2024-05-06T11:10:19-07:00 2023-06-30 942861940 BREGANTE COMPANY LLP CPAS 315 MONTGOMERY ST STE 1029 SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104 990 2022-07-01 942366094 COMMONWEAL COMM 4157791008 PO BOX 316 BOLINAS CA 94924 VANESSA MARCOTTE FINANCE DIRECTOR 2024-05-04 true VANESSA MARCOTTE 999009999 true Corey R Graham P02033189 4157771001 2 AAL1 IAL1 FAL1 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z MICHAEL LERNER PO BOX 316 BOLINAS CA 94924 8606291 false X www.commonweal.org X 1976 CA Commonweal operates in three core fields - health and healing, art and education, and environment and justice. Within those fields, Commonweal incubates and supports a dozen different programs in cancer, health professionals education, environmental health, (cont. on Sch O) 10 7 122 29 6975 9018781 6486023 952646 1071437 41117 -10582 103376 88911 10115920 7635789 371814 27113 0 3150022 4832269 0 406936 2221345 4590532 5743181 9449914 4372739 -1814125 12786057 11927117 618181 1210198 12167876 10716919 X ENGAGE IN EDUCATIONAL, CHARITABLE AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO THE HEALTH OF INDIVIDUALS, TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND TO THE HEALTH OF THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT. true false 966827 15000 RESILIENCE:Commonweals Resilience program is an umbrella that includes both The Resilience Project and Omega. The Resilience Project (TRP) builds on four decades of work at Commonweal on healing ourselves and healing the earth. TRP focuses on the polycrisismore than two dozen environmental and social stressors that have created a perfect storm of human and biosphere threats. TRP goals: Empower people, projects & practices to meet the Global Challenge; welcome diverse views across the global spectrum; encourage respectful dialogues across regions & cultures; inspire creative responses to the polycrisis. Stanley Wu serves as director. Omega incubates new initiatives for living in and through the global polycrisis. Omegas goal is to help build the nascent field of polycrisis research and action. This includes: (1) to map the best thinking on the polycrisis, (2) to identify the global network of those working toward creative solutions, (3) to identify the community of those who can work together to strengthen resilience, and (4) to identify and support specific projects with special value added. Omegas initiatives include: The Omega Collaborative, a steadily growing working group of partners around the world committed to a better future through a focus on systemic risk, interconnected and intersecting stressors, complexity, equity, governance, and the full range of issues threatening civilization; and The Omega Resilience Awards (ORA), which provides fellowships, research grants, and media creation to support new models of thinking, leadership, communication, and engagement in response to the challenges of the global polycrisis. Michael Lerner serves as director. (omega.ngo) 825177 139970 HEALING CIRCLES:Founded in 2014, Healing Circles is an international learning community for people who want to do deep intentional healing work with cancer and other diseases or experiences of loss. Designed to extend the core work of the Cancer Help Program, it seeks to bring the deep experiences of healing to people who want to create a healing circle in their living room, church or any other setting. Healing Circles was founded in partnership with three other centersin Vancouver, B.C., Washington State, and Smith Center for Healing and the Arts in Washington, D.C.that have done residential retreats based on the Cancer Help Program model for at least 20 years. We now have new centers in Langley on Whidbey Island, Washington, and in Houston, Texas. Our three Bay Area CCHP alumni groups are our laboratories for Healing Circles work in the Bay Area. Healing Circles are forming in North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Another Healing Circle just began in Jerusalem. Hundreds of people have experienced and studied Healing Circles work. Oren Slozberg serves as the director for Healing Circles. 708306 49175 Partners for Youth Empowerment:Partners for Youth Empowerments (PYE) mission is to unleash the creative potential of young people. For 25 years, guided by this mission, PYE has been working to shift the field of youth work to respond to the deeper needs of young people for meaning, purpose, creativity, and connection. PYE does this by training individuals, schools, and organizations in their Creative Empowerment Model, a unique combination of experiential education, group facilitation, and the arts, which together foster key life skills that help youth thrive in a rapidly changing world.PYE prioritizes engaging diverse populations, in all of their programs, with the end goal of reaching youth who are marginalized and furthest from opportunity. 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Form 990, Part III, Line 2 Center for Ethical Land Transition Program Form 990, Part III, Line 4d OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Collaborative on Health and the Environment: Founded in 2002, the Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) cultivates a learning community based on the latest, evidence-based science to share knowledge and resources, to improve individual and collective health. CHE is focused on how environmental risks can impact human health. By informing and connecting affected and interested groups, CHE hopes to build a groundswell of demand for prevention-focused behaviors and policies, as well as economic and legal structures that protect public health. CHEs primary activities include: sharing emerging scientific research on environmental determinants of health; fostering interdisciplinary and inclusive collaboration among diverse constituencies to translate and communicate the best available environmental health science; and facilitating efforts to reduce disease and disability and improve health across the lifespan. Kristin Schafer serves as the director of CHE. