Markus,
In making the difference between strictly using our own money versus using grants you say:
"In the first, work is slow and limited as people must have the money
spare themselves, not easy in capitalist society where
money sitting still is punshed with taxes, tolls and
schemes to get it moving again."
spare themselves, not easy in capitalist society where
money sitting still is punshed with taxes, tolls and
schemes to get it moving again."
That perfectly describes my personal situation and the battle I fight, as a stay-at-home-dad of a disabled child-adult. I've been looking for the best ways to have me and my family "grafted" into an incubator of personal and communal growth, traditionally known where I come from, as being "community" or "church".
The investment we have available to offer in exchange for our incubation is our time, energy and each one's inclinations toward how we could be of service to the community who would incubate us to
maturity. In the process and once mature enough to be of service full time, we're looking forward to then become a source of resources management for the perpetuation of the incubating process to maturity of others, while we no longer accumulate debts along the way but rather, become part of the win-win-win economy.
Because of how undisciplined we've become by being secluded within our own limits, combined to personal decades of sheer rejection in the name of whatever system of thoughts or beliefs from getting incubated to maturity, we now find ourselves with all of the personal gifts dormant and all of our hang ups stirred up into our own version of societal dysfunction, with 4 children ranging from 25 to 19 and a one year old grand son, whose parents might be ready to eventually settle in their search for maturity. Meaning that when the parents finally reach the
starting point of genuine education, they will have to ween their child from its own heritage of dysfunction. The sooner the better, of course.
This example of ours points to the trans-generational cycle of immaturity. It belongs to a context of peer pressure called civilization and it is directly attached to where does our time, energy and talents go or do not go, from birth on to the grave.
The role of NGOs came into existence on the national scenes of many Western nations because the local well fare state could not get through to move the clientele they were serving, on the progressive side of economic production. The "parasite syndrome" took hold of many people that became trends of spoiled discontent. So in order to bring clarity and accountability, the NGOs became the means by which governments could desengage themselves from the business of
directly looking after the human resources, and the NGOs could then take the hard work of social hand ups to those who wish to help themselves out of poverty.
The wellfare and NGOs expiriments are showing that money is not what needs to be moved first, but people. Inter dependency accomplished from personal volunteering investment operates outside of the confinements of the parasite syndrome and its systematic control over our lives. This is what money needs to see before it becomes unblocked and ready to move again.
This is why I propose the idea of drawing big money's attention by each investing ourselves into customizing the manifestation of our desired togetherness', starting by deciding which initiative we chose to light up such healthy assembling, and to follow through financially at the cost of one american dollar's worth
of purchasing power a week. This investment spear heads each one's involvement into what grows to become 100% investment of who I am into we are becoming continuously.
In other words, we invest into the transformation and our adaptation to transform, until our time gets to be consume in the continuum of humanity, according to each one's measure of "comfortable capacity".
Because the goal is 100% self-investment from the offset, the "one american dollar a week of american purchasing power" soon grows to become the investment of the whole of one's capacity that gets to be transform into an investment of wise and progressive sustainability.
Such trails of renewal ought to be financed by Mr. Bill Gates new found capacity to implement reforms like that, through initiatives of eco-villages such as Global Villages and One Village Foundation. Mr. Gates
could form differnet launching partnership funds with the World Bank and the International Moneytary Fund to set the pace of economic reforms, for the Western World to model after, in the training to open fields of investment of market forces, starting with North America, Europe, Japan, China, Russia and India; all together, we can lift Africa out of our colonizing them into the parasite syndrome, while we purge ourselves from it.
When I ran for the Green Party, I did so for the sake of making gains in addressing the Canadian unity crisis with the people's involvement into the required socio-cultural healing as opposed to leaving it to the ups and downs of the political process. My main line to convey such message was during the campaign and continues to be:
Voter, taxes, force of Law and legal Tender
together, to serve the Tender Living…!!!
Beam of hope against terror and anti-terror…!!!
I am standing and speaking from the safe ground that we, the people, are the only ones who can rise up to the task of loving life enough to inspire one another into the governing path of forgiveness, reconciliation, with the eternal renewal endowing our daily routine to get by in the simplicity of God's blessing. Sometimes this blessing is harsh to take, but the alternative is always worse.
