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Alliance for Democracy
The mission of the Alliance for Democracy is to free all people from corporate domination of politics, economics, the environment, culture and information; to establish true democracy; and to create a just society with a sustainable, equitable economy.

Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. In particular, Amnesty International campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience; ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners; abolish the death penalty, torture and other cruel treatment of prisoners; end political killings and "disappearances"; and oppose human rights abuses by opposition groups.

Ashoka
ASHOKA is a global not-for-profit organization that finds and supports outstanding individuals with innovative programs for achieving systemic change on a national and regional level. The men and women who become Ashoka Fellows share a strong entrepreneurial character as well as a passion for social causes. Their ideas for systemic social change have the potential for national and regional impact.

Association of World Citizens (AWC)
The central task of AWC to lay the foundation for a Global Village of social and economic justice, lasting peace, and a sustainable environment.

Best Practices for Human Settlement
This searchable database contains over 650 proven solutions to the common social, economic and environmental problems of an urbanizing world. It demonstrates the practical ways in which communities, governments and the private sector are working together to eradicate poverty, provide shelter, protect the environment and support economic development.

Calef Gallery
Nancy Calef is a contemporary American figurative painter whose themes of social and political realism depict the challenges facing humanity while humorously invoking its common spirit. Serving as an artist in residence at the State of the World Forum, Calef captures on paper and canvas her unique perspective of the lectures, panel discussions and special events taht enrich and expand the participants' world view.

Center for Respect of Life and Environment (CRLE)
The work of the Center is to awaken people's ecological sensibilities and to transform lifestyles, institutional practices, and social policies to support the community of life. Our major programs identify approaches to economic and social development that recognize the links between ecology, spirituality, and sustainability.

Coexistence Initiative
The Coexistence Initiative is a neutral non-profit organization committed to creating a world safe for difference. The Initiative seeks to develop and promote programs for positive coexistence among people who are different by increasing public awareness of and involvement in the issues of coexistence worldwide; assisting in the exchange of information and the dissemination of best practice; facilitating communication and cooperation among individuals and organizations both within and outside of the field; and enshrining principles of coexistence in policy, curricula, and institutions.

Communication Works
Communication Works is a public relations organization working with clients to devise and execute strategic media campaigns that shift public opinion and lead to social change.

EarthAction
EarthAction's Mission is to: educate citizens, journalists and members of parliament about key environment, development and peace issues on the international agenda; mobilize large numbers of citizen groups, individual activists, journalists and members of parliament around the world to communicate with policy makers on key issues; and increase the chances of effective international action to solve global problems, by generating political will simultaneously in many countries.

Earth Charter Campaign
The objective of the Earth Charter is to give inspiring expression to the most fundamental principles of an integrated ethical vision for our common future. These principles will have enduring significance for people of all races, cultures and religions, clarifying humanity's shared values and developing a new global ethic for a sustainable way of life.

Environmental Financial Products
Environmental Financial Products specializes in risk management to increase development new financial and commodity markets to promote environmental efficiency and improvement.

Foundation for Global Community
Foundation for Global Community's mission is to contribute to an evolution of cultural values, from today's dominant focus on "more," on growth and materialism, to an emphasis on "enough," on quality and excellence of spirit. Their goal is a culture that works for the diversity and sustainability of all life.

Global Dialogue Institute
The purpose of the GDI is to promote dialogue in the broadest and deepest sense among individuals and groups of different religions and cultures, focusing especially though not exclusively on the "opinion-shapers" of society, such as scholars, s, and institutional & business leaders.

Global Energy Network International
GENI's Mission is to accelerate the attainment of optimal, ecologically sustainable energy solutions in the shortest possible time for the peace, health and prosperity of all.

Global Exchange
Global Exchange is a non-profit research, education and action center dedicated to advocating and working for political, economic and social justice on a global scale. Global Exchange seeks to increase global awareness among the US public and move them to action while building international and domestic partnerships around the world.

Global Fund for Women
The Global Fund for Women is an international organization which focuses on female human rights. It supports issues as diverse as literacy, domestic violence, economic autonomy, and the international trafficking of women, among others. It supports women's groups based outside of the U.S.

