The Long Now Foundation was established in 1996 to develop the Clock and Liabrary projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide counterpoint to today's "faster/cheaper" mind set and promote "slower/better" thinking. (They) hope to creatively foster responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. This organization was started by Danny Hillis who, interestingly enough, is the designer of the modern super-computer.
The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers building a publicly accessible online archive of ALL documented human languages. Another project by Danny Hillis.
Global Exchange is a membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world.
The Yes Men have impersonated some of the world's most powerful criminals at conferences, on the web, and on television, in order to correct their identities. They currently have hundreds of thousands of job openings. Check out the film, the Yes Men, if you want to see what it's all about.
The Stephen Lewis Foundation leaped into existence with speed and urgency, in part due to the astonishing outpouring of support from Canadians who want to join the effort to address the horror of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa. Stephen Lewis was the 2005 Massey Lecturer.
