Session Overview
I work with Climate Action Systems (CAS), and CAS is building the Planet app. https://www.climateactionsystems.org/ The Planet app has all of the collaboration tools that a group of activists need in one place. From voting on decisions to polling the group, gathering feedback, and discussing ideas, Planet offers us a powerful platform for managing climate action initiatives and building on our successes.
A Director recently expressed concern that some of the users may use the app for lobbying, and I can easily imagine our users organizing support for the Sunrise Movement's candidate of choice. I know that a nonprofit can never lobby for a candidate. I assume users of our app would not be considered as lobbying done by our nonprofit. Can you please confirm?
Nonprofit Overview
Commonweal started with a vision. In 1975, Michael Lerner was walking at the edge of the small coastal town of Bolinas just north of San Francisco. He looked out across grasslands and woods at an old RCA radio transmitter facility on a bluff overlooking the ocean. He imagined that this site could be a center for work in healing people and healing the earth. Commonweal was given a 50-year lease on 60 acres as the site became the southern end of the Point Reyes National Seashore. Commonweal’s site includes a main office building, our Retreat Center, and a permaculture garden.
Commonweal works 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 including programs in cancer, health professional education, environmental health, adult learning, yoga, healing nutrition, permaculture gardening, and juvenile justice. Commonweal reaches thousands of people regionally, nationally and globaly.