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Poverty Inc

"The Dark Side of Charity: Poverty Inc. Documentary Review"
The landmark film about global aid and the limits of philanthropy.

Ben Ferencz

Benjamin Ferencz: The Last Living Nuremberg Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz: A Legacy of Pursuing Justice From Nuremberg to Today: Benjamin Ferencz's Fight Against War Crimes Benjamin Ferencz: The Man Who Brought Justice to Nazi War Criminals The Extraordinary Life of Benjamin Ferencz, Prosecutor of Nazi War Crimes
Benjamin Ferencz's heroic career has been promoting and instituting a single truth, "law over war" for more than 70 years. As one of the international legal community's living treasures, and one of the architects of the International Criminal Court, Ben is responsible for putting the concept of "crimes against humanity" into law. As a Nuremburg prosecutor, he was tasked with bringing to trial the Nazi death squad leaders that killed over 1,000,000 people. Not content with merely the defendants themselves, he put their crimes, and society itself, on trial, holding us to a new standard of international justice, a legacy that remains.

Law is an agreement that allows humans to transcend war. Our laws, norms, and social agreements create an inevitable path forward to making the world work for 100% of humanity.

Buckminster Fuller

The Legacy of Buckminster Fuller: Innovator, Visionary, and Global Citizen, creator of the World Game
The survival and life strategy work of Buckminster Fuller,  20th century  architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist, and the man who coined the term Spaceship Earth, is at the heart of our campaign.

Our question, #IsThereEnough, is a  doorway to his World Game question that asks how we make the world work for 100% of humanity, producing wealth, and survival, for all of us.

Marcia Martin

Marcia Martin, Life lives in the conversation Talk This Way
Life lives in the conversation
That phrase, "life lives in the conversation" was authored by Marcia Martin as consequential as any human being alive today in the success of what many people think of as the human potential movement, a global 20th century phenomenon that may prove to have seeded the tools we  need for leadership in meeting the challenges of the 21st. Marcia is fond of reminding us that life actually happens, and even transforms, by our conversation, something this campaign is built on demonstrating.
Marcia's self commitment to her work began consciously in her teens, and in her early 20's, she became one of the most visible and impactful members of the team that produced and scaled EST (later known as The Forum) to evolve into the transformational global phenomenon it became, a set of work that is still being studied in academia and which had the love and attention of a late age Buckminster Fuller. As a youth and future oriented organization of the 1970's, it created a resurgence in appreciation for, and even an expansion of,  Bucky's reach, helping him steer a new generation of social entrepreneurs that later influenced the work #IsThereEnough is currently doing.

A Radical New Economic Theory

The Deficit Myth
Kelton’s work suggests that government deficits are able to be used for creating wealth and inclusion in a particularly modern model in which society can play a participating market role.

Letters from Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King Jr.: The Life and Legacy of a Civil Rights Icon
Letter from Birmingham Jail, one of Martin Luther King’s most famous pieces of expression, written at a pivotal moment in civil rights history, suggests, in the clearest possible terms, that any injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere. This #IsThereEnough campaign is about human lives, all human lives, and the rights to life and liberty that everyone has, no matter their country, race or religion. "It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leadership Lessons from the Dancing Guy

How the Dancing Guy's Movement Teaches Leadership in Action
The survival and life strategy work of Buckminster Fuller,  20th century  architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist, and the man who coined the term Spaceship Earth, is at the heart of our campaign.

Our question, #IsThereEnough, is a  doorway to his World Game question that asks how we make the world work for 100% of humanity, producing wealth, and survival, for all of us.

The Entrepreneurial State

How Mariana Mazzucato Is Challenging Our Assumptions About the Role of Government
Mariana Mazzucato addresses the growing concern about capitalism and a counter movement embracing socialism. “There’s all sorts of different ways to do capitalism. There’s the kind of maximization of shareholder value. There’s the more stakeholder value perspective. . . that fundamentally affects how public and private come together. That’s what I think need complete rebooting rather than to start calling things socialism.”

#IsThereEnough Population

The Power of Data: How Hans Rosling Revolutionized Global Health and Development
Hans Rosling, the late Scandinavian statistician, showed the world, with the numbers to prove it, that overpopulation has been a worry distraction from the very solutions it takes to lift people out of scarcity. He hated being called an optimist.

“ People often call me an optimist, because I show them the enormous progress they didn’t know about. That makes me angry. I’m not an optimist. That makes me sound naive. I’m a very serious “possibilist”. . . As a possibilist, I see all this progress, and it fills me with conviction and hope that further progress is possible. ”
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Square Peg in a Round Hole

How Apollo 13's 'Successful Failure' Became a Testimony to Human Resilience and Innovation
The survival and life strategy work of Buckminster Fuller,  20th century  architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist, and the man who coined the term Spaceship Earth, is at the heart of our campaign.

Our question, #IsThereEnough, is a  doorway to his World Game question that asks how we make the world work for 100% of humanity, producing wealth, and survival, for all of us.

Why We Hate

From Spielberg's Lens: Understanding the Origins of Hate Through Documentary about why we hate
A 6 part Discovery Channel series from Alex Gibney and Steven Spielberg that explores our centuries old divisions, and tribal acts of violence and genocide. There is a key distinction made in Episode 1 that links scarcity and violence in a way we have never seen before.

Yuval Harari

Explore the History of Humankind with Yuval Harari's Sapiens - A Bestselling Book"
Yuval Harari has published 3 books in the 21st century that have largely reconfigured our perspective on our history. His first book, Sapiens, introduced the idea that almost all of society's progressive evolutions and institutional structures are human "fictions". There are no corporations or countries in nature. Birds do not hold mortgages. These are man made collaborations we all agree to use which have in fact allowed us to collaborate in enormous numbers. To us, the word "fiction" works, transitively, for an historical perspective. But, in fact, what Harari calls a fiction, we suggest is an"agreement". All of our wealth and progress is built, not so much on our fictions but on our agreement on those fictions. It is a critical, survival-oriented distinction.

