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"Mark's [work] is refreshingly short
on political philosophizing and long on real ideas, programs and organizations
you can support."
-- Jay Dean, "Radical
Middle by Mark Satin," The Radical Centrist blog, February 23, 2005
Over 250 Great Radical
Centrist Groups and Organizations
Welcome to our listing of national “radical
centrist” or “radical middle” or “creative centrist” groups and
organizations! (By those terms we mean groups that are wise enough to learn from
all political perspectives . . . and bold enough to use those
learnings to address our problems in creative new ways.)
To make this as rich as possible for you,
-- the names of the groups are linked to
their websites;
-- following the names, we indicate where the
groups are referred to in our book, Mark Satin, Radical Middle: The
Politics We Need Now, Westview / Perseus, 2004 (“Satin”);
-- then we link you to one or two articles
where the groups are featured, discussed, or mentioned on this website.
To make browsing maximally efficient for you,
we’ve arranged the groups into seven categories, as follows:
- World Order
- Business and Economics
- Energy and Environment
- Health and Health Care
- Education and Youth
- Society and Futures
- Politics and Process
So, enjoy your browsing. And don’t forget to
become involved in some of these groups!
1. WORLD ORDER
American Society
of International Law, Satin p. 192, mentioned HERE
Amnesty
International, mentioned HERE
Ashoka,
Satin p. xii, discussed HERE
Campaign for U.N. Reform, now Citizens
for Global Solutions, Satin p. 159, mentioned HERE
and HERE
Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly
Conflict, discussed HERE
Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace,
mentioned HERE
Carr
Center for Human Rights Policy (Michael Ignatieff & Samantha Power),
Satin pp. 154, 159, discussed HERE, mentioned HERE
Carter
Center, Satin p. 172
Center for Global
Development, mentioned HERE
Center for the Study of Peace and Conflict
(Thomas Homer-Dixon), now Trudeau Centre
for Peace and Conflict Studies, discussed HERE
Club of
Madrid, mentioned HERE
Commission on Global
Governance, discussed HERE,
mentioned HERE
Crabgrass.org, mentioned
HERE
Culture
Matters Research Project (Lawrence Harrison), discussed HERE
Doctors
Without Borders, Satin p. 195, discussed HERE
Earth Charter
Initiative, discussed HERE
EarthAction, discussed
HERE
Educate
Girls Globally, mentioned HERE
Fund for
Peace, Satin pp. 151, 159, 207
Geneva
Initiative, mentioned HERE
Global Action to Prevent
War and Armed Conflict, discussed HERE
Global
Citizen Journey, mentioned HERE
Global Governance Initiative, mentioned HERE
Global
Negotiation Project, mentioned HERE
Human Rights Watch, mentioned
HERE
Institute for Multi-Track
Diplomacy, mentioned
HERE
InterAction, discussed
HERE, mentioned HERE
Inter-American
Foundation, mentioned HERE
International Crisis Group, now Crisis
Group, featured HERE
Jewish Futures
Network, mentioned HERE
Microcredit
Summit Campaign, Satin p. 172
Millennium
Forum, discussed HERE
National Endowment
for Democracy, Satin p. 24, mentioned HERE
One World
Trust, discussed HERE
Oxfam
International, Satin pp. 138, 140, 147
Partnership
for Effective Peacekeeping, Satin p. 159, mentioned HERE
Program on
International Policy Attitudes, Satin p. 153, mentioned HERE
Refugees
International, Satin p. 195
Responsibility to
Protect, mentioned HERE
Search for Common
Ground, Satin pp. 151, 168, 172, 207, discussed HERE, mentioned
HERE
Seeds of
Peace, mentioned HERE and HERE
Third Side
(William Ury), Satin pp. 19, 104
Transparency
International, Satin p. 147
United
Nations, featured HERE, discussed HERE
United Nations
Association of the U.S.A., Satin p. 159
United Nations
