Traidmark.org = Not / For Profit + Social Enterprise Innovation Germinater

Traidmark.org enables everyone to gain from hard work (performance pay) while adding value to any enterprise by funding innovation and running your enterprise as a Not For Profit or For Profit organisation that invests any surplus funds (or 100% net profit in the case of the for profit organization).So you gain popularity, volunteers, donations, collaborations and importantly goodwill by pledging to donate up to 100% net profit (or all surplus funds after R&D) BEFORE you become successful which in turn increases your chances of becoming successful.

Imagine if Warren Buffett or Bill Gates Li Ka-shing George Soros Howard Hughes (or any of the other philanthropists that are listed below http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_philanthropists) had pledged to donate their riches before they earned them. How much more funds could they have created using the added goodwill they would have cumulatively created over the years (not to mention the good work that they could have done to solve problems earlier if the money had been used as soon as it had been created). 1. This is a great way to enhance philanthropy by funding creativity and rewarding philanthropists and 2. importantly it means that everyone can become a philanthropist no matter what they earn. We can all be Microphilanthropists and gain greater success so we benefit personally too. One clear example is that Microfinance organisations can use this model to enhance the way they innovate.

It is that simple. All that you or anyone has to do is agree to donate all surplus funds to innovative charitable work (which you can set up and create so you are not giving money away but rather spending it on amazing new charitable projects you create).

This importantly increases creativity and inventions by creating institutional innovation by forcing any organisation to invest suplus funds into new innovative ways to solve problems. This is especially useful for governments and charities or philanthropic or training funds that have to be spend by certain dates every year as the funds can be saved by wise investments then used to fund pioneering innovation that will be able to efficiently solve problems through creative blue sky activities that build on and improve existing activities in an even more effective way.

This is how it works.
The organisation invests surplus profit in NEW Innovative enterprise (which helps make that organisation continually evolve because of this structure) which creates better services through institutional innovation. Everyone who works hard can still get financially rewarded through performance pay but there is a goodwill boost as everyone knows the organisation is solving human problems in the most efficient way possible by using innovation.

This adds significant customer loyalty and enables hard work to be rewarded through pay while investing in innovative solutions to social problems.

Anyone can implement the Traidmark business model. This is because any surplus created can be invested in innovative social enterprise which makes it a lot easier to 'do good'.

So Traidmark is promoting the benefits of creating and running Not for profits that importantly invest any surplus cash in NEW innovative social enterprise not for profits. This enables good work to continually evolve and fund even more innovative work that is more efficient.

Video explanation of the benefits http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp4xiNqWGe8

A two way discussion is recorded here here https://admin.na4.acrobat.com/_a827006733/p35975597/

Traidmark Logo
The Traidmark brand/logo aims to reward companies that donate profits to charity (measured in percentages of Net profit). We provide the logos on this website. All you have to do is copy the relevant logo and use it to help boost trade. 

 

@openletter @business @structure http://www.Traidmark.org = philanthropy + Social Enterprise Innovation for @gov @charity @business

Full http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_philanthropists list below

 

Some notable philanthropists

• Prince Karim Aga Khan IV ~ founder^[1] and chairman^[2] of the Aga Khan Development Network which focuses on health, education, culture, rural development, institution-building and the promotion of economic development^[2].
• Jane Addams ~ co-founder of the Hull House settlement house in Chicago^[3].

• Howard Ahmanson, Jr. ~ multi-millionaire philanthropist and financier of the causes of many conservative Christian cultural, religious and political organizations.
• William Allen - founded and endowed many institutions and causes including 'Schools of Industry' at Lindfield and Newington Academy for Girls.
• Michael Bloomberg ~ Donations include over USD$300 million to Johns Hopkins University.
• Bono ~ co-founder of Product Red and of the One Campaign for the abolition of AIDS and poverty in Africa.
• Warren Buffett ~ pledged USD$30.7 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
• Nicholas Murray Butler - president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1925 to 1945.
• Andrew Carnegie ~ donated money to build over 2500 libraries world-wide. Founder of the Carnegie Foundations, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Carnegie Mellon University.
• Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury - chairman of the Ragged Schools Union (during the Victorian era).
• Marisol Deluna ~ fashion designer and founder of Deluna By Design, Inc. creates silk scarves and ties for charitable endeavors globally.
• Richard Desmond – President of the Norwood Charity, raised around £14m for charitable causes with the RD Crusaders, helped build the Richard Desmond Children’s Eye Centre part of Moorfields Eye Hospital.
• Walt Disney ~ helped to fund California Institute of the Arts
• Anthony J. Drexel ~ founder of Drexel University
• Maulana Dr. Abdul Sattar Edhi ~ head of the Edhi Foundation in Pakistan.
• Mohamed Al-Fayed ~ founder of The New School at West Heath.
• Chuck Feeney ~ founder of Atlantic Philanthropies.
• Edsel Ford ~ co-founder of the Ford Foundation.
• Henry Ford ~ co-founder of the Ford Foundation.
• Bill Gates ~ co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
• Melinda Gates ~ co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
• J. Paul Getty ~ funded the construction of the Getty Villa, the original Getty Museum, and donated his art collection to it. Upon his death, left his fortune to the Getty Museum, which eventually expanded to the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
• David Gilmour ~ singer and guitarist of Pink Floyd whom was made CBE for his years of philanthropy and gave $7.5 million from sale of his London home to the homeless charity Crisis
• Edward Harkness ~ Various private colleges and boarding schools; medical facilities; Commonwealth Fund
• Thomas Holloway ~ Victorian patent medicine entrepreneur and founder of Royal Holloway, University of London
• Johns Hopkins ~ founder of the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Amal Hijazi ~ a Lebanese singer, who is known for her philanthropy
• Howard Hughes ~ Aviator, engineer, industrialist and film producer, donated US$1.56billion to various charities including the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
• Yusuf Islam (also known as Cat Stevens) ~ founder of Islamic schools, Muslim Aid and Small Kindness.
• Michael Jackson ~ has donated more than USD$300 million to various foundations.
• Angelina Jolie ~ American Actress,who is well know for her humanitarian world wide and who is also a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency
• Alicia Keys ~ American singer/songwriter and spokeswoman for Keep A Child Alive.
• Imran Khan ~ Founder of the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust which was behind the first cancer research institution in Pakistan.
• H. F. Lenfest ~ donated $5 million in coherence with Chester County to preserve over 1,000 acres (4.0 km²) of land in Newlin Township, Chester County, PA. The land is now owned by Natural Lands Trust.
• Julius Curtis Lewis, Jr. ~ Estimated lifetime donations of USD$130 million to various civic, spiritual; charitable organizations. Many in Savannah, Georgia.
• Li Ka-shing ~ founder and chairman of the Li Ka Shing Foundation, which focuses on two major areas: capacity empowerment through education and building of a caring society through medical and healthcare related projects. In 2006, Li pledged to donate one-third of his fortune estimated at over USD$10 billion to charity and philanthropic projects throughout the world.
• Juliette Gordon Low ~ Also known as "Daisy", founded Girl Scouts of the USA in 1912 in Savannah, GA.
• Catherine T. MacArthur ~ co-founder of the MacArthur Foundation.
• John D. MacArthur ~ co-founder of the MacArthur Foundation.
• Chris Martin ~ lead singer of British alternative rock band Coldplay. He is known for supporting the Make Trade Fair campaign. He and his band also contribute 15% of their money to charity.
• Paul Mellon ~ major benefactor of arts and education, and co-founder of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
