1. Study the CED web pages, books, ideas and values, and tell others to check us out. Consider a mutually beneficial exchange of ideas and information with CED. Write papers or articles pertaining to critical issues in modern democracies. The Books Online pages contain the some useful and relevant information. Our Critical Issues page focuses on changes we think ought to be brought about quickly. These pages also provide links to other useful websites.

2. Become an actively supporting individual!

From where you are now you can contribute time, money, ideas, suggestions as to how we can improve our website, papers for us to publish online, information about how different countries or different states handle the the ten critical issues...and so on. This level of involvement offers meaningful and purposeful activity without an ongoing commitment. For deeper involvement at this level, join the CED Support Community.

3. Form a small group!

Pick an political issue upon which you and some friends want to work. See if it relates in some way to the means by which special interests dominate political decision-making, thereby maintaining the status quo. Tell others about the CED agenda, books, or values, and get together informally to discuss how you could use perspectives from CED to assist you with your local goals, or how CED could help you with consultations or by simply sharing our experiences. As a group you could, if you wished, organize a nonprofit, public benefit corporation locally, and set up a web page. You could then create and distribute educational materials that explain your political ideas, the critical system concept, the ten critical issues, and how they relate to your local projects.

If you create a web page, we can establish mutually supportive links between yours and the CED web pages. You can even use the CED logo entitled "Home Is..." on your web pages if you send us a written declaration to the effect that your group has read The Universal Model and that you support it as a statement of values and purpose. Be sure to send us information about your projects, your web address, and other communication links so that we can support you however and whenever possible!

4. Initiate a syntropic community!

Together with a small group of friends, you can proceed with #3 as described above, then go on to develop an economically, socially, and politically integrated community based on the constitution proposed in The Universal Model. In the book Creating Democracy In Time there is a section that outlines steps for doing just that! Such a community could sustain movement toward local and/or global goals for a long time. CED has consultants ready to help.

5. Dedicate your life to a good cause!

Among other possibilities, you could drop all distractions, move to the San Francisco Bay Area, get a part time job to support yourself, and live/work directly [at little or no pay] with CED on location!

What we think...
and do!

From Greg Montoya, CED's Executive Director:

"The Center for the Evolution of Democracy is a non-profit educational organization that relies heavily on grassroots, small donations to operate.

"Established to provide a vehicle for the further development and implementation of democratic principles, our reliance upon small donations helps us to avoid possible contamination by large donors with hidden agendas. Therefore, it is within the spirit of democratic participation that we solicit your democratic input, ideas, experiences, and if possible your donations, in order that together we can promote the further growth of democracy."

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Benefits for Members

The CED Staff works without pay. CED's only expenses are the costs of creating and distributing educational materials.

In addition to the personal satisfaction derived from contributing to a worthy cause, there are other advantages to being a contributor [see below]. CED will distribute a brief monthly newsletter via email to each contributor and upon request will send a receipt for $10 or greater contributions. Contributors of $50 or more will receive a free, 20 minute video entitled Democracy In Time, and contributions of $100 or more will bring you a gift of the video plus one of three hardcopy books (your choice). Donations to CED are tax deductible in the U.S.

CED will also provide contributing members of the support community with coded access to an interactive dialogue between staff and contributing members on issues in the evolution of democracy.

CED encourages members of The CED Support Community to write or report any interesting articles or anecdotes on any aspect of the democratic process, or any investigative, statistical, and/or comparative study of elements in democratic forms of government. CED has offered to publish on this website material by independent authors.