Partners and Associated Organizations
Kibbutz Research Institutes
ICSA is grateful for the financial support of the following Kibbutz Institutes:
Sponsor Organizations
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The Centre for International Studies has as its core mission developing academic research, thinking and intervention in a range of complex social, political and economic phenomena that go beyond national and regional borders.
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Hakhel is Adamah’s Jewish Intentional Communities Incubator, founded on the belief in the power of community to create and sustain identity. It works to revitalize Jewish life by building Jewish intentional communities of unaffiliated Jews around the world.
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CoHousing California is catalyzing community through its regular events, its growing directory of co-housing communities and its new membership program engineered to help you plot your escape from the ordinary and explore the world of cohousing.
Organizational Members
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The goals and major activities of the Institution for the Research of the kibbutz
and the Cooperative Idea are: Research, the
teaching and dissemination of kibbutz knowledge, a clearing-house for kibbutz related publications and applied research services to kibbutz communities and organizations. -
The Danish Ecovillage network was the first national network to be established in 1993. Its significance derives from the fact that the ecovillage movement can be said to have originated in Denmark, evolving out of the Danish cohousing movement with roots going back to the late 1960s and by an initiative by Gaia Trust in 1990 to link projects globally. Denmark is probably the country with the most ecovillages relative to population size. At last count there were 49 member communities in the Danish network, known as LØS (Landsforening for Økosamfund) in Danish.
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In Hertha, the living community means that we each have our own home, but that we share a number of activities and responsibilities. Hertha houses three adult shared houses and the village’s other residents live in apartments and houses. In 2019 we are a total of 140 people living in Hertha and we are a diverse group of children, young people and adults.
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Newton Dee is a charity based in Aberdeen, Scotland. Coworkers (live in volunteers) and Villagers (adults with special needs) live together here. We don't just provide houses, but build homes together, in a mutually supportive environment. But life isn't just about a home, its also about meaningful work. We provide training and supportive work environments where people can do more than just be entertained. We believe that work is an essential part of anyone's life.
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Glencraig is a therapeautic community situated in a beautiful state of a 100 acres sloping down to the southern shore of Belfast lough and is surrounded by fields, woods and gardens.Our community aims to provide children, young adults and adults with special needs a holistic approach, fostering choice, self-esteem independence and offering creative opportunities so that each individual can reach their full potential and live a happy fulfilled and meaningful life.
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Integrated Living Community provides assisted living services in community-based settings for children and adults with developmental disabilities, mental illnesses, Autism Spectrum disorder (ASD) and the aging population choosing to age in place. Our goal is to help people achieve positive support, and access to medical and psychiatric care and services.
Associated Organizations
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The Foundation for Intentional Community (FIC) is a resource center for people wanting to join, start, and build intentional communities. Their Communities Directory features +1000 intentional communities, including: ecovillages, cohousing, coliving, communes, housing co-ops, and more.
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CohoUS is a national non-profit organization dedicated to the support and development of cohousing. CohoUS works to raise broad awareness of the benefits of cohousing and to actively support the development and spread of cohousing communities nationwide.
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The CSA conducts annual conferences at a noted communal site in the United States each October. Their purpose is to study past and present movements that have chosen communal living and to encourage the restoration, preservation and public interpretation of the communitarian heritage.
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The FEC is a union of Egalitarian Communities which have joined together in our common struggle to create a lifestyle based on Equality, Cooperation, and Harmony with the Earth.
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GEN offers inspiring examples of how people and communities can live healthy, cooperative, genuinely happy and meaningful lifestyles --- beacons of hope that help in the transition to a more sustainable future on Earth.
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The Institute is a non-profit organisation that provides the material, financial and idealistic support for the Karl König legacy, particularly via the Archive, books and other publications, related research, as well as various events, activities and initiatives that are organised or collaboratively staged around the world.
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The Intentional Communities Desk (ICD) is a contact body connecting a wide variety of communities the world over - kibbutzim, ecovillages, co-housing, housing co-ops, spiritual communities etc etc.
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The mission of the Camphill Foundation is to grow, strengthen and safeguard the Camphill movement in North America. We serve the mission primarily by funding activities that increase the number of Camphill communities and Camphill inspired initiatives; the number of people served by Camphill; and the number of co-workers serving in Camphill communities.
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The Society for Utopian Studies (SUS) is an international, interdisciplinary association devoted to the study of utopianism in all its forms, with a particular emphasis on literary and experimental utopias. Scholars representing a wide variety of disciplines are active in the association, and approach utopian studies from such diverse backgrounds as American Studies, Architecture, the Arts, Classics, Cultural Studies, Economics, Engineering, Environmental Studies, Gender Studies, History, Languages and Literatures, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology and Urban Planning.
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Gaia Trust is a Danish-based charitable association founded in 1987 on the initiative of Ross and Hildur Jackson, with the intention of supporting the transition to a sustainable and more spiritual future society through grants and proactive initiatives.