Post Growth Institute (PGI)

Post Growth Institute (PGI) is an environmentalist advocacy organization that trains, consults, and advocates for what it describes as a sustainable, local, non-hierarchical, nonprofit economy that limits growth to the ability of the world to absorb the waste produced. It advocates for a no-growth and de-growth economy that distributes existing wealth based on what people can contribute. 1 2 3

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At-A-Glance

Type: Non-profit, 501(c)(3)
Issue Areas: Environmental Policy
Website: postgrowth.org
Affiliated with:

Progressive International

Executive Director:

Donnie Maclurcan

Location: Talent, OR View on map
Tax ID: 46-2878678
Most Recent Filing: 2024
Budget (2024): Assets: $216,485 Revenue: $457,975 Expenses: $304,117

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    Individuals and organizations located or operating in 19 countries worldwide constitute PGI, and the group conducts research, publishes articles, and makes presentations designed to promote community-based nonprofit enterprises. 1

    Initiatives

    Post Growth Fellowship

    Post Growth Institute (PGI) conducts a nine-month fellowship program that seeks content collaboration with thought leaders and activists based on the themes of post-capitalism and providing alternatives to economic growth with ideas from the Global South and marginalized communities. The organization spent $36,000 on 24 participants associated with the program in 2021. 4 5

    Free Money Day

    Post Growth Institute (PGI) designated September 15 as Free Money Day, a time for strangers to be given money or food and asked to pass half on to someone else. 6

    Co-Lab

    Post Growth Institute (PGI) spent $10,000 in 2021 on Co-Lab, an online meeting space for participants to share and collaborate on ideas to promote post-growth concepts. 7

    Non-Profit Assist

    Post Growth Institute (PGI) offers consultancy services through Non-Profit Assist to aid groups in the formation and growth of nonprofit entities. Non-Profit Assist charges a fee of $150 per hour. 8

    Offers and Needs Market (OANM)

    Offers and Needs Market is a two-hour process provided by Post Growth Institute (PGI) to facilitate the exchange of recipes, services, housing and more as a means of localizing the economy. PGI reported 1,500 participants at a cost of $60,000 in 2021. 9 10 11

    Related Organizations

    Post Growth Institute (PGI) is a member of the socialist Progressive International, an organization formed by the European radical-left political group Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM25) and the American left-wing think tank Sanders Institute that supports the end of capitalism and connects activists to advance this end. 10 12

    PGI formed a partnership with the Nano Foundation, a fee-free digital currency platform, and launched a WeNano app to map locations where people are donating and sharing money. 13

    Funding

    In 2021, Post Growth Institute (PGI) received a $150,000 grant from NoVo Foundation, a private foundation controlled by Peter Buffett, son of Warren Buffett, and his wife that supports left-of-center groups advocating for abortion access, LGBT issues, and left-wing economics. In 2019, PGI received  a $6,871 grant from RSF Social Finance Inc., a left-of center organization. In 2023, PGI received a $200,000 grant from One Project, an organization that promotes a collective economy over capitalism through what it calls a “Democratic Economy”. 14 15 16 17

    People

    Donnie Maclurcan is Post Growth Institute’s Argentina-based executive director. He is credited with the development of Offers and Needs Market, Free Money Day, the Post Growth Alliance, the (EN)Rich List, and the Not-for-Profit Way. He is an affiliate professor of economics at Southern Oregon University. 1

    Finances

    Post Growth Institute (PGI) reported $15,550 in program service revenue from fees for consulting, OANM, and speaker workshops in 2022. 18 It reported receiving $328,584 in that year, and reported making $204,430 in expenditures. 19

    Financial Statistics

    Total Assets

    Total Revenue

    Total Expenses

    YearTotal AssetsTotal RevenueTotal ExpensesFiling
    2024 $216,485 $457,975 $304,117 View
    2023 $62,627 $354,260 $409,142 View
    2022 $117,509 $344,134 $204,430 View

    Revenue Detail

    Expenses Detail

    Employee Compensation

    • Number of Employees: 9

    Highest Earning Employees

    EmployeeTitleTotal Compensation
    Danielle StannardBoard PresidentD of Equity$33,706

    Grant Activity

    All-time grants received statistics from Candid dataset:

    • Total Grant Value: $894,192
    • Number of Grants: 25
    • Number of Funders: 12

    Selection of highest value grants received from the last seven years:

