GivingMarket

What follows here are working notes on the development of the GivingMarket -- an open, efficient marketplace to which "little individuals" could bring their passions, gifts, skills and experience and offer them as common good, community development, project plans and proposals. This GivingMarket would help these little individuals (who might even hold day jobs within non-profit orgs) make effective requests for the support (financial and otherwise) that they'd need from other little individuals in order to move their plan(s) forward. Think of this as an eBay sort of market for projects for doing good, an online matching service for organizers and funders, and a Google of Bloggers for the common good.

• [GivingMarketBlog] ...news, ideas, actions and other progress toward making this market real
• /NextSteps ...short list of immediate next steps

• /OverView ...of the Market, see also /CoreAssumptions?, /SmallChange, /BigChange and [InterraProjectMapping]
• /HomePage ...design notes for main page with links to same for /ProfilePage, /ProjectPage, /OrganizingPage and a number of essential site functions
• /OpenQuestions ...to be addressed in the course of short-term site development and long-term economic evolution
• /WorkingModels ...where pieces of this are already alive and working in the real world
• /KindredSpirits ...other people and sites that have something to offer/inform this project

• /ConferenceNotes ...from the original working session convened during the Giving Conference in Chicago
• /AfterThoughts ...some post-conference notes and reflections

Comments and questions... mailto:mherman@globalchicago.net. or post at /CommentsAndQuestions. Thanks!