Helping Awesome People Prosper Intentionally
PROSPER (V.)
mid-14c., prosperen, "be successful, thrive, advance in any good thing,"
from Old French prosperer (14c.) and directly from Latin prosperare "cause to succeed, render happy,"
Mission
To cultivate healthy communities and cultures that help people and planet prosper.
Vision
Belonging, together.
A beautifully diverse, collaborative, and joyful future inspired by the traditions of our past(s) and informed by the realities of our present. A liberated future where we use our tools and gifts to remember how to be with one another, feed ourselves, and care for the living planet that is our home.
Intro to HAPPI
HAPPI is a northern California-based nonprofit devoted to cultivating healthy communities and cultures that help people and planet prosper.
At our core, we craft language, metaphor, and frameworks to tell empowering stories that help people make sense of the world they're in and imagine their way into a better one. We are a storytelling and relationship based organization that’s here to catalyze a shift from a culture of hyper-consumption and individualism to one of creation and interdependence.
Our work moves through two intertwined pathways: alternative education and social ecosystem tending.
The first uses cooking and home-based metaphors to help people, with an emphasis on young adults, reconnect with their own agency and hunger for a better future so they might begin creating lives filled with purpose and belonging. You can learn more about past programs here.
The second cultivates a living web of people, places, and projects working toward collective flourishing — This is done through fiscal sponsorship, facilitating intergenerational events, creating new holidays/traditions, and longterm relational investment.
These two pathways feed each other: Our educational programs are made possible by our social ecosystem and the relational web is nourished by the offerings of the young people we assist. This reciprocity is the engine of our work.
Our belief is simple: People are happi when they can be fully be themselves while belonging and contributing to something larger than themselves.
Our Theory of Liberation
When we learn and remember how to feed ourselves, each other, and the places we belong to, the systems that feed off of our energy will either have to totally transform themselves in order to align with life, or they will starve and perish.
Essentially: