There is a wide variety of actions that are needed to grow an economy that works for all,
and each of us will be drawn to different kinds of actions, depending on our gifts and skills.
We encourage you to take action and to consider how action can be meaningful for you.
ACTIONS CONNECTED TO WORKSHOPS:
Below are actions that have been developed following the Feb 2022 workshop, “How Can Business Work for All? B Corporations and More”. Please join us in actions to support B corporations and other businesses working for all:
Share B Corp Info Cards - ONGOING
Act to raise awareness of B corporations, and our Be a Conscious Consumer! - Buying Guide by distributing our B Corps Info Cards
We are sharing these two sided cards in public spaces, in community groups, and in our personal networks.
Contact us if you’d like some to distribute, or to suggest places to share them: email marymobrien2@gmail.com.
As of 4/23 we have distributed 400, and have more available!
Buy From B Corporations
B Corps Info Card: click here
The B Corp Directory - click here - search by product/service and location (e.g. Eggs, United States)
The Maine B Corps website - click here
Buy Consciously:
Click here for our Be a Conscious Consumer! - Buying Guide
Send Postcards - MAY 2022: This action is completed: We have sent 100 postcards!
Do you have friends or family who might not know about B corporations? Send them a postcard!
The front has the word B corporations and shows people and the earth thriving, and the back has some preprinted words asking the person to join you in supporting B corporations, and defining what they are.
You just address the card, add a personal message if you want, and send.
To request postcards, email hopeactioneconomy@gmail.com or marymobrien2@gmail.com – you can pick them up, we can drop them off, or we’ll mail them to you.
We’re aiming to send 100 postcards, and will celebrate when we reach the goal!
ACT: MAKE AN IMPACT
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
— Robert F. Kennedy
“If we depend on seeing the positive results of our individual steps, we’ll avoid challenges that seem beyond what we can visibly influence. Yet our actions take effect through such multiplicities of synergy that we can’t trace their causal chain. Everything we do has ripples of influence extending far beyond what we can see.”
— Joanna Macy in Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
— Mother Teresa
“Reusing something instead of immediately discarding it, when done for the right reasons, can be an act of love which expresses our own dignity. We must not think that these efforts are not going to change the world. They benefit society, often unbeknown to us, for they call forth a goodness which, albeit unseen, inevitably tends to spread.”
—Pope Francis in On Care for Our Common Home: Laudato Si
ACT: FIND JOY
“…to help others isn’t a heroic burden but a transcendent source of fulfillment in our busy, materialistic lives.”
— Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn in A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
“compassionate concern for others’ well-being is the source of happiness. The incredible thing is that when we think of alleviating other people’s suffering, our own suffering is reduced.”
— His Holiness the Dalai Lama in The Book of Joy, by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams
“In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more and more joyful. We people who care must be attractive, must be filled with joy, so that others recognize that caring, that helping and being generous are not a burden, they are a joy.”
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu in The Book of Joy, by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams
“These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”
- The Bible, John 15: 11 – 12