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The Future of Philanthropy: Innovation, Networks, Thought Leaders and the Fringe:
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006796.html
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006796.html
I just ordered 2 of these Make your Own Charity Box craft kits, for my niece and nephew to do as an activity this Thanksgiving!
I think it's a perfect time and a great fun way to introduce the concept of giving. This is actually the brainchild and design of my artist friend Michelle, who started a company GivingArts which focuses on different ways to engage children in philanthropy and caring for others from a young age, from conscious party favors to creative workshop projects. As you can imagine, I totally love the concept.
Please consider ordering some craft kits for any kids in your life this Thanksgiving/Holiday Season!:
givingarts.com
I think it's a perfect time and a great fun way to introduce the concept of giving. This is actually the brainchild and design of my artist friend Michelle, who started a company GivingArts which focuses on different ways to engage children in philanthropy and caring for others from a young age, from conscious party favors to creative workshop projects. As you can imagine, I totally love the concept.
Please consider ordering some craft kits for any kids in your life this Thanksgiving/Holiday Season!:
givingarts.com
test your smarts @ FreeRice.com
Nov. 1st, 2007 12:26 am"Question: What does your vocabulary skill have to do with third world hunger? Until now, not much. But thanks to the good folks at FreeRice.com, now you can help alleviate malnutrition in developing nations by simply testing your vocab skills.
Sounds crazy, but it's working. In the couple weeks since it's launch, almost 200 million grains of rice have been donated. (The rice will be distributed by the United Nations World Food Programme.)
What does "initiate" mean?
A. Strew
B. Nap
C. Begin
D. Engage
If you got that right, you just donated 10 grains of rice to a hungry person in the developing world. It's that easy. For each question you get right, 10 more grains of rice gets donated (thanks to the advertisers on the site). Like the GMAT, as you get more answers right, your questions get harder (but don't fear, they get easier as you answer questions incorrectly).
It's really addictive -- I played till I had donated 1000 grains of rice, then had to stop myself and get back to work. It also appeals to the competitors among us, as your vocabulary skill gets ranked by level (levels range from 1 - 50, with few people topping 48 -- current score to beat is 40).
This is the kind of innovative, creative solution we love to support, so check it out. (And let us know if you top our level 40 rating!)"
-by Rebecca Carpenter from the Razoo GoodHappens Blog
avaD's secret competitive personality #603 resurfaces...ok,so far My level is 41, go beat me you ninnies. poke.poke.go on I dare ya..and nO cheating.;)
see you on the spellingbee courts.ninnies.
Sounds crazy, but it's working. In the couple weeks since it's launch, almost 200 million grains of rice have been donated. (The rice will be distributed by the United Nations World Food Programme.)
What does "initiate" mean?
A. Strew
B. Nap
C. Begin
D. Engage
If you got that right, you just donated 10 grains of rice to a hungry person in the developing world. It's that easy. For each question you get right, 10 more grains of rice gets donated (thanks to the advertisers on the site). Like the GMAT, as you get more answers right, your questions get harder (but don't fear, they get easier as you answer questions incorrectly).
It's really addictive -- I played till I had donated 1000 grains of rice, then had to stop myself and get back to work. It also appeals to the competitors among us, as your vocabulary skill gets ranked by level (levels range from 1 - 50, with few people topping 48 -- current score to beat is 40).
This is the kind of innovative, creative solution we love to support, so check it out. (And let us know if you top our level 40 rating!)"
-by Rebecca Carpenter from the Razoo GoodHappens Blog
avaD's secret competitive personality #603 resurfaces...ok,so far My level is 41, go beat me you ninnies. poke.poke.go on I dare ya..and nO cheating.;)
see you on the spellingbee courts.ninnies.
