Center for Partnership Studies

The Center for Partnership Studies (CPS) "is a 501c(3) nonprofit for public benefit corporation that conducts research and develops and disseminates education on the partnership model. It provides information and tools to promote the shift from domination to partnership in all aspects of society – from families and education to economics and politics. CPS is a member of the NGO (nongovernmental organization) section of the United Nations and supports the UN Millennial Goals."

Founded by Riane Eisler and David Loye.

Board of Directors
Accessed October 2007:


 * Riane Eisler, President
 * David Loye, Vice President
 * Bill Levis, Treasurer & CFO
 * Alexandra Loeb. Former corporate vice president at Microsoft Corporation, Alexandra is on the board of Conservation Northwest and Climate Solutions, as well as an investor in Clean Energy technologies.
 * Howard Lazar. Former Chair, LVI, Inc., a construction company listed on the NY Stock exchange, Howard is a real estate developer.
 * Joe Rando. Developer and owner of software business and shopping centers; Joe is a well-known business and civic leader.
 * Licia Rando. Educator, artist, and civic leader.
 * Heide Banks. Psychotherapist, lecturer, author, radio and TV show host on partnership relations; CPS representative to the DPI-NGO of the United Nations.
 * Michael-Henry Honack. Business entrepreneur, artist, and civic leader.
 * Gwendolyn Grace. Composer, civic leader, and philanthropist.

Advisory Council
Accessed October 2007:
 * Members include Professor Nel Noddings of Stanford University and Professor M.G. Cline, advisor to National Head Start Research since 1965; Marie Wilson, former president of the Ms. Foundation and Raffi, internationally known children’s songs composer and performer and advocate for a child-honoring society.

Leadership of CPS's Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence
Accessed October 2007:
 * Jim Kenney, Project Director. Former Global Director of the Parliament of the World’s Religions; founder and Executive Director of the Interreligious Engagement Project (IEP21); Trustee, International Interreligious Peace Council; Trustee, International Interfaith Centre, Oxford UK; Co-Editor, Interreligious Insight.
 * Elaine Walters, Operations Coordinator. Feminist activist and community organizer for domestic violence and child abuse prevention. Director, Family Allies Network, Lane County, Oregon, USA.

SAIV Council
 * Members Include Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Queen Noor and Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, Jane Goodall, Nobel Peace Laureate Betty Williams, South African Parliamentarian Ela Gandhi, Bill Schulz, Executive Director of Amnesty International, A.T. Ariyaratne, Founder, the Sarvodaya Movement, Sri Lanka, Joan Holmes, President of the Hunger Project, Robert Muller, co-founder of the University of Peace, Costa Rica, Deepak Chopra, Harvard theologian Harvey Cox, Sr. Joan Chittister, and Irfan Ahmad Khan, President, World Council of Muslims for Interfaith Relations.

SAIV Advisory Group
 * Members include neurobiologist Bruce Perry, MD., filmmaker Jean Kilbourne, and Tim Seldin, children’s advocate, and President, the Montessori Foundation.

The Darwin Project Leadership
Accessed October 2007:
 * David Loye, Project Founder and Director

Darwin Project Council
 * Members include brain scientists Paul D. MacLean and Karl Pribram, psychologist Milhaly Csikszentmihalyi, biophysicist Mae-Wan Ho, theologian Hans Kung, systems philosophers Ervin Laszlo and Helena Knyazeva, and Darwin biographer Robert J. Richards.

Contact
The Center for Partnership Studies P.O. Box 51936 Pacific Grove, CA 93950 USA Phone 831-626-1004 Fax 831-626-3734 Email: center AT partnershipway.org Web: http://www.partnershipway.org

Related Sourcewatch

 * Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence - project of the Center