[P2P-F] P2P, Not for Profits, and Pro-Bono ?

Wed Aug 21 13:43:25 CEST 2013

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 <info at 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.monson at 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.monson at 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 at 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 <jenny at 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.monson at 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
>>>>>>
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