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 convienent pledge and gift form. Contact Tracy with questions and comments.

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Inspired Legacies
Primary Office: No. CA
P.O. Box 1693
40 Redwood Drive
Ross, CA 94957

Phone: 415.461.5539
Fax: 415.461.5573
info@inspiredlegacies.org
Satellite Office: Houston, TX
P.O. Box 840601
Houston, TX 77284
Phone: 281.213.4180

TRANSFORMING EDUCATION AND POLICY

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

PassageWorks Institute
Our Mission is to inspire and prepare educators to implement our comprehensive model for nurturing the inner lives of students and teachers-- that essential aspect of human nature that yearns for deep connection, grapples with questions about meaning, and seeks a sense of purpose and genuine self-expression. Our training and curricula transform classroom and school culture and foster resilience and emotional intelligence while supporting students in constructively navigating times of transition.
www.passageworks.org
Rachael Kessler, President, Mark Wilding, Executive Director; (303) 247-0156 mwilding@passageworks.org
Budget 2008: $468,000; $95,000 remaining to be raised for 2008;
Budget 2009: $450,500

Ploughshares Fund
Ploughshares Fund enables the smartest people with the best ideas for building a safer, more peaceful world to implement their ideas and achieve results. A public grantmaking foundation, Ploughshares Fund pools contributions from individuals, families and foundations and directs those funds to initiatives aimed at preventing the spread and use of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and other weapons of war, and preventing conflicts that could lead to the use of weapons of mass destruction.
www.ploughshares.org
Naila Bolus, Executive Director, (415) 775-2244, nbolus@ploughshares.org
Budget 2008: NA

Reuniting America
Reuniting America convenes leaders from across the spectrum in transpartisan gatherings. Our goal is to build trust and deepen relationships among national leaders in order to identify and support collaborative action on issues of national concern. (checks to Mediator's Foundation, earmarked for Reuniting America)
www.reunitingamerica.org
Michael Ostrolenk michaeldostrolenk@gmail.com or John Steiner, (303)443-1202, steiner_king@earthlink.net
Budget 2008: $275,000

The National Council for Research on Women
The National Council for Research on Women is a network of more than 115 leading U.S. research, advocacy, and policy centers with a growing global reach. The Council harnesses the resources of its network to ensure fully informed debate, policies, and practices to build a more inclusive and equitable world for women and girls.
www.ncrw.org
Linda Basch, President, (212) 785-7335 lbasch@ncrw.org
Budget 2008: $2.2 million

Conversation Café
Conversation Cafés are sponsored by the New Road Map Foundation, a nonprofit educational and charitable organization that seeks to foster a cooperative human community in a diverse yet interconnected world by creating and disseminating practical tools and innovative approaches to personal and cultural change.
www.conversationcafe.org
Vicki Robin, President, info@conversationcafe.org
Budget 2008: NA

Women's Foundation of CA
The Women's Foundation of California is the only statewide public foundation that is investing in women and girls throughout California to create a more just and equitable society. Since 1979, the Foundation has awarded more than $22 million in grants to over 1,200 community-based organizations in every region of our diverse state.
Five areas of key investment, including the exemplary, Women's Policy Institute are: Economic Security, Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights Environmental Health and Justice,Young Women's Development and Leadership Strengthening Women's Philanthropy
340 Pine Street, Suite 302, San Francisco, CA 94104
wwww.womensfoundca.org
Cathy Schrieber, VP of Development, Cathys@womensfoundca.org
Budget: 2008/2009: $5m, Remaining to Raise: $200,000
Budget July on: TBD

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.

Use this Tipping Point Fund pledge form (just click, print and fill it out, and mail or fax to us)! We'll do the rest.

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

~ Norman Cousins

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