Center for Partnership Systems

What Center for Partnership Systems does

Center for Partnership Systems (formerly Center for Partnership Studies) is a nonprofit research and education organization founded in 1987 by Dr. Riane Eisler and headquartered in New York. The organization develops and disseminates frameworks for analyzing and transforming social systems along a partnership-domination continuum, with the thesis that institutions can be redesigned away from rigid hierarchies of ranking toward hierarchies of actualization. Its audience spans academics, policy makers, business leaders, parents, educators, community activists, and faith and health practitioners globally.

CPS's product portfolio combines proprietary intellectual frameworks with education and media distribution. Core "products" include the Power of Partnership (POP) podcast; the Partnership Toolkit and the Ford Foundation-funded Partnership Technology Toolkit; the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies (IJPS) co-published with the University of Minnesota Libraries; the Partnership Learning Center online platform at learnpartnership.org; the Social Wealth Index as a GDP alternative; the Partnerism Movement community initiative; and leadership and parenting programs. Underlying delivery consists of content, courses, podcasts, and academic publishing rather than a software platform, with no API, SDK, or proprietary technology stack disclosed.

The business model is nonprofit and donor- plus royalty-supported. Specific pricing, program fees, and total revenue are not publicly disclosed. Income appears to derive from individual donations (including via AmazonSmile), book royalties from Eisler's catalog (The Chalice and the Blade alone has sold 500,000+ copies across 26+ languages and 57 US printings), grants such as the Ford Foundation Technology Toolkit award, and program engagement. Go-to-market is content- and thought-leadership-driven across owned websites, podcast platforms, academic conferences, speakers bureau engagements, allied organizations (Ford Foundation, Meridian University, University of Minnesota, Charter for Compassion, Promundo, IEEE SA, Planetary Health Alliance), and social channels.

Name

Center for Partnership Systems

Legal name

Center for Partnership Systems

Website

https://centerforpartnership.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1987

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Center for Partnership Systems is a nonprofit research and education organization that develops frameworks, educational programs, and publications advancing partnership-based social systems, founded in 1987 by Riane Eisler and serving academics, policymakers, business leaders, educators, parents, and community activists globally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nonprofit Social Sciences Research and Education

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Civic and Social Organizations (81341)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Education Partnerships for Equity, Inclusion & Gender (EDADALAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Research, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Partnerships (EDADALAK)

Keywords

• Cultural transformation research
• Partnership systems education
• Caring economics
• Social wealth measurement
• Nonprofit social advocacy

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Center for Partnership Systems is a nonprofit research and education organization that develops and disseminates frameworks, publications, podcasts, online courses, and toolkits centered on partnership-based social and economic systems. Its core offerings include the Power of Partnership podcast, the Partnership Toolkit and Partnership Technology Toolkit, the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, the Partnership Learning Center online courses, the Social Wealth Index program, and the Partnerism Movement initiative. These resources serve academics, policy makers, business leaders, parents, educators, and community activists seeking alternatives to domination-based systems.

Product overview

Center for Partnership Systems (CPS) is a research and education organization offering a portfolio of programs, publications, and learning resources centered on Partnership Systems theory and the Partnerism Movement. The core offerings include The Power of Partnership (POP) Podcast, the Partnership Toolkit and Partnership Technology Toolkit for values-based change, the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies (IJPS) as an academic publication, and the Partnership Learning Center as an online education platform. Supporting programs include the Social Wealth Index, the Partnerism Movement initiative, and Leadership and Learning Programs. These products work together to advance CPS's mission of building economic and social systems based on partnership principles rather than domination.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• The Power of Partnership (POP) Podcast

Quantifiable outcome

• The Chalice and the Blade has sold over 500,000 copies and been translated into 26 languages including Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Russian, Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, Finnish, Danish, Czech, Dutch, Swedish, and Norwegian
• +2 more outcomes

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and notable.

