more funding community work?

[Peggy Holman]

Hi Kerry,

Yes, that's definitely the direction I'm  heading - essentially fund the 
underlying strategy of growing community on many scales - including Earth 
community in different settings.

Thanks for your framing of it.

Peggy


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From: "kerry napuk" <k at napuk.demon.co.uk>
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Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 3:41 AM
Subject: [OSLIST] more funding community work?


> Peggy & Doug
>
> Helpful redefinition of the question "how can we find funding sources to 
> do the difficult and innovative work of bringing communities together?"
>
> Maybe we should do some lateral thinking.  Traditionally, we respond to a 
> sponsor with a specific problem where the application of a large group 
> process, especially OS, is an effective way to bring people together to 
> create a way forward or a shared future.   Perhaps we should turn this 
> approach on its head by  presenting the process as a means for a concerned 
> funding source to promote community building and participatory democracy 
> distinct from and alternative to specific organisational initiatives and 
> sponsorship.
>
> In other words, can OS be made attractive as a generic process that a 
> civil institution would support as an offering to the Community?  Is there 
> something in your country like the UK's Roundtree Foundation that funds 
> projects to reform or expand the political process?  Is there a credible 
> and progressive think tank that shares OS values and would put together a 
> programme and find funding?  If so, would it be worth making a proposal by 
> a group of practitioners or even an OS institute to fund the generic 
> application of OS to Communities and present it to a foundation or think 
> tank?  Once the process is piloted, it can be rolled out to more people 
> and places.
>
> Public decision making and politics clearly are failing and desparately 
> need to find new ways to involve more people.  Conventional approaches no 
> longer work.  Rather, public decision making continues to fall into fewer 
> and fewer hands and, more often than not, is hidden from "public" view 
> until it is too late to change except to protest.  OS has the fantastic 
> ability  to be organised quickly and involve large numbers who have the 
> passion (care about an issue)  and do something about it (take 
> responsibility.)
>
> Does this make any sense?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Kerry
> Edinburgh
> www.openfutures.com
>
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