ISI Projects

The mission of Friends of Mosoq Pakari Sumaq Kawsay (F-MPSK) is to support and amplify the work of the Mosoq Pakari Sumaq Kawsay (New Dawn for Good Living) center located in Cusco, Peru. This Indigenous woman run center empowers Indigenous communities, particularly through the promotion of women’s leadership, community wellbeing, and the revitalization and transfer of ancestral knowledge. But they cannot do it alone! Through a partnership with Friends of MPSK, the center hopes to be able to offer community workshops that empower Indigenous women, promote Indigenous environmental stewardship, and help Andean communities connect with Indigenous communities in North America to share knowledge to help foster cultural resilience through climate change

The mission of F-MPSK is threefold:

1. Raise awareness about MPSK’s efforts to empower women and cultivate community wellbeing through education and programming.
2. Raise funds through grant writing and donations to support MPSK and other Indigenous organizations focused on empowering women and promoting community wellbeing.
3. Facilitate relationships between Indigenous organizations across the global north and south to further the collective impact on community wellbeing.

The Goals of F-MPSK are threefold: 

1. Empower Indigenous women through knowledge-sharing and leadership in community development by supporting MPSK’s initiatives that position Indigenous women as key knowledge keepers and community organizers.
2. Promote Indigenous environmental stewardship and cultural preservation, particularly in the areas of governance, gender equity, and wellbeing by supporting MPSK’s workshops on environmental knowledge and ancestral practices to strengthen communities’ sustainable practices and cultural resilience.
3. Strengthen connections between Indigenous organizations across the global north and south to facilitate cross-cultural dialogue, collaboration, and resource-sharing to further community empowerment and wellbeing.

The objective of F-MPSK is to help fund quarterly workshops at the MPSK center to raise awareness about Indigenous environmental knowledge, wellbeing practices, and gender equity. 

We are a small collective of educators and health practitioners committed to regenerative living and embodying and sharing New Earth values such as harmony, community, empathy, and generosity. The mission of The Spiral Collective (TSC) is to create a library of resources based on narrative documentation of our first-person experiences that aid wellbeing, balance, and personal growth.

TSC members collect personal narratives from events, workshops, training activities, and practices, amplifying our understandings through sharing in our collective blog called “The Library of Balance”. These distilled findings from our individual explorations and collaborative sharing will seed and catalyze the creation of offerings for the world.

The People’s Dreaming Collective is a global constellation of radical public sector leaders dreaming up more just and loving models for how we govern. As government insiders turned revolutionaries, we have teamed up with educators, technologists, and artists to host dynamic gatherings and create open-source tools that imagine, explore, and bring to life audacious new visions for democracy.

Vision

We help cities achieve resilience by connecting their residents, city departments, land developers, and agricultural components to actively support the bionic pump, thus ensuring a cooler, wetter, more resilient local climate.

Mission

We achieve our vision by working to ensure soil health through composting, biochar, biologic applications, etc. Then we support regenerative landscaping, so that the land holds water, and we complete the biotic pump by the planting of Miyawaki mini forests.

Our Inspiration

Having been concerned about climate change for decades, I was overjoyed to discover that there IS something we—normal people, can do to address the major effect—heat! The focus on carbon and getting it out of the air and into the ground has not proved to be empowering, nor successful. The research by Anastasia Markova, in which she named the biotic pump as the system that naturally cooled the Earth, gave me inspiration.

Carbon is all about not getting hotter—a good idea. But the biotic pump is all about cooling, a much better idea, in my view. Not only that it is something that we all can contribute to. It is also something, as practiced in real life, that begins to change how we see and interact with the planet. We all lament that things need to change, that we need to be “different” but that difference is rarely mentioned or clarified. Working with the biotic pump, to strengthen it, shifts our understanding and our behavior in ways that actually work with natural processes, with the Earth herself, to make the change that nature is working to make, herself.

