10. Progressive Cultural Change Organizations



10.1. Simple Living Advocacy Groups

New Road Map Foundation (NRM)
Seeks to foster a cooperative human community in a diverse yet interconnected world — in particular, promoting love and service as routes to personal and social well-being.
Center for a New American Dream
Helps Americans consume responsibly to protect the environment, enhance quality of life, and promote social justice by working with individuals, institutions, communities, and businesses to conserve natural resources, counter the commercialization of our culture, and change the way goods are produced and consumed.

10.2. Cooperative Living Advocacy Groups

Federation of Egalitarian Communities (FEC)
A network of communal groups spread across North America that share a set of core principles including nonviolence, egalitarianism, and participatory decision-making.
Cohousing Association of the U.S.
Supports individuals and groups in creating cohousing communities and provides assistance to completed groups to live together in community.
Rainbow Family of Living Light Unofficial Home Page
A gathering of people each year in a chosen National Forest who support love, peace, intentional community building, non-violence, alternative lifestyles, and taking care of the Earth.

10.3. Other Progressive Cultural Change Groups

Center for Partnership Studies (CPS)
Conducts research and promotes the shift from domination to the partnership model — based on harmony with nature, nonviolence, and gender, racial, and economic equity.
Center for Arts and Culture
An independent think tank that aims to broaden and deepen the national conversation on culture and cultural policies.
Graduation Pledge Alliance
A network of groups at colleges and universities that urge graduates to “pledge to explore and take into account the social and environmental consequences of any job I consider and try to improve these aspects of any organizations for which I work.”
Peace Partnership International
Seeks ways to consciously connect and build a culture of peace with nonviolence and cooperation as organizing principles.
Americans for Libraries Council (ALC) — Libraries for the Future
Advocates for libraries and develops and promotes programs aimed at realizing the potential of libraries in the 21st century.