GivingMarket/KindredSpirits

Kindred Spirits... to connect and reconnect as we go along. Some of these have contributed directly to the shaping of the ideas here, others have come up in conversations as next step connections.

• Daniel O'Connor
• Brian Reilly
• ChrisCorrigan - http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot
• TedErnst - http://www.chicagohumanist.org
• PhilCubeta - http://www.gifthub.org
• JillPerkins
• JulieEvansCaldwell - http://www.emergingfutures.org
• GerryGleason
• TomMunnecke - http://www.givingspace.org
• Penny Scott - http://www.ballebc.com
• Jon Ramer - papers at http://www.interraproject.org/documents.html and http://psca.idcommons.net [1] [2]
• Jan Houser
• Brad DeGraff
• Howard Rheingold - institute of the future - http://www.iftf.org - /SmartMobs
• Bucky Fuller - /LittleIndividuals
• George Por - collective intelligence
• Richard Perl - http://www.manyone.net manyone network

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Kindred Orgs... more than working models, these groups are partners or could be parnters of an emerging market for individual giving and action.

• http://www.livingeconomies.org/BALLE/
• http://www.interraproject.org
• http://www.planetwork.org
• http://www.ift.org - forum for globalization
• http://wiki.idcommons.net/moin.cgi/FrontPage - identity commons
• http://www.livingdirectory.net/ - free online network formation
• http://www.creativecommons.org - ownership and sharing
• http://www.thataway.org - national coalition for dialogue and deliberation. let's talk america project
• http://www.benevolink.com (not sure if this goes here or somewhere different - they say "The Benevolink mission is to bring together consumers, retailers and nonprofits to help all reach their respective goals by enabling consumers to direct corporate giving to the causes they see as worthy. This is what makes Benevolink unique -- providing a responsibly progressive means for all groups in the giving community to achieve their objectives. Everyone benefits. Benevolink makes it easy. It's Giving Made Simple.")
• http://www.chicagobloggers.com - maybe the best GivingMarket prototype model out there
• more...