Partners in Harmony With...
Media Rainmakers
- Campus Movie Fest - World's Largest Student Film Festival, Elfenworks Social Justice Category. Students, win $10,000 !
- The San Damiano Foundation - The Power of Film at the Service of the Poor, including the film 'Faces of Poverty.'
Centers of Academic Excellence
- Stanford University's Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, fulfilling their school's mandate to go beyond education but to be a force to help solve today's most pressing issues.
- Saint Mary's College, a Lasallian liberal arts college with a strong commitment to service and social justice. Of special note, the Elfenworks Center for the Study of Fiduciary Capitalism
- Mills College of California, known for excellence in liberal arts, educating the next generation of socially responsible, innovative, and creative leaders, announces a new Center for Socially Responsible Business at the Graduate School of Business.
- Golden Gate University, making high-quality professional-practice education accessible and transforming students' lives, careers and communities, and offering a course examining Hurricaine Katrina, Poverty and the Law.
Educators of Disadvantaged Youth / Youth Nonviolence Groups
- Boys Hope Girls Hope, helping academically capable and motivated children-in-need to meet their full potential through opportunities and education.
- De Marillac Academy in the dangerous SF Tenderloin. Providing enhanced safety and additional support to impoverished students and those who educate them.
- Heart of America with a new READesign program to revitalize elementary school libraries into warm, friendly places that engage children in learning and foster a love of reading.
- Bay Area All Stars, an innovative after-school, performance-based nonviolence & enrichment program for inner-city youth.
- Music Sanctuary Project - a Guitars Not Guns project which provides guitar and piano lessons to youth detained and awaiting deportation or asylum.
- Deep Color Arts Program, a transformative program that specifically addresses the challenge of re-directing first time offenders into a mural art project.
Partners - Health & Mental Health
- The Carter Center, advancing human rights & alleviating unnecessary human suffering, they invite us to join them in creating a world in which everyone has the opportunity to enjoy good health and live in peace. Former First Lady and 2007 In Harmony With Hope Award recipient Rosalynn Carter's work in destigmatizing mental illness is highly relevant to our domestic poverty efforts.
- Center for Science in the Public Interest working to ensure that all children, no matter what their socioeconomic status is, have access to healthy and nutritious food daily.
- Partners In Health world-class health care exported to Haiti and elsewhere for the poor, brought back to the mean streets of Boston by 2007 In Harmony With Hope Award recipient Dr. Paul Farmer.
- Universal Health Care Action Network, working towards health care coverage for all of us. (logo redesign, awareness campaign, Joomla based website) more...
Think Globally Act Locally...
- Greater Bay Area Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (and later other groups including Package of Prevention and brothercamillus.com) to bring original soothing music from pianist Tammy Hall for comfort and encouragement.
- Local Church Groups, faith-based anti-poverty efforts.
- Local Industry, enlightened leaders in the private sector can do well while lifting people out of poverty.
- Local Law Enforcement, canine units for our peace officers.
- St Francis Inn, serving the poor and homeless in Philadelphia.
- Shelter Network, serving Bay Area's poor and homeless.
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