeley. Designed, developed and taught the first courses in Environmental Education, Environmental Planning & Management, History of the Environmental Movement, Ecosystemology, Ecosystem Design and Management, Water Management in California, Urban Garden Ecosystems and many problem-focused seminars and workshops on current environmental issues. This comprehensive and systemic interdisciplinary program involved over 500 faculty members from 63 separate departments on the UC Berkeley campus as well as over 350 community-based organizations, businesses, government agencies, international organizations and NGO’s, as well as with other citizens from throughout the world.
- Co-founded and participated in, with other faculty, the design and establishment of the California Environmental Education teaching credential requirement for K-12 schools.
- Coordinator of the Ad Hoc Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program at U.C. Berkeley.
- Special Assistant to Vice-Chancellor Ira M. Heyman, U.C. Berkeley, for Interdisciplinary Teaching.
- Co-founder of the first urban recycling program in America.
- One of the founding members and developers of the Berkeley, CA Ecology Center
- One of the founding members of the First Earth Day and Co-coordinator of the first Earth Day activities on the U.C. Berkeley campus in 1970.
- Founder & CEO of Inquiring Systems, Inc., a nonprofit corporation founded in 1978 to improve the human condition through ethical and sustainable ecosystem management services.
- Co-founder and CEO of a for-profit deep ultraviolet energy company.
- Designed and built a universally designed, active and passive solar home in Sonoma, CA.
- Founded and managed a retail business providing assistive technology products to enhance the quality of life for people with physical and mental challenges.
- Past Member of the Board of Directors for 36 nonprofit and 8 for profit corporations.
- As a contract employee or consultant with 32 companies he has held senior level positions that included CEO, CFO, COO and Business Manager. He has assisted in recovery from bankruptcy of 47 companies.
- Provided technical and ethically directed business management assistance services to over 3600 clients in the USA and 23 foreign countries. All but a very few of these clients were “word of mouth” referrals.
- Founded and/or assisted in the development of 268 ethically directed income producing entities or income producing services in support of nonprofit missions and goals.
- Organized, created the material for and conducted workshop and seminar training in areas such as “Escaping the Grant Syndrome”, “Getting Down to Business” and other topics in the areas of ethical business management skills and capabilities required to improve the operation of and/or to enhance the economic viability and sustainability of nonprofit organizations. He provided these services to over 26,000 senior executives & board members of nonprofit organizations throughout the U.S. and in Canada.
- Acquired in excess of $145 million in grants, investments, contributions, loans and bond financing capital for ISI projects, fiscally sponsored project and client. In addition, Dr. Cole has helped to obtain in excess of $230 million in private and public contracts for ISI projects and clients.
Dr. Cole has won numerous awards and commendations, has been a keynote and principle conference speaker, panelist and an invited guest on hundreds of national and international radio, television and internet sites and has published articles and papers related to his areas of expertise. He can be reached at:
Email: cole@inquiringsystems.org
Email: cole@inquiringsystems.org
For more information: www.inquiringsystems.org.
The following list of clients, selected from 3,650 served, are intended to provide an overview of the range and type of projects/clients for whom ethical business management training and technical assistance services have been provided:
Alpha One--Portland, Maine
American Friends Service Committee--California
American Indian Center--San Francisco, California
Asian American Health Consortium--USA
Audubon Nature Training Center--California
Augusta's Restaurant--Berkeley, California
Barratt Corporation--Fremont, California
Bay Area Black United Fund--Oakland, California
Bay Area Crisis Nursery--Concord, California
Botswana Biointensive Nutrition Project--Africa
Bridge Counseling Center--Morgan Hill, California
California Child, Youth and Family Services--CA
California State Dept. of Food and Agriculture Center for Independent Living--Berkeley, CA
Citizens for Affordable Housing--California
City of Fremont, Housing--Fremont, California
City of San Jose Youth Services—California
Cleveland Services for Independent Living--Ohio
Contra Costa Health and Recreation Assoc.--CA
Delancy Street--San Francisco, California
East Bay Center For Performing Arts--California
Food Advisory Services--California and Hawaii
Friends Outside--Salinas, California
Global Educators--Oakland, California
Greater Nevada Health Systems Agency, Nevada
Huichol Center for Cultural Survival --Mexico
Insituto Familiar de la Raza--California
International Refuge Relief—Falasha rescue Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan
Latin American News Service--El Paso, Texas
Lutheran Social Services--Seattle, Washington
Management Assistance Project--Minnesota
Mississippi Paralysis Association--Baton Rouge
National Endowment for the Arts—Washington
The Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona
Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation--Nepal
Pickle Family Circus--San Francisco, California
Planned Parenthood--USA
Science Interchange -- San Rafael, CA
Self-Employment Development Initiatives, Canada
Alpha One--Portland, Maine
American Friends Service Committee--California
American Indian Center--San Francisco, California
Asian American Health Consortium--USA
Audubon Nature Training Center--California
Augusta's Restaurant--Berkeley, California
Barratt Corporation--Fremont, California
Bay Area Black United Fund--Oakland, California
Bay Area Crisis Nursery--Concord, California
Botswana Biointensive Nutrition Project--Africa
Bridge Counseling Center--Morgan Hill, California
California Child, Youth and Family Services--CA
California State Dept. of Food and Agriculture Center for Independent Living--Berkeley, CA
Citizens for Affordable Housing--California
City of Fremont, Housing--Fremont, California
City of San Jose Youth Services—California
Cleveland Services for Independent Living--Ohio
Contra Costa Health and Recreation Assoc.--CA
Delancy Street--San Francisco, California
East Bay Center For Performing Arts--California
Food Advisory Services--California and Hawaii
Friends Outside--Salinas, California
Global Educators--Oakland, California
Greater Nevada Health Systems Agency, Nevada
Huichol Center for Cultural Survival --Mexico
Insituto Familiar de la Raza--California
International Refuge Relief—Falasha rescue Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan
Latin American News Service--El Paso, Texas
Lutheran Social Services--Seattle, Washington
Management Assistance Project--Minnesota
Mississippi Paralysis Association--Baton Rouge
National Endowment for the Arts—Washington
The Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona
Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation--Nepal
Pickle Family Circus--San Francisco, California
Planned Parenthood--USA
Science Interchange -- San Rafael, CA
Self-Employment Development Initiatives, Canada