The purpose of the Alaska Women's Network (founded in March 1996) is to further the empowerment of Alaskan women through sharing of information, education, support and through encouraging the development of skills which will enable women to assume leadership roles in building a better world. AWN, working with women from all communities throughout Alaska, encourages participation from urban and rural women and from all ethnic and cultural backgrounds. To achieve this purpose, and to continue the momentum of the 1995 United Nations 4th World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China, AWN maintains a statewide communication network between Alaskan women and women's organizations through our website at www.alaskawomensnetwork.org.

The AMARACHI Healing Circle addresses all the healing modalities necessary for achieving a higher state of AMARACHI, the African spiritual state of consciousness (with universal application) achieved through our ARUISIKE (Health Awakening) workshops. These workshops highlight the spiritual, mental, physical, financial, intimacy, peace building, emotional and cultural healing modalities. These workshops have helped many to go beyond their human failings and enter the unlimited world of the spirit. By that I mean that they have gradually begun to see their spirituality not only from the perspective of offering thanksgiving to God, but incorporating tangible and constructive processes to maintain a healthy personal relationship with God, themselves and with the global community as a whole. AMARACHI promotes the concept of Biri Ka Mbiri (Live and Let Live) as a mandate for interpersonal and inter-religious dialogue.

Anglican Women’s Empowerment (AWE) is a membership movement of Episcopal/Anglican women and girls with a broad diversity of backgrounds, interests and skills.We work for gender equity and social justice around the world.

Our work is shaped by the issues defined by the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and the Beijing Platform for Action. We have monthly meetings with guest speakers and a large, yearly international gathering for the United Nations Committee on the Status of Women meetings. We welcome new members.

Out of a clear awareness of the magnificence of women, the power of circles, and the longing for connection that all women feel, Circle Connections, Inc. was called into being. Our mission is developing and fostering new models of organization and leadership based on circle principles. We serve to empower women through Circles and Connections, locally and globally. Women have an important voice to be heard and the connecting of circles is a path to peace and justice.

Welcome to the future.

• Individual Empowerment and Personal Accountability
• Community Values and Social Action
• Planetary Stewardship and Global Interconnectedness

Our goal is to inspire children and young people to get involved on many different levels of awareness. Together, we face the challenges to Mother Earth and her living systems, inspiring personal commitment in every individual to ensure safe and adequate water, environment and sanitation resources for all. Our methodologies are designed to strengthen a child's creative and critical thinking abilities in order to uncover the infinite possibility in what can appear to be a finite and challenging world.

Children, parents and teachers experience global interdependence at its best. Circle process supports interpersonal understanding through compassionate listening and peer interaction. Hands-on science, ecology and arts activities combine with an introduction to the 'real-life issues' of very basic human rights and health challenges facing the Earth's children in the developing world to create a very unique and important learning experience in a developmentally appropriate way.

Join Us. If you have curriculum ideas, passion for the children of the Earth, or feel called to bring Earth Child programming to your school, community center, or faith-based organization let us know.

Inviting women and their organizations to come together locally and globally, to respond to the call for global unity among women, to explore and evolve new models of leadership, to co-create the greatest arising of women's wisdom ever known...

Gather the Women Global Matrix invites women to meet in person, at whatever level is empowered by the call within, twice a year on International Women's Day and in mid-Fall. We "gather" by telecalls to mutually support one another by building a field of high intention and by sharing ideas for the gatherings themselves.

We also invite women to come together online, to build local online networks, while staying connected into the Global Matrix. By connecting our communities into a global presence, by sharing what works with each other, we activate the incredible wisdom of women on a global scale.

The idea to set up GCNW was conceived in September 2007 by Founding Executive Director of GCN Zimbabwe, Betty Makoni and current US-based trustee Leanne Grossman who started some fundraising projects to support girls in Zimbabwe who had fallen in disastrous situations where no one seemed to move in with speed that the situation demands. Through a house party, Leanne raised 2600 dollars which were channeled as cash through Betty Makoni who speedily delivered it to girls on the ground through their coordinators. This had a huge impact as the assistance benefitted one hundred and sixty girls over three months.

The idea to start GCNW was taken over to Canada and discussed with members of Defense for Children International, amongst others. But of course, many countries like Swaziland and Uganda had already replicated the GCN Empowerment Model and this is what moved the founder members to hold a strategic plan workshop in September 2009 in Essex, England where this business plan was crafted.

