The NOW! Organization

Recently, we’ve been very fortunate to receive guidance and support from numerous mentors from the community in evaluating where we are at as a non-profit. Special thanks to Pat Montani, Greg Overholt and Ryan Fetterly for their help.

We would like to share with you what we’ve come up with. Please give us a shout at info@now-org.com if you have any advice for us! Thanks in advance :]

A New Direction
Where are we going?
- increase in impact, grassroots involvement, and financial independence
- decrease in the amount of central organizing (which we feel is often bottle-necking; we would like to get the whole community to take ownership in sustainability!)

The Essence of NOW!
What are we most proud of and what would we like to spread?
- creativity and innovation
- holistic, interdisciplinary: social, environmental, and economic sustainability
- grassroots youth engagement and empowerment; youth-led, for youth
- low budget, high impact
- run entirely by volunteers

Our Vision
What would we like to achieve down the road?
- a decentralized grassroots movement on social change through the arts
- a social enterprise that empowers communities to learn, evaluate, act, and celebrate sustainability with a splash of creativity
- the “headquarter” provides a platform to support and facilitate collaboration, empowerment, and innovation
- grassroots “free-run chapters” around the world, each with its own flavour but all contributing to social change through the arts (there is no set box to dictate what each chapter does to achieve this common goal)
- leverage the support of the community as well as strategic partnerships with NGOs, companies, organizations, institutions, etc.

Who can lead a chapter?
anyone! individuals, groups and established organizations/institutions passionate about arts, education, youth empowerment, and sustainability
- start a NOW! (start a brand new NOW! chapter and run wild with it)
- adopt a NOW! (existing groups/companies/institutions/etc adopting NOW! as one of its programs)