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Legal name

The Donella Meadows Project

Website

https://donellameadows.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Short description

The Donella Meadows Project is a nonprofit that preserves and disseminates the intellectual legacy of systems thinker Donella H. Meadows, hosting 1,000+ writings, online courses, and a leadership fellows program serving students, practitioners, and sustainability leaders worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Sustainability Education and Research

NAICS

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Forestry & Reforestation (BPAGAGAD)

Keywords

• Systems thinking resources
• Sustainability education
• Online learning courses
• Digital archive library
• Leadership fellowship programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Greenville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Support: The organization relies on donations and support from individuals and foundations to operate. The website features a 'Donate Now' option.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Donella Meadows Project preserves and makes accessible the intellectual legacy of systems thinker Donella (Dana) H. Meadows through a digital archive of 1,000+ writings, columns, and articles. It develops and distributes educational resources including online courses, the Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows Program, and systems thinking frameworks for sustainability practitioners, students, and changemakers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Dancing with Systems Online Course
• Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows Program
• Donella Meadows Digital Archive A comprehensive digital archive hosting over 1,000 writings of Donella Meadows including articles, columns, letters, and books, with over 700 articles available under Creative Commons license.
• Climate Change Mitigation Tool Climate simulation resource (En-ROADS) developed by Climate Interactive in collaboration with MIT, used to help visualize climate impacts.

Quantifiable outcome

• The Limits to Growth sold more than 9 million copies in 26 languages
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.

• Academy for Systemic ChangecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 October 2016On October 4, 2016, the Donella Meadows Institute legally combined with the Academy for Systemic Change, operating as the Academy for Systems Change. The combined organization's mission is to advance awareness-based systemic change for social, ecological, and economic wellbeing.
• Dartmouth College Rauner LibrarycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to make the entire 1972 Limits to Growth study freely available online. Dartmouth's Rauner Library hosts the digital archive.
• Balaton GroupflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounded in 1982 by Donella and Dennis Meadows, the Balaton Group is a cross-disciplinary global forum for leaders and thinkers in sustainable development. Members have advanced sustainability research via books, conferences, computer models, and educational games.
• Climate InteractivecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInitiated at the Sustainability Institute in collaboration with MIT, Climate Interactive creates climate simulators including En-ROADS, used at highest levels of government worldwide to help people visualize climate impacts.
• Cobb Hill Cohousing CommunitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounded by Donella Meadows in 1996, this 23-household eco-village on 270 acres in Hartland, Vermont includes a dairy farm, organic vegetable farm, and regenerating forest.
• The Sustainable Food Laboratory (SFL)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounded by Hal Hamilton (former Sustainability Institute executive director), SFL is a multi-stakeholder project making mainstream food systems more sustainable by bringing small-scale farming into the global food chain.
• The Sustainability Leaders NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInspired by Donella Meadows, Joanna Macy, and Aldo Leopold, SLN brings leadership approaches to individuals creating solutions for social and environmental challenges. Connects with 74 Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows.
• Camp SnowballminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne-week immersion experience teaching systems thinking and sustainability for educators, students, parents, and community members. Partner camp Camp Sunshine engages younger students K-5.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Post Carbon Institute: Nonprofit publishing think-piece content on sustainability, resilience, and systems change. Highly comparable as a small, content-led environmental nonprofit with similar educational mission and donation-based model.
• Schumacher Center for a New Economics: Small Vermont-based nonprofit advancing sustainable economics through thought leadership and convenings. Comparable in mission, regional base, and content-driven educational approach.
• Biomimicry Institute: Educational nonprofit promoting nature-inspired sustainability innovation. Comparable as a thought-leadership nonprofit using educational programming to advance environmental practice.
• Climate Interactive: MIT-affiliated nonprofit producing climate simulation tools including En-ROADS. Directly comparable as a sustainability education/spread-modeling nonprofit; also an active partner of the Donella Meadows Project.
• Center for a New American Dream: Small US nonprofit promoting sustainable consumption and systems-aware living. Comparable in size, mission framing, and donation-supported educational model.
• Tellus Institute: Research nonprofit applying systems thinking to global sustainability and economic policy. Highly comparable in intellectual methodology (systems analysis) and nonprofit research model.

Broad incumbents

• Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI): Larger, well-funded clean energy and sustainability think-and-do tank. Comparable in the broader sustainability nonprofit space but with much greater scale, corporate funding, and policy influence.
• World Resources Institute (WRI): Large global sustainability research nonprofit. Comparable in environmental/sustainability focus but operates at much larger scale with corporate and government funding.

Emerging players

• Earth Charter Initiative: International nonprofit advancing ethical and sustainability principles through educational programs. Comparable as a global sustainability education nonprofit built around an ethical/intellectual framework.

Others

• Academy for Systems Change: Parent/sister nonprofit entity that legally combined with the Donella Meadows Institute in 2016. Connected organization sharing leadership and mission around systems-change education.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/Academy_Change
• Facebookfacebook.com/DonellaMeadowsProject
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/donella-meadows-institute

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