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There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
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Deleting Groups: another resource to help present my perspective. thanks!
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DUPLICATE GROUP REMOVAL REQUEST FOR ADMIN
last frontier eco REMOVE as it is duplicate of LAST FRONTIER ECO GROUP
I asked this a month ago. the momentum group put forward a similar request and it was honored right?
whats the problem? am i missing something? Is NCI working with a double standard? Will you post the specifics of your approach in a policy/ values document? and how that aligns with the language you use to market wiserearth/ NCI.
hope you can understand the perspective. thanks for the great work! thanks |
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Here are great opportunties to integrate cooperatives into the WiserEarth directory:
OPTION "Type": Include "Cooperative (Consumer-Owned)" and "Cooperative (Worker-Owned)"
OPTION "Certification": Include "US Federation of Worker Cooperatives" and possibly other local specifically worker-owned/managed member organizations ( Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives, Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives, Federation of Workplace Democracies in Minnesota). Further Consumer Coops (especially Food Coops) have some certifying organizations like the National Cooperative Business Association and national Food Coop Networks.
*Question: Since most of these certifying orgs are non-profits, should they get listed in the non-profit directory? I'm guessing so :) and am going to move on that with the particular orgs I'm involved with. However, please let me know if WiserEarth has a method for confirming new "Certification" organizations.
My other suggestion is more about having positive social/environmental business that are for profit, than specifically the cooperative sector. The Activites section is applicable, as many for-profit businesses take part in those activities, but also adding something like "Commercial Services" as a generic label for "for-profits".
OPTION "Activities": Add "Commercial Services"
That's it. Just some cooperative minded suggestions. It's exciting to see the continued evolution of WiserEarth.
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Grace ministries and hope was established in 2004 by Pastor Johnson Nsabimana who is the Founder. The organization was established in order to reconcile Burundians after twelve years of ethnic conflicts and war, the result was economic crush, thousands of children become boys and girls street and orphan, men and women become jobless, public health systhem was broken down, education system suffered the most as building facilities were nocked down, I felt in my heart as a Burundian who were badly effected by the conflicts, to do something that would bring hope and better life in Burundi. This is the very reason to joing others so that we may work together to bring sun shine in someone's life.
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Dear
friends, we are calling you to stand with us in empowering impoverished
women and children by providing spiritual, physical, and vocational
education regardless social or religious background. Grace and Hope Ministries seeks
to reduce poverty, build families and community, and enable individuals
to enhance their spiritual, social and sustainable and economic
development. We Grace and Hope Ministries dedicated
to helping disadvantaged children. Especially the Aids orphans and
hopeless children, by working together with families, as the nation of Burundi was
badly affected by ethnic conflicts since 1993, as result there is un
increasing needs of orphans whose parents have died by war and
HIV/AIDS, after war lasted twelve years in Burundi.
We realized that children’s plight needed an urgent attention and human
dignity. As you may be aware Aids and ethnic conflicts continue to have
a far greater impact than any other continent. Though Burundi has
some promising results on the prevention of HIV/ADS, its impact has
taken away a generation of fathers, mothers, uncles, aunts and friends.
This impact of loos is going to be felt for decades of years. A new
generation of innocent orphans is left behind with no one to take care
of them. The Burundian extended family system, like other developing
countries, has been the core support provider for orphans. But AIDS,
combined with other social and economic pressures has pushed the
extended family system to breaking point especially in the worst
affected communities here in Burundi.
Most of our children are AIDS orphans, many come from one parent’s
family as well street children generation, abandoned and abused, with
so many needs. Poverty, illiteracy, neglect, emotion scars and poor
health are common problems. We are providing long term care for these
children, raising them to be contributing members of their own society.
The future of these children is our heart beat, and just telling these
poor kids, how God loves them, may not make sense until we show them
God’s love with a hot meal, change of clothes, safe place to sleep, a
listening ear, a warm hand on a trembling shoulders, and, above all,
giving them a chance to constructive future through educational
training. It is for this very reason I am inviting you to partner with
us to help these children and bring hope and long lasting smile on
their faces. We will be very grade to hear from you soon, sincerely on
behalf of the needy and neglected children of Burundi.
Pastor Johnson Nsabimana
B-P 6869 Bujumbura
Burundi Central Africa
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Hi there.
Thanks for the begining of a response.