Victor Frankl

How Victor Frankel's 'Man's Search for Meaning' Can Help You Find Purpose
The survival and life strategy work of Buckminster Fuller,  20th century  architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist, and the man who coined the term Spaceship Earth, is at the heart of our campaign.

Our question, #IsThereEnough, is a  doorway to his World Game question that asks how we make the world work for 100% of humanity, producing wealth, and survival, for all of us.

Author Brooks
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Arthur Brooks: Bestselling Author, Economist, and Social Scientist
A 6 part Discovery Channel series from Alex Gibney and Steven Spielberg that explores our centuries old divisions, and tribal acts of violence and genocide. There is a key distinction made in Episode 1 that links scarcity and violence in a way we have never seen before.

Paul Polman
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Sustainable Development Goals Icon
This video is an address to the UN SDG Forum and contains some surprisingly positive statistics about wealth and ststainablilty, while still focusing us on our problem in impact finance. This video's references are at the foundation of this campaign's Impact Finance goals.

Are There Real Limits to Growth?

Andrew McAfee: The Future of Work and Its Impact on Society
Andrew McAfee author of "More From Less" on Fareed Zacharia's GPS Global Public Square with some surprising facts about how humans are finding ways for doing more with less, what Buckminster Fuller predicted. .

What are the SDG's?
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Achieving the SDGs: How We Can Create a Sustainable World
The Sustainable Development Goals are a collection of 17 interlinked global goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all". The SDGs were set up in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly and are intended to be achieved by the year 2030.

Ken Windes
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The Power of Mentorship: How Dr. Martin Gruder and Ken Windes Transformed a Prison Community
Founder of "the Game Academy" from Convict to Freedom in 6 Years
Ken Windes was an American triumph story few have heard. For those that have, it defies belief, and yet it is completely true. Ken freed himself from the maximum security prison at Marion, Illinois, one of the toughest prisons in America, in the late 1960's,. He did not leave by escape through a tunnel, as he had dreamed of, but with the intervention and collaboration of his mentor, Dr Martin Gruder, a young psychologist avoiding service in the Vietnam War. Together, they transformed an entire prison community and gave new hope to a generation of young men. Their results were so clear and life changing, that while Ken was still a registered convict, the pair traveled to prisons throughout the country teaching their methods to other prison professionals. Eventually, the transformed prison-trained psychologist Ken Windes was released, years before his legal path to parole. When he emerged from prison life, Windes founded The Game Academy and moved his practice to workshop forums helping people liberate themselves from, as Ken would say, "the prison walls of their mind". #IsThereEnough is a global application of one of Windes' core ideas.

Leave Them Wanting More

Jerry Seinfeld
The question of #IsThereEnough has an entirely new twist when it comes to Seinfeld. How much Seinfeld was #enough, was the key question for an artist responsible for bringing his audience a rare thing of value that is arguably one of the 10 greatest entertainment phenomena of all time.  Jerry is asked by Oprah Winfrey in this video, "why did you end Seinfeld?" and his clear and articulate answer reveals that the things we value most are the things we do not have enough of.  Jerry wanted his audience to experience that value at its highest capability.

FDR's "Fireside Chat"

Ken Windes
The Sustainable Development Goals are a collection of 17 interlinked global goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all". The SDGs were set up in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly and are intended to be achieved by the year 2030.

Money & You

Money & You
Money & You has become one of the most consequential and influencial developers of human transformational talent of the last 50 years, on a global scale and perspective.  It has trained over 100,000 graduates who are now in leadership positions throughout the world in dozens of disciplines, including business, government and social impact.

Money & You is a global leadership game, purposely and artfully seeming to be about money, and our relationship to it. It is, instead, a journey to self discovery and the way we collaborate with others. It is the most vivid way possible for anyone to truly understand, in a group environment, that wealth is not money, and money is not wealth, a difference that matters in survival and standard of living. It is also the fastest way for any team to accelerate productive relationship results.

The program was founded in 1979 by Marshall Thurber, Bobbi DePorter, two groundbreaking pioneers in combining entrepreneurship with social impact education, and Dame Doria Cordova, who is leading it to this day. It is based on the interactive experiential learning principles of super teaching, and masters the ability to meaningfully incorporate complex and specific principles from the work of Buckminster Fuller, Edwards Deming, and Ilya Prigogene, Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry 1977, among a number of others. Using  ground breaking experiential education methods, these complex systems thinkers became visceral and accessible to anyone.

This #IsThereEnough campaign carries much of its core essence and many of its principles.

Jeep The Middle

Bruce Springstein
Jeep® kicks off Game Day by reminding us we are stronger than the obstacles in our way, and invites us to remember all the ways we are connected as Americans. A timeless CJ-5 takes us on a journey to the U.S. Center Chapel in Kansas in search of common ground. We have spanned deserts and climbed the highest peaks. We can cross this divide. #JeepTheMiddle​

F.M. Alexander

F.M. Alexander
F.M. (Frederick Matthias) Alexander (20 January 1869 – 10 October 1955) founded a highly influential study of kinesthetic education, focusing on both reactive and habitual limitations and capabilities in movement and thinking. It has been adopted by influential performance artists, educators, and wholistic health care practitioners throughout the world. In his seminal work, The Use Of The Self, Alexander helped frame an adaptive theory that man's instincts, inherited from thousands of years of evolution, were not reliable to keep pace with the choices individuals are faced with in the modern world.

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