http://www.MUSTart.org (Art Gallery that supports local artists while giving art and 100% net profit away (http://www.Traidmark.org)
http://www.BARcampBAR.org (FREEtraid Cafe that anyone can set up to raise funds for good causes)
http://www.webjam.com/freebookclub (Free Book Club where you send books to anyone and record them on the map)
http://www.webjam.com/freehotel (Free Hotel can be created anywhere by anyone wanting to set up a sustainable community hotel)
Get started now by giving unwanted items away and record it on the map. List your need then swap knowledge on how to make the most each other. Meet like minded people near you on the map or add your location and create your own community meetup then find others in your area to share your experience with. 1. Find a location 2. Print off poster and put up there 3. Register the location and what you want to do (list what items/skills you have) 4. Go round your neighborhood posting notes through doors about your project (ask for help and collaboration). 5. Raise funds by collecting donations 6. Set up a community cafe to raise funds by giving away free drinks in exchange for donations 7. Create a trust library (MUSTart.org have more details) Example of one project is below...................... FREE ART GIVEAWAY! Was £99.99 Now FREE! Donate, suggest what project to spend it on and receive a FREE piece of art (add £2.99 for P&P).
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MUSTart.org FREE ART AND BOOKS...Give and get more in FREE trade. Help others and accidentally help yourself too with this Gift Economy. Give items away and record it on the map. List your need then swap knowledge on how to make the most each other. Meet like minded people near you on the map or add your location and create your own community meetup then find others in your area to share your experience with. 1. Find a location 2. Print off poster and put up there 3. Register the location and what you want to do (list what items/skills you have) 4. Go round your neighborhood posting notes through doors about your project (ask for help and collaboration). 5. Raise funds by collecting donations 6. Set up a community cafe to raise funds by giving away free drinks in exchange for donations 7. Create a trust library (MUSTart.org have more details) Example of one project is below...................... FREE ART AND BOOK GIVEAWAY! Was £99.99 Now FREE! Donate with the link below, suggest what project to spend it on (collecting more books to give away to others), list your postal addres and receive a FREE piece of art / Book (add £2.99 for P&P).
http://www.MUStart.org
It is currently based in Yorkshire by the www.waterwaysmuseum.org.uk so could be put on the waterways and used as a community center there.
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FREE Institutional Innovation structure that benefits everyone.
Business structures to benefits everyone by creating institutional innovation that will make any organisation innovative more and therefore create better services that then help improve everyone's lives.
Explanation of the benefits from the simple act of donating net profit.
An organisation is trading normally today (or is in difficulty or not making a profit)
The organisation makes the simple change of structure by formally agreeing to donate 100% net profit (after wages/tax/R&D) into innovation and innovative brand new charitable work.
This enables the organisation to get a goodwill value boost overnight which increases the value of the company.
Customers an suppliers and competitors then look on the organisation as a partner rather than a competitor and so will do extra things to help the company grow (loyalty, voluntary, complimentary).
Employees work harder knowing that any extra funds will be used for charitable work (and everyone in the organisation including the founders AND investers can get rich by getting performance pay as they work hard to make the organisation as success).
So everyone wins. The Investers and founder and politicans all win as they get increased productivity and get rich through performance pay and they get to become philanthropists and benefit from getting goodwill (and feeling great about the philanthropic organisation they created) before they get rich (rather than after they are rich which is the way the old philanthropic model works).
So this Traidmark.org business structure builds on the proven soccess of the Cooperative model where by surplus funds are given out but IMPORTANTLY funnels those funds so they can be used to create innovation that cost effectively can help everyone (aiming to fund future innovations as revolutionary as the wheel / bicycle...)
If you have questions please follow http://www.twitter.com/FREEtraid
Traidmark.org, enables, you, to, gain, from, hard, work, while, funding, innovation, within, a, Not, For, Profit, organisation
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Landlord: You get to fill your space and help 'do gooders' solve human problems.
Tennants: You get to save rent costs and use your rent to fund 'do good' projects that we create.
