INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE EDUCATION

Our ultimate mission is to educate people to create a world in which all humans, animals, and nature can thrive. We seek to prepare a generation of solutionaries, young people able to identify unjust, unhealthy, unsustainable systems and work collaboratively, creatively, and ethically to transform them. To achieve this mission in the years ahead, we have identified the following three major goals:

1. To enhance solutionary thinking and action by making our 14-step Solutionary Framework foundational to an increasing number and diversity of schools, colleges, institutions, and communities nationally and worldwide.

2. To expand the leadership of the Humane Education movement by increasing the number and diversity of students enrolling in our unique graduate programs (M.Ed., M.A., Ed.D. Graduate Certificate, Ed.D.), which we offer through an affiliation with Antioch University. These graduate programs prepare educators, activists, and changemakers to teach about the interconnected issues of human rights, environmental ethics, and animal protection and enable others to be solutionaries for a more just and healthy world.

3. To contribute meaningfully to social and racial justice by ensuring our organization is inclusive and in the service of and with diverse communities and those most affected by injustice.

We seek to build relationships with the greatest number and diversity of people and provide them with the easiest pathways for becoming "solutionaries" and solving the problems about which they most care.

1. Our Solutionary materials and professional development - We offer free, digital solutionary guidebooks for teachers and students, a Solutionary Micro-credential Program for teachers, and free lesson plans and units from our award-winning online resource center to enable anyone, anywhere, to bring a clear and powerful process to others so that together we can bring solutionary thinking and action to bear on local and global challenges.
2. Graduate programs are online so that we can prepare educators from around the world.
3. Free lesson and unit plans, other resources, and free digital Solutionary Guidebooks - again so that anyone, anywhere can use these proven strategies to bring solutionary thinking and action to bear on problems.
4. Building and curating a Solutionary YouTube Channel to showcase student solutionary work, rather than require in-person events that limit the reach.
5. Partner with a diversity of schools, districts, and counties. Currently, we are working with San Mateo County, CA, which is using our Solutionary approach as the philosophy and framework for their entire county serving 23 school districts and 113,000 children. The Office of Education is using IHE president, Zoe Weil's book "The World Becomes What We Teach: Educating a Generation of Solutionaries" as the text. They are bringing us in to work with curriculum and instructional deveopers, administrators, and teachers, and hold an annual Solutionary Fair to showcase student work. They have deeply trained hundreds of teachers who have developed Solutionary Units for their classrooms and are delivering them to students. We are assessing these in order to demonstrate and then spread this kind of education. We are also working with many other teachers, schools, and Oceanside School District on Long Island, NY, which is making our solutionary approach integral to the K12 social studies curriculum.
6. Provide high impact outreach: keynotes, workshops, articles, books to spread solutionary thinking and action as far as possible.IHE's president writes books, articles, keynotes conferences, leads workshops, and blogs for Psychology Today, and reaches hundreds of thousands through her personal outreach,.

1. IHE's President is considered the global leader in comprehensive humane education. She is a prolific writer and sought-after speaker. Her first (of six) TEDx talks became among the 50 most popular one year after its upload. She keynotes conferences across the U.S. and overseas.
2. IHE's graduate programs are unique in the world and its faculty is superb and represent leaders in their respective fields.
3. IHE is the world leader in solutionary-focused humane education connecting human rights, environmental preservation, and animal protection. Our graduates (of our Master's degree and PhD programs, our online courses, our workshops) have brought humane education to schools, communities, and countries across the globe. Our work has launched many non-profits and placed humane education leaders in many others.
4. IHE has a dedicated and excellent volunteer board; many long term major donors; and a growing community of alumni.
5. IHE continues to partner with people and organizations that expand our reach and our learning.
6. IHE's revenue comes from a combination of donations, grants, and program revenue making us a stable organization since our founding in 1996.

IHE has accomplished the following:
• Created the first graduate programs in comprehensive humane education in the U.S. offered online.
• Created acclaimed humane education workshops.
• Brought the concept of educating a #SolutionaryGeneration to the world.
• Graduated hundreds of people from our graduate programs and online courses who have gone on to bring humane education to classrooms, communities, businesses, the arts, and founding and/or leading non-profit education programs.
• Reached hundreds of thousands through our free online resources at our award-winning resource center.
• Reached hundreds of thousands through our president's TEDx talks.
• Reached tens of thousands through keynote addresses at education and other conferences.
• Created a field of study - comprehensive humane education - and the books and thinking to accompany it.
• Inspired and prepared a county, districts, and many schools and teachers to bring humane education and solutionary practices to thousands of students.

What lies ahead is not simply more of this, but a tipping point in which solutionary practices are deeply embedded in educational systems, preparing students to solve the challenges we face in the world. Moreover, our world helps activists and changemakers to be systems-thinkers and more strategic as they understand the needs of all stakeholders and build bridges for successful collaboration and true solutionary thinking rather than perpetual side-taking.