We offer education and consulting to help residents and cities discover ways they can begin to reignite the living systems around them so they thrive. As a Rethink Tank™ we offer the opportunity to rethink how we are living on this planet by considering options that are more closely aligned with nature. Understanding the natural system means we can work with it to help cool our tiny part of the Earth. Here is Soil Smart – Soil Wise’s strategy to do just that:

Each of these steps is something that any landowner can do and soil health is something that even renters can do. We are here to help. Please, join us!

Mission: She Soars Empowerment Initiative partners with organizations to empower women from all walks of life, particularly those in underserved communities, to recognize and embrace their unique strengths. Through personalized coaching, enriching workshops, and a supportive community, She Soars guides women on a transformative journey toward building lives that reflect their core values and unlocking their full potential. She Soars Empowerment Initiative equips women with the confidence to navigate their personal and professional paths with purpose and resilience. 

She Soars Empowerment Initiative aims to:

• Increase self-confidence and resilience among women, leading to improved decision-making and leadership capabilities.
• Connect underserved women with greater self-awareness, skills, resilience and personal development opportunities.
• Foster a supportive community where women from all walks of life can collaborate, mentor, and uplift one another.

Service Delivery Methods (Online & in-person):

Mastermind Programs

Individual Coaching 

Group Coaching 

Workshops

Mother the Earth’s mission is to create an intergenerational movement anchored in love and compassion. Like a family tradition, we teach mothers to ritualize care and kindness for themselves and care and kindness for their surrounding natural environment. In doing so, we create a flourishing future for our children and for our planet. In this reciprocal relationship, nature is here to heal us and we as caregivers have the power to heal the planet.

Mother the Earth is dedicated to improving the well-being of mothers, families, and the earth in connection with nature. We host wellness events for mothers as well as educational and service events in partnership with local environmental organizations for families and children to give back to the planet.

Based in Big Sur, California (Esselen tribal territory) and founded in 2018, Wildtender is a non-profit organization offering immersive, educational wilderness programs that cultivate kinship and belonging with the earth, nurture wholeness of self, and build authentic community.

Wildtender is committed to nurturing a regenerative, diverse and relational worldview – embodying earth-based wisdom and re-weaving modern people into a sustainable ecological paradigm.

This Christmas, J & J Publishing is again working with ISI to bring the wonderful children’s book Andrew’s Wish into the hands of children in need. Many families are still struggling with current inflationary effects, etc. Every donation will assist in bringing the magic of Andrew’s Wish to children and communities to help bring some extra Christmas cheer. You may make a donation for the cost of the book ($20) or any amount. Any amount is appreciated and valued!

The books will be donated to organizations that help children in need through special assistance programs; including churches, schools, children with special needs and other charitable organizations.

Andrew’s Wish, written in a style reminiscent of The Night Before Christmas and Dr. Seuss (appealing to all ages), is the tale of Andrew, a very remarkable reindeer, whose devotion and courage lead him on an unforgettable adventure, changing his life forever.

Magnificent illustrations and the accompanying CD with the inspired narration of the rhymed text by Kelsey Grammer create the perfect environment for this fun and enchanting story of kindness, courage, thinking of others first and the joy of giving. The classically trained actor, Kelsey Grammer was so touched by this book, that he gifted his delightful recording.

The CD also gives a tool to children who need help with improving their reading skills by listening as they follow along reading the text.

The story brings us into Santa’s Village on Christmas Eve where Andrew finds a box of gifts Santa left behind. Quickly rising to the occasion, Andrew, thinking only of the children, carries the box over the snow-covered hills to find the kingdom of the elves. There, Andrew hopes his wish for the gifts to somehow arrive by Christmas morning will be granted by the Elven King. 

This charming and uplifting holiday story is beautifully illustrated by Emmy Award winner and Academy Award nominee Gary Lund. Every hardcover 9” by 11” book includes the CD mentioned above.

Andrew transports himself into the heart of every reader with his message of love, helping everyone find the magic of Christmas and encouraging a passion for reading. At this time, children are in need of positive messages and assistance to help improve their reading skills.