Come down to the Next Tuttle Club at the ICA any Friday and look out for metions on #tuttle and #barcampbar
Only a few places left for the Innovation House Party...
sign up here http://www.pledgebank.com/FREEHouseparty
http://www.barcampbar.org
DONATE HERE
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=7155131
Donate and receive more than you gave in free gifts. EVERYONE wins. Then help us decide which innovative creative project is the best way to invest those funds. So you get a free product for making a creative project happen. Makes buying things positively boring (and you get a philanthropic feel good feeling;). Suggest ways to spend the money any way you like but only suggestions put through the donation route will be considered by the community.
If you want to collaborate to make other products or activities please do get in contact as we want to help others make new projects work.
FREE ART GIVEAWAY! Was £99.99 Now FREE!
Is pain and suffering almost always caused by selfish minds? It appears so.
That appears to be one main cause of suffering as many people think they are going without so take from others.Take a look at any selfish or 'evil'/'bad' person. They are always selfish and dont realise that they could give others happiness if they took time to step back and look at their life. Instead they think there is no time to look at their life (takes 5 minutes) so miss the chance to make their life happy and content.I keep forgetting to appreciate what i have and keep getting wound up by life's little problems based around things like my Career.
All of these anxieties come from comparing myself to others so it is inevitable that i am unhappy at least 50% of the time as i (and everyone else) expects to be getting at least above average out of life if not to at least 90%! (meaning i am unhappy 90% of the time!!!).
Several different people suggested going for a walk whenever I feel bad (which works amazingly) and also to look on life not as a task but as a 'once in a lifetime' opportunity to see how many other people we can help and make happy. After all if you make someone else happy it makes you feel good so that can only be good. One other way is to look back at the simple things in life that I HAVE rather than look forward at the things i think i want. When i forget to appreciate these things i look up a video of someone who does not have one of these or try to find someone in the street who is missing one of these and try to help them a little. Below is a list of these things (if you cant do one move on to the next please)...
I can Breathe (breath in and out 10 times slowly concentrating on the air flowing into and out of your lounges) [hold your breath for a bit]
I can Touch (move one part of your body very slowly and concentrate on the sense) [sit still then move a tiny part of your body]
I can See (look at one small object or your hand and enjoy being able to see this) [close then open your eyes]
I can Hear (close your eyes and listen to the quietest sounds and enjoy them) [put your fingers in your ears;p]
I can Smell (breath in slowly through your nose and see what you can smell) [breath in through your mouth then nose]
I can Taste (What does your mouth taste like, the air or your skin?) [Eat something tasty]
I can Give (find someone who needs something and give it to them...Hug, Kiss...) [Dont forget to give yourself something too by hugging others]
Do you know any other ways to remind yourself to control your EGO so you stop thinking about yourself and concentrate on helping others who are less (and more) fortunate than you are? Please share this information and any other ways to enjoy life (no matter how obvious) to http://www.FREEHUG.org
We are also looking for people to collaborate on this project. Are you interested?
Books that give lots of great advice on this are listed below as are lots of GREAT TED talks which explain about the benefits of selflessness (it makes YOU happy:) plus lots of free books can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg htt://www.gutenberg.org/
Find the products here or ask a friend to borrow theirs...
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This nice games is one example of how things many people take for granted need to be taught in a clear educational manner to certain types of learners.
http://www.getonlineday.com/challengegame/index.html
Which leads on to the government service called http://www.myguide.gov.uk which illustrates many more.
Once on the web the first big choice users face is, 'Which service do I use' when there are so many similar offers?
Most users learn from their peers choosing the fastest services that are easiest to use. Then they choose to use ethical products/services provided by Not For Profit and Social Enterprise organisations which are nicely listed on websites such as http://www.idealist.org and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit_organization.
We are looking for
1. Location
We are in advanced negotiations with a number of locations that have unused space and are still looking for more partner organisations so that we can enhance their space usage by providing our Open Space Cafe Social Enterprise format. If you know of other locations that would be interested in collaborating please join this network add their details to the discussion list.
2. Products/Partners and suppliers
We are now looking for:
Product Suppliers to supply innovative products for our shops,
Event management to put on events in the prime locations,
Startups, Entrepreneurs and artists who are interested in using these locations.
3. Web
We are looking for web developers interested in building open source collaborative tools and utilising existing ones.
In summary...
We are creating a self sustaining organisation that will provide a location for young people to access the internet and collaborate together in hard to reach areas and are looking to produce this with an existing organisation that will benefit too.