From my perspective : Your comment makes no sense ! :
I honestly have zero patience with/ for NCI ... anyone whose name is associated with your organization's current interaction with this website/ and the people who use it... from a professional standpoint should view my concerns as a priority if they take any degree of pride in their work.
These concerns were initially voiced months ago; if properly managed the problem/ issue should have been fixed than... thus avoiding a lot of the friction, wasted energy etc., : build community and relieving tension. Rather than ignore, misrepresent, fail to-follow-thru and escalate.
Unfortunately Peggy -- at this point -- I have a hard time believing anything you as an individual volunteer as fact or commitment. This is a product of my experience interacting with you online, and your role within your organization; your organizations inability to follow thru and honor any number of things. I appreciate your effort to improve though (if its genuine...).
My suggestion would be: answer/ address all the questions/ issues on this forum. I am not going to waste my time typing the same thing over and over, repeating my earlier questions/ concerns that have already been volunteered. I too am busy = But at this point; I need to protect my prior time-investment on wiserearth.org and do my best to ensure that it is the best it can be... or at the least ensure that it is moving in the direction of what it is advertised as.
so to reiterate and simplify for the sake of NCI's communication needs:
bowo is administrator = does he work for you? is he the new online community manager? etc. if he is= thats great! if hes not; why is he an administrator? etc. x million
eric= clarify with credible documentation etc. x million
Admin role = there is lots here! how do you plan on improving as an individual and as an organization with regard to meeting your commitments to your userbase: see the comments above with regard to misrepresenting our interaction, breaking your word, your comment after Angus's comment a day late after I patiently waited a week plus for your timely response on tuesday. why did bowo contact on tuesday? why did angus contact on wednesday; when you said you would contact on tuesday. why did you contact after bowo and angus on wednesday when you said you would contact on tuesday? if angus's comment which you support is true; than why dont you rewrite the information on wiserearth/ NCI website to reflect this. why are you @ NCI closing disscussions/ wikis ... when the issues are not resolved? What does that accomplish? doesnt that just escalate? shouldn't the focus be on trying to make sure you are successful in your communication/ responses to your user-base's concerns? What is the story with wiser philanthropy/ business etc.? =also the disparity between what you advertise/ represent yourselves as, and what you currently are etc.
Also:
Again= there is much more above on this forum/ other locations
Again= professionals should take pride in their work
Thanks for your understanding and thoughtful, timely, professional response. I look forward to the day when I can believe in NCI
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Why is wiservid not going to happen! I want some reasoning. Wiservid is the solution to everything. It is genius. Everyone's time should be focused on wiservid. I want to know why you as an individual and the NCI organization will not support this. It is not like any other idea on this website etc. = it is unique and profoundly brilliant. Its a million times more effective and better than the current isolated work of green for all, 1 sky, we campaign, natural capital institute, red campaign, etc. etc. etc. (see wiki for list). It aligns you all and sets you up for success! Why does NCI not want to be successful? Why do you not want to help wiserearth become successful? Am i still not being clear on the idea? did you block the other forum? why? Why will you not take a risk on this?
The vision and idea of WISERVID is stronger than anything else that the environmental movement is working with currently. Anything else in its history. It builds constructively upon the vision outlined in Blessed Unrest and honors all the language of NCI/ wiserearth and all the other organizations mentioned. Al Gore is not working with better material, neither is Van Jones, neither is Paul Hawken, or anyone else. It is GENIUS. It needs to be leveraged into reality.
Here is wiservid again: true, beautiful, genius::::
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It is the solution for all the problems, for both wiserearth.org ( Strategic-Positioning, Funding, Outreach, Publicity, Marketing, involving Students/ Youth) and for the world.
To be brief: a media competition in the spirit of of carrotmob http://www.carrotmob.org/make-it-rain.html, for the first year the competition would target U.S. undergraduate Environmental/ Sustainability groups.
The idea would be to have all the on-campus groups develop their own campaign/ video which would spark systematic change; agitate change on both the local and global levels thru 'mobbing' a local business and having the local business adopt better energy efficient standards/ more responsible practices while simultaneously addressing a global issue. My idea for the first year would be to build upon the framework of the RED http://www.joinred.com/ campaign business network to secure incentive prizes, thus the global issue for the first year would align with the RED campaign's focus; creatively incorporate raising awarness for HIV/ AIDS, disease into the video presentation etc.
Their would be state finals, than regionals.... and the best campaigns would be showed on live television on June 16 2009.
