TheGivingConference: GivingMarket/WorkingModels

The following are real sites that have some parts of this GivingMarket concept already functioning...

Online Marketplaces

http://www.blogger.com - free weblog publishing, individuals pumping out stories about what matters to them, this might be best model for offering tools for individuals/organizations to convene their own marketplaces that would be visually unique but structurally similar, like blogs... and still be centrally known and recognized.

http://news.google.com - news/story aggregation on large scale
http://www.ebay.com - individuals selling goods to individuals
http://www.amazon.com - new book sales, but also person-to-person used books sales and book suggestions based on observed preferences

http://www.kintera.com - enterprise software for orgs, including "friends-asking-friends" fundraising component
http://www.interraproject.org - new credit card and alt currency to support local/green purchasing on mass scale, fund community orgs

/DonorAdvisedFunds
http://www.whatgoesaround.org - offers accounts for friends to give to friends' charitable organizations, think memorials and charitable birthdays
http://www.givingglobal.org/index.jsp
http://www.directhelp.org - not for profits can ask for items that they need and donations can be aggregated for those items
http://www.missionfish.org/About/about.jsp - mission fish helps non-profit orgs raise funds through donations by eBay sellers
http://www.groundspring.org - affordable internet fundraising for non-profit organizations

http://www.paypal.com - online credit card transactions
http://www.match.com - has profiling templates that could be model for project templates
http://www.evite.com - event invitations
http://www.craigslist.com - simple online marketplace for goods

http://www.bookcrossing.com - tracking books released into the wild
http://www.wheresgeorge.com - tracking single dollar bills as they circulate
http://www.freecycle.org - online marketplace for giving rather than selling old stuff... sharing, recycling
http://www.abcfree.com - AboutABCfree ...freecycle with more options

http://www.orgsites.com (e.g. by TedErnst JoyHumanDevelopment) - non-profit project websites
http://smartchange.org/ - 100,000 employees linked to non-profit orgs, payroll deductions, org webpages, in UK
http://www.omidyar.net - social reference system attached to community change dialogues, working space

http://www.donorschoose.org - PhilCubeta tells us about every teacher a grant writer, and every citizen a philathropist http://www.gifthub.org/2004/07/donors_choose.html
http://www.globalgiving.com/gifts/index.html
http://www.livingeconomies.org - local business networks
http://www.excessaccess.com/ - in-kind donation matching site
http://www.networkforgood.org/ - matching donors/vols with organizations ...again, missing the P2P dimension

http://www.cyberbeggar.com - the only people-to-people site i've heard of, but nobody seems to be asking for help with anything but personal troubles.

Ways we already know how to use to bring people together...

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Where does this one go? Google's giving away adwords to 501(c)3 organizations http://www.google.com/grants/