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Your support can make a difference to the sustainability of CNVC operations and scholarships for students to participate in Virtual Intensive Trainings.
Nonviolent Communication is important now more than ever. Your donations will help CNVC continue to spread Marshall’s message around the world.
Join the 48-hour CNVC Worldwide Gathering on March 25 – 26, and learn and practice your Nonviolent Communication skills. Registration is free!
- Participate in OVER 35 different trainings offered in different languages.
- Training Sessions around the theme: How do we get along in these extraordinary times? How to stay connected with family, friends, neighbors and coworkers.
You’re invited to join us in this fundraising effort as we explore the applications of Nonviolent Communication. Join sessions around using NVC in conflict, with criticism, kids, coworkers, friends in pain, animals, dear ones at the end of their life, understanding LGBTQIA and racial equality. Get yourself a place and get ready to connect!
Best of all: registration is free! We ask that you donate and help us replace the revenue lost as a result of the Covid-19 Crisis and help us keep CNVC on the map with our Worldwide Gathering. Sign up to get updates on the schedule and offerings.
Tags: nonprofit, The Center for Nonviolent Communication, 2 annual world gathering, social justice
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In this webinar, we’ll examine political polarization and how to overcome it. We recognize that the “us vs. them” posture in American political life is making it hard to achieve the cooperation needed to address our most pressing social and environmental problems. We are hoping to explore two drivers of polarization: (1) the neurological and psychological characteristics of individuals that promote tribalism, and (2) the cultural constructs and social institutions that reinforce personal tendencies toward “us vs. them” thinking. Given our brains and the world we inhabit, how do we go about dismantling (or at least chipping away at) polarization so that people can act more collaboratively?
Join us for this free conversation on March 24th with Kim Doell, John Wood, Jr., and Lee Drutman about how to bridge seemingly impossible divides to work collaboratively on social and environmental issues.
A minimum donation of $25 will give you access to our live, online event as well as a recording of the event as soon as it’s available.
Can’t make it to the live event? Donate a minimum of $25 and we’ll send you a link to the recording that you can access at any time immediately following the event.
Speaker Bios
Kim Doell is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at New York University. Her research broadly focuses on investigating group-level processes, such as social and political identities, and how they relate to various pro-social and sustainable behaviors.
John Wood, Jr. is a former nominee for congress and a former vice-chairman of the Republican Party of Los Angeles County. A noted writer and speaker on the subjects of political and racial reconciliation John’s written work has been featured in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Examiner, and Quillette Magazine. He is a national spokesperson for the bipartisan organization Braver Angels and lives in South Los Angeles with his wife and three children.
Lee Drutman is a senior fellow in the Political Reform program at New America. He is the author of “Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America” and “The Business of America is Lobbying”. He is also the co-host of the podcast Politics in Question, and writes for the New York Times, Vox, and FiveThirtyEight, among other outlets.
This event is free to attend, but we hope you’ll consider a donation of $25 or more, which will also give you access to a recording of the event as soon as it’s available. Funds raised from the event will support Post Carbon Institute’s efforts to inspire, educate, and support many more people to respond with urgency and boldness to the defining challenges of our time.
Tags: nonprofit, Post Carbon Institute, conversation how to bridge seemingly impossible divides to work collaboratively on social and environmental issues, social justice
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In the last few years, two Indigenous-led movements have been boldly leading a way forward for tribal communities and climate justice by reclaiming sovereignty rooted in ancestral knowledge. Both of these movements radically shift the colonial system embedded in the DNA of the United States (and Canada), and how we relate to the land, water and spirit of Turtle Island. With this webinar we will share the power of the Rights of Nature and LandBack movements from those leading the way, and explore the potential for collaboration or connection between them.
