Our Fiscally Sponsored Projects

RSF Social Finance accepts charitable gifts for our fiscally sponsored projects. Here are ways to donate:

• Online. Click “Donate Now” above.
• By check. Make your check payable to RSF Social Finance with the name of the organization on the memo line and mail it to RSF Social Finance, 1002A O’Reilly Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94129.
• Stock or wire transfers. Please contact Kelley Buhles at 415.561.6152 for more details and instructions.

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Actors Ensemble (Chatham, New York)

The Actor’s Ensemble’s research and development, and performances are based primarily upon Michael Chekhov’s acting methods. Based on Rudolf Steiner’s indications, Chekhov developed this acting method that strives for objectivity through the physical and imaginative faculties.

Alliance for Childhood (College Park, Maryland)

The Alliance for Childhood is a partnership of educators, medical professionals, parents and others who have united to better protect children from harmful social influences that are increasingly creating stress and illness during childhood.

American-Russian Educational Exchange (Hudson, New York)

The American-Russian Educational Exchange, led by Colin Young, offers teacher training seminar and consulting to twenty-six Waldorf schools in Russia.

AnthroMedLibrary Project (Webster Groves, Montana)

The purpose of the “AnthroMedLibrary” project website is to make available current and recent anthroposophical medical research and other articles available to the English speaking world via the World Wide Web. This will benefit physicians, nurses, therapists and teachers of therapeutic education by keeping them up to date with their European colleagues who presently have easier access to these materials. This has been an obstacle to the growth of anthroposophical medicine, psychology and education worldwide. The project will be used as a worthwhile vehicle to get national exposure whereby increasing the chances of additional donors and support.

Anthroposophic Press (New York, New York)

The mission of the Anthroposophic Press is to publish and distribute anthroposophical books. Through the publication of materials, the Anthroposophic Press supports anthroposophically-inspired movements such as Waldorf education, anthroposophical medicine, Biodynamic agriculture and curative education.

Anthroposophical Group in the Philippines (Quezon City, Philippines)

The Anthroposophical Group in the Philippines is a non-profit affiliation of individuals whose common purpose is the study, research and development of anthroposophy in the Pacific Rim Region.

Aramitan (Sau Paulo, Brazil)

Aramitan’s goal is to help children and young people in high-risk situations in and around Sao Paulo, Brazil. Aramitan will not only provide a place where children and young people can live, but also make available for the wider community a biodynamic farm, health center, and socio-cultural center where professional, artistic, and craft workshops will be offered.

ASA Prison Outreach (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

The Anthroposophic Prison Outreach (APO) is a sponsored project of the Anthroposophical Society in America . APO provides tools for inmates to change and develop themselves and bring purpose to their lives.

Aspen Grove Project (Corona del Mar, California)

The Aspen Grove Project will connect the many independent peace initiatives in this country and around the world that are based in spiritual processes and values. The Aspen Grove Project will bring active peaceworkers together in community with group meditation and dialogue; will create and maintain a shared, online database and calendar; will provide training and mentoring for people who wish to become peaceworkers “from within;” and will support specific initiatives that are based in this model.

Associaçião Comunitária Monte Azul (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

The objective of the Associaçião Comunitária Monte Azul is to promote love for the human being independent of nationality, race, political, religious belief or any form of diversity. It provides opportunities through education, culture and health care with a focus on the underprivileged.

Association for a Healing Education (Prescott, Arizona)

The mission of the Association for a Healing Education is to foster remedial education within the pedagogical principles of Waldorf education. The Designated Fund will be used to help provide outreach to possible new members and to provide research opportunities to experienced teachers.

AWSNA High School Research Fund (Fair Oaks, California)

The Association of Waldorf Schools of North America is a non-profit organization whose mission is the support for and development of Waldorf education and Waldorf schools across North America. Under the mandate of AWSNA, the Waldorf High School Research Project is charged with strengthening the Waldorf high school movement by forming a picture of adolescents today, and spearheading research into curricular and extra-curricular programs to serve their changing needs.

BALLE Napa Valley (Napa, California)

The mission of BALLE Napa Valley is to provide educational and networking opportunities for locally owned, sustainable businesses and their customers. Its goals are: to raise awareness within the community of the value of nurturing the local economy; to raise the consciousness of the community about the value of making sustainable choices; to educate producers and consumers to be good role models in the promotion of sustainability for the community, local economy and the environment; to research and document progress made towards a local, living economy in Napa; to facilitate networking and interaction among community-based organizations to further the BALLE concept; and to empower the community to raise its own standards of living through making sustainable choices and fostering responsible economic development.

