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ECONOMIC REFORM

Systemic change will not happen without speaking out, and facing the realities of our class divides. Innovation in use of money and time will move us.

• Codepink Women for Peace
• Community LIFE Network - General Assemblies Network
• Criterion Ventures: Women Effect Investments Initiative
• Interfaith Worker Justice
• Rebuild the Dream Innovation Fund
• Restaurant Opportunities Centers United
• Sustainable Economic Law Center
• The Declaration Initiative
• TimeBanks
• United for a Fair Economy (and Responsible Wealth)

CODEPINK: WOMEN FOR PEACE
Website: http://www.codepink.org
Donations:http://www.codepink.org/donate
Contact: Jodie Evans, Co-Founder
Email: jodieevans@gmail.com
Phone: 3108273046
Mission Statement: CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S. funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, and to redirect our resources into health care, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities
2011 Budget: $520,000
Amount to Raise: $80,000 by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $450,000
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012) 3/31/13

Community LIFE Network - General Assemblies Network
Website: http://www.CommunityLIFEnetwork.org
Donations: http://CommunityLIFEnetwork.org/Donate.html
Contact: Jay Blas Jacob Cabrera, Chair of Board
Email: inc@communitylifenetwork.org
Phone: (415) 323-5833
Mission Statement: The Mission of the Community LIFE Network is to help our communities network together and find solutions to overcome the problems of the 21st century.
Our current focus is to support the emerging General Assemblies across the world, as part of the global movement we know as "Occupy". Our new program is called the General Assembly Network (GAN).
The mission of GAN is to support systemic structures for economic and political solutions, based on participatory democracy, which help overcome the problems of the 21st Century.
The main 7 areas of support for training, skill building, and distributing funds are:
1) General Assemblies on the Local Level
2) Communications Network from local to Global
3) Occupy Audit & Financial Transparency
4) Occupy Awareness Benefit Conferences with Speakers for the General Public
5) Occupy Systems for Sustainable and Resilience Technology
6) Occupy Education for Democratizing our Educational Institutions
7) Occupy Art for Cultural Creativity and Evolution
GAN Proposal: http://Fund.GeneralAssemblies.info
2011 Budget: $15,000
Amount to Raise: $90,000 by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $745,000
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012) 12/31/12

Criterion Ventures: Women Effect Investments Initiative
Website: http://www.criterionventures.com
Donations:https://npo.networkforgood.org/Donate/Donate.aspx?npoSubscriptionId=3894
Contact: Kirsten Bunch, Director of Development and Engagement
Email: bunch@criterionventures.com
Phone: 917.754.0274
Mission Statement: Criterion Ventures shapes markets for environmental and social good. One of the ways we do this is through the Women Effect Investments initiative,a field-building initiative that seeks to mobilize more investment dollars toward improving the condition of women and girls worldwide.
2011 Budget: $200,000
Amount to Raise: $40,000 by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $375,000
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012) December 31, 2012

Interfaith Worker Justice
Website: http://www.iwj.org
Donations:https://www.chi-cash-advance.com/sforms/appeal623/Contribute.aspx
Contact: Joan Flanagan, Director of Development
Email: jflanagan@iwj.org
Phone: 773-728-8400, ex. 27
Mission Statement: Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) is a network of people of faith that calls upon our religious values in order to educate, organize, and mobilize the religious community in the United States on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits, and conditions for workers, and give voice to workers, especially workers in low-wage jobs.
2011 Budget: $2,478,500
Amount to Raise: $158,300 by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $2,333,000
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012) December 31,2012

Rebuild the Dream Innovation Fund
Website: http://www.rebuildthedream.com
Donations: https://rebuild.actionkit.com/donate/rebuild-501c3/?source=md
Contact: Katie Steele
Email: katie@rebuildthedream.com
Phone: 510-394-2311
Mission Statement: Rebuild the Dream is a platform for bottom-up, people-powered innovation in the areas of policy, economics and media. We leverage digital technology, grassroots organizing, and artistic expression to advance highly inventive solutions that are designed to put America back to work, and pull America back together.
2011 Budget: $1,500,000
Amount to Raise: $500,000 by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $4,850,000 (calendar year)
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012) June 30, 2012

Restaurant Opportunities Centers United
Website: www.rocunited.org
Donations:www.rocunited.org
Contact: Jennifer Dillon, Development Director
Email: jennifer@rocunited.org
Phone: 773.860.7877
Mission Statement: The Restaurant Opportunities Centers United seeks improved wages and working conditions and increased opportunities for advancement for low-wage restaurant workers nationwide.
2011 Budget: $2,224,648
Amount to Raise: $15,000 by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $2,361,121
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012) December 31, 2012

Sustainable Economies Law Center
Website: http://www.theselc.org/
Donations:http://www.theselc.org/donate
Contact: Janelle Orsi, Director
Email: janelle.SELC@gmail.com
Phone: 510-649-9956
Mission Statement: The Sustainable Economies Law Center facilitates the growth of sustainable, localized, and just economies, through education, legal research, and advocacy to support practices such as barter, cooperatives, community-supported enterprises, sharing, local currencies, ecovillages, urban agriculture, and local investing.
2011 Budget: $31,000
Amount to Raise: $10,000 by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $75,000
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012) Dec. 31, 2012

The Declaration Initiative
Website: http://www.declarationinitiative.org
Donations:http://www.demos.org/affiliates
Contact: linetta j gilbert, Co-Leader
Email: linetta.gilbert@gmail.com
Phone: 718.755.9273
Mission Statement: The Declaration Initiative is a movement that inspires members of American communities to invest together in assuring access to the promises of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all by July 4th, 2026. |
2011 Budget: $530,000
Amount to Raise: $360,000 by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $530,000
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012) June 30

TimeBanks
www.timebanks.org
Our mission is to expand a movement that
• develops, supports, and promotes a network of Time Banks that rebuild community, and
• reforms economic and social systems, policies and practices so that they empower human beings to contribute to the well-being of each other through reciprocity.
Budget 2010: NA
Budget 2011: NA

United for a Fair Economy (and Responsible Wealth)
Website: www.faireconomy.org
Donations:http://www.faireconomy.org/donate
Contact: Ruth Orme-Johnson, Dev. Associate
Email: rormejohnson@faireconomy.org
Phone: 617-423-2148
Mission Statement: We raise awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart. We support and help build social movements for greater equality.
2011 Budget: $1,296,475
Amount to Raise: $120,000 by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $1,270,002
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012) June 30, 2012

All things are possible,
Once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.

~ Norman Cousins

Tipping Point Fund