Kiva in SecondLife
Sep. 15th, 2007 11:14 am"Kiva.org, a micro-finance organization, has funded nearly 17,0000 loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries and last week crossed the $11 million rank. Kiva.org has already had a very big year, funding about $9 million worth of loans so far, and having been featured in the mainstream media including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Oprah and on ABC News. With the assistance of dedicated volunteers, Kiva also maintains a presence on different social networking sites and has recently established a presence on Second Life through the Techsoup Nonprofits Commons Project..."
please read the full post on Beth Kantor's Blog :
Kiva in Second Life: Interview With Official SL Volunteers
please read the full post on Beth Kantor's Blog :
Kiva in Second Life: Interview With Official SL Volunteers
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10percentclubI find it hopeful that What Should a Billionaire Give – and What Should You?
was the cover article of the New York Times Magazine (December 17, 2006). just some more food for thought/discussion on philanthropy and the individual..
"In any case, even if we were to grant that people deserve every dollar they earn, that doesn’t answer the question of what they should do with it. We might say that they have a right to spend it on lavish parties, private jets and luxury yachts, or, for that matter, to flush it down the toilet. But we could still think that for them to do these things while others die from easily preventable diseases is wrong. In an article I wrote more than three decades ago, at the time of a humanitarian emergency in what is now Bangladesh, I used the example of walking by a shallow pond and seeing a small child who has fallen in and appears to be in danger of drowning. Even though we did nothing to cause the child to fall into the pond, almost everyone agrees that if we can save the child at minimal inconvenience or trouble to ourselves, we ought to do so. Anything else would be callous, indecent and, in a word, wrong. The fact that in rescuing the child we may, for example, ruin a new pair of shoes is not a good reason for allowing the child to drown. Similarly if for the cost of a pair of shoes we can contribute to a health program in a developing country that stands a good chance of saving the life of a child, we ought to do so...." read the whole article HERE
was the cover article of the New York Times Magazine (December 17, 2006). just some more food for thought/discussion on philanthropy and the individual..
"In any case, even if we were to grant that people deserve every dollar they earn, that doesn’t answer the question of what they should do with it. We might say that they have a right to spend it on lavish parties, private jets and luxury yachts, or, for that matter, to flush it down the toilet. But we could still think that for them to do these things while others die from easily preventable diseases is wrong. In an article I wrote more than three decades ago, at the time of a humanitarian emergency in what is now Bangladesh, I used the example of walking by a shallow pond and seeing a small child who has fallen in and appears to be in danger of drowning. Even though we did nothing to cause the child to fall into the pond, almost everyone agrees that if we can save the child at minimal inconvenience or trouble to ourselves, we ought to do so. Anything else would be callous, indecent and, in a word, wrong. The fact that in rescuing the child we may, for example, ruin a new pair of shoes is not a good reason for allowing the child to drown. Similarly if for the cost of a pair of shoes we can contribute to a health program in a developing country that stands a good chance of saving the life of a child, we ought to do so...." read the whole article HERE
I've been delaying a write-up on this because it felt so immense and I didn't know how to begin...but I realize as more and more time passes it does not seem easier so I'd better just give it a try and get out some of the highlights, even if just to sketch it out and fill in later...please check back from time to time as I fill-in and edit- I'm hoping the post will evolve into a good info resource/memory palace... ( details,pics and hotlinkyness )
More on Omidyar.net
Oct. 12th, 2005 12:57 pm"...Omidyar is pioneering a third way, a philanthropy that's fanatically bottom-up. It's anti-vision. Anti-dictate. And, in a sense, Omidyar isn't even choosing how his $10 billion is given away -- or to what causes it goes. He wants you to do that. How? For starters, there's omidyar.net, where Pierre and Pam recently opened up a conversation with the world to discuss the direction of their philanthropy. People already engaged in solving social problems know a lot more about how to fix them, they figure, than a cloistered elite ever could...."
read more: The eBay Way
read more: The eBay Way
Serendipitous the Third
Jan. 19th, 2005 03:37 pmSo after the my moodcrash yesterday I went to the gym to run out some of the frustration on the gerbilwheel (treadmill). And halfway into my run, the treadmill just stops. Completely.