To register:
We have opened registration to 500 people live on Zoom with Q&A and special opportunities to get involved. Use this link to register today: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mZu1wvKTSWSZO8RrkB60RA
Quotes and Bios from panelists:
“For the Indigenous people of Turtle Island and around the world, the Rights of Nature has been a way to reclaim our sovereignty and exercise our traditional responsibilities to our Mother, the Earth. In passing Rights of Nature into tribal law, the Ponca also reclaimed our original treaty boundaries, which the US government has whittled away with every broken promise and Treaty they’ve ever signed with tribal nations.” -Casey Camp Horinek, Ponca tribe of Oklahoma, Ponca Environmental Ambassador and Movement Rights founding Board chair. BIO: https://www.movementrights.org/board/
“When we say ‘Land Back’ we aren’t asking for just the ground, or for a piece of paper that allows us to tear up and pollute the earth. We want the system that is land to be alive so that it can perpetuate itself, and perpetuate us as an extension of itself. That’s what we want back: our place in keeping land alive and spiritually connected.” -Krystal Two Bulls, Northern Cheyenne/Oglala Lakota, NDN Collective LandBack Director. BIO: https://ndncollective.org/people/krystal-two-bulls/
“They decided, we’ll just go over to Standing Rock, those Indians ain’t going to do nothing. Well, we did. We have never ceded this land. If Dakota Access Pipeline can go through and claim eminent domain on landowners and Native peoples on their own land, then we as sovereign nations can then declare eminent domain on our own aboriginal homeland,” – Joye Braun Wanbli Wiyan Ka’win or Eagle Feather Woman, Cheyenne River Sioux, Community Organizer, Indigenous Environmental Network. BIO:https://www.facebook.com/Indigenousrisingmedia/posts/tomorrow-join-iens-joye-braun-for-the-be-the-revolution-summit-online-webinar-fo/3226055450744592/
“The Ohlone people never lost their connection to this land. The land gives us everything that we need in order to survive. That’s how people lived for thousands of years on our land and other Indigenous people’s land. You work with the land so that it can continue to provide, but that you honor that relationship by not taking too much. Through a voluntary land tax and donations from land owners, this organization is working to create an alternative land base and cultural site for Indigenous people in California’s East Bay.” -Corrina Gould, chair and spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan Ohlone.
BIO: Corrina was born and raised in Oakland, CA, the village of Huichin. A mother of three and grandmother of four, Corrina is the Co-Founder and Lead Organizer for Indian People Organizing for Change, a small Native run organization that works on Indigenous people issues and sponsored annual Shellmound Peace Walks from 2005 to 2009. These walks brought about education and awareness of the desecration of sacred sites in the greater Bay Area. As a tribal leader, she has continued to fight for the protection of the Shellmounds, uphold her nation’s inherent right to sovereignty, and stand in solidarity with her Indigenous relatives to protect our sacred waters, mountains, and lands all over the world. Her life’s work has led to the creation of Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, a women-led organization within the urban setting of her ancestral territory of the Bay Area. Sogorea Te’ Land Trust works to return Indigenous land to Indigenous people. Based on an understanding that Oakland is home to many peoples that have been oppressed and marginalized, Sogorea Te works to create a thriving community that lives in relation to the land. Through the practices of rematriation, cultural revitalization, and land restoration, the Land Trust calls on native and non-native peoples to heal and transform legacies of colonization, genocide, and to do the work our ancestors and future generations are calling us to do.
“We’re the original stewards of the land. Now we’re returned.” -Tom Little Bear Nason, chairman of the Esselen tribe of Monterey county, California.
Bio: Tom Little Bear is the Tribal Chairman of the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County and the Tribe has recently received 1200 acres off acred lands located in their aboriginal homelands of Big Sur in Monterey County. The land is crucial to the tribe because the Tribe has been landless for over 250 years since the colonization of Spanish Missionaries who ripped all of the Esselen Tribal members from their ancient homelands and villages in 1770s. Leaving thee tribe without a place to call their own. This land holds a sacred mountain called “Pico Blanco” or “Pixchi” in Esselen. This is the center of the Esselen’s universe and holds the creation story for the tribe. Coyote, Humming Bird and the Eagle created the Esselen World as they have known it for countless generations. Little Bear is an elder and has been a land and water protector since he was chosen at the age of 8 to become the leader and to carry on the tribes long tradition of protecting sacred lands of the Native Americans. Little Bear has defended dozens of government projects to dam up rivers and to level off mountain tops for telescopes and towers. Most recently the tribe under his leadership worked to remove the largest Dam in California state history on the Carmel River in Monterey County. This was a monumental task that has spawned numerous other dam removal projects on tribal lands in California, Oregon and Washington States. He is currently working on further protections of sacred lands, forests wildlife and rivers within their tribal territory and defending Mother Earth.
