| Collective Chaordic Spirit – Appreciative Inquiry!! Christine Whitney Sanchez: “Collective Chaordic Spirit, an owning member initiative of the Chaordic Commons, was conceived in July 2002, at the first Owning Member Annual Meeting in Virginia . It came to me full blown, a gift from the gods, while I was facilitating the breakout group reports at the end of the Open Space Technology event. Owning members had spent two days self-organizing around the question, "What are the opportunities and challenges for growing chaordic organizations, including the Commons, and how can we most creatively proceed?" Studying the suggestions on the sticky wall as a tapestry of chaordic prospects, I received an idea that could simultaneously advance many of the suggestions and benefit the Chaordic Commons - organize an international Appreciative Inquiry to collect stories about successful chaordic organizing.” |
| Correspondences.org "Think of this as a ‘newspaper out of the box’ where everyone can contribute. We're building a portal for reporting of events by participants and commentators covering all aspects of events around the world, locally and internationally: politics, business, economics, technology, medicine, media and culture.” |
| Community Development Caucus “The Community Development Issues Initiative is a network of CC owning members who are involved in youth, family, neighborhood. economic and community development activities which strengthen communities. We intend to be a learning community which shares innovations, differences in perspective, purposes, environments, strategies, and experiences in order to develop a community development agenda which serves as a \"fluid drive\" for the efforts of owning members and the Chaordic Commons.” |
Open Source Car (OSCAR) CC OM Hugo Spowers’ enterprise: “ British LIFECar project plans to demonstrate high performance fuel cell sports car: An entirely British partnership has unveiled plans to develop ‘the world’s first environmentally clean sports car’, a Morgan Aero Eight derivative powered by a QinetiQ-developed fuel cell. The partnership is made up of the Morgan Motor Company, the privatised former MoD technology group QinetiQ, Cranfield and Oxford Universities , BOC and OSCar, an enterprise established by engineer Hugo Spowers to develop sustainable vehicle technology.”
http://sourceopen.org/webpage/OS_Car.pdf |
| Reinventing money “The mission of this site is to demystify money by presenting the best leading-edge ideas on monetary and non-monetary exchange. It is a resource devoted to the advancement of economic democracy, self-determination, and global harmony. “The fundamental approach of ReinventingMoney.com is based on private initiative, openness, and voluntary participation – the foundations for economic democracy. The material available on-site explains and supports free market, non-governmental, non-monopoly exchange options, in short, free money and free banking. It also provides numerous links to a variety of significant sources relating to the community currency and private exchange movement.” |
| Community Currency “This is a combination of 2 talks -- one given at the International Association for Feminist Economics Summer Congress June '96, and the other at The Gender Justice Forum put on by the Fifty Years is Enough Coalition Against the World Bank, September '96. The Millennium Institute gave this paper an honourable mention in their contest on best ideas for the next millennium.” |
| Bay Area ChaordicConsulting Fractal A description by CC OM, Skip Bowen, 6/1/04 : “Our Chaordic Consulting Fractal came out of the first Creating Chaordic Organizations workshop in December 2000. Right from the opening minutes of the workshop, I personally experienced self-organization and what the members of our fractal now call “the field.” Five of us from various parts of the country chose to sit down at a table with a sign that read “Consulting Fractal.” And so began what has now been a 30-month adventure with a core of fifteen to twenty local consultants” |
| Joel Getzendanner Founding Board Member |
| My Destiny Socially mapping websites by CC OM Mitch Ratcliffe. See also http://radio.weblogs.com/0116895/ for views about CC and LLLI. |
| Identity Commons Launched in 2004 by Owen Davis , a Chaordic Commons Trustee. It is a leader in developing creating the framework and tools for trusted electronic communications. |
| Creative Commons A non-profit that offers a flexible copyright for creative work |
| Interra Project Greg Steltenpohl, Dee Hock and others venture to facilitate a new economic infrastructure that engenders a virtuous circle of exchange among its participants citizen members, local businesses and social benefit organizations who agree to vote with their dollars, connect and support each other to grow a values-based economy. |
| KaosPilots Owning Member Uffe Elbaek is a two time Trustee of the Chaordic Commons and the Education Director of KaosPilots in Denmark . KaosPilots is a three-year management training program designed to provide 30 students per "flight" with the skills they need to succeed in a rapidly changing, unpredictable economic environment. |
| The La Leche League’s mission is to help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, education, information, and encouragement and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother. The La Leche League has used the chaordic process to reorganise. |
| The Appleseed Foundation's mission is to build a just society through legal advocacy, community activism, and policy expertise. Ralph Nader is a founding director. |
| Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance NAMA's mission: To restore and enhance an enduring northwest Atlantic marine system, which supports a healthy diversity and abundance of marine life and human uses. |
SoL, the Society for Organizational Learning SoL was formed in April 1997 to continue the work of MIT's Centre for Organizational Learning (1991-1997). “… is an intentional learning community composed of organizations, individuals, and local SoL communities around the world. We are a not-for-profit, member-governed corporation. SoL was created to connect corporations and organizations, researchers and consultants to generate knowledge about and capacity for fundamental innovation and change by engaging in collaborative action inquiry projects. While bringing together "specialists", our goal is more than simple collaboration -- we strive to develop the researcher, capacity builder and practitioner in each of us! As an action learning community, we generate real business and social system results, new intellectual capital and on-going personal and professional networks. Our purpose is to discover (research), integrate (capacity development) and implement (practice) theories and practices of organizational learning for the interdependent development of people and their institutions and communities such that we continue to increase our capacity to collectively realize our highest aspirations and productively resolve our differences. With this intention, organizations are truly worthy of the commitment of their employees and communities.” |