Development Programme, Satin pp. 117, 123, 169-70, 171
United
Nations Global Compact Initiative, Satin p. 147
United Nations Millennium
Project, mentioned
HERE
United Nations Vision Project on Global Public
Policy Networks, now Global
Public Policy Institute, mentioned HERE
United States Institute of
Peace, mentioned HERE
Woodrow
Wilson International Center, Satin pp. 153, 159, mentioned HERE
World Affairs
Councils of America, mentioned HERE
World Commission on
Dams, mentioned HERE
World History
Association, mentioned HERE
2. BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
Association for Quality and Participation, now Team
and Workplace Excellence Forum, Satin p. 113
Bridging the
Gap (John Renesch), mentioned HERE
Campaign Against Workplace Bullying, discussed
HERE
Center for
Corporate Citizenship, Satin p. 113
Center for Social Development (Michael
Sherraden), Satin p. 99,
discussed HERE
Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities,
mentioned HERE
Committee for a Responsible Federal
Budget,
mentioned HERE
Committee for Economic
Development, mentioned
HERE and HERE
Concord
Coalition, mentioned HERE and HERE
Consortium
for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations (Daniel Goleman),
Satin pp. 109, 113, discussed HERE, mentioned HERE
and HERE
Co-op
America, Satin pp. 65, 207
Corporation for
Enterprise Development, Satin pp. 99, mentioned HERE
Corporation 20/20, mentioned HERE
Creative
Class Group (Richard Florida), Satin pp. 16, 19
Ethical
Markets Media (Hazel Henderson), mentioned HERE
Friends of the
Commons, mentioned HERE
Global Business
Network (James Ogilvy & Peter Schwartz), Satin pp. 108, 113, featured HERE, discussed
HERE
Institute for International Economics, now Peterson
Institute for International Economics, Satin p. 147, discussed HERE,
mentioned HERE
JimCollins.com, Satin pp. 108-09, 113, discussed HERE
Joint Center for Poverty
Research (Roberta Blank), discussed
HERE
Levy Economics
Institute, discussed HERE
Microcredit Summit Campaign
(Muhammad Yunus), mentioned HERE
National Foreign Trade
Council, mentioned HERE
National Jobs for
All Coalition, Satin pp. 24, 93, 99, discussed HERE
National Taxpayers
Union, featured HERE
Natural
Capitalism, featured HERE
New Workplace
Institute (David Yamada), discussed HERE
NEXT Industrial
Revolution (William McDonough),
featured HERE
Organization Development Network,
mentioned HERE
Patient Capital
Management, mentioned HERE
Tom Peters, Satin p. 113
Polarity
Management Associates, mentioned HERE
Rocky Mountain
Institute, featured HERE
SARKADY alignment transformation
renewal,
mentioned HERE and HERE
Section on Socio-Economics (of Association of
American Law Schools), featured HERE
Society for
Organizational Learning (Peter Senge), Satin pp. 107-08, 113, mentioned HERE
and HERE
Society for the
Advancement of Socio-Economics, Satin p. 99, discussed HERE, mentioned
HERE
Stakeholder
Alliance (Ralph Estes), discussed HERE
Tax Policy
Center, mentioned HERE
Tomales Bay
Institute, mentioned HERE
Trillium
Asset Management Corp., Satin p. 207
United States
Basic Income Guarantee Network (Karl Widerquist), mentioned HERE
USA*ENGAGE, mentioned
HERE
Women’s World
Banking, mentioned HERE
3. ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
Alliance to Save
Energy, Satin p. 65, mentioned HERE
American Council for an Energy-Efficient
Economy, mentioned HERE
American
Council on Renewable Energy, Satin p. 65
American Nuclear
Society, mentioned HERE
American Wind Energy
Association, described HERE
Breakthrough
Institute, discussed HERE
Breakthrough Technologies
Institute - Fuel Cells 2000, mentioned
HERE
Center for Energy and Climate
Solutions,
mentioned HERE
Center for Livable Communities, now Center
for Communities by Design, mentioned HERE
Dynamist.com
