Inspired Legacies

We dedicate the seeds of our efforts to those who pursue love, forgiveness and true community through spirited and generous engagement.

Inspired Legacies convenes donors, nonprofits and advisors for inspired outcomes. So naturally with wonderful partners and alliances, we want to share just a few projects which we feel are exemplary.

Please fund and share these projects! Use our convenient pledge and gift form. Contact Tracy with questions and comments.

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Inspired Legacies
P.O. Box 1693
40 Redwood Drive
Ross, CA 94957

Phone: 415.377.9447
info@inspiredlegacies.org

TRANSFORMING EDUCATION, PEACE, AND POLICY

Without our conscious and supported teachers and diverse new leaders, we are doomed.

Free Speech for People
Insight Prison Project
National Council for Research on Women
Nonviolent Peaceforce
PassageWorks Institute
Ploughshares Fund
Women's Foundation of CA
The World Café Community Foundation

Free Speech For People
Website: www.freespeechforpeople.org
Donations:http://freespeechforpeople.org/donate
Contact: Alex Russell, Development Director
Email: arussell@freespeechforpeople.org
Phone: 617-818-7909
Mission Statement: Free Speech For People is a national, non-partisan campaign seeking to restore democracy to the people and to ensure that people, not corporations, govern in America.
2011 Budget: $2,500,000
Amount to Raise: $1,250,000 by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $1,250,000
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012) 12/31/2012

Insight Prison Project
Website: www.insightprisonproject.org
Donations:https://npo.networkforgood.org/Donate/Donate.aspx?npoSubscriptionId=1005053
Contact: Jennifer Thompson, Assistant Fundraising Director
Email: jennifer@insightprisonproject.org
Phone: 415-459-9800
Mission Statement: Insight Prison Project transforms the lives of those impacted by incarceration through programs designed to develop behavior inspired by insight, accountability and compassion.
2011 Budget: $594,000
Amount to Raise: $79,000 by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $ N/A
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012) 06/30/2012

National Council for Research on Women
Website: www.ncrw.org
Donations:http://www.ncrw.org/donate
Contact: Allie, Fernandez
Email: afernandez@ncrw.org
Phone: 212.785.7335 ext. 219
Mission Statement: The National Council for Research on Women (NCRW) is a network of 120 leading research, policy and advocacy centers dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls. We provide the latest news, analysis and strategies needed to ensure fully informed debates, effective policies and inclusive practices. In partnership with business, academic, nonprofit and philanthropic organizations, we advance collaborative and transformative change, both nationally and globally.
2011 Budget: $1,858,000
Amount to Raise: $149,607 by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $1,762,000
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012) September 30, 2012

Nonviolent Peaceforce
Website: http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org
Donations:https://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6823/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=2223
Contact: Tim Wallis, Executive Director
Email: twallis@nonviolentpeaceforce.org
Phone: +322.234.5791
Mission Statement: Nonviolent Peaceforce is transforming the world's response to conflict by demonstrating the effectiveness of unarmed civilian peacekeeping as a tool for reducing violence and protecting civilians in situations of violent conflict.
2011 Budget: $6,708,439
Amount to Raise: $350,000 by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $7,265,000
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012) 12/31/12

PassageWorks Institute
www.passageworks.org
PassageWorks Institute provides educators and school leaders a practical, relationship-centered approach to transforming the culture of classrooms, schools and districts. For over two decades PassageWorks' practices, principles, and tools have been used to foster student engagement, resilience, social and emotional intelligence and academic success. By supporting the inner lives of teachers and students, the PassageWorks model integrates cognitive and human development to create meaningful and effective classrooms. PassageWorks Institute offers courses, on-site professional development, curriculum and consulting and authors a variety of publications.
Budget for 2010: $425,000
Budget for 2011: $450,000

Ploughshares Fund
Website: www.ploughshares.org
Donations:http://ploughshares.org/connect-support
Contact: Samara Dun, Director of Development
Email: sdun@ploughshares.org
Phone: 415.668.2244
Mission Statement: Ploughshares Fund works to build a safe, secure, nuclear weapon-free world by developing and investing in initiatives to reduce and ultimately eliminate the world's nuclear stockpiles, and to promote stability in regions of conflict. Ploughshares Fund is supported by individuals, families and foundations.
2011 Budget: $NA
Amount to Raise: $ by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $NA
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012)

Women's Foundation of California
Website: www.womensfoundca.org
Donations:www.womensfoundca.org
Contact: Cathy Schreiber, Vice President of Development & Finance
Email: cathys@womensfoundca.org
Phone: 415.321.2044
Mission Statement: The Women's Foundation of California invests in women as a key strategy for creating a California where all communities are economically secure and can thrive. To achieve this, we connect a broad network of partners across California, including individuals and organizations, to resource bold community-led solutions in a way that develops expertise and builds public resolve to effect positive change. The Foundation simultaneously invests in the strategies of grantmaking, strengthening organizations, policy advocacy and movement building. We make strategic grants to organizations run by and for women who have historically been under-served. Since 1979, the Foundation has awarded $29 million in grants and capacity building assistance to over 1,200 community-based organizations in each region of the state.
2011 Budget: $5.9M
Amount to Raise: $300,000 by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $5.3M
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012) June 30, 2012

The World Café Community Foundation
Website: www.theworldcafe.com
Donations:www.theworldcafe.com
Contact: Deborah Goldblatt, Director of Resource Development
Email: deborah@theworldcafe.com
Phone: 650.678.2296
Mission Statement: Our mission is to encourage the conversations that inspire us to create positive ways forward together and create the conditions that will ensure the ongoing accessibility, integrity, vitality, and co-evolution of the World Café as a vehicle for social innovation and social transformation.
2011 Budget: $135,000
Amount to Raise: $10,000 by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $250,000
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012) December 31

Want to give to some of these groups? We offer you three options:

Click on each web page and give directly
Make one pledge or gift to The Tipping Point Fund and leave it to us to divide to each (100% will be directed within one week of getting the checks.)
Make one pledge or gift to the Tipping Point Fund and check the pledge or gift form (print and fax or mail it) and we will read your preferred groups and spread your donation across the list by %, and mail checks within a week of when we get your check or payment.

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

~ Norman Cousins

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