Mission

To empower a community-based movement of citizen consumers by providing tools for a direct alignment between daily economic activities and our deepest human values. To facilitate a new economic infrastructure that engenders a virtuous circle of exchange among its participants citizen members, local businesses and social benefit organizations who agree to vote with their dollars, connect and support each other to grow a values-based economy.

Who Are We

The Interra Project was founded by Greg Steltenpohl , Dee Hock, Dominique Leveuf, Sri Rao, Brad deGraf , and Jon Ramer, who is the Executive Director.

International Advisors

Rick Balakier, Business Plan, Marketing Materials, Financial and Economic Modeling (Senior Strategy Consultant, IBM; MBA Dartmouth)
John Clippinger, Senior Fellow Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School
Alisa Gravitz, Executive Director, Coop America
Hazel Henderson, Economist, Author, Activist, Via 3 Board, Social Venture Network SVN
Van Jones, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights EBC , Ashoka and Echoing Green Fellowships
Scott Lofteness, Financial Network Infrastructure (Partner, Glenbrook Partners; Former Group Exec. VP, First Data Merchant Services
Amber Nystrom, Women's Technology Cluster
Richard Perl, Cofounder Social Venture Network, Pacific Partners International, Threshold Foundation
Gifford Pinchot, Author "Intrapreneuring", Founder and Chair Bainbridge Graduate Institute
Wayne Silby, Chairman, Calvert Investment Fund
Woody Tasch, Chairman and CEO Investors Circle
Faye Yoshihara, Kellogg Fellow, Former Sustainability Director, Nike

Affiliations

Green October 2007
Bainbridge Graduate Institute
Russell Family Foundation
Columbia Foundation
Roots of Change Fund ROC
Natural Capital Institute NCI
Rudolf Steiner Foundation RSF
Sweet Mother Tour SMT
Boston Main Street
Main Street
Youth Give
Derrick Ashong
Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Sustainable Seattle
Media Venture Collective
Grass Commons
Institute for the Future
Planet Works
Urban Alliance for Sustainability UAS
Green Century Institute (GCI)
Imaginify
Tools For Change Institute
WISER Commons
YouthGive

Resources

Puget Sound Community Change Program
Boston Community Change Card Program
Adopt ROVR

Events

Wiser Commons Portland
Cascadia Convergence
Digital Be-In 15: Biomimicry
Eco-April Seattle 2008