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-rig... 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 <[email protected]>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 <[email protected]>

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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...

" 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 < [email protected]> wrote:

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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 < [email protected]> wrote:

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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...

*" 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_...

" 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 <[email protected]> wrote:

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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 < [email protected]> wrote:

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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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