Originally posted to sCNN – the smallChangeNewsNetwork
The following questions have guided sCNN development, almost from the beginning and are answered over and over in the postings here.
The first two, “want?” and “have?” have been answered rather explicitly in longer, overview postings. The answer to “need?” tends to be posted individually as they come up. You’ll likely pick them out as you scroll through the archives.
The “will do?” answer is mostly embedded in the practice itself, in the commitment and continuity that you can see and judge for yourself on these pages. “Will do” also shows up, more explicitly, when you click “donate now” in our DropCash campaign (top of the sidebar).
What Do You Want?
- What is happening in your neighborhood, your school, and the larger world?
- What do you see and hear? …or smell?
- What are you bumping into and how do you feel about it?
- What should be happening?
- How could the most important issues be addressed or resolved?
- What do you want the solution to look and sound and feel like?
- What is your own dream project?
What Do You Have?
- Who are you and what do you already have going for you?
- Who do you know? Where are you connected?
- What’s already working, and why?
- How did you come to care about this issue?
- What gifts, talents, passions, skills and experiences do you bring to this?
- Are you spending your own time and money on making something happen?
- Do you have the funding and need people to work with?
- Who’s already supporting this project?
- Who can we contact, as references, to find out more about the good work you’ve already been doing?
What Do You Need?
- What would it take for you to make a difference?
- Are you looking for partners? Connections? Some funding? A place to meet? Some special sort of expertise?
- What kind of connections and contributions do you need to give your own gifts, and make your own contribution, more fully?
- What kind of support do you need for this project?
What Will You Do?
- What will you do if you get the help you need?
- What are your immediate next steps?
- What results will you produce?
- Where will you report your progress and success stories?
- How will all of this benefit you, your contributors and the situation and people you are wanting to serve?
- What can you promise to this project and anyone else who will join you in it?
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