The micro happening of such thoughts and the macro promotion of the initiatives that come out of them, is how and where I understand Minciu Sodas' work to be value added from where we each live, think and pray, without ever having to meet in person and yet, deploying tremendous action because of the potency of our inspiration and dedication to insist that all
details be free from deceit and evil! (devil free, is what this is, since he lives in the details)
Peace,
Benoit Couture
markus petz <councillortothewise@...> wrote:
There are several aspects to funding if external or
internal.
If external it needs to be seed funding that we can
eventually do without. If internal then we need to
generate income to keep a project going .
There are interesting responses by different
organizations to these options.
On Cyprus the organization Baraka does nothing they
cannot fund internally and refuses to apply for grants
as they believe this compromises what they do. However
in the UK most big NGOs see that external funding must
be internalized so they try and get supporters to gift
aid a certain figure monthly. If this happens 25% can
be relcaimed as tax back from the government so its
quite valuable.
Both these approaches have draw-backs. In the first
work is slow and limited as people must have the money
spare themsleves, not easy in capitalist society where
money sitting still is punshed with taxes, tolls and
schemes to get it moving again.
In the other the NGOs often see a distance between
those fundraising e.g. dialog direct an Austrian
company (that works world wide) has many people
working for it, but they do not have real affinity for
the good cause they may be fundraising for. And those
giving often have no real connection with those they
are helping - they are just cash cows.
For me I want personal money to have real connection.
Similarly I want that if the money comes from a
foundation or governement grant or charitable trust
(external funding) that the organization giving that
money has a meaningful relationship with whatever
projcet they fund. So they understand it, can
implement it or at least share the knowledge and
outcomes.
This means not just jumping through hoops and
balancing balls on our noses to get another dog
biscuit. Rather a partnership and synnergy so we work
with a group on a specific outcome and develop
projects in accordance with their and our wishes.
I believe this mutualism has happened to some extent
with business realtionships, e.g. HP, the desire being
to create win win situation. However as yet we have
not fruitfully developed a relationship with others
such as the Aga Khan Development Network
http://www.akdn.org/
or Gulbenkian Foundation
http://www.gulbenkian.pt/portal/ index.html
that seem to lend themselves to developing our work
fruitfully. Nevermind the many other smaller
foundations and trusts or government schemes that
exist.
I can think of several ways that we might internalize
the external personal fund-raisng. The community
currency is one of these that we began already with
minicui sodas. But cash in the hand does not seem to
have happened yet.
Ciao!
Markus
--- Benoit <benoitctr@yahoo.com > schrieb:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I came across two articles regarding large scale
> finance and securuty of
> IST which seem to justify the appeal I made last
> week in a contribution
> to a conversation between Franz and Jeff. The
> thread is taken from
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/ group/globalvill ages/message/ 1347
>
<http://groups.yahoo.com/ >group/globalvill ages/message/ 1347
> and the
> articles are, regarding security, at:
>
http://istresults.cordis.lu/ > ype/Features/index.cfm/ section/news/ tpl/article/ BrowsingT\ ID/82606
>
<http://istresults.cordis.lu/ > Type/Features/index.cfm/ section/news/ tpl/article/ Browsing\ ID/82606> and as an example of the
> kind of cash that can
> use the materialisation from Orcherds of thoughts
> such as One Village
> and Global Villages at:
>
http://www.explore-qatar.com/ indexposts. html?show= 1&idz=158
>
<http://www.explore-qatar.com/ >indexposts. html?show= 1&idz=158
>
> So the thread involving Franz, Jeff and I that
> connects to the direction
> of these articles went as follow:
>
> >Franz Nahrada <f.nahrada@...
>
<http://groups.yahoo.com/ >group/globalvill ages/post? postID=y421lmvVN od3w0\
otjx1bXf2CeRr8F3lj_FHMlJ21aKt6R6d65 nyXCDN6c- oMiTkJRveRJyMwvi 2yL4yEtxE>
> >
> wrote:
> > But we put together proposals to get funding
> for practical
> >implementation. And we can only put our "ideas,
> visions and >dreams"
> together on a practical level if there are physical
> sites >that allow
> for experimentation and progress.
> > That is why I think the globalvillages directory
> could be
> >important: to show which places have which needs
> that our >global
> community can take up.
> > The directory is still in embryonic stage - and we
> do not have >local
> editors yet. If we had more stories from Global
> Villages in >the Wiki it
> >would help us make links for tentative
> implementations.
> >it would be good to work on that more this summer.
> >Franz
>
>
> > Jeff Buderer writes: > I agree with you.