(Virginia Postrel), discussed HERE
Earth Rights Institute (Alanna Hartzok), Satin
p. 207, mentioned HERE
Electric Power
Research Institute, Satin p. 65
Energy
Research Centre [clean fossil fuels], Satin p. 65
Environmental
Defense, Satin p. xi, discussed HERE, mentioned
HERE
Greenpeace, mentioned
HERE
Institute of Transportation
Studies, mentioned
HERE
International
Food Policy Research Institute, Satin p. 124
National
Commission on Energy Policy, Satin p. 65, mentioned HERE
National
Energy Policy Initiative, Satin p. 65
National Hydrogen
Association, discussed HERE,
mentioned HERE
National Renewable
Energy Laboratory, Satin p. 65
National Trust for Historic
Preservation,
featured HERE
Nuclear Control
Institute, mentioned HERE
Nuclear Energy
Institute, mentioned HERE
Project
for Public Spaces (Roberta Gratz), discussed HERE
Resources for the
Future, mentioned HERE
Tellus Institute
for a Great Transition, Satin p. 164, mentioned HERE
World Wildlife
Fund, mentioned HERE
Worldwatch
Institute, Satin p. 171, mentioned HERE and HERE
Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy
(Daniel Esty), mentioned HERE and HERE
4. HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
American Academy of
Pediatrics, discussed HERE
American Medical
Student Association, Satin p. 185
American Public
Health Association, Satin pp. 46, 93, mentioned HERE
Campaign
for Better Health, mentioned HERE
Center
for Health Transformation, Satin p. 46
Center for
Science in the Public Interest [food policy], Satin p. 124, mentioned HERE
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention,
discussed HERE
Complementary and Alternative Medical Program, mentioned
HERE
Global
Health Council, Satin p. 172
Institute of Medicine, discussed
HERE
International
Healthy Cities Foundation, mentioned HERE
National Center
for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Satin p. 42, discussed HERE
Office of Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion, discussed HERE
Partnership for
Prevention, Satin pp. 44, 46, discussed HERE, mentioned
HERE
United
States Preventive Services Task Force, discussed
HERE
United States Public Health
Service, discussed HERE
White House Commission on Complementary and
Alternative Medicine Policy, discussed HERE
5. EDUCATION AND YOUTH
America’s Promise
Alliance (Colin & Alma Powell), mentioned
HERE
Basic Education
Coalition, Satin p. 172
Better Baby Care
Campaign, mentioned HERE
Center for the Fourth and Fifth
Rs, discussed
HERE
Character Education
Partnership, discussed HERE
Children's
Defense Fund, Satin pp. 193-94, featured HERE
Coaches Training Institute,
discussed HERE
Collaborative to Advance Social and Emotional
Learning, now Collaborative for Academic, Social,
and Emotional Learning, discussed HERE
Committee for
Children, mentioned HERE
Educators for Social
Responsibility, discussed
HERE
Family Life Development
Center (James Garbarino), discussed HERE and
HERE
Fight Crime: Invest in
Kids, discussed HERE
First Five Association of
California, mentioned
HERE
Global Alliance for Transnational
Education,
discussed HERE
Inner
Resilience Program (Linda Lantieri), discussed HERE and
HERE
Mentoring
USA, discussed HERE
National Association for Gifted
Children,
mentioned HERE
National
Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, Satin pp. 79-80, discussed
HERE
National Council
on Teacher Quality, Satin p. 80
OhioHealth Parenting
Classes, mentioned HERE
Parenting
Project, mentioned HERE
Project IF: Inventing the
Future, discussed HERE
Resolving Conflict Creatively
Program, discussed
HERE
Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families
(Geoffrey Canada), now Harlem Children's Zone, discussed
HERE
CESNational
(Theodore Sizer), discussed HERE
Third Millennium (Richard Thau), defunct, discussed
HERE
Thomas B.
