OUR PROJECTS AT A GLANCE
Below are our projects in-a-nutshell. All of our programs are centered around people, our 341,235 members. To learn more about any of the projects or to get involved, click on the name to learn more.
Latest Emergence: AI + Heart Intelligence
Awakin AI: Awakin AI is reimagining the future of artificial intelligence—not as a tool to outpace us, but as a mirror to deepen our humanity. At the intersection of technology, community, and compassion, we're building a new kind of AI—one that doesn't just process data, but helps us awaken wisdom. Our work is rooted in a simple, radical idea: the heart is a form of intelligence, and it deserves a seat at the table of our technological future.
DailyGood: Every day, 148,360 subscribers receive an email with uplifting news, an insightful quotation, and a small call to action that people can take in their own lives. Our innovative AI helps curate and publish news stories -- and helps readers discover stories customized to their lens. For more than 25 years, DailyGood has been serving up stories of human goodness and possibility that inspire us to be the change!
Learning Pods: A peer learning platform that combines Online Pods with Laddership Circles designed to cultivate deep relationships and collective awakening of spirit through a head, heart, hands orientation. These six-week immersive programs are designed for "many to many" learning, cultivating context (over content), and building a field of emergence where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Inspiration: Content that Uplifts
Awakin Calls: our weekly podcast that has featured more than 600 luminaries from around the world! Through 1-on-1 conversations, the particularly unique lens here is to explore the inner journey of these change-makers, and understand how that affects their external impact in the world. From farmers to Noble Laureates to business pioneers to everyday heroes, these conversations are filled with depth!
KindSpring: To encourage anonymous acts of kindness, we started a fun game of tag -- do a selfless act for someone, and leave a card behind telling them to pay it forward. 1.5 million smile cards have been shipped anonymously without any charge. On KindSpring.org, more than 125,753 members have generated 200K kindness stories as new ideas Smile Deck, 21-day challenges and diaries continues to blossom.
Karuna News: Launched a week into the pandemic to highlight people responding with compassion. What began as extraordinary, positive changes happening all around the world that often get overshadowed by sensational and shocking news has become a portal of "news that inspires" -- news of people responding with compassion and extraordinary goodness.
IMMERSE: Connecting in Local Community
Moved By Love Retreats: Post-pandemic, we've seen a big need to return to in-person gatherings. Tapping into our experience of having hosted 100+ multi-day retreats around the globe, we've been hosting transformative experiences like Gandhi 3.0 retreats in India, Boddhisattva retreats in the US, Kuni retreats in Japan, and gatherings from Austria to Vietnam that blend ancient wisdom with modern living.
Awakin Circles: A hub for local meditation circles that started in the Silicon Valley and have now spread to 80+ cities around the globe. The circles start with an hour of silence, followed by a circle of sharing and dinner in silence. A newsletter with a passage selected from various wisdom traditions and an audio reading is sent out to 97,000 subscribers each week.
Karma Kitchen: Imagine a restaurant where there are no prices on the menu and where the check reads $0.00 with only this footnote: "Your meal was a gift from someone who came before you. To keep the chain of gifts alive, we invite you to pay it forward for those who dine after you." What started as an experiment in Berkeley, it serrved over 34,000 guests and spread to 30+ locations around the globe.
MORE: RIPPLES IN ALL DIRECTIONS
CF Sites: CharityFocus began in 1999 serving non-profit organizations (NPOs) with web solutions. We started by building a thousand websites with varied volunteer teams, and it quickly grew into a portal that now supports 7,920 nonprofit organizations.
works & conversations: An in-print (yes!) magazine, originally started by Richard Whittaker often known as the "Michael Jordon of conversations." The magazine is without price-tags or commercials, and it continues to expand its wing online as well!
KarmaTube: A collection of thousands of short, "do something" videos coupled with simple actions that every viewer can take. Viewers "Take a Pledge" to make a small change in their daily lives. The tagline sums it up: Watch. Be Inspired. Act.