Won't start.
SO, annoyed, I move to another treadmill across the way. And there's an Esquire mag there, something I would never have picked up on my own to leaf through...but hey it's there so I do.
And I fall upon this article that seems Damn appropriate to all that's been running through me:
The Next Way to Give
Copyright (c) Esquire 2004
Pierre Omidyar is the modest man who founded eBay and now has $10 billion with which to change the world. The thing is, he wants you to tell him how he should give his money away.
By John H. Richardson
Pierre Omidyar sits in front of me in a blue shirt and khaki pants, looking like nobody special. "I think we're on to something," he says. "It's about changing the way we think about our roles in communities and changing the way we think about fellow human beings."
He's modest but self-assured, cordial but caught up in his thoughts. Every so often, I have to remind myself:
The last time this thirty-seven-year-old man had a big idea, it made him $10 billion.
"It's a pretty hard problem," he says. "But if we move the needle just a tiny bit, it could have great societal impact."
His plan for moving that needle:
Give away all of his money in his lifetime.
Reach down into the very source code of humanity and change a few critical lines. ..."
(read the whole article here )
Coincidence? Or the universe nudging me/us to go check it out and think about joining in this discussion/forum?
Won't start.
SO, annoyed, I move to another treadmill across the way. And there's an Esquire mag there, something I would never have picked up on my own to leaf through...but hey it's there so I do.
And I fall upon this article that seems Damn appropriate to all that's been running through me:
The Next Way to Give
Copyright (c) Esquire 2004
Pierre Omidyar is the modest man who founded eBay and now has $10 billion with which to change the world. The thing is, he wants you to tell him how he should give his money away.
By John H. Richardson
Pierre Omidyar sits in front of me in a blue shirt and khaki pants, looking like nobody special. "I think we're on to something," he says. "It's about changing the way we think about our roles in communities and changing the way we think about fellow human beings."
He's modest but self-assured, cordial but caught up in his thoughts. Every so often, I have to remind myself:
The last time this thirty-seven-year-old man had a big idea, it made him $10 billion.
"It's a pretty hard problem," he says. "But if we move the needle just a tiny bit, it could have great societal impact."
His plan for moving that needle:
Give away all of his money in his lifetime.
Reach down into the very source code of humanity and change a few critical lines. ..."
(read the whole article here )
Coincidence? Or the universe nudging me/us to go check it out and think about joining in this discussion/forum?
As you may have noticed, I hadn't been able to post about the tsunami. Been working up to it I guess?....*sigh*...trying to find perspective.
The tsunami is a recurring element that I've been dreaming about for many many years. And though I dreamt that NYC was destroyed exactly one month before 9/11....and I've dreamt so many strange encounters the day or week before they happen....and I really really am starting to accept this as part of my life...I never wanted to think of the tsunami dreams as anything but metaphor. Sure, there was a part of me that supposed that it might be the way I would die eventually...because the visuals and details were so VIVID....but mostly I thought of it differently. Signifying metaphorical change...evolution of perspective...
but
Now this.
What may be the greatest natural disaster of the century?....ugh...*exhale*
So, great. Thanks. Thanks for the warnings. I feel so..so...helpful. really.
*choking on sarcasm*
*sigh*
Ok,let's move on to dream visions that I do feel optimistic about. And let's give them a bit more seriousness since well...I'm not about to risk it, you do as you want, call me a loon or a witch or whatever. From another very powerful dream...I KNOW that the thing that will/can save humanity is 'when everyone decides to do something together' for the benefit of humanity. And this is where I got the idea for the 10% club. A voluntary donation vow that links the individual with the fates of those around the world. This tsunami may actually turn out to be the tipping point I've been imagining that would have to happen...the trigger in our awareness of how much we can do...if Everyone gives a little. The dream said it would be with the power of the web.(this before I was using computers btw)and before I read about Buckminster Fuller (I was led to HIM by a short dream of NYC under a dome...which I later found an exact image of in a book..a proposal by Fuller). Ok so we see dream patterns, no? Wouldn't you be paying attention to certain things if you were me?