Fordham Foundation, Satin p. 80, discussed HERE
Trust for Early
Education, mentioned HERE
Zero to Three Policy
Center, discussed HERE,
mentioned HERE
6. SOCIETY
AND FUTURES
American
Association for the Advancement of Science, Satin p. 191, featured HERE,
discussed HERE
Arlington
Institute, mentioned HERE and HERE
Association of Professional
Futurists, mentioned
HERE
Breaking
Ranks (Robert Fuller), featured HERE
Center for Bioethics, now Bioethics.net,
Satin p. 124, mentioned HERE
Center for Biomedical
Ethics, mentioned HERE
Center
for Court Innovation, Satin p. 55, discussed HERE
Center for Ethics and the Professions, now Safra
Foundation Center for Ethics, featured
HERE
Center for Human
Emergence, mentioned HERE
Center for Society, the Individual and Genetics,
now Center for Society and
Genetics, Satin p. 124
Center for Strategic Futurist
Thinking,
mentioned HERE
Chicago Metropolis 2020,
mentioned HERE
Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration
Reform,
mentioned HERE
Conversation
Cafes, mentioned HERE
Cultural
Creatives (Paul Ray & Sherry Anderson), discussed HERE
Dignitarian
Foundation, mentioned HERE
Evangelicals for Social Action (Ron Sider),
discussed HERE
EVOLVE
(Barbara Marx Hubbard), mentioned HERE
Family
Institute, mentioned HERE
Foresight and Governance
Project, mentioned HERE
HALT: An
Organization of Americans for Legal Reform, Satin p. 55, discussed HERE
Human Dignity and Humiliation
Studies, mentioned
HERE
Institute
for Alternative Futures, Satin pp. 46, 65, 113, discussed HERE and
HERE
Institute for Creative Development (Charles
Johnson), mentioned HERE
Integral
Institute (Ken Wilber), mentioned HERE and HERE
International
Network on Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Satin p. 55, discussed HERE
Joseph Coates,
Consulting Futurist, discussed HERE and HERE
Justice
for Daniel Faulkner, discussed HERE
Lawrence M. Mead
Website, discussed HERE
Lindesmith Center (Ethan Nadelmann), now Drug
Policy Alliance, mentioned
HERE
Middle Class Morality Project (Alan Wolfe & Maria Poarch),
now Boisi Center for Religion and American
Public Life, described HERE, mentioned HERE
Millennial Ethical Cosmopolitanism (Jason Hill),
mentioned HERE
Millennials Rising (Neil Howe & William
Strauss), now MillennialPolitics.com,
Satin p. 31, mentioned HERE
National Academy of
Sciences, discussed HERE
National
Association of Social Workers, Satin p. 93
National
Council of Churches USA, Satin p. 63, mentioned HERE
National Standards for History Project, now National
Center for History in the Schools, discussed HERE
Neighborhoods USA,
Satin p. 195
Pew
Research Center [in-depth polling], Satin pp. 12, 153, 166-67, mentioned
HERE
Prison Fellowship International, now Restorative
Justice Online, Satin p. 55, discussed HERE
Public
Agenda [in-depth polling], Satin pp. 12, 71, 73, mentioned HERE and
HERE
Snyder Family Enterprise (Dave & Sue
Snyder), discussed HERE
Street Law,
Satin p. 49
Technorealism,
discussed HERE
Transforming Practices, no longer on Web (but see
the very similar site Renaissance
Lawyer Society), Satin p. 185, discussed HERE
Undoing
Depression (Richard O’Connor), discussed HERE
Unity Blueprint for Immigration
Reform,
mentioned HERE
Warren Farrell
Website, discussed HERE
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical
Research,
mentioned HERE
World Future
Society, Satin p. 192, featured HERE, discussed
HERE and HERE
World History
Association, discussed HERE
Y-Files
(Cathy Young), discussed HERE
7. POLITICS AND PROCESS
Alliance for Better Campaigns, now Campaign
Legal Center, Satin pp. 205, 206
American
Political Science Association, Satin p. 195, mentioned HERE
AmericaSpeaks, mentioned
HERE
Annenberg
Public Policy Center, Satin p. 206
Ashland Constitution
Dialogue, mentioned HERE
Association for
Conflict Resolution, Satin p. 55
Authentic Leadership Program, mentioned
HERE
Benton
Foundation, mentioned HERE
Beyond Intractability
Project, mentioned HERE
Bipartisan
Policy Center, mentioned HERE
British Columbia Citizens'