Tags: nonprofit, environment, social justice, Rights of Nature Movement, Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
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You have developed a focused question and found the data you need to answer that question. Now you will learn how to find meaning in the data through tables, charts, and maps. Register at https://bit.ly/3uwHliR.
This training will take place via zoom meeting.
Tags: Social Assets and Vulnerabilities Indicators (SAVI), nonprofit, social justice, data analysis, poverty data
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Local Leaders Roundtable: Nuts & Bolts
Using Your Website as a Member Marketplace—Learn strategies and software for turning your IBA website into an eCommerce site for your members. We’ll hear tips from AMIBA members who have led the way in with this great member and community benefit.
We offer three kinds of monthly Roundtables in rotation quarterly:
Local Hive—We’re all local pollinators in our communities, bring your ideas and concerns and join the buzz.
Nuts & Bolts—The step by step how-to of running a local organization, topic by topic.
What’s New at AMIBA—It’s a new day at AMIBA and we’re bursting with benefits, resources and ideas just for you. Come get them!
Mark your calendars and join us for our next Local Leaders Roundtable every second Thursday at 1pm ET.
Tags: local & independent business, nonprofit, social justice, American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA)
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The focus of this forum will be on Montgomery County, Maryland, but it is applicable to any large county or region. As Montgomery County concludes the drafting of its Climate Action Plan after nearly a year and a half of work with citizen advisors, consultants, and its own staff, we are faced with the daunting goals we have set: 80% reduction in our carbon emissions by 2027, and 100% by 2035. How will we get there? What are the limits of renewable energy? Are we addressing the root causes?
Climate change is part of a larger crisis, often labeled “overshoot,” and solar and wind power by themselves won’t extricate us from that dilemma. The ability of renewables to fully replace fossil fuels has been oversold. If that is the case, what are our alternatives?
Beginning in 2003 with The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, one of the first full-length analyses of peak oil, Richard Heinberg has written numerous books on topics examining the implications of our modern society’s dependence on fossil fuels, and what may come next as the availability of cheap fossil fuels begins to decline. In addition to his forthcoming book, his 2016 book Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy will be pertinent to the evening’s discussion on March 10.
Please register to join us for an evening of provocative analysis and discussion:
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To register without a donation
Tags: city, Climate Action Plan, nonprofit, social justice, environmental justice, Post Carbon Institute
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Hold space for the tough feelings and learn how to emerge with a deeper understanding of ourselves and others.
As individuals and groups, we experience varying levels of privilege. Recognizing our relationship to oppression can bring feelings of guilt, shame, and grief. Join facilitator Ridhi D’Cruz for a conversation to explore how we face and transform oppression in our everyday lives. This conversation will include audience participation and conversation.
Ridhi (they/them) is a genderqueer person from South India who moved to Wapato Valley (Portland) in 2010. They have dedicated over a decade to designing community processes that cultivate shared senses of place. Ridhi is Executive Director of the City Repair Project, based in Wapato Valley, or Portland, OR.
Sliding scale: $0 – $25
Tags: nonprofit, social justice, Foundation for Intentional Communities
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With millions of American’s facing the grim prospect of eviction or foreclosure due to the pandemic, the need for affordable housing solutions is more important than ever.
Join our round-table community conversation to share your ideas and discuss ideas and projects addressing the challenge in Indianapolis and beyond. Last month’s conversation was focused on home ownership (see below for link to recording) so this month we’d like to focus more on opportunities for renters and people who aren’t able or don’t want to buy a home.
Round-table participants include:
– Valerie Davis, Neareastside Indy Community Leader, Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF) Ambassador, https://www.cicf.org/2019/06/19/our-community-ambassadors/
– Josh Livingston & Joe Bowling, Englewood Community Development Corporation, https://englewoodcdc.com
Alejandro Samaniego, Central Indiana Democratic Socialists of America Housing for All Committee, https://www.centralindsa.org/housing4all/
If you missed last months conversation here is the recording: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/BMmXTDwlBahAvF9bW-ZBoqVsOJCqMa7_gfe8io7LCOmcXaiK4e3ylvQPi8H3XDkPxojnTmx_u7uOyf4.YISDMpLGAbFr0lz5?autoplay=true&continueMode=true&startTime=1611950602000
Tags: affordable housing, houseing as a right, social justice, nonprofit, Kheprw Institute, CICF, Englewood CDC
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Register here:
https://forms.organise.earth/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=369134&lang=en
This online gathering aims to explore cultural difference, Western culture, colonisation, modern societies as well as Indigenous worldviews, perspectives and philosophies from around the world, including Australia, Africa, New Zealand and the Americas.
