Service/Sharing
As Alice A. Bailey reported in 1960, let the New Group of World Servers realize its mission and recognize the demands of humanity upon it. What are these demands? - To receive and transmit illumination. - To receive inspiration and consequently to inspire. – To hold the vision of a better world before the eyes of humanity. "Where there is no vision, the people perish." From “The Rays and Initiations”, A.A.B., May you be counted among this group.
See the following opportunities to create real world change through volunteerism, donations that provide amazing leverage, and perhaps most importantly, gaining awareness, so that these methods and means for peace and unity can get out into the public consciousness.
"Service is the key to happiness." - The Tibetan
Alphabetical listing of tools: Key words, phrases, resources for Service
Ashoka, Innovators for the Public: Ashoka is the global association of the worlds leading social entrepreneurs in civic engagement, economic development, education, environment, health, human rights… system changing solutions
www.ashoka.org
Bioneers: Forum for connecting the environment, health, social justice, and spirit within a broad progressive framework. Excellent DVD catalog: ex. “Restoring Los Angeles: Healing the Nature of Our Cities”, Andy Lipkis
www.bioneers.org
Brandt Commission, Commission for Africa: Fair global development, trade, financing www.brandt21forum.info | www.commissionforafrica.org
Cealo: Monks Beyond Religion, direct action and service, homeless children: Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, self reliance, sustainable development
www.cealo.net
Edhi Foundation: Serving the destitute in Pakistan for 56 years, housing and medical care for orphans, the homeless, accident victims, mentally ill
www.edhifoundation.com
Free the Children: Young people fighting child labor, sweatshops
www.freethechildren.org
Global Climate: Groups around the world working to reduce global warming: www.climatecrisiscoalition.org. The Environmental Defense Fund enables you to calculate your carbon footprint and gives tips to reduce it: www.fightglobalwarming.com. No War No Warming urging the U.S. to fight climate change, not wars for oil, shift government funding to communities, go green with the economy, local actions sought www.nowarnowarming.org. No matter where you are in the world, you can get involved: www.globalclimatecampaign.org
The Global Marshal Plan - Convention on the Global Commons: Global finance solutions for the elimination of poverty and the creation of a just and sustainable global economic system(the plan that continues beyond the Millennium Development Goals) www.globalmarshallplan.org and www.global-commons.org. Audio file of the 9/20/07 San Francisco Press Conference:www.global-negotiations.org/SF-Press_Conference.htm
Green Jobs: Clean energy, living wage jobs, collaborations between key representatives of business, labor, and the environmental sectors. Become a member, start a local project.
www.apolloalliance.org |www.bluegreenalliance.org
Heifer International: Ending hunger and poverty through self reliance and environmental sustainability since the 1940's
www.heifer.org | www.readtofeed.org
The Network of Spiritual Progressives: Foster a New Bottom Line of love, generosity & ecological sensitivity in our economy, education, media, & government
www.spiritualprogressives.org
The New Group of World Servers Websites: Stories about the ideas and processes brought forth by people who are changing the world
www.ngws.org | www.share-international.org | www.theelders.org
Learn more about the New Group of World Servers through searching www.lucistrust.org. The Mantram of the New Group of World Servers can be copied here.
Millennium Development Goals: Set in 2000, goals by 2015, halving extreme poverty and hunger, instituting universal primary education, eradicating curable disease, gender equity, environmental sustainability. See Global Marshall Plan above
www.un.org | www.developmentgoals.org |www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/trust/2015/
Philadelphia Green (Philly Green), a program of the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society: Green City Strategy for collaborative partnerships to address blight in a comprehensive and inclusive manner
www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org
Plan International: Partnership with local people of all ages, supporting them to end poverty in their community, sponsor a child's schooling, health and community improvements
www.plan-international.org
Post Carbon Institute: Think tank assisting communities in efforts to relocalize and adapt to energy constraints www.postcarbon.org Great DVD, “The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil” www.communitysolution.org
Poverty Elimination: International coalition working towards poverty reduction, pressure WTO and rich nations to increase aid and cooperative agreements for sharing the world's resources to end hopelessness and violence, get involved
www.makepovertyhistory.org | www.one.org | www.waronwant.org
Transmission Meditation: Service, personal growth, transcending emotional focus for mindfulness, work directly with the Masters of Wisdom
www.TransmissionMeditation.org
Urban Ecology Collaborative: Cultivating healthy, safe and vibrant cities through collective learning and united action, Cities share models, collaborate on grants
www.urbanecologycollaborative.org
Volunteering: Everyone can make a difference
- Action Without Borders: Connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives
www.idealist.org - American Senior Volunteers: Seniors making a difference in their communities, part of a national movement
www.seniorcorps.org | www.experiencecorps.org - Jesuit Volunteer Service: For those with a commitment to social justice, simple life-style, community and spirituality, in North America and across the world
www.jesuitvolunteers.org - Student Conservation Association: Hands-on stewardship, youth in service to the environment and communities, urban and wilderness programs, 50 years in building the next generation of conservation leadership
www.thesca.org - Gap Year: Youth volunteers, travel with a purpose, experience new cultures: teaching, conservation, community work
www.gapyear.com
"Today we face a new, global apartheid where the rich become richer and the poor become even poorer. Such a system cannot be sustained. Our task is to correct the legacy of this injustice and shape a new economic system which can assure sustainable development for all." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
*Click on a color in the PiUS at the top of each page to bring you to the corresponding tool list.