• Ailsa Mellon-Bruce ~ co-founder of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
• Mary Louise Milliken Childs ~ Builder of the Milliken Memorial Community House, the first privately donated community house in America.
• Kylie Minogue ~ europop/dance singer and performer, actress and fashion designer.
• Samuel Morley MP ~ founded Morley College, London and endowed other institutions and causes.
• Jamie and Karen Phelps Moyer ~ founded the Moyer Foundation to assist non-profit organizations in raising money for children with serious distresses.
• Sidney Myer ~ Founder of the Iconic Australian Department store chain Myer.
• Petra Němcová ~ Czech supermodel who is the founder of the Happy Hearts Fund
• Paul Newman ~ Founder of Newman's Own and the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for seriously ill children, as well as major donations to other charities.
• Alfred Nobel ~ founder of the Nobel Prizes.
• Legendary country singer Dolly Parton is an advocate for children's education through her foundation, the Imagination Library, which gives books to children on a regular basis to develop their reading skills before starting school.
• Princess Bernice Pauahi ~ left properties to the education of Hawaiian boys and girls in what is now Kamehameha Schools.
• Linus Pauling ~ donated time and effort and spent personal funds to bring about the worldwide ban on above ground nuclear weapons testing.
• Ronald O. Perelman ~ Largest Revlon stockholder, has donated over $200 million to various causes since 2001, including a $50 million gift to create the Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical Center.
• Dame Shirley Porter ~ Tesco heiress and co-founder of The Porter Foundation, has donated to Tel Aviv University, social welfare facilities and ecological funding, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and others.
• Charles Pratt ~ founder of Pratt Institute.
• Christopher Reeve ~ founder of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
• Werner Reinhart ~ industrialist, philanthropist, music and literature patron
• Donald Rix ~ BC Innovation Council, BC Cancer Agency Foundation, BC Medical Services Foundation, and the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation
• Sir David Robinson ~ founder of the Robinson Charitable Trust, and of Robinson College.
• John D. Rockefeller ~ founder of the Rockefeller Foundation and Rockefeller University.
• John D. Rockefeller Jr. - dramatically expanded the Rockefeller Foundation and Rockefeller University. He also bought and then donated the land in Manhattan upon which the United Nations headquarters was built.
• John D. Rockefeller 3rd ~ major third-generation Rockefeller philanthropist and founder of the Asia Society (1956), the Population Council (1952) and a reconstituted Japan Society, he was chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation for twenty years. He established the Rockefeller Public Service Awards in 1958. Among his many other achievements, he was the driving force behind the construction of the landmark Lincoln Center, built between 1959 and 1966, in New York City.
• J.K. Rowling ~ President of One Parent Families, and advocate for social equity.
• Joseph Rowntree - founder of the four Rowntree trusts.
• Enriqueta Augustina Rylands, foundress of the John Rylands Library
• John Rylands
• Shakira ~ founder of Pies Descalzos Foundation.
• Sir Run Run Shaw ~ founder of the Shaw Prize Foundation.
• Gary Sinise ~ co-founder of Operation Iraqi Children.
• George Soros ~ estimated to have donated more than USD$6 billion, often through the Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations.
• Ellen Gates Starr ~ co-founder of Hull House.
• Levi Strauss ~ Gave to many notable foundations of his time. He also gave to many Jewish synagogues and organizations (he was Jewish himself).
• Belinda Stronach - co-founder of Spread the Net
• Mother Teresa ~ founded the Missionaries of Charity. Her work among the poverty-stricken in Calcutta made her one of the world's most famous people.
• Cornelius Vanderbilt ~ funded Vanderbilt University.
• William Henry Vanderbilt ~ cofounder of the Metropolitan Opera.
• Sir Joseph Whitworth
• William Wilberforce ~ English politician, headed successful parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade, and later supported the campaign for complete abolition.
• Oprah Winfrey ~ estimated donations above USD$300 million, and founder of Oprah's Angel Network.
• Steve Wozniak ~ provided all the money, as well as a good amount of on-site technical support, for the technology program for the Los Gatos School district. Co-founder of Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.)

