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Global Change Agents "The time has come when the talents of the men of business shall be used to beneft the whole people...not for individual benefit alone, nor for individual aggrandizement alone, but for the benefit of the whole people, to uplift the masses, to rescue them from their poverty."       --- George Q. Cannon In recent years, my students, colleagues and I have sought to organize a new vehicle for assisting NGOs to build capacity and become more effective institutions. It's called Global Change Agents, Inc. We've also assembled listings of Utah-based development and humanitarian organizations, many of which are now doing good around the globe. Others are our friends or partners, mostly based in the U.S., but also working throughout the world. Finally we included a few links having to do with global change agentry and the building of intentional/sustainable comunities. Global Change Agents, Inc. Click Here for consultant description of our nonprofit enterprise that offers training, research, and technical assistance to informal groups, family foundations, and NGOs. Third World development NGO listings with and without LDS connections Click here to see a list of NGOs engaged in economic development and humanitarian efforts around the world. "Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness: For the power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves."       --- Doctrine and Covenants 58:27-28 Global Change Agentry Links Intentional Communities Bruderhof Communities Findhorn Ecovillage The Farm Community The Federation of Egalitarian Communities Communal Studies Association Twin Oaks Intentional Community Acorn Community New Economics Foundation Local Enterprise Assistance Fund (LEAF) Let Systems Institute for Sustainable Communities Ecological Economics, Values, and Policy Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Schumacher College Rabble Center for Sustainable Enterprise Aid/Watch International Development Research Centre Centre for Social Markets Livelihoods Connect Intermediate Technology & Development Group (ITDG) HELP International Resurgence Magazine Schumacher UK Sustainability Online Forum for the Future Hazel Henderson Natural Step Natural Capitalism Interface, Inc. Rainforest Action Network Sustainable Measures "Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and say, 'Why not?'"       --- Robert Kennedy