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This Uplift Academy theme explores the "positive flip" to Creating an Epidemic of Health instead of "fixing the health care system." Heather Wood Ion is the theme leader.
It will also serve as a repository for the work done on the Vvaleo Initiative. (photos)
Below is a growing collection of articles, discussions, and blog posts about micro-philanthropy.
The engineer
Micro-philanthropy: Tiny gifts of cash, credit, and service identified and delivered through computer networks and the Internet.
The network theorist
Micro-philanthropy: Gifts of cash, credit, or service awarded collectively by groups of individuals in which each donor makes a proportionately small contribution.
The philosopher
Micro-philanthropy: The long-term impact on grant-making of increased decentralization in decision-making and the erosion of hierarchy.
The activist
Micro-Philanthropy: The practice on the part of non-wealthy individuals of creating large-scale social change by consistently elevating generosity over consumption.
This is a list of some innovative models of giving that involve peer to peer connections between "Helpers" and "Doers"
Really Simple Social Action (RSSA) is a an Uplift Academy theme for developing a software standard for supporting scalable small activities.
Here is the main RSSA web site, and here is an Uplift Academy RSSA Sandbox for exploring tools and protocols, as well as the Uplift Academy RSSA Wiki Page.