The organization since then has launched a Girls Empowerment and Education Fund (GEEF), which is the first ever girls international fund to give girls small grants to be self reliant ,start girls clubs and do their own development projects not supported elsewhere because of so many bureaucratic systems currently in place .

Our mission is to provide a virtual room where women from different cultures come together for dialogue and understanding; where impoverishment gives way to empowerment; and where every woman is awakened to the other. This awakening benefits children, men, the earth and all beings.

We believe that when any woman shows up “as she is right now” -- with her authentic voice, personal story, and wisdom -- and when she is truly heard, a shift occurs both for the storyteller and for the listener. Within this shift lies the potential for relationships and the momentum of moving from inspiration to action.

Our vision: To develop, over time, a movement giving voice and power to grassroots women's local visions and initiatives attracting long-term partners, and creating new policies, to expand and strengthen their leadership.

The Huairou Commission is a partnership entity, focusing on grassroots women taking leadership, linking them with partners and facilitating peer learning. HC believes that a paradigm shift needs to occur in how development policies are made and implemented, for people and institutions to stop thinking of grassroots groups as projects and start thinking of them as change agents and partners in development. HC has grown to implement and model this paradigm shift. Eventually, thematic areas of work began to emerge from the work across different networks, and our thematic Campaigns were developed and operationalized. The work grew from the work that grassroots women’s groups were doing and from the joint priorities of the Member Networks of the Huairou Commission:

Federacion de Mujeres Municipalistas - America Latina y el Caribe
GROOTS International
Information Center of the Independent Women's Forum
International Council of Women
Women and Habitat Network - Latin America
Women and Peace Network
Women in Cities International

Through films, circles, projects and retreats, ITGF nurtures women within an emerging culture of inner wisdom and heart-based relationships. Together, we step forward as a confluence of women to create a mighty wave of positive change. Our first two initiatives are: The Heart To Lead film, introducing the wisdom arising in hearts everywhere, and our Inward Journey Letter Circle, inviting women residing in prison and women in the free world to share their wisdom, unbounded by walls of any kind.

The International Public Policy Institute is an Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and Department of Public Information (DPI) Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in consultative status with the United Nations.

Our Vision:
An unprecedented global shift is embracing our world, bringing the collapse of cherished certainties and institutions everywhere. There is no clear path for nurturing values upon which to create peace-building policies. The IPPI Vision is to understand this historical moment as a unique opportunity to work with citizens and governments in the ways needed now for peace-building international public policy. People everywhere are organizing for the kind of peace-building that includes all creation and every country. We are a working part of them.

We envision that the World Wide Web can transcend its limitations as a communication vehicle to become a transformational one, a sacred technology. This can occur not merely through technical innovation, but by people using the Internet in deeply relational ways, from their highest intentions for humanity, in a coherent application. We envision that LightPages, which is modeled after natural principles of self-organization and cooperation, can be that application.

LightPages is the online support system for the weave of local gatherings that is evoking and co-creating a global culture of peace and understanding. It provides a continuity of connectivity before and after events that continues the energy of building personal relationships and networks toward common goals. It also holds a high field of resonance for the positive evolution of all those who co-create those events, and their projects.

Intention Statement:

Circles encourage connection and cooperation among their members and inspire compassionate solutions to individual, community and world problems. We believe that circles support each member to find her or his own voice and to live more courageously, and intend:

• to seed and nurture circles, wherever possible, in order to cultivate equality, sustainable livelihoods, preservation of the earth and peace for all.

• to bring the circle process into United Nations accredited non-governmental organizations and a 5th UN World Conference on Women.

• to connect circles so they may know themselves as a part of a larger movement to shift consciousness in the world.

The National Alliance of Women's Organisations (NAWO, founded 1989) is an umbrella organisation for over 100 organisations and individuals based in England. All members are concerned to ensure women gain access to their human rights, and to make equality between women and men a reality. Its diverse membership includes: single issue to specialist organisations, faith groups, health centres, arts-based organisations and others offering services and campaigning across a range of women's concerns.