Bay Area Center Waldorf Teacher Training (Sausalito, California)

The Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training offers a three-year certification program in Waldorf Education. The Center is expanding its Adult Education Program and is offering a new Teacher Mentoring Program.

Biodynamic Seed and Plant Project (San Francisco, California)

To support the biodynamic seed and plant project will make available biodynamic seeds in production quantities. This project is committed to preserving a vital diversity of healthy seed stock.

Camphill Special School (Glenmoore, Pennsylvania)

Camphill Special School is a licensed independent school for children ages three through nineteen whose primary diagnosis is mental retardation. The children it serves often have multiple special needs that are best met by Camphill’s residential Curative Education program.

CANICA de Oaxaca (Oaxaca, Mexico)

CANICA (Centro de Apoyo al Niño de la Calle de Oaxaca, A.C.) is a non-profit organization that has been working for eleven years to support youth and families that work and/or live in the streets of the city of Oaxaca, Mexico. CANICA de Oaxaca works to promote the integral development of Oaxaca ’s street children and its victims of domestic violence through a professional program of educational and social services that help them and their families actively and positively transform their personal, living and social conditions.

Center for the Art of Living in America (Costa Mesa, California)

The Center for the Art of Living in America supports Waldorf teacher training programs, a Waldorf nursery and primary school, crafts program, farm school, and other projects in South Africa. One of their goals is the development of multicultural resources and festivals for Waldorf schools in North America.

Chengdu Waldorf School (Chengdu, China)

Chengdu Waldorf School is China’s first Waldorf school providing environmental education to the College students and children from public school. The school is credited as a not-for- profit school, and actively promotes a new kind of education and farming in China in accordance with Rudolf Steiner’s work.

Children of Nepal (Kathmandu, Nepal)

The Children of Nepal is an independent Waldorf initiative in Kathmandu, Nepal. This initiative has developed into the Tashi Waldorf School. The Tashi Waldorf School was established and run by Meyrav Mor to serve orphaned children in Nepal and has also added grades and a teacher training component.

Community Supported Anthroposophical Medicine (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

Community Supported Anthroposophical Medicine is an organization that provides anthroposophical medical services to the Ann Arbor region. The medical practice is financed on the basis of associative economics by patients contributing through volunteer work and finances to the overall success of the practice. Their long-term plan is to build a comprehesive complementary medical-therapeutic treatment clinic.

Das Goetheanum (Dornach, Switzerland)

This fund supports the world-wide activities of the General Anthroposophical Society and the School of Spiritual Science headquartered in the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland. The Society is active in regional branches and their work supports the research and activities of the sections of the School for Spiritual Science.

DocWeather (Carmichael, California)

The purpose of this project is to further ongoing research activities in climatic studies, which are focused on understanding the relationships between climatic patterns and planetary rhythms. The goal of this research is to provide long range weather and climatic trend forecasts to those engaged in either agricultural pursuits or industries where advanced weather information would be useful in averting catastrophic loss of crops, equipment or other investments. The goal is to also provide educational access to basic weather and climatic principles for the general public.

Emerson College (East Sussex, England)

Emerson College is an adult education center devoted to furthering the research and development of anthroposophical endeavors including general anthroposophical studies, Waldorf teacher training, social development, biodynamic agriculture, eurythmy, water research, and the arts.

Fellowship Community (Chestnut Ridge, New York)

The Fellowship Community is an anthroposophical intergenerational elder-care community. This fund supports operating needs including the Fellowship’s purchase of a 33-acre adjacent farm to expand their farming activities while preserving one of the four remaining farms in Rockland County, NY. The Fellowship has a second fund, the Howard Mehrtens Scholarship Fund that supports children from the Fellowship to attend Waldorf schools.

Freunde der Erziehungskunst (Berlin, Germany)

The Freunde der Erziehungskunst (Friends of Waldorf Education) is an international organization that supports and nurtures the development of Waldorf education world-wide with human and financial resources. This fund enables the Freunde to raise funds in the United States for its projects worldwide.

Gracia Ricardo Singing Method (Gross Pointe Farms, Michigan)

This method of singing was begun by Gracia Ricardo in collaboration with Rudolf Steiner. The Fund will foster Gracia Ricardo’s work by providing lessons, singing tours, and supporting relevant translations and publications. Dina Soresi Winter is the only active teacher of this method currently in the United States. This project promotes the awareness of the Gracia Ricardo approach to singing.

