ARISE
ARISE, (Afghanistan Retraining Initiative for Self-Employment) is a trade school/small business incubator project, designed to develop entrepreneurial and employable skills for returning refugees, internally displaced persons, former combatants, and local citizens. Focusing on young adults (both women and men), the trade school/incubator will incorporate several curricula; options being considered include building trades, sewing, simple food processing and services, health care services, sustainable agriculture (e.g., tree nurseries, subsistence crops, poultry), and small business entrepreneurship and management. The school facility will include buildings to house the instructional program as well as providing space for small-business start-ups. Equipment housed at the facility will be shared by the program participants. Collaboration with micro-lending programs to provide financial assistance for new entrepreneurs graduating from the trade school will be an essential program component. The trade school/incubator will be potentially replicable elsewhere in Afghanistan.

Personal Development Courses
Foundation Courses offer the opportunity for personal exploration, experiential learning, and universal understanding through courses: Marriage in Changing Times, Exploring a Sense of Place, the Enneagram, and Children and Nature.

Israeli-Palestinian Initiative: Framework for a Public Peace Process
Israeli-Palestinian Initiative: Framework for a Public Peace Process Since 1991, the Israeli-Palestinian Initiative has worked in cooperation with institutions and citizen-leaders in the United States, Israel, and Palestine to find innovative solutions to the unrest in the Middle East. From its early days when Foundation-sponsored meetings helped to overcome barriers to communication, to encouraging current grass-roots efforts such as the Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group, the Initiative has looked beyond official negotiation tables. It has established real dialogues between the citizens and community leaders who live with conflict on a daily basis.

The Walk Through Time
The Walk Through Time provides a glimpse into the wonder of the universe. Through a 90-panel exhibit or online experience, walkers explore the diversity and wonder of life as it has moved through time. Scientific knowledge about the development of life on earth provides a context for appreciating the complexity and beauty of the systems that have made life on this planet possible for billions of years.

Earth ConNEXTions
To provide people of all ages with a connection to the greater context within which we live our daily lives. Deliver various programs, events and experiences that connect people to the Earth’s living system within the developing Universe.

Earth ConNEXTions is comprised of the following sub-teams:
The Valley Hearts Delight
Children and Nature
Hooked on Nature
A Sense of Place

Global MindShift
Recent scientific understandings and technological breakthroughs, together with the global pressures of our time, provide an unprecedented opportunity for humanity to explore its most fundamental beliefs, values, and assumptions about the way things are. Is the world nothing more than a collection of separate, competitive parts, a system in which "only the fittest survive," or is it a more integrative system, where everything is interconnected and interdependent, and where the survival of each depends on the survival of the whole?

The mission of Global MindShift is to support this emergence of the new worldview by inspiring a shift in thinking, a MindShift – one thought at a time, one conversation at a time, one action at a time – and to do this by helping to grow a communication, action, and collaboration network of people and organizations around the world who are themselves a part of and fostering that emergence. Working together, we can make the emerging worldview a reality.

Business and Sustainability
The Business and Sustainability Initiative is dedicated to promoting a broader measurement of business success, namely the "triple bottom line." Because "capital" encompasses human, natural and financial resources, we believe it is in the economic interest of the market system to focus on the well-being of people and the planet with an intensity equal to the focus placed on profits.

Valley of Heart's Delight
The Valley of Heart's Delight aims to reconnect people living in Silicon Valley with the sources of their food. Drawing on the region's rich agricultural heritage, the project is cultivating relationships with corporations, schools, restaurants, and home gardeners in the region to create a sustainable community.

Speakers
The Foundation frequently hosts inspiring, visionary speakers at its Community Center in Palo Alto, California. Check the calendar for upcoming speaking events if you live in the Bay Area.

Timeline
Timeline, the Foundation for Global Community's bimonthly journal, provides insights and information about systems thinking, sustainability, ecology, conflict resolution, social issues, community building, and holistic living. Each issue features articles about leading-edge thinkers, thought-provoking editorials, and insightful book reviews.

Videotapes
The Foundation has produced a collection of award-winning Videotaapes designed to provide viewers with a deeper understanding and appreciation for the world in which we live — and the role that humans play in the continuing evolution of the planet. Many of the videos have been presented on PBS television stations across the U.S.

Armenia-Azerbaijan Initiative: Building a Common Future
Begun in 1993, the Armenia-Azerbaijan initiative assists influential moderates in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Nagorno-Karabakh region in a non-governmental public peace process of face-to-face reconciliation to address issues relating to the war and the resulting displacement of over one million people. In addition to ongoing dialogues with groups in the region, the Armenia-Azerbaijan Initiative has recently begun working with the Transcaucasus Youth Network, an international human rights NGO, to help promote regional conflict resolution and the development of civil society in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

Sustainable Communities Forum
The Sustainable Communities Forum is working to create a truly sustainable San Francisco Bay bioregion. Recognizing that most environmental organizations are addressing specific issues like pollution and inappropriate development, Sustainable Communities Forum attempts to educate the general public and local governments regarding "big picture" issues like carrying capacity and the "true" costs of products and consumer-driven lifestyles.

Bioregional Gatherings: Envisioning a Sustainable Bay Area Community
Helping to connect creative energies with expertise and knowledge, Bioregional Gatherings bring local leaders and innovators together at the Foundation's retreat center to generate new projects out of the cross-fertilization of ideas. Bioregional thinking helps local leaders, motivated activists, and creative individuals focus their attention on systemic regional problems and create models to inspire bioregional solutions worldwide. The next Bioregional Gathering will explore distributed renewable energy solutions with the goal of spawning citizens' projects and sustainable businesses in this arena.

Breakthrough: Emerging New Thinking
In 1987, as Beyond War was building a global citizens' movement to raise awareness of the threat posed by nuclear weapons, over 30 scholars came together under the editorship of Soviet physicist Sergei Kapitza and American cryptographer Martin Hellman to produce Russian and English editions of Breakthrough: Emerging New Thinking, Soviet and Western Scholars Issue a Challenge to Build a World Beyond War. Now, almost 15 years later, a new book and series of meetings are being planned to address the ways in which 1989 was not only the end of an era but also the foundation for a profound change in the way we understand the planet as an interdependent system.