June 16th is an important date; the birthday of internationally popular -- and now deceased -- american rapper Tupac Shakur. This should work to engage popular/ influential hip hop artists / rappers to perform and support the competition. Hip Hop/ rap has an avid audience of global youth, is unbelievably influential on music/ celebrity obsessed global youth culture... and has unlimited potential to work as a political / social change tool (conscious rap -- check out the wiserearth group; Hip Hop World Changing). The original vision would be to have the finals be similar to the 2007 live earth concerts http://www.liveearth.org/ , with performances interspersed with electronic viewings of the top campaigns.
And to have the finals be in Oakland California; thus figuratively "carrotmob" -- increase/ boost the revenue -- of the city of Oakland... which would highlight their successful Green Job Corp, reward the city for moving in the direction of sustainability/ green collar job development. In future years, the finals could be held in different cities that have made great strides in sustainability, developed green job 'pathway out of poverty' programs.
The judging panel would be on television thus get excellent exposure for themselves and their work. They would disscuss the campaigns as they judge them, the issues we face, their social/ environmental justice work and philanthropic initiatives. This runs parallel to Jafra's comment about having everyone at the same table; alingment/ working together. It will act as a unifiying cultural catalyst because of the diversity of influencers that will be present at that table.
Each campaign -- no matter whether or not they are successful in the competition -- will create change. All the businesses that change their practices each year as a result of being targeted by a campaign will be mapped into the wiser directory; will earn a "wiserbusiness" certification. The student groups will be able to keep a tab/ record of businesses that were campaigned in the past, and make sure their standards stay up to par. Thus the results from the competition will be evident visually on wiserearth.org.
The student groups will take over editor roles on wiserearth.org, flesh out the directory, develop active groups, make invaluable connections. WISER: the competition will make the world wiser -- both figuratively and literally by increasing the number of people involved in the environmental /social justice movement (it will become popular= ' cool' =mainstream=effective), and by rewarding countless businesses each year thru values-based consumerism to transform/ elevate their operating practices to those consistent with the values of the World Index of Social and Environmental Responsibility.
To get the momentum going/ jumpstart the process we will work with the developing U.S. Green Jobs Now alliance; 1Sky http://www.1sky.org/, We Campaign http://www.wecansolveit.org/, Green For All http://www.greenforall.org/. Make a 5 minute video clip advertising the competition and release it on september 26th/ 27th, which should be an effective way to get the competition in the media's eye. We will also directly work/ communicate the competition specifics / rewards with the student groups.
It has unlimited potential, is completely scalable; thus the vision is to operate the competition on a global level in future years; activate grassroots global youth as primary players in social change, put their untapped / dormant artistic talent/ creativity/ problem solving skills to work for the planet and global society.
Wiservid will involve everyone in the process of solving the problems in a fun exciting way: not just lobby our politicians for changes, but simultaneously work together to create grassroots change. Thus we will begin to 'capitilize' on our most priceless resource as a global society -- the 'creative capital' of the masses, all the undiscovered artistic talent/ innovative thought will have a direct avenue to real world change, and will have incentive/ motivation through a reward system to outperform the competition...
The idea is a winner; but it needs support and the right connections to get going.
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User hkmy has been de-activated. Thanks for the notice!
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@Charles: Otherwise, in terms of cooperatives in general where do you think they fit in the existing organizational types? Go to an org and click edit on the type field and see the list. Thanks
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JT, I am finally getting around to respond to your concerns. I must admit i am quite busy, but this certainly does not reflect my desire to make sure you feel heard and that your concerns are being responded too. I checked our files and Eric did work for less than a month, around 10 hours a week as he had a full time job and was doing QA for WiserEarth on the side.
I am exciting that we have a new online manager (who will start on the 7th of September) so any questions raised on WiserEarth will be more promptly answered. Thanks again for your patience and believing in WiserEarth |
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@Charles: Can you format the suggestion as Problem, Solution, How I can help - that would be great. Thanks, Angus
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JT, I am finally getting around to respond to your concerns. I must admit i am quite busy, but this certainly does not reflect my desire to make sure you feel heard and that your concerns are being responded too. I checked our files and Eric did work for less than a month, around 10 hours a week as he had a full time job and was doing QA for WiserEarth on the side.
I am exciting that we have a new online manager (who will start on the 7th of September) so any questions raised on WiserEarth will be more promptly answered. Thanks again for your patience and believing in WiserEarth
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