University for Peace (UPEACE)
The University for Peace was established in 1980 by a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, born from the conviction that lasting peace would need its own institution of higher learning—one dedicated not to winning wars but to understanding what makes them end for good. Headquartered on a campus built into a protected forest […]
Collective Imagination Practices Toolkit
The Collective Imagination Practices Toolkit, developed by the Collective Imagination Practice Community (funded by JRF Emerging Futures and hosted by Huddlecraft and Canopy), offers tools and practices to enable people to imagine more hopeful futures. The toolkit supports work that pays attention to who gets to imagine, centers diverse imaginations, and cultivates a range of […]
Regenerative Economics
Regenerative Economics by John Fullerton transforms how we see the economy—and what’s possible—offering a science-based, hopeful path beyond crisis thinking with a regenerative model that works like a living system. Fullerton, an unconventional economist and founder of the Capital Institute who left a 20-year career as Managing Director at JPMorgan in search of deeper answers, […]
Ashes to Resilience
Ashes to Resilience: A Guide to Wildfire Recovery is a resource developed by NewStories and Regenerating Paradise, drawing on their experiences to offer starting points for communities navigating wildfire recovery. Recognizing that what needs to happen is shaped by local culture and geography, the guide supports communities in their own journey of recovery and Re-Storying. […]
Two Loops
This excerpt from NewStories Founder Bob Stilger‘s book AfterNow: When We Cannot See the Future, Where Do We Begin? introduces the Berkana Two Loops model as a practical framework for understanding where we stand in times of profound systemic change. Stilger co-developed the Two Loops at a global gathering in Slovenia in 2002 and has […]
Brett KenCairn
Brett KenCairn is the Founding Director of Center for Regenerative Solutions and Senior Policy Advisor for Climate and Resilience in the City of Boulder’s Climate Initiatives Team, where he coordinates the city’s nature-based solutions work. Brett has worked across the western U.S. in community-based initiatives in rural, Native American, and other marginalized communities, and is […]
The Responsibility Process
The Responsibility Process is a behavioral science framework and the world’s first proven how-to approach for understanding, teaching, and taking personal responsibility. The framework helps people apply their innate leadership ability to face and overcome any challenge by operating in freedom, power, and choice—and encouraging those they lead to do likewise. The organization’s purpose is […]
Positive Psychology Center
The Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, directed by Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman, promotes research, education, and dissemination of Positive Psychology, resilience, and grit. Positive Psychology is the scientific study of the strengths that enable individuals and communities to thrive, founded on the belief that people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, […]
Big Magic
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert explores the nature of creativity, encouraging readers to live a more creative and fulfilling life by embracing curiosity over fear. Gilbert shares her own experiences and wisdom, offering a blend of spiritual guidance and practical advice on how to overcome creative blocks, pursue passions, and find […]
Commanding Hope
Commanding Hope by Thomas Homer-Dixon addresses the frightening convergence of pandemics, inequality, racism, political authoritarianism, climate crisis, and nuclear danger—showing why and how we got here, and most importantly, the powers we possess to renew our imperiled world. Drawing on decades of work on global security and social cohesion, Homer-Dixon explains how today’s globe-spanning crises […]
United We Dream
United We Dream is the largest immigrant youth-led community in the country, creating welcoming spaces for young people—regardless of immigration status—to support, engage, and empower them to make their voices heard and win. Over 60% of members are womxn and 20% identify as LGBTQ, made up of fearless youth advocating to improve the lives of […]
Critical Resistance
Critical Resistance is an abolitionist non profit organization dedicated to dismantling the prison industrial complex and building sustainable alternatives to punishment, policing, and surveillance. The organization names the prison industrial complex as a web of political, economic, and cultural forces that treat incarceration as a solution to social problems—while reinforcing racial, economic, and social inequality. […]
Zehr Institute
The Zehr Institute’s Restorative Justice Diversion Huddle non profit is a national community of practice that brings together restorative justice practitioners engaged in diversion work across the United States. Designed as a monthly, drop-in space, the Huddle connects legal partners and community-based organizations working in pre-arrest, pre-charge, and pre-plea contexts to share knowledge, challenges, and […]
The Sentencing Project
The Sentencing Project is a national non profit organization working to transform the U.S. criminal legal system by advancing policies that reduce mass incarceration and promote justice, dignity, and safety. In response to decades of punitive sentencing laws that have driven an unprecedented expansion of the prison population, the organization challenges the assumption that incarceration […]
Invite Change
Since 1997, inviteCHANGE has shaped organizational cultures where people love their life’s work through coaching and leadership development grounded in character development and generative wholeness—the dynamic capacity to originate, create, learn, and produce sustainable results. Founded by pioneers who contributed thousands of volunteer hours to establish coaching competency standards in North America during the field’s […]