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Partners for Prosperity Resources
North America
| Bish?r?t Media Development Associates (BMDA) (Canada) |
Bish?r?t Media Development Associates (BMDA), located in Canada, is a not-for-profit social and economic development communications and media productions organization dedicated to the promotion of scientifically and spiritually sound development action and thinking. BMDA has two major aims: to offer programming, training, and technological support to people and agencies at the grass-roots level in using information, communications, and media technologies to promote social, economic, and cultural advancement, as well as to, bring to light, through (multi-) media productions, successful development discourses and practices. Part of Bish?r?t's mandate is to bring culturally and spiritually sound development principles and practices to light with the aim of informing contemporary development policy and planning at all levels.
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| | Dr. Ethel Martens Center (Canada) |
The Dr. Ethel Martens Center, based in Ottawa, Canada, has been established to work on attracting individuals to the field of community based socio-economic development. They provide training and help with the development of necessary knowledge as a means of inspiration to become active in development work. They also work towards helping others develop a spiritual approach to community and social development issues.
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| | Four Worlds International Institute for Human and Community Development (Canada) |
Based in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. A Canadian, private, not-for-profit organization serving the interests of First Nations and indigenous people throughout the world. Four Directions International is a Canadian owned and operated Aboriginal company with more than thirty years of experience in people - centered development work in North and South America, Central and West Africa, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the former Soviet Union. Four Directions International is the economic arm of the Four Worlds International Institute for Human and Community Development. The primary focus of Four Worlds and Four Directions' work is capacity building of people and organizations for social and economic development at the community level. Four Worlds is best known for its culturally based, participatory approach to development and for its articulation of principles and processes guiding sustainable development activities.
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| | VIDEA (Victoria International Development Education Association (Canada) |
In addition to the events posted, VIDEA has excellent interactive learning resources for classroom use. These may be ordered by fax, phone or online at our website.
Classroom workshops on Appropriate Technology, Global Citizenship and Media Literacy are still avilable until the end of December.
Teacher workshops are also available for Pro-D days and may be booked with our Education Outreach Assistant, Elizabeth Wallace.
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| | Virtues Project, The (Canada) |
The Virtues Project, based in Saltspring, British Columbia, Canada, is an initiative that began in 1991 to empower individuals and families to live by their highest values. It was inspired by the desire to do something to counteract the rising violence in and around families. Education is the key to transformation, but it must involve education that touches the human spirit. The Virtues Project is an approach which calls people to remembrance of the virtues, the qualities of character and the simple elements of spirituality honoured by all cultures and sacred traditions. It has been applied in a wide variety of ways which include: federally funded community development and healing projects in First Nations communities in Canada, programs with urban street children in Los Angeles, to restructure the curriculum and culture of schools, to enhance unity in , and as a tool in day-care centres, palliative care programs, personal development, and in parent education programs throughout the world.
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| | Bah?'? Communications International (BCI) (United States) |
Bah?'? Communications International (BCI), based in Danville, California, U.S., provides free web space, email, and support services to institutions worldwide. They provide member institutions with a place to host websites. BCI also provides various forms of technical support, such as answering questions about website development and assisting with graphics. They also provide free POP3 electronic mailboxes and mail forwarding. This gives the institutions an 'official' addresses that can be used instead of personal addresses, just as post office boxes are often used for postal mail.
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| | Baha'i Announce (United States) |
The primary purpose of this organization is to rapidly disseminate Baha'i news and information throughout the world. It is used for announcements, press releases, important news and short questions. Currently it has over 1300 subscribers. All with email are encouraged to join, because it is used to tie all BCCA discussion groups together, and it is often the quickest way to distribute news. The group is moderated to ensure that messages are kept to a length and frequency acceptable to all. Messages posted must be of global interest, or be of interest to a targeted country or continent.
