TWP Network Organization Archives - The Wellbeing Project

University of North Texas at Dallas

Dallas, TX (Southern Sector – Oak Cliff Community)
United States.

The University of North Texas at Dallas (UNTD) is the only public, accredited 4-year university in the city of Dallas, serving the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. UNTD is classified as a Hispanic-serving institution and has served as a pathway to social mobility since its establishment in 2010. UNTD is a collaborative, partnerships-focused institution that also serves under-resourced areas in North Texas. The University of North Texas at Dallas is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) to award baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral degrees.

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Global Grassroots

New Hampshire, United States.

Field of Action: Social change. Women’s Justice. Ecological Belonging.

Ecosystem Network

Since 2006, Global Grassroots has trained more than 700 emerging change agents across East Africa who have designed nearly 200 civil society organizations reaching 198,000 people.

Their inner-driven approach, called Conscious Social Change, results in powerful impacts on our change agents and them, in turn, upon their communities.

When applied to the water sector, this results in significant shifts in health, violence, and education indicators, recording an unprecedented sustainability rate of 96% among water ventures they have funded since 2008, which are serving nearly 78,000 people with access to clean water and hygiene supplies, a critical need during COVID-19. Women belonging to Global Grassroots groups and programs understand systemic change and use their water solutions as sustainable hubs to target a range of other priority local issues affecting women.

When women lead, communities succeed.

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Women are the fabric of society, but in impoverished areas, they lack the tools to solve local social issues.”

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Reports & Research

Women, Water & Wisdom: Mapping Ripple Effects of Conscious Social Change in
Rural Rwanda

Have you ever thought about the link between wellbeing and water?

The benefits of clean water go well beyond physical health. In communities where clean water is scarce and has to be fetched on a daily basis, its availability reduced stress and increased safety:

“According to participants, the incidents of injury, violence, and abuse related to fetching water dropped since the new water sites launched, particularly improving the safety of women, girls, and other community members for whom the journey had been dangerous.”

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Co.act Detroit

Detroit, Michigan,
United States.

Co.act Detroit is a hub that accelerates transformative impact with nonprofit and community organizations in southeast Michigan through collaborative idea generation, cross-sector resources, and equitable access to world-class programming and learning opportunities.

Co.act Detroit is the home of the Nonprofit Wellbeing series, which celebrates the vital connection between self and community care and pushes for a culture shift around wellbeing at the organization and sector level. Through a quarterly series of workshops, activities, and conversations, we provide access to virtual resources and best practices that equip nonprofit professionals with strategies to support their teams and wellbeing.

Nonprofit mental health and wellbeing is also a frequent topic of conversation in our podcast, Natural Collisions. Past episode topics include creating cultures of wellbeing at work and the impact of the pandemic on women’s careers and the mental health of women in the nonprofit workplace.

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Fundación Mi Sangre

Colombia.

Originally founded by singer-songwriter Juanes in 2006, Fundación Mi Sangre was elevated to global recognition through the innovation and systems change approach led by co-founder and current chairperson Catalina Cock Duque, a successful social entrepreneur and global weaver with more than 20 years of experience in development. Our youth empowerment ethos is driven by our belief in the inherent potential residing in Colombia’s young people to become agents of change. Fundación Mi Sangre believes that Colombia’s youth—when given the guidance and the tools—will be the champions who make our country more peaceful and equitable.

To that end, we facilitate systemic cultural change, activating the ecosystems surrounding youth and engaging them as the primary contributors to personal, community, and societal transformation. Our carefully crafted model harnesses arts and culture to develop life, leadership, and social entrepreneurship skills, equipping and mobilizing our participants as co-creators of transformative peace solutions. We engage all actors of the ecosystem, including schools, partner organizations, and communities, weaving them together to align visions, encourage collaboration, and empower the next generation to lead the construction of a peace culture. We listen to, convene, and activate the diverse stakeholders and voices in a given community, and enhance their potential to influence young people and change existing narratives through ongoing dialogue, training, and support. Acknowledging that inner well-being is essential to all of the work we do, transversal psychosocial support underpins our programs, available in both individual and group settings to highly vulnerable and at-risk youth and families in need of this foundation for peace-building.

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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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