Grasshopper Productions (Ghent, New York)

Grasshopper Productions is an informal association of artists working to develop innovative performances using language, music and eurythmy. The focus will be on intensive collaborative work.

Green Century Institute (San Francisco, California)

The mission of the Green Century Institute is to support the development of sustainable communities for the twenty-first century. The Green Century Institute fosters research, development and public education initiatives in three basic areas: sustainable development, community development, and evolutionary technology.

Green Oaks Agricultural Trust (Davenport, California)

Green Oaks, a project of Pie Ranch seeks to inform and inspire an ever-widening circle of urban and rural residents to know and take intimate part in the food they eat, its healthy production and its history. In 2005, Pie Ranch began its youth education programs, inviting school groups out to experience a working farm. Through hands-on collaboration, teenagers are able to discover new competencies that benefit them both as individuals and in the community.

Hawthorn Foundation for the Healing Arts (North Chatham, New York)

This fund enables the Hawthorne Valley Community to sustain an anthroposophical medical practice.

The Health, Environment, and Education Learning and Development (HEELD) Fund (Westminster West, Vermont)

HEELD will be used initially to support activities to improve public understanding of Biodiesel, to promote its use in home heating and diesel vehicles in southeastern Vermont, to assess the economies of local or regional production versus importing it from other regions of the U.S., and to determine economic and cultural barriers that must be addressed in order to enable more widespread use. Educating the public and public policy makers on the advantages of Biodiesel could lead to local, state and national policies which would further its use and encourage green entrepreneurs and investors to become involved with start-up and other interested companies.

IC Foundation (San Francisco, California)

The IC Foundation mission is to support networks of individuals and organizations dedicated to entrepreneurship that preserves and restores the commons. The Foundation has three program areas: System Design, Education and Research, and Technical Assistance.

Isummer Group

The Isummer Group’s mission is to provide a forum for the exploration of the relationship between Art and Spirit, and how that relationship impacts the world at large.

Josephine Porter Institute (Woolwine, Virginia)

The Josephine Porter Institute for Applied Biodynamics is a research, farming and educational organization whose primary purpose is to make quality biodynamic preparations for composting and soil recovery available. The Institute was founded as a living memorial to Josephine Porter, a pioneering biodynamic farmer in North America.

Living Universe Project (San Rafael, California)

The objective of the Living Universe Project is to research, write, and publish works on the topic of Living in a Living Universe. Support is sought for eight months of research, writing, and publication in a variety of media that explores two fundamental questions found at the frontiers of science and spirituality: (1) do we live in a living universe? and (2) what does this mean for our everyday lives? Results from this inquiry will be appear in articles, a draft book, workshops, keynote talks, website publishing, telecourses, professional conferences, and more. The “living universe project” builds on more than thirty years of research and writing by Duane Elgin, and internationally recognized author and speaker.

The Nature Institute (Ghent, New York)

The Nature Institute carries out research and educational activities that develop, apply, and communicate phenomena-centered methods of the study of nature, science and technology. Current projects include: A Contextual Approach to Genetics and Genetic Technology; Whole Organism Biology; Mastering Technology; Holistic Ecology; and, Phenomena-centered Science and Nature Education.

Northern Lights School (Wilmington, New York)

The Northern Lights School uses a Waldorf approach to education. Currently, the school operates a kindergarten, nursery and first and second grade. The mission of the Northern Lights School is to engage children’s minds, fire the imagination and strengthen the will as students develop initiative, creativity and skills to serve an evolving humanity.

Oikostasis Project

The goal is to support activists and activist organizations that work non-violently towards social, spiritual and economic transformation, with a long-term goal of overcoming a perceptual duality manifested in “jobs vs. the environment” debates. Specifically, the Oikostasis project will focus on the carbon cycle, peak oil, and climate change, with the ultimate goal of protecting the environment in order to protect the economy.

Park Atwood Clinic (Worcestershire, England)

The clinic provides in-patient medical care. It is unique in the English-speaking world because it offers complementary medicine on a residential basis under full supervision of qualified doctors and nurses who are working out of anthroposophical medicine, originally developed by Rudolf Steiner and Dr. Ita Wegman.

Proxy Democracy (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

The general purpose of Proxy Democracy is to serve the public interest by strengthening the accountability of public corporations to their shareholders and society. Proxy Democracy will accomplish this by producing and disseminating educational materials to help shareholders understand and participate in shareholder voting, establishing web-based tools and platforms to help share facts and opinions about corporate governance and related issues, and any and all other appropriate means.

