Public Charter: To facilitate the mindset of stewardship and collaboration among people of compassion and influence, across all sectors of our global society, for the greater good.
Vision
Aim
Ethos
WE SEE WITHIN EACH human being, a unique capacity to change the world.
OUR AIM IS TO UNLEASH greater significance in people at all stages of leadership, to facilitate leadership development with an emphasis on stewardship – and to connect people and groups with each other to gain the knowledge, inspiration and resources they need to be effective.
WE SHALL REMAIN INDEPENDENT and non-aligned, allowing us to take on the perspective of objectivism, keeping us free to help people regardless of their ideology.
As we help people engage in meaningful conversation, contribute resources into the collective common wealth - and collaborate on all kinds of initiatives for the greater good of society, we provide a cohesive framework for continuous leadership development.
Our staff shall think and act as collaborative global stewards themselves, with compassion for all and a sense of responsibility to the global community and its future generations.
We see the central balance point between the individual person and the regional & national systems they live within, to be the community. Stellar Impact, as a public charity, helps people to first gain a mindset of stewardship. We equip people, groups, and organizations by way of education and funding to create the space in their community where they can collaborate with others across all sectors (and silos) of society. We see that as people collaborate, they advance in influence through increased excellence in their work. We see these people connecting to form a human internet. The ultimate vision for this human internet is systemic global prosperity. . stellarimpact.org
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We develop and connect stewards – collaborative global stewards – who work together across the traditional silos of organizations, institutions, sectors of society, class, race, and ideology for the good of current and future generations.
The ethic of stewardship shall guide our decision making process.
WE BELIEVE stewardship begins with the community within.
Key Words Collaboration (Collaborate)
Community (Commune)
Stewardship (Steward)
“Co-Labor”
“Share a Common Unity”
“Care, Tend & Increase”
To work together with others to achieve a common goal. “There is a dire need for collaboration among unlikely partners to achieve real progress [on the issue of Sustainability] “…Look for small steps of things you can do together with people with whom you traditionally would never have cooperated — and do something useful, no matter how small.” ~ Peter Senge Author of The Fifth Discipline From his keynote address, May 16, 2010 at the MIT Sustainability Summit 2010
Compassion
“Share a Common Passion” To suffer together with. Deep awareness of the suffering of another, coupled with the wish to relieve it. “Compassion is a virtue — one in which the emotional capacities of empathy and sympathy (for the suffering of others) are regarded as a part of love itself, and a cornerstone of greater social interconnection and humanism — foundational to the highest principles in philosophy, society, and personhood.”
A group of people sharing a common local geography, understanding, attitudes or interests. Properly, common possession or enjoyment; as a community of goods. A society of people, having common rights and privileges, or common interests, civil, political or ecclesiastical; or living under the same laws and regulations. This word may signify a commonwealth or state, a body politic, or a particular society or order of people within a state, as a community of monks; and it is often used for the public or people in general, without very definite limits. Commonness; frequency. “We define community as a group of individuals who have common cause to interact and support each other….” ~ Glen Townsend Founder of Àrdaich
The act of caring for or improving with time. A timeless ethic The rank or office of a steward.
“Stewardship is the responsibility for taking care: “…Taking care of property, finances, the needs of others, taking care of something that one does not own… “Cultural stewardship concerns itself with tending the work of imagination, the realm that embodies both the aesthetic and ethical experiences of being in community, in relationship to one another.” ~ Roberto Bedoya, Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council
Steward (Greek: epitropos) Commune
“Share Conversation” To be in a state of intimate, heightened sensitivity and receptivity, as with one's surroundings. To have common dealings with, converse, to talk together familiarly To make common, share.
“A Position of Authority & Responsibility” One who chooses to exercise care from a position of influence. One to who’s care or honor something (valuable) has been entrusted, on behalf of others. A curator, a guardian. A steward or manager of a household, lands and estate. A tutor.
~ Wikipedia contributors. “Compassion” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
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Key word definitions are from Wiktionary.com unless otherwise noted. Other key words we teach about include: Activism, Authenticity, Common Wealth, Commonwealth, Connection, Contribution, Conversation, Empathy, Entrepreneurialism, Inclusion, Influence, Relationship, Sector of Society, Social Enterprise, and Sustainability.