• Meridian UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerProfessor Riane Eisler co-leads the new Partnership Systems Concentration at Meridian University, along with Aftab Omer and Melissa Schwartz. This academic partnership integrates partnership systems into graduate education.
• University of Minnesota - Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership StudiescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe IJPS is a peer-reviewed, open-access electronic journal published in partnership with University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, sharing scholarship for cultural transformation toward partnership-based systems.
• Charter for CompassionnotableStrategic or Co-development PartnerCharter for Compassion awarded Riane Eisler their 2022 Global Gala Humanitarian Award as part of their 'Architects of Justice' recognition, honoring her contributions to partnership-based social change.
• PromundonotableStrategic or Co-development PartnerPromundo is an allied organization whose State of the World's Fathers reports align with CPS's work on caring economies and gender equity.
• IEEE Standards AssociationnotableStrategic or Co-development PartnerRiane Eisler participated in the Radical AI Measurementality podcast, a project of IEEE SA focusing on AI systems transparency and ethics. John C. Havens from IEEE is also a podcast guest discussing technology ethics.
• CPS Partners NetworkcoreOthersNetwork of partners including Jed Diamond (MenAlive), Nancy Giordano (Play Big Inc.), Ginger Garner (political leader), and others applying partnership principles in various sectors. The Partnerism Movement invites individuals to join.
• Planetary Health AlliancenotableStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Planetary Health Alliance, working on the intersection of human health and environmental sustainability, aligns with CPS's partnership-based approach to planetary health discussed in the POP podcast with Dr. Teddie Potter.
• Soul Seed GatheringnotableStrategic or Co-development PartnerSoul Seed Gathering recognizes Riane Eisler's work as a source of inspiration for their research project bringing the deep feminine to historical significance and cultural relevance.

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Promundo: Nonprofit advancing gender equity and caring economics through research and the State of the World's Fathers reports, directly cited by CPS as an allied organization. Targets the same academics, policymakers, and community-activist audience.
• Charter for Compassion: Global humanitarian and values-based organization that awarded Riane Eisler its 2022 Global Gala Humanitarian Award and shares a partnership-based, non-dominator worldview with CPS. Operates as a nonprofit advocacy/membership network with similar scale and audience overlap.
• Center for Nonviolent Communication: Nonprofit promoting partnership-based communication and conflict resolution frameworks, with comparable educational programming, training-the-trainer model, and 1-10 employee organizational scale.
• Schumacher College: UK-based educational institution offering transformative programs on ecology, economics, and partnership-based ways of living, sharing CPS's small-scale, values-driven, scholar-led approach to systemic change education.
• Wellbeing Economy Alliance: Global coalition promoting alternative economic models that prioritize wellbeing, care, and equity, conceptually aligned with CPS's Social Wealth Index and Partnerism Movement, with overlapping policy-maker and activist audiences.
• Earth Charter Initiative: Values-based global organization promoting ethical frameworks for sustainable and equitable societies, conceptually adjacent to CPS's partnership systems and caring-economics worldview, with similar global education and advocacy mission.
• Institute for Humane Education: Nonprofit offering online graduate programs, courses, and tools for systems-change educators, mirroring CPS's Partnership Learning Center model and educator-segment focus at comparable small scale.

Broad incumbents

• New Economics Foundation: Long-established UK think tank developing alternative economic indicators and wellbeing frameworks; structurally similar as a research-and-advocacy nonprofit pursuing post-GDP metrics, but with broader policy reach and larger team.
• Club of Rome: Long-running global think tank applying systems-level analysis to transform economic and social systems, conceptually overlapping CPS's cultural transformation framework and Social Wealth Index ambitions at much broader scale.
• International Center for Research on Women: Global research organization advancing gender equity and social transformation, addressing the same policy-maker, scholar, and practitioner audience as CPS but with a substantially larger funding base and institutional footprint.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/rianeeisler
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCve9z2qLXHoJTxbTRGVsNSw
• Facebookfacebook.com/CenterforPartnership
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/centerpartnershipsystems
• Instagraminstagram.com/rianeeislercenter4partnership

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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