Practical decolonial actions that flow from these perspectives will also be considered along with potential emergent decolonial futures. Formats will include presentations, interactive exercises in small breakout groups, and general questions and discussion.
This gathering will be hosted by XR Global Support Trainings and Regen 101 Working Group and will be facilitated by Dr. Yin Paradies, an Aboriginal-Asian-Anglo Australian of the Wakaya people from the Gulf of Carpentaria. He is a Professor of Race Relations at Deakin University, where he conducts research on racism and anti-racism as well as teaching and researching Indigenous knowledges and decoloniality. Yin is a climate and ecological activist who is committed to understanding and interrupting the devastating impacts of modern societies.
He seeks meaningful mutuality of becoming and embodied kinship with all life through transformed ways of knowing, being, and doing that are grounded in wisdom, humility, respect, and generosity. He is a current Moora Moora resident, having moved to the mountain in 2020 to be in community, cultivate a closer connection to Country and engage in an ethos of down-shifted collective sufficiency, voluntary simplicity, frugality, direct democracy, and radical localisation.
While this is a “free” event we do invite participants to engage in the gift economy to support a local community climate change food growing group.
Feel free to do so here: PayPal.Me/YinParadies
Register here:
https://forms.organise.earth/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=369134&lang=en
Regen 101 workshop
Register here: https://forms.organise.earth/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=939276&lang=en
Support XR here: https://chuffed.org/pay/campaign/62932
Tags: explore cultural difference, Western culture, colonisation, modern societies as well as Indigenous worldviews, perspectives and philosophies from around the world, including Australia, Africa, New Zealand and the Americas, nonprofit, social justice
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Join us for our kickoff and prep webinar to discuss HSUS Indiana’s Humane Advocacy Week!
During Humane Advocacy Week, you will ‘meet’ virtually with your two state legislators to ask for their support of priority HSUS Indiana animal protection legislation. These meetings will be virtual, via zoom, phone, facetime (whatever works best for you!)
Find your state legislators: http://action.humanesociety.org/site/PageServer?pagename=electedOfficials
What’s even more exciting is that each day of the week between February 1 – 5, there will be a different virtual activity and opportunity to be a voice and take action for animals in Indiana and beyond!
Whether you are a veteran or new advocate, you will want to participate in the HSUS Indiana Humane Advocacy Week Kickoff & Prep Webinar on Wednesday, January 27th from 6:30-7:30 PM.
You will learn about the week’s planned activities, top HSUS Indiana legislative priorities, how to schedule your meetings with legislators & more.
Looking forward to “seeing” you soon to take action for animals!
Tags: Humane Advocacy Week, nonprofit, Humane Society, social justice, animal welfare, vegan
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Join us for a Solidarity Summit!
When: January 23-24, 2021
Where: Wherever you are, and online at hopin (link TBD)
Who: People who are ready to use mutual aid to support each other in building a world that supports thriving life for the 100%
Why: Hosted by Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks, in order to come together to learn from and support each other in mutual aid efforts. Our goal is to create means for everyone to discover and succeed in work they want to do, with the support of their community. We act on our belief that everyone deserves a lively humanhood, and we support each other to live our highest and best life.
What: At the Solidarity Summit we’ll gather (COVID-safe, physically distant, outdoor, masked when possible, and/or online) simultaneously in our localities with our local mutual aid partners, and connect online across all the locations participating, in order to build skills, relationships, and momentum together while benefiting our local work.
Online connected sessions include:
- Skillshares on projects (food sovereignty, wellness, renewable energy, housing, supply development)
- Skillshares on tools like software and economic structures
- Open roundtable discussions
- Outreach and visioning activities with our local communities
- What now for newbies? Real and simple invitations to engage
Many Solidarity Summits include some physical
work we help each other with.
Sign up here to join in shaping it.
See the calendar at mutualaidnetwork.org for more information and scheduling details.
