This #GivingTuesday: Support Groups Working in Different Ways Towards an Equitable, Post-capitalist Future
Discover the work of 76 inspiring groups.
It’s a beautiful irony that the movement for a future that’s better, not bigger, is… growing!
So many people are committing their efforts to creating a truly equitable, livable future for all.
This #GivingTuesday, in the spirit of collaboration and co-creation that drives us here at the Post Growth Institute, we’re encouraging you to explore and support the work of our partners and other groups we admire. We find their ideas and projects so informative and inspiring, and perhaps you will too!
Supporting these groups can occur in many forms — from reading about their work or following them on social media, to making a donation or volunteering your time (for more ideas, see our list of ways to help).
Organizations are grouped using the six layers model that former Post Growth Institute co-director, Jennifer Hinton, and I designed in 2016 (this model analyzes social change across six layers: behaviors, feelings, conditions, frameworks, values, and constructs).
So here they are!
Groups working to engender cultures of greater reciprocity and care, often at the community level:
- Brisbane Tool Library (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Foundation for Intentional Community (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Kola Nut Collaborative (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook;)
- Local Futures (Facebook; Twitter; Instagram; LinkedIn)
- Shareable (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- The Diverse Solidarity Economies Collective
- TimeBanks.Org (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
Groups working to better understand and enact feelings of greater safety and security, for all:
- Center for Partnership Studies (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook)
- International Bateson Institute (Facebook)
Groups working to promote purpose-led institutions, policies and ‘technologies’:
- Appropedia (Twitter; Facebook)
- DisCO Coop (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Economy for the Common Good (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Enspiral (Twitter; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Gross National Happiness Centre Bhutan (Facebook; Twitter)
- High Wire Collective (Twitter; LinkedIn)
- LIFT Economy (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Nonprofit Democracy Network (Facebook)
- Nonprofit Ventures (Twitter; Instagram; LinkedIn)
- Open Collective (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Positive News (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Purpose (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook)
- Start.coop (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- The Democracy Collaborative (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Yes! Magazine (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Zebras Unite (Twitter; Instagram; LinkedIn)
Groups working to strengthen frameworks that circulate money, power and resources:
- Buckminster Fuller Institute (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Commons Network (Twitter; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Common Wealth (Twitter; Facebook)
- Community Economies Institute (Facebook; LinkedIn)
- CUSP — Center for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook)
- Center for Popular Economics (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Dark Optimism (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook)
- Degrowth Journal (Twitter; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Degrowth Switzerland (Twitter; Facebook)
- Denizen (Twitter; Instagram)
- Doughnut Economics Action Lab (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Films for Action (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook)
- Global Politics of Post-Growth Network (Twitter)
- Enough! Scotland (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook)
- mέta (Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation) (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook)
- New Economy Network Australia (Twitter; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Observatoire de la Post-Croissance et de la Décroissance (Twitter; LinkedIn)
- Post Carbon Institute (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Post-growth Economics Network (Twitter; Facebook)
- Post Growth Australia Podcast
- Post Growth Innovation Lab (Twitter; LinkedIn)
- Programa de Introducción a Nuevas Economías (Instagram; LinkedIn)
- Promoting Economic Pluralism (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Research & Degrowth (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Rethinking Economics (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Schumacher Center for New Economics (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Schumacher College (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Simplicity Institute
- Sociocracy for All (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Sustainable Economies Law Center (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- The Big Fix (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook)
- The Earthbound Report (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook)
- The Schumacher Institute (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- The UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Limits to Growth (Twitter; Facebook)
- Upstream Podcast (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook)
- WEALL — Wellbeing Economy Alliance (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Zoe Institute for Future Fit Economies (Twitter; Facebook; LinkedIn)
Groups working to deepen anti-oppressive practice throughout the world:
- Culture Hack Labs (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook)
- Global Tapestry of Alternatives (Twitter)
- New Economy Coalition (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Open Protest Network (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook)
- People’s Hub (Twitter; Facebook)
- Protopia Futures (Twitter)
- The Alternatives Project (Twitter; Instagram)
- Transition Resource Circle (LinkedIn)
Groups working to reconnect our societies to the stories, symbols, mythologies (and spaces in between) that nurture our better nature:
- Emergence Network (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook)
- Gaian Way (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook)
- Navdanya (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Sustainable Human (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
- Totel.ly (Twitter; Instagram; Facebook; LinkedIn)
We’re so grateful to be part of such an amazing ecosystem. Here’s to the purpose-driven future we’re co-creating!