[P2P-F] Fwd: How We'll Fund 21st Century Social Movements

Thu Feb 17 01:51:54 CET 2011

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Asunto: 	[OK] How We'll Fund 21st Century Social Movements
Fecha: 	Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:01:27 -0800
De: 	Suresh Fernando <suresh2323 at gmail.com>

Hi Everyone,

As many of you know I've been working on identifying and developing
innovative models in both the open collaboration space as well as the
social finance space.

The common theme that underlies all of my recent work is the realization
of the power of networks and networked communication to radically alter
how communities form, how people interact with each other etc. In that
spirit I am pleased to say that I am working with Joe Brewer and the
Cognitive Policy Works
<http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com/about-us/>team to launch a
crowdsourcing campaign to finance the development of a strategy to
develop social movements. The details can be found here
<http://rockethub.com/projects/1068-how-we-ll-fund-21st-century-social-movements>. 

Be sure to check out the video
<http://rockethub.com/projects/1068-how-we-ll-fund-21st-century-social-movements>!
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Using Crowdsourcing and Collaboration Principles to Build Social Movement*s

The objective of the campaign is to finance the development of a
Strategy Handbook that addresses the following questions:

     * /What are the most promising funding models and how do we start to
       use them?/
     * /Why aren’t more effective models available for funding social
       innovation?/
     * /What crowdsourcing and mass collaboration infrastructure is
       available to coordinate the activity of literally thousands of
       social innovators and activists that are working on similar 
problems?/
     * /What success stories can we point to?/
     * /What do we need to do in order to start building the
       infrastructure and funding models to mobilize thousands of social
       innovators and activists?/

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Longer Term Strategy*

Upon completion, the handbook will be made freely available to everyone
under a Creative Commons license.  If the crowd pays for it, the crowd
will own it.

Also note that it is our plan not simply to research and develop a
handbook in support of financing and developing social movements, we
also plan to practice what we preach by working towards the
implementation of the plan that we develop!

Please take the time to review our proposal and contribute to the
development of the handbook! All contributions are greatly appreciated!!

Regards,

-- 
*Suresh Fernando *
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//'The counter cultural revolution was a rhizomatic meshwork of
loosely-coordinated, loosely-affiliated struggles. The goals of these
struggles weren’t always complimentary, but the struggles were aligned
and together they staged a mass offensive to shatter the status quo'/. -
from The Coalition of the Willing