SO, with great anticipation and hope I am watching the counter on Amazon.com....which records the Millions that have been collected just through that site alone for the relief effort. (Last I checked it was at over 13 million). I donated my 10% of my paycheck through there and will donate the 10% from all the art checks once I get them (should be this week)also through there....just to help move that number along. Because I NEED this to reach the tipping point. IF Amazon.com will be the portal for the time being, great. It's already set up...and has the trust of millions of people to handle their credit cards. (In the dream there is another portal...one I'm supposed to be working on believe it or not).
*sigh*
OK,let's do it. Let's show how much we can do collaboratively with our Threads of Empathy.
THis has to be ongoing. The nature of this disaster is so huge...what has to be done to help people get back on their feet goes way past immediate water and food. Let's do it. Let's do what needs to be done and keep doing it.
Because they are us and we Are them. And we Must.
TO think we are separated is Illusion.
I may not know exactly what is in store for us all....but I have had a glimpse of something wonderful that is Possible. Is a Choice. I really hope we decide to do it.
The tsunami is a recurring element that I've been dreaming about for many many years. And though I dreamt that NYC was destroyed exactly one month before 9/11....and I've dreamt so many strange encounters the day or week before they happen....and I really really am starting to accept this as part of my life...I never wanted to think of the tsunami dreams as anything but metaphor. Sure, there was a part of me that supposed that it might be the way I would die eventually...because the visuals and details were so VIVID....but mostly I thought of it differently. Signifying metaphorical change...evolution of perspective...
but
Now this.
What may be the greatest natural disaster of the century?....ugh...*exhale*
So, great. Thanks. Thanks for the warnings. I feel so..so...helpful. really.
*choking on sarcasm*
*sigh*
Ok,let's move on to dream visions that I do feel optimistic about. And let's give them a bit more seriousness since well...I'm not about to risk it, you do as you want, call me a loon or a witch or whatever. From another very powerful dream...I KNOW that the thing that will/can save humanity is 'when everyone decides to do something together' for the benefit of humanity. And this is where I got the idea for the 10% club. A voluntary donation vow that links the individual with the fates of those around the world. This tsunami may actually turn out to be the tipping point I've been imagining that would have to happen...the trigger in our awareness of how much we can do...if Everyone gives a little. The dream said it would be with the power of the web.(this before I was using computers btw)and before I read about Buckminster Fuller (I was led to HIM by a short dream of NYC under a dome...which I later found an exact image of in a book..a proposal by Fuller). Ok so we see dream patterns, no? Wouldn't you be paying attention to certain things if you were me?
SO, with great anticipation and hope I am watching the counter on Amazon.com....which records the Millions that have been collected just through that site alone for the relief effort. (Last I checked it was at over 13 million). I donated my 10% of my paycheck through there and will donate the 10% from all the art checks once I get them (should be this week)also through there....just to help move that number along. Because I NEED this to reach the tipping point. IF Amazon.com will be the portal for the time being, great. It's already set up...and has the trust of millions of people to handle their credit cards. (In the dream there is another portal...one I'm supposed to be working on believe it or not).
*sigh*
OK,let's do it. Let's show how much we can do collaboratively with our Threads of Empathy.
THis has to be ongoing. The nature of this disaster is so huge...what has to be done to help people get back on their feet goes way past immediate water and food. Let's do it. Let's do what needs to be done and keep doing it.
Because they are us and we Are them. And we Must.
TO think we are separated is Illusion.
I may not know exactly what is in store for us all....but I have had a glimpse of something wonderful that is Possible. Is a Choice. I really hope we decide to do it.
