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Gaia University Climate Steward Scholarship Fund
Empower regenerative change-makers from all walks of life to develop next level innovative thinking, deep regenerative skills, and create powerful work in their communities.
The training and mentorship from Gaia U has supported hundreds of inspired Climate Change Stewards to reach their full potential as educators, entrepreneurs, activists, and whole human beings.
School of Intentioneering (SoI)
Teaching lifestyles of gifting and sharing through a set of values, theories, and histories of intentional community, the regional commonwealth, and the Fourth World.
GEN-US Action Fund
Gen-US engages and supports individuals, ecovillage and education initiatives, and partner networks, agencies and organizations in common efforts to advance global transformation towards and ecologically, economically and culturally resilient, sustainable and regenerative future.
GEN-US is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization
EIN: 62-1793769
GEN-US along with GEN Canada serves as the North American portal for the Global Ecovillage Network.
GEN International
Global Ecovillage Network: Catalyzing Communities for a Regenerative World
The Global Ecovillage Network‘s shared purpose is to link and support ecovillages, educate the world about them, and grow the regenerative movement – to inspire, scale and facilitate communities and people from all walks of life to become active participants in the transition to a resilient and regenerative human presence on Earth.
NextGENNA, youth branch of GEN in North America
… propels young adults
to energize
ecovillages and intentional communities
Be it positivity, time, resources, or money – it is going to take a lot to build the more beautiful world of our generation. We need your contribution to make it happen.
Any amount you can give will help tremendously with funding NextGEN workshops, events, and administration.
Thank you for your support!
GENNA (GEN North America)
GENNA stands for the North American Region of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN). We focus on meeting the needs of community projects within “Turtle Island,” the name given to North America in the creation stories of some indigenous peoples. The image of a turtle in our logo is meant to honor the rich cultural heritage and ecology of Turtle Island, as we work to grow community networks towards a more beautiful, just, and regenerative world.
The Community, Consensus, and Facilitation Book Project
Over his four decades as a consensus and facilitation trainer, mediator, and consultant to intentional communities and other cooperative groups, Laird Schaub wrote more than 130 articles in Communities, over 1200 blog entries, and a wealth of handouts and monographs about various aspects of cooperative group dynamics. However, he never had time to compile this material into book form. Early in 2024, with Laird’s blessing, a small team formed to start organizing and editing these writings, with the aim of turning his lifetime of teaching into a series of books of enduring value to communities and cooperators everywhere.
Given adequate funding, the team hopes to cover the following subjects as separate publications: Secular Consensus, Inclusive Facilitation, Navigating Conflict in Cooperative Groups, and Dynamics in Intentional Communities (key challenges and how to address them).
This project is being funded partly through a GoFundMe campaign linked at gen-us.net/ccf, through which contributions are not tax-deductible. If you’d like to make a tax-deductible donation instead, you can make it through GEN-US, the project’s nonprofit fiscal sponsor, by following the instructions on this donations page.
Thank you for considering this way of honoring Laird’s memory and helping his work continue!