Inspired Legacies

2011/2012 Tipping Point Fund

Cascade joy this Solstice and Holiday Season. Just add zeros my friends, and pass on your care while lifting others. Stop with the waste, start with real change making. Be part of the societal shifts breaking through while opening your heart, compassion and wallets.

We invite you to spent 1 hr reviewing this list and choosing 1 to 5 groups you have yet to give to or those you know are winners or ones you want to propel. Between Dec. 21 and Dec. 31 all these groups count on your to consider their work on behalf of others and societal change, and also to help spread the word by disseminating this email to your lists. Would you be so kind to chip in and move it too?

Join us, and be part of the shift, the breakthrough, the re-constitution of the heart and communities of care. Here's to our greater good movement and great blessings for your Season of Giving,

Will you commit to giving just a little or a great deal more for others…between 12/21-12/31 and beyond?
Tracy Gary for the Inspired Legacies and Tipping Point team.

* Be sure to click on each of the groups below for more of their information and their donation page *

brought to you by:

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

Phone: 415.377.9447
info@inspiredlegacies.org

CONSCIOUSNESS, LEADERSHIP, AND COMMUNITY BUILDING

DIVERSITY, RACE, AND GENDER JUSTICE

ECONOMIC REFORM

FAMILY ADVOCACY

GLOBAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

NEXT GENERATION LEADERSHIP AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

NEW MEDIA AND THE ARTS

SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

TRANSFORMATIVE PHILANTHROPY AND DONOR EDUCATION

TRANSFORMING EDUCATION, PEACE, AND POLICY

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

~ Norman Cousins

Criteria for selecting these :

Addresses needs as Inspired Legacies perceives them through wisdom of talking with thousands of nonprofits, donors, and advisors.
Lacks significant attention within targeted or broad community.
Provides donors with opportunity for significant impact.
Known for successful implementation personally or through trust network.

"Each one of us has that capacity to move from a limited and confining sense of identification to an expanded sense of awareness. That is what we mean by transformation."
~ James O'Dea, Member, Institute of Noetic Sciences

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.

Give strategically. Give your tax refund. Give for transformation. Invest in the nonprofit economy! Make change happen!

Do it now! Pass it on....for change.

In our report with Duane Elgin and Elizabeth Share, and our new book we have a chapter on Transformative Philanthropy.

Here's the way we've defined Transformative Philanthropy:
Transformational Philanthropy is a strategy of partnering with diverse organizations and leaders who are conscious of their work in a larger context of societal change. Its leaders, advisors and funders work in relationship to a field of practice that includes mapping, alliances, risk taking and experimentation. The goals are long term, and seek large scale changes in consciousness and behavior. This form of philanthropy can shift systems, including policy, cultural change, and communications, and can through convenings, invite perspective, renewal and new and evolved ways of living and relating.

Transformative projects: (from Elgin/Share/Gary/Levy report, 2002)

build strength by actively embracing diversity
tell a basic story about the nature and purpose of life
bring a reflective consciousness into the functioning of a system
foster self-organization at the grass-roots scale
provides leadership that ignites a belief in transformational change
approaches the change in transformational ways
recognizes and appreciates multiple ways of knowing

This model is implemented often through large scale strategic, projects that enable the initiators to leverage funding with other partners to create greater impact.

Inspired Legacies is a sponsor of the TIPPING POINT FUND which promotes and hopes to fund transformative projects, once it has build its capacity to hire a Donor Steward. For now, please do not request donations as we are in development of this project with two networks as listed under Transformational Philanthropy and Donor Education below. We invite a donor partner to help us expand this important sector and curriculum building work for the field of transformational building! And we invite you to look at the processes, potential and outcomes for such grantmaking in the Season's Fund: www. seasonsfund.org

What if you or your family or company dedicated 10-50% of your giving to projects like these.

We offer this list simply to inform your giving and to encourage your expanded and IMPACTFUL generosity.

Disclaimer: There are thousands of great transformative projects and leaders. We offer these as a sampler. We do not presume to say that there are not many other worthy projects. Please use your own due diligence. In the end giving is both arbitrary and deliberate and spontaneous. Above all it is an act of faith and wisdom. We offer ours in the form of a portfolio of projects. This is our way, what is yours? We invite your feedback and opinion, but we encourage your greater giving. (Now, to one of these projects or better yet, 2-3 that you do not know!)

We urge you to dialogue on what you feel will make for greater change and to read our book or see our sites for more giving tools and a chapter on transformative giving.

www.inspiredlegacies.org
www.inspiredphilanthropy.org

May we know what is at stake and reconsider our collective path, extending to others and turn together to the path, at every opportunity.

Give more, change the world and yourself.

Happy Holidays and New World,
Tracy Gary for Inspired Legacies' team.

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