• Uniting women's voices for common causes
• Awakening and educating women's awareness to the forces that are destroying Families and Earth
• Protecting and preserving the Earth, her environment, oceans, land, sky and creatures great and small
• Preserving, protecting and nurturing Family
• Securing food and water quality and accessibility
• Creating and cultivating World Peace
• Celebrating and promoting Women in History and the Arts
• Supporting Indigenous Rights
• Honoring and connecting women's spiritual traditions

Pathways To Peace (PTP) is an international PeaceBuilding, Educational and Consulting organization. "Peace", as it is defined by Pathways To Peace, is both an innate state of being and a dynamic, evolutionary process.

Peace begins with ourselves, living in harmony with one another, the Earth and all Circles of Life. PTP's operating principle-in-action is: Acting in concert, we do make a difference in the quality of our lives, our institutions, our environment and our planetary future. Through cooperation, we manifest the essential spirit that unites us amidst our diverse ways.

The mission of Pathways To Peace is threefold:

• to make Peace a practical reality through local and global projects;
• to expand communication and build cooperation among existing organizations;

Peace X Peace is an international nonprofit that connects women across cultures through the internet to create a more balanced, peaceful world where our lives and voices are honored.

Mercy Ogbonna Chidi, co-director of Ripples International in Meru, is the Peace X Peace Global Liaison for Kenya. With Mercy’s leadership, Peace X Peace has matched scores of women’s Circles in the US with Circles in Kenya for conversations that make strangers into friends, and make friends as dear as family. Visit www.peacexpeace.org to find your friends in Kenya and enjoy our rich array of online resources.

***ROKPA INTERNATIONAL – a unique relief organisation*** ROKPA INTERNATIONAL is a unique relief organisation that was founded in 1980 by the Tibetan doctor and meditation master Dr Akong Tulku Rinpoche, the Swiss actress Lea Wyler and her father, Dr Veit Wyler, a lawyer. The head office of the organisation is located in Zurich, Switzerland; however, the organisation has branches in 20 countries around the world. ROKPA’s goal is to improve the lives of people in need - wherever it is necessary, independent of religion and culture. Priority countries are Tibet and Nepal, Zimbabwe and South Africa. The word ROKPA is Tibetan and means ‘to help’ or ‘to serve’. ROKPA is among the few relief organisations in the world that have succeeded in establishing sustainable aid projects in Tibet. For this reason, about 80% of the donations ROKPA receives each year are directed to projects in this country. To date, ROKPA has supported over 200 projects initiated by the local population – always under the motto ‘helping others to help themselves’. ROKPA projects are invariably initiated through requests for assistance from the local population. This mechanism ensures that assistance provided corresponds precisely to what is required and welcome. ROKPA’s work focuses on the following issues: • Education and care for street children and orphans • Provision of support and protection to girls and women • Provision of training and support to artistically gifted youths • Promotion of traditional Tibetan medicine • Health care • Programmes for people with disabilities • AIDS programmes • Old peoples’ homes • Soup kitchens • Emergency aid • Conservation of the local culture • Protection of the environment • Eco-tourism

About 80% of ROKPA’s work is done by volunteers. Thanks to the efforts of the hundreds of volunteers working for supporting ROKPA, the NGO’s administrative costs are extremely low compared to other relief organisations. ROKPA’s strength is to achieve maximally um sustainable impacts with a minimum of funds. ROKPA INTERNATIONAL has been carrying the renowned ZEWO seal of quality for its relief work since 2004 (see www.zewo.ch). ROKPA has been tax-exempt from tax in Switzerland since 1995.

See Jane Do is a social change organization that redefines media for women & the power of story to create positive change. We capture the stories of everyday women doing extraordinary things and showcase women who are turning their passion into action via an online platform, a radio program sponsored by KVMR Radio, a See Jane Do Passion in Action™ Conference, Soirees into Action™, webinars, telesummits and more. See Jane Do acts as a hub to other organizations and continues to expand its partner resources to extend programming, tools and reach.

Spheres Circles is a part of the Circle Movement since 1998, serving as a way to CONNECT individuals, resources & organizations involved in the Circle Movement & Conscious Living. Spheres Circles & The Spheres Circular E-Zine (Now transitioned into The Meme Messenger E-zine) are a part of the Conscious Meme Network- Shining A Light On What Elevates Our Lives & Spreading Ideas That Matter! AND bringing about "Meme Awareness"--Attention to the things that run us unconsciously--and highlighting & encouraging the creation of Memes that are for the Higher Good of ALL Concerned! Visit our website & follow us on FaceBook, Twitter & Instagram.

