Factnet (https:/www.factnet.org and also at (https://www.factnetglobal.org) is a successful 30+ year-old nonprofit educational organization. In 1993, the United States Internal Revenue Service gave Factnet a 501(c)(3) educational tax-exempt status.

Beginning in 1993, FACTNet has operated exclusively online. It provides all of its educational services exclusively through its websites on the Internet. Factnet operates several websites. Each website has a slightly different educational focus and mission.

Factnet’s multi-website educational mission should be thought of as:

"To facilitate public education and dialogue on topics of critical public concern."

A quick overview of our websites

Factnet includes the following websites as DBAs: Job One for Humanity, the Universe Institute, Universe Spirit, Universe College, and Universe Day. These websites cover the following public educational issues:

• • The human-caused climate change emergency and how to prepare for its escalating consequences (referenced on the thousands of pages of the Job One for Humanity website).

  • Sustainable Prosperity Principles (Universe Spirit and Job One for Humanity websites)

  • New breakthroughs in evolutionary science (The Universe Institute and Universe Spirit websites).

  • Healthy and safe spiritual and religious practices (On the several thousand pages of both our old and new UniverseSpirit websites).

  • Social and climate justice educational issues (All Websites).

  • Personal, business, community, and national emergency preparedness, adaptation, resilience-building and mirgration education relating to the global warming emergency. (The Job One for Humanity.)

  • Honoring the processes and beauty of evolutionary processes in the universe. (On the Universe Day International newsgroup.
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More about each of Factnet's educational websites

1. JobOneForHumanity.org (https://www.joboneforhumanity.org) offers cutting-edge analysis and education about the science of global warming and the climate change emergency. It began in 2009. Job One currently has about 7,000 members/subscribers.

The full mission for the Job One website is described here (https://www.joboneforhumanity.org/mission_job_one_for_humanity). We also have a Job One newsgroup located here with many followers (https://www.facebook.com/JobOneforHumanity/).

Through its Job One for Humanity website, Factnet facilitates education and public dialogue on the climate change emergency, climate change preparation, adaptation, and resilience-building for homes, businesses, farms, communities, and nations. It also educates about climate change justice and the coercive actions of the global fossil fuel cartel aimed at preventing or slowing critical global fossil fuel reductions to the required levels to save humanity and biological life.

Based on the results of years of climate change research, Job One strongly advocates for climate change justice, demanding justice for individual, business, and national victims of the criminal and coercive tactics employed by the global fossil fuel cartel, which is primarily responsible for the ongoing climate change emergency.

With Factnet's ongoing climate change education and climate justice work at Job One for Humanity, from 2009 to the present, it has continued to encourage individuals, businesses, and national governments to collaborate in fighting against the coercive tactics of the global fossil fuel cartel by filing lawsuits for damages related to climate change consequences. These actions are once again perfectly aligned with the meaning of the Factnet's long legal name and acronym (Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network).

2. UniverseInsitute.org (https://www.universeinstitute.org). The Universe Institute is a nonpartisan, 100% publicly funded, non-profit think tank founded in 2011. It plays a vital role at this critical evolutionary juncture, where humanity faces numerous planetary-scale challenges threatening its existence.

The Universe Institute offers unbiased analysis and solutions to pressing global crises, utilizing the innovative DMAP methodology (dialectical metasystemic analysis and problem-solving). The DMAP methodology consistently produces original analyses and solutions that are unattainable from other analysis methodologies, particularly when dealing with complex adaptive systems, such as climate change, the economy, the environment, politics, war, and our intricate social systems. 

The Universe Institute is the first think tank to adopt the breakthrough DMAP methodology for all its projects. The Universe Institute is conducting groundbreaking work using the tools of a dialectical meta-systemic analysis and problem-solving (DMAP) to address humanity's most pressing challenges.

The DMAP description is found at (https://www.universeinstitute.org/dialectical_metasystemic_analysis_methodology).

The Universe Institute began in 2011, and its mission is found here (https://www.universeinstitute.org/universe_institute_mission).

Some of the research and analysis papers provided by the Universe Institute are found here (https://www.universeinstitute.org/papers).

3. We currently have two Universe Spirit websites: An older one has thousands of pages at UniverseSpirit.org (https://universespirit.org), and our new one is under-construction at https://universespirit-factnet.nationbuilder.com. Universe Spirit is doing groundbreaking work in educating people about healthy and unhealthy spiritual practices and their vital role in addressing the many challenges humanity faces ahead. Our new website https://universespirit-factnet.nationbuilder.com also covers a new philosophy based on evolutionary science. Universe Spirit began as a website in 2003, but its development had been researched for about a decade prior.

The new mission of Universe Spirit is located here, (https://universespirit-factnet.nationbuilder.com/universe_spirit_mission).

We also have a Universe Spirit newsgroup located here (https://www.facebook.com/UniverseSpirit/) with many followers.

The Universe Spirit website has garnered many millions of views over the years, and we estimate that we currently have approximately 1,500 regular members and followers.

4. UniverseCollege.org (https://universespirit.org/universe-college-sustainable-lifestyles-and-livelihoods) offers a range of free courses on sustainable lifestyles and livelihoods.

(This website is temporarily offline for a significant Moodle software version upgrade and a major new course curriculum. We are targeting to be back online by January 1, 2026. This is a significant upgrade from the numerous years and courses offered on the older version of Universe College.

You can find out more information about the older version of Universe College here.)

5. TheUniverseDay.org (https://universespirit-factnet.nationbuilder.com/join_the_18th_annual_universe_day_celebration_saturday_april_5_2025_honor_the_gifts_beauty_and_origin_of_the_universe) brings everyone together once a year, similar to Earth Day, to celebrate the beauty and gifts of evolution and our universe.

Universe Day also has a Newsgroup located at this location (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100048065487025) with many followers.

A brief history of Factnet

From 1993 to 2002, Factnet focused on education on organizations using coercive influence tactics, such as destructive cults like Scientology, the Moonies, Hare Krishna, Neo-Nazi cults, satanic cults, etc. We provided online educational information on coercive influence tactics used in society and in destructive cults.

Although many new organizations have emerged to help manage this area, we continue to maintain a vast electronic archive of tens of thousands of pages containing all our cult-related information, which may be needed for litigation or future research. Much of that information has also been shared with other newer cult education websites, which have slightly different missions. 

This was challenging work; our website was under near continuous hacking attack, and many times staff members had to wear bulletproof vests or carry licensed concealed weapons as protection against the continuous stream of threats that came into this organization as we exposed destructive cults and dangerous behaviors of those cults. At one point, we had approximately 3 million posts in our website's bulletin board-style newsgroup software.

In 2002, Factnet shifted its mission focus from education about the tactics of coercive influence and destructive cultic behavior to the safer and equally important UniverseSpirit.org organization. Universe Spirit educates about what constitutes healthy and unhealthy religious practices, as well as the overarching meta-principles of universe evolution, and how these universal principles can contribute to a more equitable, sustainable, and just world. For most of the time, Universe Spirit was operational, Universe College functioned as a free online college.

During this time, the Universe Spirit organization also created Universe Day, an annual online event that has been held for 17 consecutive years. 

In 2009, Factnet expanded its mission focus to include a new educational area on the climate change emergency at Job One for Humanity.org.

In 2011, Factnet expanded its work to researching and solutions for global problems by utilizing the new DMAP analysis and problem-solving technology at the Universe Institute.

Factnet has received the highest possible nonprofit trust rating of Platinum Transparency from Guidestar/Candid. (GuideStar is an independent organization that examines and rates other nonprofit organizations' financial and administrative effectiveness and ethics in executing their missions).

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