broadly related to the thread below, found out about this pro-bono network in support of not for profits * * *http://www.taprootfoundation.org/* <http://www.taprootfoundation.org/>
via http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130820122502-201849-success-right-tech-at-right-time http://www.scribd.com/doc/152482286/Bringing-Purpose-Creativity-to-Work excerpt : " *Today there are over 250,000 **foundations in their database "* * * *" The Foundation Center would soon be not only a resource for nonprofits seeking financial grants but also service grants, grants of pro bono s ervice. " * Post Scriptum : I do hope we can organize our own pro-bono distributed databases, using semantic technology / web approaches, such as for example http://netention.org code in development : https://github.com/automenta/netentionjs2 For example, one of the netention instances in development focuses on a semantic cv ... see : http://www.netention.org/semantic-learning/ On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Marco Giustini <i...@marcogiustini.info>wrote: > IOPS is a political international association related to Z Communications > (Z Magazine, Z Net). I'm part of Z Net Italy and I translated their > manifesto in italian. > > 2013/8/20 Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.mon...@gmail.com> > >> Meaning ... we better do not count on a "political economy" of grants ... >> ? >> Governmental or Private ? >> >> ... nor on monetized capitalist social entrepreneurship dependent on >> priorities of ( big ) investors ? ... >> >> Instead focusing our efforts on a social economy aimed at reducing >> dependency on corporate tokens , as only resort to create less >> hierarchical non artificially scarce interdependency systems and further >> opportunities to empower emergent collective intelligence ? >> >> further excerpts from >> >> >> http://truth-out.org/news/item/18279-how-billionaire-philanthropy-is-fueling-inequality-and-helping-to-destroy-the-country >> >> " As Buffett suggests, this growth in elite largesse, totaling $316 >> billion <http://www.cnbc.com/id/100831257> in 2012, has done little to >> combat economic inequality. But the problem isn’t just one of >> ineffectiveness. A recent >> paper<http://ideas.repec.org/a/kap/jecinq/v9y2011i1p1-21.html> published >> in the Journal of Economic Inequality shows philanthropy hasn’t simply >> failed to meet its goals; it’s made the situation worse. " >> ... >> >> " While pretending to fix inequality, contemporary philanthropy’s actual >> role has been to strengthen the arrangements that make gross inequality >> possible in the first place. " >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Dante-Gabryell Monson < >> dante.mon...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> or possibly simply my own misunderstanding, the author possibly giving >>> examples of organizations who are bottom up and not financed through >>> philanthropy. >>> >>> in that case, we could add a whole long endless list, including many of >>> the individuals on this p2pfoundation list ;) >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Dante-Gabryell Monson < >>> dante.mon...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks Jenny. >>>> before answering, >>>> just want to say I'm glad to read you here on this list. >>>> I've noticed some of your initiatives and want to state there is >>>> overlap in some of our approaches. >>>> >>>> // >>>> >>>> Yes, I kept the question mark, having the same question. >>>> >>>> via the following reference I am lead to see a connection with >>>> Philanthropy : >>>> >>>> >>>> http://truth-out.org/news/item/18279-how-billionaire-philanthropy-is-fueling-inequality-and-helping-to-destroy-the-country >>>> >>>> *" Of course, there are occasional flickers of light that emerge from >>>> the nonprofit world. Foundations like Marian Wright Edelman’s Children’s >>>> Defense Fund <http://www.childrensdefense.org/>, growing out of Martin >>>> Luther King, Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign to advocate for working-class >>>> families, and the new International Organization for a Participatory >>>> Society <http://www.iopsociety.org/about>, seeking to build a >>>> bottom-up, classless global society, work for the poor and powerless in >>>> important ways. "* >>>> >>>> >>>> A mistake from the article to connect it to Philanthropy ? ... >>>> Or perhaps some info not publicly released the author knows about ? >>>> >>>> The wikipedia page says >>>> >>>> >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_a_Participatory_Society >>>> >>>> " Conceived in the circles of left-wing media group Z >>>> Communications<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_Communications> >>>> [2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_a_Participatory_Society#cite_note-aljazeera_IOPS_aims-2> >>>> and >>>> founded in January 2012 " >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Jenny Ryan <je...@thepyre.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> It's great language and all, but I'm unable to see how this is a >>>>> philanthropic organization. Perhaps you can clarify why you introduce it >>>>> as >>>>> such? >>>>> >>>>> Jenny >>>>> http://jennyryan.net >>>>> http://thepyre.org >>>>> http://thevirtualcampfire.org >>>>> http://technomadic.tumblr.com >>>>> >>>>> `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` >>>>> "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." >>>>> -Laurie Anderson >>>>> >>>>> "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining >>>>> it." >>>>> -Hannah Arendt >>>>> >>>>> "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." >>>>> -Stéphane Mallarmé >>>>> ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson < >>>>> dante.mon...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> *MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from >>>>>> "www.iopsociety.org" claiming to be* >>>>>> http://vimeo.com/57851102<http://www.iopsociety.org/about> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.iopsociety.org/about >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.iopsociety.org/vision >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.iopsociety.org/structure-and-program >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.iopsociety.org/mission >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Key Goals & Priorities >>>>>> >>>>>> - IOPS is anti capitalist, anti racist, anti sexist, and anti >>>>>> authoritarian. It centrally addresses economics/class, politics, >>>>>> culture/race, kinship/gender, ecology, and international relations >>>>>> without >>>>>> privileging any one focus above the rest. >>>>>> - IOPS seeks to transcend 20th Century market and centrally >>>>>> planned socialism with a new participatory society - or participatory >>>>>> socialism - that combines classless economy, feminist kinship, >>>>>> intercommunalist culture, and self managing polity. >>>>>> - IOPS flexibly explores and advocates long term vision >>>>>> sufficiently to inspire and orient current activity but does not >>>>>> advocate >>>>>> or seek to implement detailed blueprints that transcend movement >>>>>> needs and >>>>>> knowledge. >>>>>> - IOPS sees social strategy and especially tactics as largely >>>>>> contingent on place and time and therefore continually revises shared >>>>>> views >>>>>> in light of new evidence including regularly updating analysis, >>>>>> vision, and >>>>>> strategy. >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/user/iopsociety >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4buR4J3WPA >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> P2P Foundation - Mailing list >>>>>> http://www.p2pfoundation.net >>>>>> https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> P2P Foundation - Mailing list >> http://www.p2pfoundation.net >> https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation >> >> >
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