Roshni Association (Lahore, Pakistan)

The Roshni Association provides medical, residential and educational facilities to disabled and mentally retarded persons in Lahore, Pakistan. It is a tax-exempt foreign equivalent organization. The Association provides workshops in organic bakery, textile and wood, and gardening. The fund also supports residential care, and building bridges between western and Islamic countries.

Rudolf Steiner College (Fair Oaks, California)

Rudolf Steiner College has two funds: one to receive a wider base of support for their campus expansion and development of their programs; the second, the Howard Mehrtens Scholarship Fund, was established to create lasting support for their existing scholarship program and to enable the College to continue to attract Waldorf teacher trainees.

Small Planet Fund (Brooklyn, New York)

The Small Planet Fund supports movements in the U.S. and around the world proving it’s possible to re-embed economic life in community, ensure that we all eat healthfully, heal our relationship to the earth, and build democracy as a culture of engagement. Specifically, the Small Planet Fund assists grassroots non-governmental organizations that focus on environmental conservation, community development, and capacity building; social movements that secure land for migrant workers; financial entities that focus on lending to the poor; research and education foundations that conserve biodiversity and promote organic farming; non-profit organizations that promote school gardens and environmental education; projects that provide training and jobs to former prisoners and help them reintegrate into society; and organizations that certify fair-trade coffee.

Sophia Foundation (Eugene, Oregon)

The Sophia Foundation was founded in 1994 as an educational and cultural foundation dedicated to awakening a new consciousness of Sophia, Divine Wisdom. Its activities include publications, workshops, and public events, and research into the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner. The Foundation also works in the arts through eurythmy and theater.

Sophia Project (Oakland, California)

The Sophia Project is designed to be a model inner-city child care program which offers nurturing support for young children while at the same time training parents and other women currently on welfare to become quality child care providers.

Spacial Dynamics Institute (Hillsdale, New York)

Spacial Dynamics is a movement form that implements anthroposophy through spatial movement. Spacial Dynamics is a growing body of spatially-oriented movement exercises, activities, and games, a spatial approach to posture, and a method of movement observation and analysis developed and worked out by Jaimen McMillan. This fund is limited to supporting their research, publications and public programs.

Speech and Drama in Waldorf Schools in the West (Fair Oaks, California)

This project makes it possible for Helen Lubin to provide artistic speech work for students and teachers in Waldorf Schools on the West Coast. The speech work is based on Rudolf Steiner’s and Marie Steiner’s insights into speech formation and its beneficial effects on human development.

Speech Association of North America (Southgate, Michigan)

The Speech Association of North America has initiated a new educational program called The Speech School of North America. The Association fosters the art of speech as it manifests in recitation, pedagogy, therapy and other fields. The Association practices Creative Speech as recognized by the Section for Eurythmy, Speech, and Music of the School for Spiritual Science.

Trillium Deaf Program (Forestville, California)

Trillium’s goal is to develop a curriculum for preschool to grade 8, combining current approaches to Deaf education with Waldorf philosophy and to make this education available to all children of the Deaf community and their families regardless of financial status.

Verein für Krebsforschung (Arlesheim, Switzerland)

This fund supports the Verein für Krebsforschung (Cancer Research Institute) which is involved with scientific and practical work in effective cancer research and treatment in consideration of the principles of anthroposophical medicine given by Rudolf Steiner. This institute also furthers the spread of effective cancer treatment on an anthroposophical basis.

Water Research Institute of Blue Hill (Blue Hill, Maine)

The Water Research Institute, under the direction of Jennifer Green, does research work on water quality based on the indications of Rudolf Steiner and the pioneering research of Theodor Schwenk. The Institute views water as a critical component of our environment, and it continues to develop new anthroposophically-based research methods.

Yggdrasil Land Foundation (San Francisco, California)

The mission of the Yggdrasil Land Foundation is to steward the healthy use of land, to encourage biodynamic and kindred agriculture practices, and to promote the renewal of the living earth as a responsibility of community. The purpose of the Yggdrasil Land Foundation Designated Fund is to receive gifts from individuals, organizations and foundations across the United States. Gifts will be used to purchase and maintain land, and the buildings on the lands, to purchase equipment and to support programs on its lands. The Fund will also support operations of the Yggdrasil Land Foundation.

Young Women Social Entrepreneurs (San Francisco, California)

The mission of the Young Women Social Entrepreneurs is to promote young women social entrepreneurs by providing training, access to resources, and networking opportunities.

Updated 03.21.08