Beyond Initiative Non-Profit

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In 2024 a small group of us, Jessie, Jorge Arjun, Malika and Avi, took the decision to create a legal entity in the USA, a 501(c)(3) Public Charity, with the purpose of having a vehicle for receiving bigger donations, having more autonomy and expand our outreach beyond the work currently done with the Dances of Universal Peace (DUP) Project called "Beyond Initiative" and the project in Colombia called Atlantida Ecovillage. We want to honor of our first donor, Fatima Lassar, who beleived in what we do and who promted us to take this new step of creating our own legal organization. We will continue working with DUP and the ecoviollage, and we look forward to expand our base of donors and alliances so we can grow our efforts and impact.

As it reads on our certificate of incorporation: we have been formed for the charitable purpose of increasing the physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual wellbeing of people, families and communities and all of non-human life. It will accompany this by fostering the ecological and social regeneration of the planet, going beyond the existing paradigms into unexplored prototypes for global change. It will develop and implement innovative programs around the world to help bring peace, harmony and wellbeing. It will implement different types of projects, educational programs and research to accomplish these goals.

For our New York State Certificate of Incorporation, bylaws, legal address, IRS Employer ID number, Charity Certificate, exemption and deductibility certificates please follow this LINK

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Avi Baranes

Director

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Jorge Calero Hoyos

Director

Jorge Calero is a biologist, specialist in ethnobiology and ecology with a M.Sc. in Integrative Ecosocial Design. One of the founders of Atlantida Ecovillage 21 years ago, a community in Colombia where active experimentation in social and ecological regeneration takes place. Also co-founder of the Colombian and Latin American Ecovillage Networks. Still active in these networks as elder and vision keeper as well as organizing education for sustainability. He is part of the Board of Directors of the International Organization for the Dances of Universal Peace (DUP) where he serves as Senior Mentor and works with the Sufi Ruhaniat International where he serves as Sheikh. He has taken the DUP to different countries in Latin America, Middle East, North Africa and Asia, coordinating the DUP Beyond Initiative project. Since 1998 he has been part of a wide variety of platforms, grassroots movements, organizations and networks, all involved in the creation of a better future.

Jessica Gelpke

Director

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Elizabeth Reed

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Lorena Tamariz

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Holger Hieronimi

Director

Researcher, lecturer, facilitator of educational processes, consultant and designer; his work focuses on eco-social regeneration and the exploration of sustainable ways of living beyond the consumer society. With more than 35 years of experience, he has participated in multiple projects and initiatives in Germany, Spain, Mexico, Colombia, and other Latin American countries.
Holger is a facilitator of educational processes in eco-social regenerative design, permaculture, community development, bioregionalism and related topics.
He supports as a consultant and independent advisor, often in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, in eco-social regeneration processes at different scales, bringing his integrative vision based on the paradigm of Living Systems. Among these are ecotourism projects, ecovillages, eco-neighborhoods, local enterprises, family farms, regenerative development projects in rural areas and others.

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