Assembly, mentioned
HERE
Brookings
Institution, Satin pp. 134, 147, 184, discussed HERE, mentioned
HERE
Bull Moose Republicans, defunct, discussed HERE
Campaign Finance
Institute, Satin p. 206
Campaign Legal
Center, mentioned HERE
Center for Dispute
Settlement, mentioned HERE
and HERE
Center for Media and
Democracy, mentioned HERE
Center for Mediation in
Law, mentioned HERE
Center for Responsive
Politics, mentioned HERE
Center for Visionary Law,
Business, and Public Policy [Radical Middle Newsletter's nonprofit sponsor]
Center
for Visionary Leadership (Corinne McLaughlin & Gordon Davidson),
mentioned HERE
Center for
Voting and Democracy, Satin p. 206
Center for Wise
Democracy, mentioned HERE
Center
on Policy Attitudes, Satin pp. 12, 37, mentioned HERE
Centrist
Coalition, discussed HERE, mentioned
HERE
Centrists.org, mentioned
HERE and HERE
Centrust Party, now Centrust
Paradigm,
mentioned HERE
Century Foundation, Satin p. 90, discussed
HERE, mentioned HERE
Civic Practices Network (Carmen Sirianni & Lewis
Friedland),
discussed HERE
Co-intelligence
Institute, mentioned HERE
Collaborative Law
Center, mentioned HERE
Communitarian
Network (Amitai Etzioni), Satin pp. 90, 128, 132, 133, 164, 172, discussed HERE, mentioned
HERE
Deliberative Democracy
Consortium, mentioned
HERE
Demos, mentioned
HERE
FairVote, mentioned
HERE
Freedom
House, Satin p. 200
Generon
Consulting, mentioned HERE
Global Leadership
Network, mentioned HERE
Green Committees of Correspondence, defunct,
featured HERE
Independent Nation (John Avlon), featured
HERE,
mentioned HERE
InterVarsity
Christian Fellowship, discussed HERE
Judicial
Arbitration and Mediation Services, Satin p. 51, mentioned HERE and
HERE
Liberty
Coalition, mentioned HERE
Manhattan
Institute, Satin p. 10
Matt
Miller Online, Satin pp. 10, 45, 79, 98, 205, discussed HERE
Mediators
Foundation, mentioned HERE
National
Association for Community Mediation, Satin p. 195
National Civic
League, Satin p. 195
National Coalition for Dialogue and
Deliberation, mentioned HERE and HERE
National Committee for Voting
Integrity,
mentioned HERE
National
Institute for Science, Law, and Public Policy, mentioned HERE
National Issues Forums
Institute, mentioned HERE
National Popular
Vote, mentioned HERE
NDN, formerly New Democrat Network, discussed
HERE
New America
Foundation, Satin pp. 38, 45, 46, 79, 89,
90, 96, 99, 128, 133, 141, 147, 184, featured HERE and
HERE and HERE
New Democrat Coalition,
mentioned HERE
New World Alliance, defunct, featured HERE,
discussed HERE
Open Society
Institute, Satin p. 172
Partnow
Communications, mentioned HERE
PassageWays Institute, now PassageWorks
Institute, mentioned HERE
Polarity Management
Associates, mentioned HERE
Progressive
Policy Institute, Satin pp. 46, 65, 79, 80, 134, 139, 147, 171, 184,
discussed HERE and HERE
Project Vote
Smart, Satin p. 206
Public
Campaign, mentioned HERE and HERE
Public
Conversations Project, Satin pp. 189, 195, mentioned HERE and
HERE
Radical
Centrism (Ernest Prabhakar), mentioned HERE
Republican Leadership Council (Christine Todd
Whitman), featured HERE
RESULTS,
Satin pp. 99, 172, 207, mentioned HERE and HERE
Reuniting
America, originally Democracy in America
Project, featured HERE and HERE
Rockwood Leadership
Program, mentioned HERE
Section
of Dispute Resolution (of American Bar Association), Satin p. 55
Spiral Dynamics
Integral, featured HERE,
mentioned HERE
Strengthening Bridging Organizations Program, mentioned
HERE
Study
Circles Resource Center, mentioned HERE
Texas
Forums, mentioned HERE
Third
Culture (Anthony Giddens), Satin pp. 10,
98, 147, mentioned HERE
Third Way, mentioned HERE
United States Consensus Council, no longer on
Web (but see Consensus Council
Inc.), mentioned HERE
Unity08, featured
HERE
Vasconcellos
Project, discussed HERE
Viewpoint
Learning, mentioned HERE and HERE
Voices
for National Service, discussed HERE
Walter
Truett Anderson Website, Satin pp. 10, 63, 65, 123, 147, discussed HERE and
HERE
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