10. Progressive Cultural Change Organizations



10.1. Simple Living Advocacy Groups

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

Campaign for A Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC)
Advocates for the adoption of government policies that limit corporate marketers’ access to children.
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.
Graduation Pledge Alliance (GPA)
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.”