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Center for Creative Community: Founded in 2014, the Center for Creative Community (C3) is an umbrella for a number of Commonweal projects that explore the intersection of dialogue, cognition, creativity, and community. Through work in different communities, C3 seeks to deepen our exploration of complex issues in our world. C3 programs include the Power of Hope Youth Camp, the Creative Facilitation Training Series, Commonweals Fall Gathering, Taproot, and Visual Thinking Strategies program. These programs are bringing new energy and diversity to Commonweal, strengthening the foundation for the next forty years of work. Oren Slozberg directs C3. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 6: HEALING CIRCLES:Founded in 2014, Healing Circles is an international learning community for people who want to do deep intentional healing work with cancer and other diseases or experiences of loss. Designed to extend the core work of the Cancer Help Program, it seeks to bring the deep experiences of healing to people who want to create a healing circle in their living room, church or any other setting. Healing Circles was founded in partnership with three other centersin Vancouver, B.C., Washington State, and Smith Center for Healing and the Arts in Washington, D.C.that have done residential retreats based on the Cancer Help Program model for at least 20 years. We now have new centers in Langley on Whidbey Island, Washington, and in Houston, Texas. Our three Bay Area CCHP alumni groups are our laboratories for Healing Circles work in the Bay Area. Healing Circles are forming in North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Another Healing Circle just began in Jerusalem. Hundreds of people have experienced and studied Healing Circles work. Oren Slozberg serves as the director for Healing Circles. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 7: Natura Institute for Ecology and Medicine at Commonweal Garden:Natura Institute for Ecology and Medicinethe new program stewarding the Commonweal Gardenis dedicated to reconnecting people to the living systems that restore us to health and wholeness. Founded and directed by Anna OMalley, an Integrative Family and Community Medicine physician, Natura Institute is embodying a new model of care that does not deplete the precious resource that is the healer, that empowers the precious being that is seeking well-being, and that does no harm on an interpersonal, ecological, and planetary level. The Natura Institute seeks to reconnect people with healing, through deepening relationship with nature, healing plants (food and medicinal), and that which heals our human nature. The Natura Institute embodies an alternative model of proactive wellbeing-oriented medicine that is community-based and nature-placed, and serves the community at large as well as the medical community. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 8: The New School at Commonweal:Founded in 2007, The New School at Commonweal (TNS) is a community of inquiry exploring topics in health, the arts and sciences, the environment, and the inner life. TNS presents conversations, book readings, performances, and other events with thought and action leaders who are changing our world. Over 200 events are recorded and offered as podcasts on iTunes and our website. Most gatherings are offered free of charge as gifts to the Commonweal community, giving forward into a circle of generosity. In addition, TNS continues to refine an online presence, including maintaining the website and sending monthly newsletters that are eliciting good response and discussion. Michael Lerner serves as the director, and Kyra Epstein serves as the coordinator of TNS. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 9: OTHER VARIOUS PROGRAMS:In the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, Commonweal's other programs did a variety of work contributing to health of people and of the planet. Programs included Commonweal Biomonitoring Resource Center, Commonweal Juvenile Justice Program, Foundation for Embodied Medicine, The Octavia Fund, Syntropy Healing & Research, West Marin Climate Action, West Marin Review, Project Soul, SafetyNEST Science, Kids & Caregivers, Integrative Law Institute, Center for Dying & Lving, THE NEW SCHOOLS, GREEN INITIATIVES, and Regenerative Design Institute. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 10: GO Compassion:GO Compassion uses art as a portal for introducing mediation as a healing practice for individuals and groups. The focus of the GO Compassion collaborations is on underserved,under-resourced segments of societyfoster youth and young adults from the foster system, individuals charged with criminal offenses, individuals who are returning to communities after a period of incarceration, and immigrant youth. Every collaboration gives access to learning about and practicing methods that increase self-awareness and the experience of self-healing from trauma. Angela Oh and Tu Ying Ming co-direct GO Compassion. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 11: Partners for Youth Empowerment:Partners for Youth Empowerments (PYE) mission is to unleash the creative potential of young people. For 25 years, guided by this mission, PYE has been working to shift the field of youth work to respond to the deeper needs of young people for meaning, purpose, creativity, and connection. PYE does this by training individuals, schools, and organizations in their Creative Empowerment Model, a unique combination of experiential education, group facilitation, and the arts, which together foster key life skills that help youth thrive in a rapidly changing world.PYE prioritizes engaging diverse populations, in all of their programs, with the end goal of reaching youth who are marginalized and furthest from opportunity. (partnersforyouth.org) OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 12: Humane Prison Hospice Project:Humane Prison Hospice Project (Humane) is developing a humanitarian, cost-effective and restorative justice solution to ensure that those aging and dying in prison receive compassionate care. The Humane team believes that the right to receive compassionate end-of-life care is a basic human rightone that should be extended to everyone, even some of the most wounded and troubled in our society. Humane strives for a world where all incarcerated people are treated with dignity and respect. Their model benefits not only the dying, but their fellow prisoners who provide the care, and the prison correctional staff as well, as they witness how transformative it can be for prisoners to learn to care for their dying brothers. The curriculum theyve developed trains prisoners as hospice volunteers in end-of-life care and grief support, and in other modes of crisis intervention that prepares them to support their peers who are suffering from depression, suicidal ideation, or the effects of trauma and violence often experienced behind bars. The outcome is a therapeutic community within prison walls that results in a cultural shift toward compassion, care, empathy and support that sets the foundation for restorative justice practices. The prison environment becomes a place for rehabilitation and support rather than punishment and conflict. Lisa Deal serves as director. (humaneprisonhospiceproject.org) OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 13: CancerChoices:CancerChoices is a platform that supports patients, caregivers and health professionals who seek balanced, science backed information on integrative cancer care to improve cancer outcomes. The mission of CancerChoices is to reduce suffering and support healing and resilience among people with cancer. CancerChoices is working to expand interest in and access to quality cancer care that integrates conventional care, self care, and complementary care. CancerChoices is contributing to raising the status and legitimacy of integrative cancer care among medical professionals and people affected by cancer. The CancerChoices website creates a healing space for people to come together to learn about hope, community, healing, and new priorities in life within the context of cancer. You can find Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 4 ON DECEMBER 14, 2022, COMMONWEAL'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS AMENDED AND RESTATED THEIR BY-LAWS TO SET NEW BOARD TERM LIMITS TO TWO 3-YEAR CONSECUTIVE TERMS, AFTER WHICH THE BOARD CAN VOTE. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b REVIEWED BY STAFF AND THE FINANCE COMMITTEE AND A COPY GIVEN TO THE BOARD. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c THE CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY IS INCLUDED IN THE STAFF HANDBOOK AND THE BYLAWS. THE STAFF HANDBOOK IS GIVEN UPON HIRE AND WHEN REVISED. AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IS SIGNED BY STAFF AND KEPT IN THE EMPLOYEE FILE. THE BYLAWS ARE GIVEN TO BOARD MEMBERS UPON JOINING THE BOARD AND WHEN REVISED. EACH BOARD MEMBER IS REQUIRED TO SIGN A STATEMENT ANNUALLY DISCLOSING ANY POSSIBLE CONFLICTS OF INTEREST. BOARD MEMBERS INVOLVED IN A POSSIBLE CONFLICT OF INTEREST ARE EXCLUDED FROM VOTING ON ISSUES RELATED TO SUCH INTERESTS. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a COMMONWEAL DOES A COMPARISON TO OTHER NONPROFITS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, THEN FACTORS IN EXPERIENCE AND RESPONSIBILITY. THIS INFORMATION IS USED TO APPROVE THE COMPENSATION FOR ALL BOARD DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, AND THE PRESIDENT, CEO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, COO, AND FINANCE DIRECTOR. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 COMMONWEAL MAKES ITS GOVERNING DOCUMENTS, CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC UPON REQUEST. FORM 990, PART I, LINE 1 (continued from page 1)yoga, healing nutrition, permaculture gardening, and juvenile justice. FORM 990, PART VI, LINE 8B No committee meetings that had the authority to act on behalf of the governing body were held during the fiscal year. If any committees that had the authority to act on behalf of the governing body had met during the fiscal year, the meetings would be contemporaneously documented. 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