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Learning for Well-being Foundation

Washington,
United States.

CoCo Labs is a systems change organization, dedicated to advancing equitable wellbeing for collective thriving. We believe that everyone, no matter what their current reality, should have access to the tools and support needed to transcend their wellbeing limitations and reach their fullest potential.

Our main aim is to build a coalition of organizations and individuals engaged in shifting multiple systems toward wellbeing for all. In the same way that the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) economics demonstrates that by raising the income of the poorest, the greatest knock-on effect occurs towards a country’s economy, our theory of change includes the notion that by raising the quality of life experience of the most challenged, a country’s thriveability will increase exponentially.
We begin by working with systems leaders to support them in showing up as the best versions of themselves. Leaders that are able to hold multiple perspectives, see systems as living systems, and navigate complexity, are able to create the conditions for communities, at a global level, to thrive even in adverse conditions.

CoCo Labs is working towards the advancement of equitable wellbeing for collective thriving. Thriving goes beyond resilience and well-being to describe a state in which:

Everyone is powerful – systemic oppression is phased out
Radical “othering” is a thing of the past – cultural competence and integration of diverse ways of being and doing are the norms
Communities live in harmony with nature – supported by, and supporting, ecosystem services
Individual and collective healing and resilience – communities are able to navigate uncertainty and complexity better
Communities demonstrate greater psychosocial development – they are able to move beyond resilience towards thriving, including a greater sense of individual and collective agency

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Learning for Well-being Foundation

Amsterdam,
Netherlands.

We are a private Dutch operating foundation, with Public Benefit status, founded in 2004. We run activities in Europe, Middle East, the United States, and Latin America. Our team is spread around the world and works remotely but closely. We are guided by our values of courage, love, and integrity.

We envision a world where every child and adult realises their unique potential throughout their life, in supportive and inclusive societies. Our work focuses on combining human and social development by cultivating the capacities of children—and adults who support them—so that together they contribute to a fairer and sustainable world while realising their unique potential.

We act as a catalyst through mutually reinforcing partnerships aimed at bringing the voice and actions of children more fully into creating well-being for themselves and their communities. We create and share knowledge about learning, well-being and participation, so we can use the evidence to advocate for systemic change, and build the capacities of children, adults and child-serving organisations in learning for well-being.

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Hil-Foundation

Vienna,
Austria.

“Privilege is invisible to those who have it” – Inspired by Michael Kimmel, Hil-Foundation supports disadvantaged population groups in leading a self-determined life. Focusing on the German-speaking region, Hil-Foundation co-creates and supports projects together with non-profit organizations.

The projects promote equal opportunities, particularly for children and youth, all genders, sexual minorities, and people that are mentally strained or ill.

Since 2018, Hil-Foundation has been raising awareness for the crucial role of resilience, wellbeing, and self-care among changemakers within the Austrian social entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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Institute for Social Banking

Berlin, Amsterdam,Germany, The Netherlands.

The Institute for Social Banking is an education and research institute for socially responsible banking and finance. Since it was founded in 2006, it has grown into an active membership organisation, comprising 17 institutions linked closely to socially responsible banking and finance and a large international network. The Institute offers Education, Network, and Research for a responsible banking and finance sector, promoting concepts of finance and banking that specifically orients itself towards the development of both people and the planet.

EDUCATION: The ISB is engaged in developing and implementing its own unique training formats in socially responsible banking and finance to be offered to individuals and organisations. Our educational concepts and methods aim to develop competencies for interdisciplinary approaches and forward thinking that support participants to act in a reflective way in decision-making processes in the context of societal challenges. The development of the changemaker capacities at the forefront of the financial sector is at the heart of our offer.

RESEARCH: The research activities of the ISB are building on the practitioners’ knowledge that lives in our member base. We foster research that examines both practical problems and best practices of socially oriented banks. Together with our members and partner institutions, we keep an overview of relevant publications (both academic and other). We take a position as a knowledge broker, offering the gained insights to our member base. The research also ensures a high standard in our training activities.

NETWORK: In the last decade, ISB has built an international community of practitioners, academics, researchers, lecturers, associates, senior advisors, partners, and interested people around the topic of socially responsible banking and finance. We see ourselves as eco-system builders, aiming at facilitating the exchange of knowledge and best practices to allow for change and development in the field of sustainable finance.