| Peter Senge author of The Fifth Discipline: the Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, is the founding Chairman of Sol. http://www.pegasuscom.com |
| United Religions Initiative (URI) was founded in 2000 by an extraordinary global community committed to promoting enduring, daily interfaith cooperation and to ending religiously motivated violence. It used the chaordic process as its model. |
| Community Alliances of Interdependent Agriculture (CAIA) “CAIA is NAMA's analogue in the farming arena: an organization designed to create networks between and magnify the power of people working toward conservation-based development in agriculture. CAIA's purpose is to enable people to create food and farming systems that improve and sustain ecological, economic and social health through systemic, community-based, self-organizing governance. CAIA advocates environmental integrity, economic opportunity and commercial vitality as three simultaneous goals.” |
| The GeoData Alliance is a non-profit organization open to all individuals and institutions committed to using geographic information to improve the health of our communities, our economies, and the Earth. |
| USGS Node of the National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse The USGS node of the National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse is a component of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). It provides a pathway to find information about geospatial or spatially referenced data available from USGS. The USGS node actually encompasses a distributed set of sites organized on the basis of the USGS's four principal data themes. The first, Geography, offers the familiar USGS topographic maps and other geographic products that have long been associated with USGS. These products typically are of general use across many disciplines for base maps and other purposes. As Geographic Information Systems have come to play an increasingly important role in science, the biology, geology, and water disciplines also have produced important geographic data sets related to their themes. These thematic products are best found by discipline. |
| The Augmented Social Network – Building Identity and Trust into the next generation Internet A Link Tank Report - by Ken Jordan, Jan Hauser, and Steven Foster. “Could the next generation of online communications strengthen civil society by better connecting people to others with whom they share affinities, so they can more effectively exchange information and self-organize? Could such a system help to revitalize democracy in the 21st century?” |
| The Semco Foundation successfully operates using chaordic concepts |
| Gore Corporate Culture: “How we work sets us apart. We encourage hands-on innovation, involving those closest to a project in decision making. Teams organize around opportunities and leaders emerge…” http://www.gore.com/en_xx/aboutus/culture/index.html |
| Unmanagement a site committed to providing essential knowledge about human nature and informal or emergent social systems to individuals and organizations interested in being on the leading edge of the global knowledge economy. CC OM & Ex Trustee Dr. Charles (Kalev) Ehin is Professor of Management Emeritus and the former Dean of the Gore School of Business at Westminster College of Salt Lake City. |
| Ken Wilber “ Ken Wilber is the author of over a dozen books, including Sex, Ecology, Spirituality; The Spectrum of Consciousness; Up from Eden ; and Grace and Grit. The Spectrum of Consciousness, written when he was twenty-three years old, established him as perhaps the most comprehensive philosophical thinker of our times. Credited with developing a unified field theory of consciousness—a synthesis and interpretation of the world's great psychological, philosophical, and spiritual traditions—Ken Wilber is the most cogent and penetrating voice in the recent emergence of a uniquely American wisdom.” |
| Planetwork explores how the creative application of digital tools – visualization technologies, software, and the Internet, among others – can open new possibilities for positive global change. |
| Omidyar Network - – A network created by the founder of eBay. “Originally, we created this tool so that everyone at Omidyar Network could share news and information; discuss different ideas and viewpoints; collaborate on documents; post announcements; sync up our calendars; and, in general, stay well informed. We found that it served us well. In fact, we wondered if others might find value in it, too. So, we decided to open it up to anyone and everyone working toward making the world a better place. Here, you can: Participate in group discussions and collaborate on a wide variety of topics. Create a home where you can collaborate and communicate with others Invite anyone you want to join or create discussions and workspaces Because this isn't a typical web site, its value depends on you. You help make omidyar.net useful to others. You help decide how it evolves. There are certain ground rules, however: We are all here because we believe in making the world a better place. We believe in treating each other with respect. We believe everyone has something to contribute. Many of you have already contributed greatly to making the world a better place. Thank you for all your efforts up until now. And thank you, in advance, for your efforts in the future.” |
| The Emerging Futures Foundation Purpose: To engage the collective wisdom of individuals, cultures and systems to come together and exchange knowledge, beliefs and contributions that result in increased access to voice, organizing, generative leadership, justice and shared power for civil society, the larger world and sustainability of all living systems on the planet. |
| Julie Evans for Youth – OM & ex Trustee practises what she preaches. |
| Mind Freedom Director is CC OM David Oaks. Mission "In a spirit of mutual cooperation, MindFreedom leads a non-violent revolution of freedom, equality, truth and human rights that unites people affected by the mental health system with movements for justice everywhere." |
| ProtoTista is an Oregon non-profit corporation, a new type of educational organization in Eugene OR. They now in the process of clarifying the purpose, principles & participants of ProtoTista using the principles of chaordic organization.They will soon apply for 501(c)3 status. Board of directors includes Alder Fuller (founder, president), David Oaks, & Anne Summers. "ProtoTista is a collaborative project among scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, community organizers, thinkers, programmers, artists & musicians focusing on education about complexity, biology, ecology, Gaia & their relationship to human cultures.” |
| Tall Poppies A New Zealand based management consultancy who weave chaordc processes and concepts into many of their briefs. |
| Good Company Pacific Mission : To provide inspirational resources - people, programmes, events and retreats - that offer insight and guidance for businesses, organisations and groups, enabling them to operate as "good companies" - i.e., successful models of economic, social and environmental best practice. |
| Sohodojo Home of the nanocorp and small business revolutionaries |
