Hi Kerry,
Yes, that's definitely the direction I'm heading - essentially fund the
underlying strategy of growing community on many scales - including Earth
community in different settings.
Thanks for your framing of it.
Peggy
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From: "kerry napuk" <k...@napuk.demon.co.uk>
To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 3:41 AM
Subject: [OSLIST] more funding community work?
Peggy & Doug
Helpful redefinition of the question "how can we find funding sources to
do the difficult and innovative work of bringing communities together?"
Maybe we should do some lateral thinking. Traditionally, we respond to a
sponsor with a specific problem where the application of a large group
process, especially OS, is an effective way to bring people together to
create a way forward or a shared future. Perhaps we should turn this
approach on its head by presenting the process as a means for a concerned
funding source to promote community building and participatory democracy
distinct from and alternative to specific organisational initiatives and
sponsorship.
In other words, can OS be made attractive as a generic process that a
civil institution would support as an offering to the Community? Is there
something in your country like the UK's Roundtree Foundation that funds
projects to reform or expand the political process? Is there a credible
and progressive think tank that shares OS values and would put together a
programme and find funding? If so, would it be worth making a proposal by
a group of practitioners or even an OS institute to fund the generic
application of OS to Communities and present it to a foundation or think
tank? Once the process is piloted, it can be rolled out to more people
and places.
Public decision making and politics clearly are failing and desparately
need to find new ways to involve more people. Conventional approaches no
longer work. Rather, public decision making continues to fall into fewer
and fewer hands and, more often than not, is hidden from "public" view
until it is too late to change except to protest. OS has the fantastic
ability to be organised quickly and involve large numbers who have the
passion (care about an issue) and do something about it (take
responsibility.)
Does this make any sense?
Kind regards
Kerry
Edinburgh
www.openfutures.com
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