What if the biggest changes affecting your community aren’t coming from local residents at all? In this episode, Tim Brown and Common Core Diva Lynne Taylor take a closer look at the growing number of community planning initiatives being promoted as pathways to freedom, prosperity, and local empowerment. But beneath the appealing language, are there larger agendas at work? From regional governance and workforce development to education policy and public-private partnerships, this discussion explores how decisions made behind the scenes may be reshaping communities in ways most citizens never see coming.
Resources for the show:
1) Fetzer Organization’s press release for ‘communities of freedom’:
https://fetzer.org/press/fetzer-institute-launches-9-million-cross-sector-initiative-to-advance-spiritually-grounded-transformation/
(We’ll be looking at the groups awarded $ in a bit)
1a) Community of Freedom Report:
https://backend.fetzer.org/sites/default/files/2019-01/Fetzer%20Theory%20of%20Change%201.14.19.pdf
*We’ll use pages 4/5/6/8/9 & the image on page 12 of the pdf
2) The main website for the Fetzer Organization:
https://fetzer.org/
2b) The history:
https://fetzer.org/our-history/
3) Fetzel Organization’s SEL (Social Emotional Learning) angle:
https://fetzer.org/news/sel-numbers/
3a) Fetzel and CASEL join forces:
https://www.edutopia.org/social-emotional-learning-history/
(*Note: Notice how Yale University is tied to all of this & then refer back to #1 where Yale was one of the 30 Fetzer gave $ to for “Community of Freedom”)
4) CASEL (Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning):
https://casel.org/about-us/our-history/
5) Theory of Change:
https://www.theoryofchange.org/what-is-theory-of-change/
The Groups Fetzer chose for Communities of Freedom:
1) Aspen Institute’s Religion & Society arm:
https://www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/religion-society-program/
(*Note: Be sure to notice & call out the glaring contradictions you see)
2) Center for Christianity & Public Life:
https://www.ccpubliclife.org/
(*Note: What errors are treated as ‘gospel’ here?)
3) Hindus for Human Rights:
https://www.hindusforhumanrights.org/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22210190811&gclid=Cj0KCQjw_vnQBhCxARIsADcZyxJAVmamv_ra-BCSdTyjrV33uiulDnQWpXbgFgmUoGR-PTtXJyWf35kaAhtLEALw_wcB
4) Center for Public Justice:
https://cpjustice.org/
5) Coalition to Dismantle Doctrine of Discovery:
https://dismantlediscovery.org/
6) Muslims for Progressive Values:
https://www.mpvusa.org/
(*Note: the social justice shout out..a big part of the SDGs and SEL)
7) One America Movement:
https://oneamericamovement.org/
(*Note: the Friedman quoted is an alum of Aspen Inst.)
8) Trinity Forum:
https://ttf.org/
9) Witness Institute:
https://witnessinstitute.org/
(*Note: ties to humanism, Judaism & Goldman Sachs)
10) Spiritual Innovation Collaborative:
https://fetzer.org/spiritual-innovation-collaborative/
11) Beloved Garden:
https://belovedgarden.org/
12) Center for Action & Contemplation:
https://cac.org/
13) Chaplaincy Innovation Lab:
https://chaplaincyinnovation.org/
(*Note: CIL is a part of the Tides Center: https://www.tides.org/)
14) Embrace Incubator (Holistic Underground):
https://www.holisticunderground.org/impact
15) Faith Matters Network:
https://faithmattersnetwork.org/
(*Note: ‘womanist wisdom’)
16) Forum for Theological Exploration:
https://fteleaders.org/
17) Glean Network:
https://www.gleannetwork.org/
(*Note: the ‘guiding principles’)
18) Inayatiyya Sufi Order Int’l:
https://inayatiyya.org/
19) Sacred Design Lab:
https://sacred.design/
(*Note: innovation in spirituality: https://www.spiritualinnovation.org/)
20) Unitarian Universalist Association:
https://www.uua.org/
21) Wesleyan Impact Partners:
https://wesleyanimpactpartners.org/
22) Green the Church:
https://www.greenthechurch.org/
(*Note: environmental justice)
23) Loka Initiative:
https://centerhealthyminds.org/work/programs/loka-initiative
(*Note: more climate justice)
24) Global Optimism:
https://www.globaloptimism.com/
(*Note: climate action)
25) Center for Earth Ethics:
https://centerforearthethics.org/
26) Conscious Food System Alliance:
https://consciousfoodsystems.org/
(*Note: this is an arm of the United Nations)
27) The Cultural Conservancy:
https://www.nativeland.org/
(*Note: UN’s “Green Citizens”)
28) Native Americans Rights Fund:
https://narf.org/
(*Note: also tied to the UN)
29) Yale Forum on Religion & Ecology:
https://fore.yale.edu/
(*Note: Forum was founded at Yale by the UN)
30) Resilience Project:
https://theresilienceproject.org.uk/
Related & relevant:
1) My interview with David Kurten (UK) and how Theory of Change is a key component of global citizenship mindset:
https://davidkurten.substack.com/p/global-government-plans-exposed
https://www.commoncorediva.com/?s=CASEL
3) All my archives with Yale:
https://www.commoncorediva.com/?s=Yale
4) SDG Zero (Joy about globalization):
https://newswithviews.com/sdg-ground-zero/
5) Since science is a key being used by Fetzer as a link to spirituality:
https://americanpolicy.org/2026/05/08/weaponized-science-so-you-think-you-can-trust-the-news/
6) All my archives on Aspen Inst., one of the worst of the CCSS Machine member groups:
https://www.commoncorediva.com/?s=Aspen+Institute
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