Tags: food sovereignty, wellness, renewable energy, housing, supply development, nonprofit, social justice, sharing economy, solidarity
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Tags: Nonprofit Quarterly, business leadership training, social justice, Remaking the Economy: Health, Racial Disparities, and Economic Justice
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EcoFarm2021 Pre-Conference Event
The time has come for organic farmers to come together to protect the meaning of organic. Join many of the pioneering farmers of the organic movement as they discuss why the organic industry is in need of a course correction and what we must do to bring it back home to its roots. Gain a greater understanding of why many organic farmers are fighting to reclaim the word “Organic” from lobbyists and industrial agricultural corporations. Explore the connections between healthy soil, climate, and nutrition to shed light on why we need greater transparency in food labels and the importance of farmers to lead the way.
Cost: $35
Register: https://eco-farm.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=46
Tags: Organic Farming, nonprofit, social justice
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Registration closes 2 hours prior to the start of the program. To reserve a spot, visit: https://indianahistory.org/events/history-happy-hour-martin-luther-king-jr-in-indiana/
Free Program. Additional opportunities available to support IHS as we continue collecting, preserving, and sharing Indiana’s history.
Stay connected with the stories of your state while you are at home. Bring your own beverage and join us for a series of insightful conversations with some of Indiana’s most interesting scholars.
No matter where he went, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a catalyst for change, fostering a message of peace and equity around civil and human rights. On the eve of Dr. King’s birthday, join I.H.S. archivist Susan Hall Dodson, to hear the stories and impact of this important leader on the Hoosier state.
History Happy Hour made possible with support from Lake City Bank and supported by the Robin and Charlitta Winston Family Fund for African American History.
Tags: nonprofit, social justice, Indiana Historical Society, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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2020 was nothing like any of us could have imagined. Instead of a big year for climate action and progress on other sustainability issues, the world was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout. As we look ahead, there are signs of hope, especially with the emergence of a vaccine, but the world continues to grapple with major challenges.
Join WRI on January 13, as we look to the big moments, trends and people that will shape the world in 2021. For the 18th annual Stories to Watch, WRI President and CEO Andrew Steer will share insights why 2021 could set a foundation for a cleaner, sustainable and more equitable future.
Will the world recover from COVID-19? How will the incoming Biden administration influence the direction, and which other leaders will emerge? What technologies will breakthrough? And, will we learn the right lessons from the year like no other?
You won’t want to miss Stories to Watch 2021 as we look at what will happen on climate, the environment, human development and the economy in the year ahead.
Tags: nonprofit, social justice, World Resources Institute, Stories To Watch 2021
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Join Hoosier Action Leaders from across the state to hear their stories and launch our 2021 Legislative Session work!
It is critical that Hoosier politicians pass a budget which prioritizes the safety, health, and future of our children over the profit margins of our wealthiest corporations. Now more than ever, Hoosiers across rural, urban, and small-town Indiana need our elected officials to heed the voices of their constituents rather than lobbyists.
Tags: Hoosier Action, progressive, social justice, 2021 Indiana Statehouse Legislative Review, nonprofit
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Tags: nonprofit, abundance, Soul Money Institute, healing, social justice
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Tags: nonprofit, abundance, Soul Money Institute, healing, social justice
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We will open with an introduction to Kwanzaa and its principles, screen the Kheprw Story short film and highlight the work of Kheprw and others involved in building economy and community wealth building on ujamaa (cooperative economics).
We will also do drawings for five $1000 door prizes for entrepreneurs who attend.
If you’d like to present your work please contact us at [email protected]
Tags: nonprofit, social justice, Kheprw Institute
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You heard about our new mission.
Now see our plans in action.
In April 2019, we announced our new mission to mobilize people, ideas and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential—no matter race, place or identity.
You’re invited to join us on Wednesday, Oct. 28, for an update on our commitment to dismantling systemic racism, hear from leaders who are joining us in this work, and learn more about how you can be a part of our plan of action for a more equitable community.
To ensure safety through social distancing and to be accessible to all, this event will be broadcast live from the Madam Walker Legacy Center and shared on an interactive digital platform.
Details on how to connect to the digital event will be shared with registered guest.
Register by clicking the ‘Tickets’ link.
Tags: nonprofit, social justice, Central Indiana Community Foundation
