Global Oneness Project

The New Road Map Foundation creates and disseminates practical tools and innovative approaches to personal and cultural change.  It’s premier tool and methodology is a practical, hands-on program developed by the late Joe Dominquez, for individuals to fundamentally alter and improve their relationship to money, and how their material lives are organized.  This “new road map” to financial intelligence, financial integrity, and financial independence frees people to orient their lives through conscientious decisions that are based in their core values and life goals.

Founded in 1984 by a cohort of newly financially-independent volunteers NRM was incorporated to organize the dissemination of the Financial Integrity curricula, and funnel income related to the educational program back into world in the form of grants and volunteer-based projects. Over the next 20+ years, NRM gave over a $million to environmental and social justice organizations, and helped launch other sustainability projects and associations like the Conversation Cafe' initiative, the Simplicity Forum, the Turning Tide Coalition, and the Center for A New American Dream. In 2007, the NRM Board of Directors decided to refocus its resources on helping individuals achieve financial integrity through it's flagship program.  While on the surface the methodology is a simple path to financial solvency, the implications of an ever-increasing segment of society that is free to look beyond their own needs to the needs of others is radical.

Joe Dominguez was born in 1938 into Spanish Harlem, New York City.  At the age of 31 he retired from a successful career as a Wall Street financial analyst, having cracked the code, not of Wall Street but of money itself.  Joe then dedicated himself to a life of voluntary service.  He began teaching friends and acquaintances informally, so that they could also free themselves from worrying about jobs, in order to pursue callings.  By 1980, what had been informal advisory sessions to associations and “cultural creatives”, were developed into a formal seminar called, Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence, introducing people to a new road map for conducting their economic lives. (Now available in audio course format.) 

In 1992, Vicki Robin, one of the founders of the New Road Map Foundation, co-authored with Joe the book Your Money or Your Life, Transforming Your Relationship With Money And Achieving Financial Independence.   Quickly a New York Times best-seller, the book not only outlined the process of achieving financial intelligence, integrity and independence, but also spoke to the environmental imperative of breaking free from auto-pilot consumerism. 

Joe’s methodology was not based on making a killing on the stock market – it was based on unhooking individual economic needs from the mythos around money.  The relationship an individual has with money encompasses more than just earning, spending, debts and savings; it also includes the time these functions take in life. In addition, the relationship with money is reflected in the sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that comes from those economic activities having integrity in their connection to family, community and planet.

The New Road Map teaches that economic prosperity is based on addressing real needs, real values, and real daily behaviors.  What it teaches is not really a formula for acquiring wealth, but rather a curriculum to develop critical thinking for how to create prosperity. It is about integration, a 'whole systems' approach to life, and it achieves that through practical, penetrating exercises of daily living.  It guides people away from the rat race and back to basics -- the basics of making their earning, spending, and investing of life energy (primarily in the form of money) into a clear mirror of their own life values and purpose. It is about the most basic of freedoms -- the freedom to think for oneself.