Global Policy Forum
The Global Policy Forum was formed to monitor global policy making at the United Nations and to promote a more open, accountable and democratic policy process at the global level. Seeing the UN as the most open and universal institution, GPF sought to make it more responsive to citizen concerns, and so to foster democracy, social justice, human rights and mutual solidarity.

Grameen Foundation USA
The Grameen Foundation's mission is to make significant contributions to the elimination of poverty by promoting and advancing the work of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh as well as other members of the Grameen family of companies and the Grameen Global Network.

Green Cross International
Green Cross' mission is to help create a sustainable future by cultivating harmonious relationships between humans and the environment. Green Cross concentrates its efforts on the following five programs whose common theme is to promote a significant change in human values leading to greater respect and care for Earth's community of life in all its diversity.

Greenpeace
Greenpeace is an independent, campaigning organisation which uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force the solutions which are essential to a green and peaceful future. Greenpeace's goal is to ensure the ability of the earth to nurture life in all its diversity.

Lorin Hollander/Institutes for Transformation, Healing & Education
World renown concert pianist, Lorin Hollander, is founder of a series of institutes devoted to the healing and transformation of children with dysfunctional problems, and the prevention of such problems in future generations.

Humanity Foundation
The mission of The Humanity Foundation is to encourage people to understand this planet as our common home. THF publishes the journal, humanity; collects oral tradition stories from indigenous tribes; seeks to identify the next generation of visionary leaders; and has a web site that fosters attitudinal change.

Hunger Project
The Hunger Project has made bold, innovative contributions to the global effort to eradicate hunger. The Hunger Project has been able to achieve this because of its ability to combine intense and unwavering commitment, a cutting-edge strategic approach, and focused action based on deep human principles.

International Space Sciences Organization
The International Space Sciences Organization is a cutting-edge research institute conducting theoretical and experimental studies in physics to advance human understanding of the fundamental nature and functions of matter and energy. ISSO is dedicated to introducing new propulsion and energy technologies alongside new visions of human society capable of using them wisely.

Institute for Global Communications (IGC)
The mission of ICG is to advance and inform movements for peace, economic and social justice, human rights and environmental sustainability around the world by promoting strategic use of appropriate computer technology. The IGC site houses PeaceNet, EcoNet, LoborNet, WomensNet and ConflictNet.

Institute for Global Ethics
The Institute for Global Ethics is dedicated to elevating public awareness and promoting the discussion of ethics in a global context. As an international, membership-based think tank, the Institute focuses on ethical activities in education, the corporate sector, and public policy.

InterAction
InterAction: The American Council for Voluntary International Action is the nation's largest coalition of international development, disaster relief and refugee assistance agencies. InterAction's members include more than 150 US-based non-profit organizations that all share the same basic goals of easing human suffering and strengthening people's ability to help themselves.

John Templeton Foundation
Established by Sir John Templeton, the Foundation supports programs worldwide to stimulate serious, progress-generating links between the sciences and all religions. It promotes appreciation character-building as integral for a free democratic society, for the benefits of freedom, and free, fair and open competition as a basic principle of prudence and success in culture, religion, politics, and economic life.

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
As the main advocate for global action on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS leads, strengthens and supports an expanded response aimed at preventing the transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS, and alleviating the impact of the epidemic.

National Town Meeting for a Sustainable America
NTM is committed to the achievement of a dignified, peaceful, and equitable existence. In May 1999, the National Town Meeting for a Sustainable America will culminate a year-long journey to catalyze a national movement towards sustainable development, with events in Detroit and points across America.

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
The Natural Resources Defense Council's purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. NDRC works to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life -- air, land, and water -- and to defend endangered natural places.

One World
OneWorld Online is a partnership: over 100 organizations working for human rights and sustainable development. These organizations are working together to broadcast an alternative world agenda, an agenda for a fairer world.

Oxfam International
Oxfam International is an international partnership of 11 autonomous non-government organisations of diverse cultures, history, and language, that share the commitment to working for an end to the waste and injustice of poverty - both in longer-term development work and in times of urgent humanitarian need.

Pachamama Alliance
The mission of The Pachamama Alliance is to halt the destruction of the Earth's tropical rainforests and the loss of its indigenous cultures and to forge a new global vision of sustainability for us all.

President's Council on Sustainable Development
The President's Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD) was established by President Clinton in June 1993 to advise him on sustainable development and develop bold, new approaches to achieve our economic, environmental, and equity goals.