    AmountYearFunderSubject
    $493,3212024 Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc.EMPLOYMENT & FINANCIAL INCLUSION, SOCIAL SCIENCE
    $200,0002023 National Philanthropic TrustPUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
    $50,0002024 Novo FoundationGENERAL SUPPORT
    $50,0002023 Novo FoundationGENERAL SUPPORT
    $25,0002024 The Ford Family FoundationA community of practice to nurture social vitality and wellbeing throughout rural Southern Oregon. The Offers and Needs Market (OANM) is a guided process where people meet (virtually, or in-person) to identify and exchange passions, knowledge, skills, resources, opportunities, and needs. Developed and iterated upon by the PGI over 13 years, it builds on insights from asset-based community development, human scale development, indigenous sharing circles, mutual aid, and online commerce, while complementing existing practices such as time banking, gift economics, and local exchange trading systems. Since 2015, over 33 OANMs have been run in Oregon, with ~1000 participants. Across rural Oregon, 36 people have completed the OANM facilitator training. In 2023, a seed sprouted with funding from the Oregon Community Foundation. In partnership with the SOESD Indian Education program, we ran an in-person facilitator training for Indigenous families. This grant would support the realization of a vision that’s already emerging: A flourishing garden of community exchange and cultural nourishment, tended by and for primarily Indigenous and Native American people and BIPOC in rural communities. We aim to enhance local leadership and support them to utilize the OANM as a practical response to the extractive and dehumanizing facets of capitalism. The OANM method: Empowers a practice of reciprocity, encouraging ways of exchange that exist outside the current norm, including bartering and gifting. Brings our humanity to the forefront, prompting exchanges that center our passions (vs titles), illuminating what already exists in our life (vs buying something new), and moving at the speed of trust (vs insufficient reflection time to determine levels of consent). If awarded, funds would cover the labor associated with hosting and facilitating the five events, training customization and curriculum development, and feedback integration and design iteration.
    $25,0002021 Novo FoundationGENERAL SUPPORT
    $15,0002024 The Christopher Reynolds Foundation IncGENERAL SUPPORT
    $10,0002024 New Economy Coalition, IncSUPPORTING GRANT
    $1,5002024 Community Foundation Sonoma Countyfor general operating support
    $1,5002023 Community Foundation Sonoma Countyfor general operating support
    $1,5002020 Community Foundation Sonoma CountyFor general operating support
    $1,0002024 The Haines Philanthropic FoundationGeneral & Unrestricted
    $1,0002021 Community Foundation Sonoma CountyFor general operating support
    $7502022 The Haines Philanthropic FoundationGeneral & Unrestricted
    $7502021 The Haines Philanthropic FoundationGeneral & Unrestricted
    $5002023 The Haines Philanthropic FoundationGeneral & Unrestricted
    $5002020 The Thalden FoundationPromote conservation of land

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    References

    1. “Who We Are.” Post Growth Institute, December 11, 2023. https://postgrowth.org/who-we-are/.
    2. “Our Charter.” Post Growth Institute, November 17, 2023. https://postgrowth.org/our-charter/.
    3. “Post Growth Economics.” Post Growth Institute, April 20, 2023. https://postgrowth.org/post-growth-economics/.
    4. “Post Growth Fellowship.” Post Growth Institute, November 29, 2023. https://postgrowth.org/post-growth-fellowship/.
    5. “Post Growth Institute” Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax. (Form 990), 2021, Part III, Line 4b
    6. Institute, Post Growth. “Post Growth Ripples: September 2023.” Medium, September 18, 2023. https://medium.com/postgrowth/post-growth-ripples-september-2023-4fde5f11aff5.
    7. “Post Growth Institute” Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax. (Form 990), 2021, Part III, Line 4c.
    8. “Nonprofit Assist.” Post Growth Institute, November 17, 2023. https://postgrowth.org/nonprofit-assist/.
    9. Strode, Mike, Ebony Gustave, and Renata Ballesteros López. “The Offers and Needs Market.” The Offers and Needs Market, January 25, 2024. https://offersandneeds.com/.
    10. “Monthly Offers and Needs Market – 1st Session.” The Offers and Needs Market, January 17, 2023. https://offersandneeds.com/product/monthly-offers-and-needs-market-1st-session/.
    11. “Post Growth Institute” Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax. (Form 990) 2021. Part III, Line 4a.
    12. Institute, Post Growth. “Post Growth Ripples: January 2021.” Medium, February 11, 2021. https://medium.com/postgrowth/postgrowth-ripples-january-2021-2a07797aad95.
    13. “Nano Foundation: Goals, Alliances, Team and Advisors.” Nano.org. Accessed February 6, 2024. https://nano.org/en/nano-foundation
    14. “What We Do.” One Project, July 21, 2023. https://oneproject.org/what-we-do/.
    15. Institute, Post Growth. “Post Growth Ripples: December 2021.” Medium, December 22, 2021. https://medium.com/postgrowth/post-growth-ripples-december-2021-38f3c28db882.
    16. Institute, Post Growth. “Post Growth Ripples: January 2023.” Medium, January 25, 2023. https://medium.com/postgrowth/post-growth-ripples-january-2023-31f2c64da200.
    17. “Rudolf Steiner Foundation Inc.” Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax (Form 990), 2018, Schedule I, Part II.
    18. Post Growth Institute, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990), 2022, Part I Line 9 https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/462878678/202313199349322816/full
    19. Post Growth Institute, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990), 2022, Part I https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/462878678/202313199349322816/full