>
> > > Much of our time is spent thinking about putting
> together
> > >proposals instead of actually our ideas, visions
> and dreams on >>a
> practical level. So we need to develop a new model
> and that >>is a major
> aspect of what Global Villages in my view is about.
>
> > Jeff, ...and Jeff also wrote: > Couture
> wrote:
>
> > Jeff, Franz,
> >
> > NOTE: In the following, I obviously speak out my
> frustration and my
> questions carry a stinging "in our faces" attitude.
> > I trust that we all share such frustration and
> that the stinging "in
> our faces" attitude can be wisely handled to guide
> us in the
> shoulder-to-shoulder positioning, on the mission to
> reach the high trust
> flow from cyber space to the reality of
> ccomplishment, aboard the train
> of simple efficiency from idea to materialisation of
> our dreams and
> visions.
> > I've always heard that when we can raise 1 dollar
> of our own to
> finance a good business plan, then the banking
> system is there to put up
> from 5 to 10 dollars into it.
> > Have we not reached the point of pooling our own
> money where the time
> and energy of our mind, heart, soul and spirit go
> into dreaming and
> envisioning, day in and day out?
> > The Orchard of Thoughts that we are gathered into
> by Andrius' vision,
> is getting so rich and potent in good desires and
> genius of all kinds,
> that we are chocking in the wealth of theory that
> cannot find its way
> from out of cyber space and into reality. The
> Orchard will not get to be
> focused without the personal and communal pruning,
> maintenance, reaping
> and delivery of ourselves into an action that will
> see some of us sprout
> on the field of togetherness.
> > Focus will not happen without decisive actions and
> the delivery of our
> produce will remain in cyber space until it gets to
> be moved on the
> scene where it can be seen and tasted.
> > As far as I am concern, we are long over due to
> get on with what it
> takes to simply decide, to plan and to move on with
> the scenario of our
> own entry into the improvisation within the currency
> of times.
> > I suggest that we put our money together at the
> basic rate of what
> each currency can equate with one dollar a week of
> purchasing power is
> for an american in America. That's the price of a
> cup of coffe in a
> restaurant.
> > From a simple and solid commitment, we can work at
> fanning on the
> financing of what we materialise and how to go about
> it. As we do so, we
> begin to assemble into who we mean to be on earth
> iwith the aim of
> drawing the vivid attention and the commited
> interest of Bill Gates '
> new found money to help releve human misery through
> charity-clarity.
> > Let's see the Orchard begin to distribute the
> materialisation of the
> produces of Thoughts grown on the highway of genuine
> charity-clarity.
> > Lets take our little private brewing into such
> depth of personal and
> communal bloom, that our eternal fragance of the
> Living Faculty shall
> draw with bold approach, all seekers, students and
> pilgrimms of
> spiritual renewal's action and truth.
> > The main obstacle arresting such simple approach
> is how do we move on
> to put ourselves in the position of demonstrable
> high trust flow among
> ourselves.
> > From the innocent novice's view at which I operate
> in cyber space, I
> can see on the Internet and more specifically here
> at Minciu Sodas, that
> what is known as Open Source Knowledge Management
> joined with the Public
> Domain and creative commons are like the rails of
> communication that
> makes it virtually impossible to fail the high trust
> flow.
> > When will we get on the train instead of just
> watching it go by with
> deep sighing, as if we were not already on it? Or
> are we just still
> working to lay down the tracks?
> > Permission to delete this letter if too offensive.
> >
> > Peace,
> > Benoit Couture
>
> . Jeff answers: Benoit,
>
> I am not sure if you have an offensive bone in your
> body, and I do feel
> the letter was just right in its tone and approach.
> I would suggest that we take that community currency
>
> thinking/methodology to combine our resources.
> However I am talking
> about real money to propel this shared vision into
> some sort of physical
> reality that is the protoype seed for the larger
> network visualization
> of local sustainability in each of our communities
> around the globe.
>
> In my view such a step should ocur in combination
> with private
> investments from wealthy people and also donations
> from grant
> foundations and individuals. The eventual goal
> however would be to
> function at a operational level without relying on
> outside establishment
> funds. A percentage of profits and/or repayment of
> loans would go into a
> fund. The fund once it grew large enough would go
> towards establishing a
> second center. Possibly if the right
> partner/sponsors were found,
>
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Feed the raven and the white tailed eagles
For the dawn is almost upon us
I see it shining and will not sheath the sword
May we die with it in our grasp...
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