The main goals of the Institute are:

Fostering awareness, commitment, and constructive reflection amongst (social) bankers,
Increasing knowledge, competencies, and skills in Social Banking,
Bringing forward the ideas, inspiration & spirit of Social Banking,
Supporting forefront thinking and innovative action – encouraging development initiatives in the field of Social Banking.

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Glasswing International

San Salvador,
El Salvador.

Glasswing International develops and implements diverse programming in Latin America, and the Caribbean, putting mental health at the center of solutions to the most pressing challenges of our time. Our goal is to build trauma-informed mental health ecosystems in partnership with educators, public health providers, law enforcement, and government and migration officials in order to increase access to critical mental health support.

Glasswing operates in ten countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and works with migrant youth in New York City.

Throughout Latin America, where millions are born into cycles of poverty and violence, Glasswing harnesses the power of community to create a safer and more prosperous future for us all. High-risk communities are transformed into secure centers of community and resilience. Through ongoing programs and projects that promote health and wellbeing, community members enhance core life skills, build supportive relationships, reduce their risk factors, allowing them to thrive despite adversity and rebuild social fabric from the ground up.

With our flexible and localized organizational structure, we are able to respond the needs of the communities we serve with varied and innovative initiatives. Everything we do is based on a deep belief in human dignity, agency, and potential.

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Teach For All

New York, New York – United States of America

Education, Youth, Inner city

Teach For All is a global network of 60 independent, locally led, and governed partner organizations and a global organization that works to accelerate the progress of the network. Each network partner recruits and develops promising future leaders to teach in their nations’ under-resourced schools and communities and, with this foundation, to work with others, inside and outside of education, to ensure all children are able to fulfill their potential. Teach For All’s global organization works to increase the network’s impact by supporting the development of new organizations; fostering network connectivity and learning; providing coaching and consulting; and enabling access to global resources for the benefit of the network.

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sp(i)eel arts therapies collective

Rural Communities in South Africa.

We are a collective of art therapists, applied and community arts practitioners, and art activists who work with the shared goal of addressing intergenerational and complex trauma in South Africa. Our mission is to develop an arts-based community model of mental health care that is reflective of indigenous knowledge systems and culturally responsive to the groups it serves. It is a movement away from the individualistic practices of the dominant Western model of mental health care and an effort to emphasize inherent strengths and protective factors that can serve a person’s wellbeing in relation to their community. Our ultimate goal is to develop collective resilience that can affect social change..

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Mirabai Bush

Mirabai is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and served as Executive Director until 2008. Under her direction, The Center introduced contemplative practices into education, law, business, environment leadership, the military, technology companies, and activism.

She has been teaching workshops and courses on meditation and contemplative practice in life and work for many years. She co-developed the curriculum for Search Inside Yourself for Google, the first program in mindfulness-based emotional intelligence; it has been attended by tens of thousands of Google employees. A founding board member of the Seva Foundation, an international public health organization, she directed the Seva Guatemala Project, supporting sustainable agriculture and integrated community development.

She is the author, with Ram Dass, of Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying and Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service. She is co-author with Daniel Barbezat of Contemplative Practices in Higher Education: Powerful Methods to Transform Teaching and Learning and editor of Contemplation Nation: How Ancient Practices Are Changing the Way We Live.

She is Chairperson of Love Serve Remember Foundation and has been a board member of Lions Roar, Omega Institute, Seva Foundation, Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, Military Fitness Institute, and the Dalai Lama Fellows. She is an advisor to Mindful.

Her spiritual studies include meditation in Bodh Gaya, India, with Shri S.N. Goenka and Anagarika Munindra; bhakti yoga with Hindu teacher Neemkaroli Baba; and studies with Tibetan lamas Kalu Rinpoche, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Kyabje Gehlek Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, and others. She studied aikido with Kanai Sensei and has practiced Iyengar and Sivananda yoga.

Ecosystem Network Members Ecosystem Network Members

The Ecosystem Network is a global network of organizations that are leaders in the social entrepreneurship or social change field brought together to:

Share knowledge and insights;
Create a space for discussion around learnings and best practices;
Support the creation of a community of practitioners in the field;
Create a space for organizations to share knowledge and have discussions with peers in the field across the world; and
Affect the social entrepreneurship and social change ecosystem on a larger scale by creating a space of trust for the community to discuss how the topics of wellbeing and social change can be incorporated into the ecosystem overall.