YES! Project - United States & Global
Initiated by the Positive Futures Network (PFN), this project involves supporting people's active engagement in creating a just, sustainable, and compassionate world. The purpose of the project is to empower people to address social and environmental crises through a journal, a classroom initiative, a website, and a book project.
Communication Strategies
A central activity is publication of the quarterly magazine YES! A Journal of Positive Futures, which invites the reader to be part of a global community of change makers. Each issue focuses on a theme designed to highlight practical steps conducive to active engagement in change. Examples of previous themes include Living Economies, Art and Community, What Does It Mean to Be an American Now?, Can Love Save the World?, and Technology: Who Chooses?
YES! in the Classroom involves helping high school and college teachers throughout North America use materials from YES! to inspire and empower their students. Educators draw on PFN's resources to inform young people about the seriousness of various ecological and social problems, at the same time working to give them hope and channels for positive action.
The YES! website amplifies the reach of stories published in the YES! magazine to hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world, many of whom may not have access to the hard copy publication. The site is also intended to serve as a forum to respond quickly to events such as the attacks of September 11, 2001. In addition, discussion guides for each issue of YES! are posted, as well as links that help people find relevant events and organisations they can work with to make change happen.
In 2000, PFN published its first book, Saying Yes! Conversations on a World that Works for All, a collection of interviews from past issues of YES!
In addition to radio appearances, YES! staff and board members are frequent speakers at conferences designed to inspire and engage people in creative change. PFN co-sponsors many of these conferences.
YES! in the Classroom involves helping high school and college teachers throughout North America use materials from YES! to inspire and empower their students. Educators draw on PFN's resources to inform young people about the seriousness of various ecological and social problems, at the same time working to give them hope and channels for positive action.
The YES! website amplifies the reach of stories published in the YES! magazine to hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world, many of whom may not have access to the hard copy publication. The site is also intended to serve as a forum to respond quickly to events such as the attacks of September 11, 2001. In addition, discussion guides for each issue of YES! are posted, as well as links that help people find relevant events and organisations they can work with to make change happen.
In 2000, PFN published its first book, Saying Yes! Conversations on a World that Works for All, a collection of interviews from past issues of YES!
In addition to radio appearances, YES! staff and board members are frequent speakers at conferences designed to inspire and engage people in creative change. PFN co-sponsors many of these conferences.
Development Issues
Environment, Globalisation.
Key Points
In 2001, The Utne Reader named YES! the best alternative publication for social and cultural coverage. Their citation notes that YES! reports on "everyday people doing important work that fosters social justice, economic democracy, peace, and environmental sustainability." In the last three years, the YES! circulation has nearly tripled to 35,000, reaching people in every state of the U.S. and 50 other countries.
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