About J & J Publishing: 
J & J Publishing has been formed to encourage and nourish all aspects of this global awakening; providing inspiring and thought-provoking literature, which will help enable each human being who shares this world to respond with grace and dignity as we embrace the new era unfolding before us.  Any questions please
contact Jan at 707 762 1819 or  **@**************ng.com

The mission of Gathering Homeland is to support land retention efforts of Black agrarians with rural family land by centering storytelling, cooperation, and environmental stewardship.

Windsor Performing Arts Academy’s (WPAA) mission is to inspire creativity and cultivate a thriving arts community by providing low-cost access to exceptional performing arts experiences where students and teachers are their best selves—honest, kind, hardworking, and inclusive.

At WPAA, we believe that the performing arts have the power not just to entertain, but to uplift and inspire our community. The shows we choose to perform are thoughtfully selected to promote core values and lessons in good character, aiming to create a positive impact on both students and the broader community. Our goals are to foster community engagement, promote character development, empower individuals through the arts and support local artists.

North Star operates at the crossroads of stakeholder principles and ethical business practices. We catalyze community collaboration, research, resources, and culture to support individuals who build socially responsible entities to positively impact the world. We believe that stakeholders who share values and work together will create alternative pathways to business as usual.

Our goal is to integrate psychedelic wisdom and principles into the foundation of the emerging psychedelic sector. We aim to serve as a guiding light for purpose-driven entities, helping to mitigate the potential harms of profit-driven motives within the healthcare and wellness industries.

We are a growing group of domestic and international progressive funders, organizing in alignment with social movements toward systemic change to a regenerative economy.* Through political education, peer-to-peer organizing, joint action, and collective thought pieces, we call in and support our philanthropic colleagues toward accountability, transparency, and solidarity with frontline communities.

More specifically, this means we shift philanthropy to support locally-rooted Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Workingclass-led transnational movements that are actively building a feminist, inclusive, participatory, democratic, anti-racist, anti-colonial, and anti-capitalist future consistent with the Rights of Nature. Upholding meaningful work as critical to building frontlines power, the Regenerative Economies Organizing Collaborative considers Ecosystem Health, Energy, Food, Waste, Transportation, and Housing as interconnected parts of both the climate crisis and its solutions.

Vision:

Governments create and control their currencies in ways that support wellbeing for all – socially, economically, and environmentally. 

Mission:

Align the management of national currencies with the public good.

What motivates us:

The way nations create and manage their currencies is powerfully intensifying inequality, poverty, debt crises, and environmental destruction. Today, nearly all nations create their money supplies through their commercial banking sector. They do this by granting private for-profit banks an exclusive legal privilege to create new money whenever they make a loan. Money created in this way makes up around 95% of the money supply in most countries. This way of creating money has several drawbacks:

• Indebtedness. Money only comes into existence when a household, government, or business goes into debt. If all debts were paid off, there would be no money.
• Undemocratic. Commercial banks are not democratic institutions and lack significant accountability. For example, since governments signed the Paris Climate Agreement, commercial banks lent $6 trillion of newly created money to fossil fuel companies, many with expansion plans.
• Profits over people and planet. When lending (creating money), commercial banks prioritize profit maximization rather than public wellbeing or environmental sustainability. For example, commercial banks regularly lend money to tobacco companies, weapons manufacturers, and major polluters.
• Economic control. It gives commercial banks enormous power over the direction of economic development, influencing our job options and consumer choices. For example, in recent years 93% of bank lending to the energy sector has gone to dirty energy sources while only 7% has gone to clean renewable energy projects and firms. This limits access to clean energy and green jobs while expanding fossil fuel jobs and infrastructure. 
• Fairness and inequality. Bank shareholders and employees make massive profits from exercising the legal privilege to create money. They frequently lend for speculation, mergers, and other activities that pump up financial markets but lead to job losses and unaffordable housing. They also lend in ways that are costly and predatory for lower income households.

