Vision for the Future:
Good Things That Are Happening or Could Be

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Beautiful Trouble

Directly Supporting Activists

Modular toolkit Beautiful Trouble, and its Global-South focused follow-up, Beautiful Rising, which document and disseminate the breakthroughs and innovations world over. The toolkits are multilingual, movement-crowdsourced, evolve in real time alongside the movements they serve.

AMAZING Tool BoxTacticsPrinciplesMethodologiesStrategy Cards
Be Visible - Protest

Bioneers

It’s all alive. It’s all connected. It’s all intelligent. It’s all relatives.

Bioneers is an innovative nonprofit organization that highlights breakthrough solutions for restoring people and planet. We act as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges.

ProgramsEnvironmental EducationChild Centered Planning
Environment - Sustainable Practices

CEANYC

Cooperative Economics Alliance of NYC

Build economic and political power and secure a just, climate-resilient future for all New Yorkers. We bring these groups together to forge a shared identity and strategy. We are cultivating our collective power to divest from the extractive capitalist economy and to invest in a solidarity economy.

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Prefigurative Politics

CHERP Solar Works

Solar for All, by All

Powering Communities, Empowering People

The CHERP model includes key elements such as the creation of high-quality manufacturing jobs, training in solar manufacturing and installation, prioritization of low-income household installations, and economic stimulation through local spending.

How CERP Powers CommunitiesOur PartnersGet Involved - Volunteer
Environment - Sustainable Practices

Center for Story-Based Strategy

Where Imagination Builds Power

Center for Story-based Strategy cultivates imagination spaces where story, grassroots leadership, organizing, and democracy are interwoven strategies to build power.

Imagining 2050Story Based StrategyBlogRadical Imagination
Prefigurative Politics

Dean Spade

Mutual Aid - Not Charity

Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He is a professor at the Seattle University School of Law.

Mutual Aid Explainer VideoBook - Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next)Building Accountable CitiesVideos
Mutual Aid

Democracy Collaborative

Think. Do. Change.

Foundations in ideas and projects and viable policies such that a longer-term transformation of our political economy becomes an inevitable reality, flowing from shared core values and institutional design principles.

What We DoCommunity Wealth BuildingBlogs
Prefigurative Politics

Democracy at Work Institute

Ownership Now for Equitable Recovery

We're building on years of research and hands-on experience to help communities overcome accelerating economic and social crises through worker ownership.

NewsResourcesBlog
Prefigurative Politics

Ecocivilization Coalition

Toward a Life-Affirming Global Civilization

The Coalition will act in service of existing life-affirming concepts

This narrative will not be limited to policy and societal issues but invite shifts in the dominant worldview, promoting a shift away from individualism, reductionism, and human supremacy, to a more relational ontology of interbeing

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Environment - Sustainable Practices

Grounded Solutions Network

Strengthening Neighborhoods

Where we live matters. We believe that everyone should have a safe, stable home.  We can help with housing solutions that will stay affordable for generations and housing policies that promote equity and inclusion.

Strengthening NeighborhoodsResource LibraryNational Initiatives
Prefigurative Politics

Heifer International

Supports Smallholder Farmers

Ending poverty begins with agriculture Heifer International is on a mission to end hunger and poverty in a sustainable way by supporting and investing alongside local farmers and their communities.

Get InvolvedNews and StoriesAbout Us
Environment - Sustainable Practices

Institute for Humane Studies

Freedom. Flourishing. For All.

From research grants to our unforgettable events, the IHS network drives solutions to the critical challenges facing America today. We’ve built a network of 7,000+ thinkers and doers working within the liberal tradition to answer pressing questions—and help solve real-world challenges—in liberal democracy, economic prosperity, and human progress.

Events and ProgramsBlogInstagramLinktree
Prefigurative Politics

Institute of Art and Ideas

Changing how the world thinks 5000+ debates, talks and interviews from the world's leading thinkers

YouTubePoliticsPhilosophyArts and Culture
Education - Paradigm Challenge

Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals

The World Today for a Sustainable Future

Formerly IEMA, the Institute of Sustainability & Environmental Professionals (ISEP) is the global membership body for anyone wanting sustainable change. Transforming the world today for a sustainable future.

NewsSustainable Matters PodcastGlobal Networks
Environment - Sustainable Practices

Living Future

For a Healthier World

Creating regenerative buildings and materials that foster human well-being, environmental health, and thriving communities. We hold a vision and a commitment to transforming the building industry in ways that are deeply and urgently needed.

Regenerative BuildingsEducationEvents
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New Profit

Expanding Access and Opportunity

Our multiracial, intergenerational, cross-sector community of entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and partners is on a mission to expand access and opportunity in America.

Impact StoriesGet FundingNewsFacebook
Prefigurative Politics

Nonviolent Peaceforce

Transforming the World's Response to Conflict

Reimagining security and civilian protection in areas most impacted by conflict by working alongside communities to interrupt and prevent violence. Our evidence-informed, civilian-led approaches have protected tens of thousands of people around the world since our launch in 2002.

What We DoAdvocacyPublications
War - Nonviolence

Project Guttenberg

Free eBooks

Online library of more than 75,000 free eBooks. U.S. copyright has expired.

Project Gutenberg has a long history, which predates the modern Internet and continues until today.

Frequently DownloadedMain Categories
Education

Rising Majority

Towards 2050 Building Power Through Collective Action

A coalition that commits to a shared vision and strategy that brings together labor, youth, abolition, immigrant rights, climate justice, feminist, anti-war, and economic justice forces to amplify our collective power and to build alignment across our movements.

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TESA Collective

Play Games change the World

A worker-owned   publisher that makes games where you   can be a hero or a rebel, a cat or a dog,   insightful or ridiculous.

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Prefigurative Politics

The Future Today and Tomorrow

Redefining the Future

Dedicated to empowering communities of color and fostering positive change through strategic political engagement. Explore our website to discover how you can be a part of building a better tomorrow, starting today.

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Trust for Public Land

Celebrating ou Public Lands

Access to nature is essential to our happiness, health, and well-being. Yet in the U.S., about one in three people, including 28 million children, don’t have a quality park close to home. We’re partnering with communities and supporters to change this.

StoriesOur WorkExpertise
Environment - Sustainable Practices

Waging NonViolence

People-Powered News & Analysis

Waging Nonviolence is a non-profit media platform dedicated to providing original reporting and expert analysis of social movements around the world.

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News - Context/ Commentary

Wellbeing Economy Alliance

For an Economy In Service of Life

We often think of the economy as something given, fixed and unchangeable – but it’s not. The rules, social norms and stories that underpin our current system were designed by people, and that means they can also be changed by people.

Key ConceptsResourcesNews
Prefigurative Politics

World Beyond War

A Global Movement to End All Wars

Education and media that dispels myths, such as “War is natural” or “We have always had war,” showing people not only that war should be abolished, but also that it actually can be. We engage in all variety of nonviolent actions and campaigns that move the world in the direction of ending all war.

ActivismEducationCampaigns
War - Nonviolence