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.monson@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 in 2012, has done little to combat economic inequality. But the problem isn’t just one of ineffectiveness. A recent paper 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.monson@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.monson@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. 

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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, 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, 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^[2] and founded in January 2012 "

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Jenny Ryan <jenny@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?

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On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@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/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

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