It doesn’t have to be this way. This way of creating money through commercial bank lending is only about three hundred years old. Over the millennia, humans have invented many other ways of creating the money they use. That means we have real-world alternatives we can choose from, including ones with track records of promoting social welfare, economic prosperity, and ecological protection. On many occasions, such as during the Great Depression and the 2008 crisis, countries have used elements of these better alternatives to provide broad and fast-acting relief, such as debt cancelation, public employment programs, aid for those that cannot work, and funding for environmental protection. Frequently, positive transformations in national currencies do happen in times of polarization and crisis, like today. That is why we believe now is the perfect time for social movements to include demands for the transformation of national currencies in their advocacy and campaigns. Such transformations are winnable and can provide trillions in funding for the implementation of much-needed solutions.

What we do:

• Research. We study the social, economic, and environmental consequences of the way nations create their money today. We also evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of different ways of reforming and transforming the current system. Building on the work of many others, our research has identified many alternatives proven to promote wellbeing in diverse contexts, from large, modernized economies to local and regional settings. Further, we study how currency systems have changed over time, for better and for worse, mapping the power players and key narratives that are frequently successful in bringing about change.
  
• Education. We provide presentations and popular education workshops that help groups and individuals coming from diverse backgrounds quickly gain an understanding of:
  • How nations create money today through bank lending
  • Why today’s system of money creation is powerfully intensifying many social, economic, and ecological problems
  • How colonization led to the system we have today and how it is reinforced through the international financial system
  • How money creation is “re-making” our economy each year by determining which industries, households, and local economies receive investment, or not.
  • What options we have for creating money in ways that are reliable, scalable, just, and capable of sustaining wellbeing for all. 
  • How money systems have been successfully transformed in the past and how they can be transformed again today.

• Strategy. We empower social movement organizations to advocate for reforms to money and banking that match their values and visions for a better world. We help groups identify power players, strategic points of leverage, and allies that can help them win beneficial reforms within their political, economic, and cultural context. We offer expertise that can cut through the complexity and misinformation that surrounds national money systems. 

Contact Us:

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The Regenerative Education Alliance (REA) is a Petaluma-based nonprofit advancing ecological and community health through the CASE framework: Community, Agriculture, Students, and the Environment. We are building a regional community of practice dedicated to regenerative agriculture by connecting farmers, educators, youth, and local organizations through hands-on learning, land stewardship, and shared ecological goals. While our work spans intergenerational collaboration and systems change, a core focus has been engaging high school students—especially those in alternative or under-resourced educational settings—through internships that restore soil health, foster environmental leadership, and reconnect teens to the land and one another. Together, we’re cultivating a resilient future rooted in relationship, regeneration, and place-based education.

Goals and Objectives:

1) Foster connections to regenerative agriculture as a life skill and career path

2) Enable students to find and deepen positive relationships with learning

3) Foster positive relationships between youth and the community

Intern Program

At the heart of REA’s programming is our regenerative agriculture internship, which matches high school students with local farmers and ranchers for mentorship, hands-on training, and real-world experience in sustainable land stewardship. Interns work weekly at regenerative farm sites—including our primary hosts, Fern Homestead and the Deviled Eggery—where they learn soil health practices, food production skills, and the ecological principles behind regenerative farming. The program is designed especially for teens who may be disengaged from traditional academics, offering an immersive, supportive environment that fosters confidence, connection, and a sense of purpose. Through partnerships with a growing network of farms and ranches across the Petaluma region, we are cultivating both the next generation of environmental leaders and a stronger, more resilient local food system.

Field Trips

REA’s field trip program offers students immersive, curriculum-aligned experiences on working regenerative farms throughout the Petaluma area. Designed to complement classroom learning with hands-on engagement, each trip explores soil health, ecological stewardship, and sustainable farming practices. Students tour farms, interact with agricultural professionals, and participate in activities like composting, planting, and animal care that reinforce key concepts in environmental science. REA currently partners with three core host sites: Umbel Roots, where students learn about rotational grazing, biochar, and duckweed systems; Pepper Lane Farm, which demonstrates permaculture-based methods including water conservation and integrated pest management; and Fern Homestead, a fully diversified teaching farm offering instruction in organic gardening, animal husbandry, and propagation. New host sites are continually being added—reach out for the latest opportunities.