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| | Baha'i Business Forum for the Americas (BBFA) (United States) |
BBFA (Baha'i Business Forum for the Americas) is a forum for those interested in applying spiritual principles in business, economics & management. Some of their objectives include providing support seminars, ideas on management practices, different spiritual principals to management and economics, as well as vehicles for sharing business opportunities. There are three main parts to this forum. The first is the Internet forum that provides an opportunity for discussion among those interested in this topic. The second is the development of Local Enterprise Advisory Boards that will serve as support networks. The third is the development of an educational/training process that will include the development of a curriculum.
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| | Children's Theatre Company (United States) |
The Children's Theatre Company, located in New York City is dedicated to "producing theatre by children for grown-ups". The program is a creative haven for the children and provides for them the ability to apply moral values such as peace, racial harmony and unity in diversity. The program provides for the children many different rehearsals such as drama, dance, art, creative writing, and music theatre. These skills are then put to use in free performances all over the country. The New York Baha'i community has generously provided this program's theatre space.
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| | EarthRise Development Network (United States) |
EarthRise Development Network is a registered non-profit organization that was founded in 1997 by business professionals from Arizona and New Mexico. It was established as an international vehicle for individuals and organizations working through values-based social and economic development. They provide guidance and training in micro-finance and community development, assistance in project design, funding, monitoring and evaluation.
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| | EcoAg Organization (United States) |
The EcoAg Organization began in 1993. It now has a formal affiliation with EarthRise Development Network. Some of the aims of this organization are: to promote the evolution of community based agricultural models with an emphasis on both ecological sustainability and economic viability, to recognize the "dynamic coherence between the spiritual and the practical requirements of life on earth", to prepare individuals to become agents of change in the process of rebuilding agriculturally based communities, to facilitate the evolution of agriculturally based Training Institutes, with academic, trade and craft components dedicated to enhancing the quality of community life through service.
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| | Health for Humanity (United States) |
Health for Humanity (HH) is a health development organization. Internationally, its goal is to promote health development by partnering with local governmental and non-governmental organizations to improve their institutional capacity to meet the health needs of those they serve. HH works in close collaboration with its partners, offering consultation, training, and needed resources.
Domestically, its primary goal is to promote community health development through local initiatives of U.S. regional HH networks utilizing the unique HH approach. Health care professionals as well as individuals from a variety of disciplines will find, through HH, avenues of service for their talents and skills. The fundamental belief of HH is that people everywhere have capacity and inherent nobility and can care for themselves when they have the proper education and resources.
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| | Mona Foundation (United States) |
Mona Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to supporting grassroots educational initiatives, and raising the status of women and girls in the United States and abroad. The objectives of the Mona Foundation are: to support grassroots social-economic development projects aimed at: providing quality education to children, raising the status of women and girls, and community building. This foundation has played a vital role in the formation and support of many different projects. Some of these include involvement in the Badi School in Panama, EMPIRE Project in Washington, as well as the Tierra Santa Home for Abandoned Children in Honduras.
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| | Mottahedeh Development Services (MDS) (United States) |
Mottahedeh Development Services (MDS), based in Maryland, United States, aims to provide skills, models and other assistance to realize the vision of active service to the larger community as an immediate and organic expression of Faith. Their mission is to assist and stimulate the spirit and action of service to mankind by the Bah?'? community resulting in social and economic development. They will facilitate community-owned social and economic development for the positive transformation of individuals, their families, and communities. They apply universal spiritual principles as a guiding force for sustainable social change.
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| | ONE COUNTRY (United States) |
ONE COUNTRY, a Newsletter, is a publication of the Office of Public Information of the Bah?'? International Community, which is an international non-governmental organization. In its printed format, ONE COUNTRY is published quarterly. Each issue contains in-depth feature stories on the United Nations, noteworthy social and economic development projects, environmental efforts or educational programs, along with an editorial that addresses world problems. It is published in English, French, Chinese, Russian, German and Spanish, and is currently mailed to more than 30,000 readers in more than 170 countries.
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