Support FLOW's Peace Through Commerce Program

We are happy to announce that we have met and surpassed the $75,000 Peace Through Commerce Challenge Grant and have raised more than $180,000 to advance develop our Peace Through Commerce program.

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Welcome to Peace Through Commerce

"Something extraordinary is happening in global development circles. For the first time since the 19th century, progressive activists are embracing trade as a positive tool for change. The global NGO Oxfam is the latest progressive interest group to promote peace through commerce, launching a campaign to end agricultural subsidies in the developed world to provide opportunities for independent producers in the developing world. This could represent a fundamental turning of the tide from a world based on nationalism and violence to a world based on commerce and peace.

Recent research by Columbia University political science professor Erik Gartzke shows that economic freedom is about fifty times more effective than democracy in diminishing violent conflict. The democratic peace turns out to be the free market peace.”

~ Michael Strong, CEO, FLOW

FLOW is a transpartisan initiative, founded by innovative educator Michael Strong and John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, dedicated to “liberating the entrepreneurial spirit for good” and focusing it on the goals of sustainable peace, prosperity, and happiness for all in our lifetime.

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Peace Through Commerce - Testimonials

The inaugural Peace Through Commerce event on September 30th in Washington, DC was a great success. Here's what some of the participants have to say about it.

"Fantastic mix of people -- from all walks of life, all ages, all
backgrounds. Also a great mix of ideas about what peace REALLY means, within and without. Manifesting peace in the world seems at once daunting, imperative, and inevitable. We got some excellent ideas about how to move it along, perhaps a bit more quickly." ~Bob

"Peace through commerce embraces collaboration, prosperity consciousness, diversity, ethical business and other principles you may also hold sacred in your own business.   It was exciting to interact with people from different walks of life.  What we had in common was shared values, energy, enthusiasm and openness – belief that together we CAN change the world.  It was invigorating and inspiring, to say the least!" ~Margarita

"It was an inspiring, fun, and gracefully produced interactive gathering, and the people we met are resonant ones indeed.  I've rarely found so many delightful minds and spirits in a single gathering. To sum up in one word... BRAVO!  And a second...Encore!!!" ~Mark