Instagram: @REA_Sonoma

Facebook: just regenerativeeducationallinace

Email: **@***************************ce.org

Purpose: Build a workforce and economy that is for the people and by the people. Use cross-sector collaboration to re-imagine a more equitable workforce for all.

“We integrate solutions that are grounded in the philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that: “No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.'” 

Why: The country needs to re-imagine the workforce sector as AI,  climate change, societal inequalities are transforming our world rapidly.  There needs to be a central hub where all innovations and strategic data-driven interventions are accessible to all changemakers. 

Moonshot: Deploy a system-level equitable people strategy in every Congressional district by 2034.

The mission of the Sonoma Mountain Community Trust is to serve as a knowledge hub and a brains trust in support of the community in the Sonoma Valley as it explores a greater level of self determination and direct representation in issues that affect its future over the coming decades.  

Over time the Trust will sponsor a variety of conferences, research projects and education programs, while at the same time working in tandem with the Sonoma Mountain Community Services District to provide insights for policy.  Where appropriate, the Trust will raise funds from non-governmental and other sources in support of activities in which the District, the Trust, and the community in the Sonoma Valley have a common interest

Vision: Humanity flourishing in harmony with life on earth

Mission: Accelerate a global awakening and galvanize collective action for comprehensive systemic change

Can we envision a society that is more equitable, caring, and regenerative? And if we could envision such a future, how might we transition from where we are today?

Denizen’s work is centered on an ongoing inquiry that explores these questions, spanning six themes: economics, politics, justice, technology, culture, and consciousness. We host a wide range of guests on our eponymous podcast, Denizen.

We are partnered with many leading organizations in the systems change ecosystem, including the Buckminster Fuller Institute, the Academy of Systems Change, Purpose, and the Post Growth Institute. In addition to the podcast, we organize and curate learning opportunities for our audience.

At the heart of Denizen is a community that recognizes the need for a holistic approach to systemic change. In both our personal and professional lives, we are committed to this cause. We are a diverse collective that includes entrepreneurs, technologists, scholars, artists, activists, healers, designers, investors, and nonprofit leaders.

The High-Country LGBTQ Youth Alliance is committed to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and inquiry with particular respect to sexual orientation and gender identity for youth 12-18 within Ashe, Avery, and Watauga counties. We facilitate queer visibility by promoting and enhancing awareness, understanding, and acceptance regarding issues of sexual orientation and gender identity being faced by the communities of these counties.

FASDNow! is a coalition of individuals and organizations in California with the common vision of seeing FASD recognized as the leading developmental disability in the state. With that recognition, we envision appropriate training of professionals in all systems of care, reduction of the prevalence of FASD, development of diagnostic capacity across the state, and appropriate supports and services for individuals with FASD and their caregivers.

The mission of FASDNow!, a California Alliance, is to have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder recognized as the health crisis it is and marshal resources to combat it, diagnose it, and serve those who live with it in the state of California.

Our vision is that all people with FASD in California are given the opportunity and appropriate support needed to reach their full potential.

FASD is the leading developmental disability in the state, but an estimated 90% of those with prenatal alcohol exposure do not receive a diagnosis or are misdiagnosed. As a result, they do not receive the early intervention and appropriate support they need. We aim to change that through awareness, education, and advocacy.

Our Mission

Re-Cede exists to invest in the rest and restoration of racial justice leaders.

Our Vision

To fund, facilitate and preserve rest equity.

Our Purpose

We are an inclusive, multiracial, non-profit committed to equity and justice. We believe that the rest of bodies is an imperative component of equity, justice and inclusion for all — regardless of their race, gender or body identification.

An Inrestment Firm

“Re-Cede” is derived from “re” to receive and “cede” to yield or to give up. It represents the symbiotic relationship of receiving and yielding for true racial repair.

Birthed by a black woman and a white woman who collectively experienced harm and came together to heal and offer that healing to the world.