Together, we are all ONE.
We are not defined by what we have been given, but by our intentions and ability to direct or manage our attention.
We all share similar essential basic needs. We cannot find personal or communal peace without fair and just access for all to resources provided by abundant nature.
In order to give, to serve appropriately, we begin with attention to the ground, to understand the root causes of disharmony, hardship and realities facing our communities.
To appreciate the fruits, we must tend to the roots.
We work to nurture a grassroots transformation toward a more diverse, more sustainable, and more inclusive economy across the coalfields of Central Appalachia and beyond.
Our core strategy is to partner with individuals and organizations to build and lead initiatives that regenerate community, the planet, and self. This approach is much like that of a farmer, who cultivates the ground and tends to the roots so that there can be healthy growth. We foster a strong entrepreneurial environment to ensure change is both systemic and transformational.
Our supportive methods include collective voice and policy development, leadership development, building skills and offering technical assistance, increasing access for low-income community members, leveraging innovative capital, and engaging other funders. This means energizing communities to connect their priorities to local entrepreneurial solutions and accomplishing cumulative, long-term sustainable outcomes.
founding priciple
The One Foundation was founded on the principle of Rahm, the experience that compels us to give.
The understanding that each human is endowed at birth with the potential of pure heart and clear mind in order to lift one another out of suffering.
Guiding principles
The One Foundation seeks partners with a commitment to the values that we, too, hold - like sustainability, equity, inclusion and service to others. In partnership we seek first light and common understanding, before we engage in support.
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Nature is mercifully responsive to all our needs with its abundance. We acknowledge the gifts we have received and give with caring intention and intelligent response.
A world view steeped in gratitude and freed from illusory identification of a limited self, presuming lordship, ownership and permanence, none of which essentially exists. To access compassion and truly give, the appreciation of all that we have and recognition that all energy must flow and can not be captured or hoarded, is key to harmonious life. What we have, includes the inner gifts we received, such as intelligence, creative ability, genuineness and authenticity, and other qualities ingrained in our potential, as well as the gifts accumulated during life time, like education, wealth, and all gained as the result of our inner search to discover realities we live in.
Responsive intelligence (or intelligent response) entails seeing the roots and all facts related to the ground of the ecosystems. With heartfelt care, we plan, prioritize, focus, and manage as a good farmer would, knowing that nature is abundant and will give, while we align resources and the needed feedings appropriately to support that process. Each plant or tree, grows by its own laws; we do not grow it, we simply contribute to the process; everything else, including the fruits, the results, the effects, is not ours to control. We relish the encounter where fruits and needs meet. In reality each project has a community, which constitutes it’s ecosystem, a clear vision arising from a caring responsive awareness of the needs and how the fruits of our projects will positively feed those needs. Intelligence includes skills, as well as knowledge of each stage of the project needing a different kind of attention, as a farmer’s tending differs in winter, spring, summer and fall.
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We give attention to the causes and seek to serve the roots, tending to the needs of the ground within each field.
Freed intelligence seeks to understand the causes and recognizes the importance of the ground which includes the earth wherefrom nature grows, each seed bearing the potential for a specific fruit. The seeds of intentions arising in response to evolving needs, uunbridled from concocted projections of ego attachments.
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Wholesome honest giving starts from within where the caring heart seeks the clear vision for appropriate response. To be able to truly give, we need to develop compassion and heartfelt caring within as individuals and entrepreneurs.
The primary responsibility of each human is towards quality and depth of awareness she carries. We generate our own reality through how we experience and interpret the unfolding of events surrounding us. The inquisitive self seeks the truth of each event where the cause becomes self evident empowering response in universal goodness and love.
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Witnessing the interconnected reciprocity within each ecosystem, we engage in partnerships respecting all contributors to the evolving vision.
The key and ground of partnership is the “Unified Evolving Vision”. The Vision is the light where the good intentioned resources meet the needs, or the fruits of a project heals the individuals and communities. Actualizing that light requires partnerships, where resources meet the initiatives directed by well executed plans with necessary skills and knowhow. Every ecosystem is a partnership, where human collaboration, brings higher potentials and inspiration for miraculous harmonious outcomes.
Healthy partnerships seek light and understanding first, before attempting to gather resources to execute. The initial common light is held as the sacred ground connecting partners in true unity.
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The spirit is activated by intention based on the light of understanding. When the clean intention (loving) meets the light of why and how (appropriate response), the heart is activated, actualizing the alive spirit. The essential spirit is loving towards needs and lacks, where the thirsty roots are, in an enlightened response with care.
Today’s misguided spirit of competitive domination and hoarding, is example of ugly male who is self centered and does not know how to give. Due to this reality the feminine is neglected and suppressed in her receptivity. How challenging the earth that has been rendered barren to the merciful rain. The rule of misguided patriarchy is failing and the failure is being exposed in our time. We can not ignore this reality of our modern industrial exploitations; we can not buy into the dominance of money which is the prime tool of this false dominion, leading to mass extinctions, poverty, wars, and all forms of separation in a creation that demands integration, harmony and unity.
featured partners
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Founder’s Story
Marz Attar
From the early age, I was tempted to seek freedom and light while maneuvering through the demands of modern life.
Based on my entrepreneurial nature and good fortune, I am committed to One Foundation & The Attar Family DAF, in search of intelligent creative altruism.
Foundation Team
Marz Attar
Marz Attar has received many gifts in his life. A native of Iran, he completed an MBA at Harvard as a Ford Fellow in the late ‘60s. By the late 1980s, Attar founded Highland Cellular Inc. in West Virginia, a franchisee of Cellular One, and worked to build wireless cellular communication across southern West Virginia and northwestern Virginia. With the capital, the many gifts, he received from selling his company in 2007, which later merged with AT&T, Attar co-founded the One Foundation in 2010.
As a lifelong spiritual seeker, Attar is guided by the deepest teachings of mankind - love, brotherhood and caring for your neighbor. And throughout its existence the mission at the One Foundation has remained the same - To help create a world where compassion, altruism and love of one’s neighbor can flourish and thrive so that humanity’s paradigm can start to shift away from greed and conquest to peace and harmony. The One Foundation is both regionally and internationally minded, dedicating resources and mentorship to helping grassroots organizations working throughout central Appalachia and beyond to nurture transformation from the ground up by helping regenerate community, the planet and self.
Tom attar
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Charlee Fox
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Florian Schleiff
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