United for a Fair Economy (US national)
Part of a broad social movement concerned with the concentration of wealth
& power, goal to revitalize America through more fair distribution
www.ufenet.org
Global Futures Future 500 (SF,
CA & international)
Links corporations & stakeholders
to promote global prosperity via common solutions
www.globalff.org
Institute for Democracy
(Sun City, AZ & international)
Sustainable world development &
elimination of poverty via democracy
www.ied.info/
Dollars and Sense (Boston, MA)
Magazine of Economic Justice, explains the workings of the US &
international economies & provides perspectives on current economic
affairs
www.dollarsandsense.org
George A. Akerlof (UC Berkeley, CA)
Contains list of his works & articles, a heterodox economist looking
at the big picture, has theory of “asymetrical information,” offers
a broader context for economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pak7.html
Ecoquality (Santa Cruz,
CA & national)
Use understanding to accelerate the
flow of capital to innovators at all levels
www.ecoquality.com
The Global Development Research Center (international)
Virtual library on microcredit & microfinance, respository of information
on alternative, non-conventional financial systems
www.gdrc.org
Social Venture
Network
(international)
Transforming the Way the World does
Business, many links
www.svn.org
Greenmoney Journal (Santa
Fe, NM)
From stockmarket to the supermarket,
socially responsible investing, newsletter
www.greenmoney.com
Business Spirit Journal
/ The Message Company (Santa Fe, NM)
Bringing Consciousness To Business,
cutting-edge articles to enrich
www.bizspirit.com
Economic Policy Institute
(Washington, DC & national)
Research for broadly shared prosperity,
trade, labor, education, economy & living
www.epinet.org
World Monitors (NY, NY &
international)
Strategies for responsible business
practices in global economy, Fair Factories Project
www.worldmonitors.com
International Development Exchange
(SF, CA & international)
Partners w/ grassroots groups (500
projects worldwide) To achieve independence
www.idex.org
Participatory Budgeting
(Puerto Alegre, Brazil & international)
Resource forum on participatory budgeting
& other forms of participatory democracy
www.participatorybudgeting.org
Sustainable Northwest
(Portland, OR & NW U.S.)
Promoting environmentally sound economic
development, conferences, reports, links
www.sustainablenorthwest.org
Grameen Banking for the Poor (Bangladesh, international)
Professor Yunus & the Grameen Bank story, articles, winner Nobel Peace
Prize 2006
www.grameen-info.org
Results (Washington, DC, international)
Non-profit grassroots organization committed to ending hunger & poverty
www.results.org
Millennium Promise (Columbia University, NY)
To ensure that ours is the last generation to know poverty, with projects
in Africa
www.millenniumpromise.org
Finca International (Washington, DC)
Microloans to low income women to improve standard of living
www.villagebanking.org
Monterey Bay International Trade Association (Santa Cruz, CA)
Non-profit trade association with a number of services, news, events
www.mbita.org
Santa Cruz Community Credit Union (Santa Cruz, CA)
Microloans to the community to help start small businesses, social justice
issues
www.scruzccu.org