Earth Mother Enterprises

Possible Activities

Future educational activities may include all of the following:  advocacy; research; teaching; training programs; human services; housing; employment; business ventures; investment opportunities; artistic expressions; spiritual rituals; networking; promotion of dialogue; and building of coalitions.

     1. Wise Woman Counseling (a pay-per-call or per-minute phone counseling
         service; counselors must promote our values)
     2. Services to the wider community that are supportive of our  values, such as
         small convenient organic food stores
     3. Boarding house with associated ethical employment and entrepreneurial
         opportunities to allow young mothers, artists and others needing time and
         reduced expenses to pursue their primary goals
     4. Alternative schools and/or educational programs to disseminate the values
         of our mission
     5. Training Institute to draw from religion, philosophy, biology, anthropology,
         child development, law, medicine and other disciplines to prepare experts
         in child welfare to be witnesses in trials, consultants to businesses,
         government and nonprofits, and otherwise advocate for sophisticated,
         conscientious, empathic choices for children
     6. Matchmaking services that bring people together who can bond to create
         surrogate families and friendships or negotiate practical exchanges, so that
         people will be less alone and feel supported without having to seek charity
         or bureaucratic intervention in their lives
     7. Newsletters for mothers, for children, for like-minded professionals and
         others as part of promoting the values in the mission statement and
         fostering creative dialogue
     8. Books that disseminate the values of the mission statement and report on
         the results of research, especially books of interviews and moral, political
         analysis
     9. Basic services, such as errands, transportation, and home repairs at a bargain
         price or through barter
   10. Litter cleanup patrols, such as of mothers with babies in strollers or children
         from school classes or children’s clubs
   11. Products to assist or promote our values, such as buttons with slogans like
         “live and let live”
   12. Holistic health services
   13. Enlightened progressive legal services
   14. Investments that exemplify our values, such as ethical landlord
         opportunities and an ethically-designed mutual fund of businesses
         exemplifying our values
   15. Inclusive rituals that celebrate these natural values and that would be
         inviting to people of many different religious affiliations without requiring
         any adherence to particular scriptures or worship of any particular supreme
         being or other supernatural beings

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