Our 2011 Annual Report in PDF
Our 2011 Nonprofit Annual Report
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What an innocent beginning Families for Conscious Living had in 1996, when mothers and fathers began to gather in parks and homes in Virginia to support each other’s holistic wellness choices. Because these were the early years of the internet, parents gathered in FCL groups with lending libraries of hard-to-find books packed in their car trunks, Xeroxed hand-outs to share for discussions and respectful support for individual choices.
Thanks to the 2000 book, Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World, four short years after FCL began we discovered FCL families are Cultural Creatives - and that we were not alone. According to authors Ray and Anderson, “Because they've been so invisible in American life, Cultural Creatives themselves are astonished to find out how many share both their values and their way of life. Once they realize their numbers, their impact on American life promises to be enormous, shaping a new agenda for the twenty-first century.” FCL has worked to connect and make visible these Cultural Creative families as well as provide them with trustworthy information and resources.
In the pivotal year of 2012, we know that our individual actions and beliefs have a direct effect on our children, communities and world. As Paul Hawken stated in his book, Blessed Unrest: How The Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming, our individual choices to consciously create a peaceful, sustainable world are the immune system of the planet at work!
In this report, you will find the evidence of our sustainable nonprofit vision, whose creative collaborations have positioned us to help families lay the foundation for lifelong wellness with experienced insights, field-tested guidance and reliable resources. What began as a simple quest by the emerging energies of Cultural Creatives is now an international movement with increasing demand and endless potential for all families for conscious living.
