Educational Organizations
advocating for systemic and responsive change in the way we work with children and young people, especially in schools

Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools
Center for Courage and Renewal
Challenge Success
Coalition of Essential Schools
Ed Visions
Education as Transformation
High Tech High
Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP)
Metta Center for Nonviolence Education
PassageWorks Institute
Progressive Education Network
San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools
Teaching Tolerance


Contemplative Practice with Young People
offering methods and programs to help young people develop calmness, self-control, and inner awareness

Association for Mindfulness in Education
Center for Sustainable Change
Mindful Schools
Niroga Institute
Personal Creed Project
Project Happiness


Self-Awareness and Connection Resources
researching and advocating for a wisdom-centered approach to social engagement

Center for the Contemplative Mind in Society
Center for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence
Engaging the Other
Institute of Noetic Sciences
Mind and Life Institute
Spiritual Paths Institute
Spirituality in Higher Education (UCLA)
The Wisdom Page


Nonsectarian Interfaith Resources
creating a public forum where we can appreciate the diversity of wisdom traditions

Center for Inter-Religious Dialogue
Charter for Compassion
Interfaith Center at the Presidio
Interfaith Youth Core
North America Interfaith Network
Parliament of the World's Religions
Pluralism Project (Harvard)
Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding
United Religions Initiative