Springs Ministries is an outreach family care services organization serving widows, orphans and adolescent girls in Rift Valley, Nyanza and western provinces in Kenya. Spring Ministries believes in empowering her members to identify and use their resources, plan, implement and evaluate their own self-sustainable development projects. The organization works through already instituted widows and orphans which act as community focus points and implementing parties. The organization is currently empowering 47 widow groups with orphan groups under them.

• Connected women, effective voices, powerful policies of progress by women, for women and our families.
• State by state links to local alliances & coalitions, getting the job done, achieving full implementation of the human-rights based global women’s agenda-the PLATFORM FOR ACTION.
• Building bridges from the ground up - across county lines - throughout the US & on the internet.
• US WOMEN CONNECT: The network that organizes - not an organization that networks.

Ways Women Lead has connected women worldwide as an interim group around the UN Commission on the Status of Women. It has brought like-hearted women together around women and girls' leadership, the elimination of sex trafficking and other right causes, and continues to disseminate information that offers connectivity especially around circle process and a 5th World Conference on Women.

We exist to invite the many brilliant threads of feminine spiritual leadership into relationship and to support emerging patterns for transformation.

We are committed to: • Strengthen and nurture the leadership capacities of women of spirit and faith for the sake of the human community • Encourage collaboration and understanding among women’s organizations and networks • Create an environment of trust, inviting women’s voices to be heard, telling and witnessing each other’s stories • Offer multiple opportunities to explore potent questions about the current state of women’s spiritual leadership • Practice and model a feminine way, creating a structure based upon shared leadership, collaborative practices, circle processes, deep listening, mindfulness and compassionate action • Allow space for the emergence of divine guidance and collective wisdom

The intent for this Congress is the next step for women to have greater empowerment. We plan to achieve that in many ways.

1. To hold a space in which women's voices, no matter their experience, their ethnic heritage, their monetary status, or their age, are encouraged, heard, valued and becomes the foundation of a new platform for our country.

2. To use a process of inclusion and consensus during the General Assembly to create that platform.

3. To build a network of great diversity that offers resource, mentoring and support for each other and this platform.

4. To build with strength and credibility in order to take our declaration to those in positions of power.

5. We will have established guidelines of acceptable policy that will give clarity and discernment when women are voting with our money, our time, our energy or in the ballot box.

This Congress will give women the opportunity to participate in actions that set foundational values for themselves, those they love, their community and their country. Women carry these as heart and belly wisdom wishes, a world at peace.

As a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with consultative Status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, WIN has participated at several global conferences of women, foremost being the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China September 1995. WIN continues working to advance the UN goals of equality, development and peace for women and girls in the interest of all humanity.

Participation at the Beijing Conference was a natural venue for WIN. 40,000 women and girls joined together from 189 countries and agreed on the Platform for Action, a progressive document that was an imperative to advancing their status.

WIN brought the Platform home to the California grassroots for implementation.by creating CAWA: the CAlifornia Women's Agenda. CAWA is a growing state action alliance of over 500 diverse organizations who adapted and published the Beijing Platform as a Plan of Action for California. CAWA's objective is to link one million women in collective action through real and "virtual" networks. CAWA is a network that is organizing - not an organization that is networking.

Women's Perspective is a nonprofit organization based in Fairfield, CT. It is committed to educating women about money in a new and freeing way. The goal of Women's Perspective is to enable women to experience the significant transformation that comes from integrating their economic power with their spiritual power.

Our programs help women:

• to discover their own power
• to control and use money more effectively
• to connect their economic and spiritual power

What is the aim of WWSF?

To serve the implementation of women's and children's rights.

To assist the fulfillment of the UN Millenium Development goals.

1) Empower rural women worldwide, one of the most marginalized groups on the planet, to become leading development actors in their local communities, and make them aware of their human right to equality, peace, land, clean water, food, education, health care and improved opportunities for a better life. 60-70 percent of the world's poor are rural women.

2) Create a worldwide culture of prevention of abuse and violence against children by mobilizing an international coalition of NGOs, governments and the media to educate children and the public at large on effective prevention measures, protective skills and on their right to dignity.