Peace Centers International Information

Peace Centers International, Inc. is a social venture we know will benefit you and your community enormously because it focuses on a solution to one of world's greatest quandaries: the search for inner and world peace. Peace Centers International, Inc. is a radical new idea in the personal transformation business, what we call a social franchise(SM). We have chosen to create this model because we feel an urgent need to scale up and replicate a program that has proven itself successful on a local level. We have committed ourselves to defining and offering an "upscalable," replicable, financially viable package of information, programs, events and other tools to experience peaceful living across cultural lines. To the extent these programs produce changed lives, we have an obligation to scale up and expand our social impact. We believe the social franchise model is the most efficient and effective way to accomplish this mission. We also believe it will save an enormous amount of time and energy that otherwise might be spent reinventing the wheel. What is a Social Franchise (SM)? Social franchising (SM) as we define it, is a contract-based cooperation of social entrepreneurs with a central support unit, uniform quality standards, that are supported by a common philosophy. Social franchising (SM) is a process by which the nonprofit corporation Peace Centers International, Inc. in partnership with the for-profit Centers for Peace, LLC increases the quality and impact of our products and services through replication of proven models. We do this by enabling others, Peace Center social "franchisees" (SM) to use the tested systems, and brand name in return for social results, system development and information on impact.