Rockefeller Brothers Fund
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) is a philanthropic organization dedicated to improving the well-being of all people in the transition to global interdependence.

The Soros Foundation
Philanthropist George Soros has created numerous nonprofit foundations that are linked together as the Soros Foundation network. The network organizes and sponsors initiatives and foundations in over 30 countries with a particular focus on education.

Synergos Institute
The Synergos Institute is an independent nonprofit organization that brings diverse sectors of society together to find new, more effective ways to narrow the gap between rich and poor. With particular emphasis on countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Synergos strenthens the role of philanthropy and citizen leadership in social development.

Toda Institute
The Toda Institute is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization committed to the pursuit of peace through peaceful means and a complete abolition of war. In cooperation with other peace organizations that resist injustice and resolve conflict, the Institute aims to maximize the efforts of people of peace of all colors and creeds everywhere.

The 21st Century Learning Initiative
The 21st Century Learning Initiative's essential purpose is to facilitate the emergence of new approaches to learning that draw upon a range of insights into the human brain, the functioning of human societies, and learning as a self-organizing activity. We believe this will release human potential in ways that nurture and form democratic communities worldwide, and will help reclaim and sustain a world supportive of human endeavor.

The Council for Global Education
The Council for Global Education is dedicated to the development of a new model of education for the child entering the 21st century. CGE facilitates the creation and implementation of curriculum, programs and policies that prepare children for success in the emerging global community. CGE envisions a future where values such as peace, co-existence, respect and responsibility are intricately integrated into the educational environment. In addition, CGE encourages and facilitates networking opportunities and ongoing dialogues through affiliate organizations and individuals, working to ensure that educators are more than teachers, and serve as facilitators for learning and role models for students.

Together Foundation
The Together Foundation is dedicated to fostering communication between individuals, groups, corporations and governments working in service to the Earth and humanity. As a private operating foundation, the Together Foundation is committed to providing assistance to non-profit organizations, NGOs, UN agencies and other intergovernmental organizations with their computer, information, networking, database and telecommunications needs.

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
UNICEF, the only organization of the United Nations dedicated exclusively to children, works with other United Nations bodies, governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to lighten children's loads through community-based services in primary health care, basic education, and safe water and sanitation in developing countries.

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
UNIFEM promotes women's empowerment and gender equality. It works to ensure the participation of women in all levels of development planning and practice, and acts as a catalyst within the UN system, supporting efforts that link the needs and concerns of women to all critical issues on the national, regional and global agendas.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
UNDP's mission is to help countries in their efforts to achieve sustainable human development by assisting them to build their capacity to design and carry out development programmes in poverty eradication, employment creation and sustainable livelihoods, the empowerment of women and the protection and regeneration of the environment, giving first priority to poverty eradication.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
The main objective of UNESCO is to contribute to peace and security in the world by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science, culture and communication in order to further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion, by the Charter of the United Nations.

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
UNFPA extends assistance to developing countries, countries with economies in transition and other countries at their request to help them address reproductive health and population issues, and raises awareness of these issues in all countries, as it has since its inception.

United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) attempts to provide governments, development agencies, grassroots organizations and scholars with a better understanding of how development policies and processes of economic, social and environmental change affect different social groups. Working through an extensive network of national research centres, UNRISD aims to promote original research and strengthen research capacity in developing countries.

Womankind Worldwide
WOMANKIND Worldwide is a forward looking development agency which supports women from the developing world in their fight against poverty, sexual or political oppression. WOMANKIND focuses on: women's rights as human rights and ending violence against women; livelihood and production; health; education and training; and environment.

Women's Environment And Development Organization (WEDO)
WEDO is an international advocacy network actively working to transform society to achieve a healthy and peaceful planet, with social, political, economic and environmental justice for all through the empowerment of women, in all their diversity, and their equal participation with men indecision-making from grassroots to global arenas.

World Health Organization / Organisation mondiale de la Santé (WHO)
The objective of WHO is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health, as defined in the WHO Constitution, is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

World Wildlife Fund
The World Wildlife Fund is dedicated to protecting the world's wildlife and wildlands. The world's largest privately supported international conservation organization, the WWF directs its efforts on protecting and saving endangered species, amd addressomg global threats to the environment.