[edit] Greatest philanthropists by amount of USD

The following table orders the greatest philanthrophists by estimated amount given to charity, corresponding to USD.

Name	Amount given	Cause
Warren Buffett	$30.7 billion	healthcare, extreme poverty, education, access to information technology
Bill Gates	$29 billion	Education, AIDS-prevention
Li Ka-shing	$10 billion	Education, healthcare
George Soros	$6 billion	Democratic governance, anti-Fascist publications, human rights, economic, legal, and social reform
Howard Hughes	$1.56 billion	Medical

 

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

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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.

The Traidmark organization aims to reward companies that donate profits to charity (measured in percentages of Net profit). We provide the logos on this website. All you have to do is copy the relevant logo and use it to help boost trade.

 

Discussion about how the philosophy that Traidmark represents. That is the benefits of running any organisation as a Not For Profit that uses all surplus funds to invest in innovative new NFP enterprise which makes organisations evolve so they can serve their customers better and compete...

Benefits of using Traidmark discussed here https://admin.na4.acrobat.com/_a827006733/p35975597/ 

 

How can we modify structures to maximise the long tail of innovation. How could it best be facilitated so everyone can contribute without comments being lots in the depths of the web? It seams that there is SO much potential for government and the public to achieve using new media. The key appears to be how to communicate this potential and empower everyone to take that step down the rabbit hole of independent innovation and collaboration at everyones own grass roots (though this has been done outside of new tech since just after the beginning of time:). Is there a way to reward individuals to take risks by trying new things and fail/succeed? The dot com approach of rewarding successful innovation by buying it out appears to work for successful innovation. How best to reward innovators that try things that fail is unclear. It may be best to enable lots of innovators to innovate without rewarding success so that peer review enables success to be rewarded socially while larger volumes or innovation can be facilitated by funding lots of people with smaller amounts. The http://www.Traidmark.org business structure aims to illustrate how this can be done by funding innovators to create products within a not for profit that then invests any surplus funds in other innovators who are working on different products/services. This enables commerce and government to interact with the public while safely funding innovation that fails and succeeds with interesting outcomes that exceed expectations. More details are on the http://www.whymandesign.com Innovation research blog.

How to create a self funding organisation that solves human problems.

It would be great to hear about existing projects and way to create self sustaining organisations that use innovation to solve human problems.

Am working on a self sustaining enterprise that aims to provide the platform to empower young people to 'do good'. Would be great to chat more. Working site at www.FREEtraid.org but can message full details. We have a business structure that donates 100% net profit to invest in youth projects (ala Traidmark.org) and are looking for funding and partners with locations we can use. edwhyman at google mail
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Sawubona from KwaZulu-Natal,South Africa

If you have the funding,possibly you can partner with the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Science & Technology Innovation Park(STIP),web http:stip.ukzn.ac.za

Please let me know what type of projects you have.
Thanks
Pravesh Moodley
Secretariat,STIP Steering Committee
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Permalink Reply by Allan William Ullman on 12 May 2009 at 8:02pm
The ideal situation would be to have an innovative product funded and marketed successfully, with all profits used to fund science for humanity ventures. This would achieve productivety in the richer Nations and funding would follow, the trick is getting the development funds in the first instance.
Taking this forward would need a secret millionaire to kickstart it, but alas there are very few willing to donate...Unless you are one reading this? In case you ask, an innovative product could be found in the patent office files there are plenty which may never see the light of day due to lack of initial development funding.
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Pravesh and Allan

Thanks for the great information:)

We are working on a self funding cafe format that anyone can set up (with a basic cover site at ) http://openspacecafe.ning.com

Also check out http://www.traidmark.org which explains the benefit of donating net profit to fund future innovation:)
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It would be great if it was possible to anyone to set up an enterprise though science 4 humanity too:)
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Permalink Reply by Richard Craig 15 minutes ago
Hi Ed

Great idea and something I've always been interested in. I did a quick poll of a group I was talking to ages ago to gage public reaction to a company that charged a little more (few %) that the competition but donated more/all profit to charity or supported community projects etc. I was disappointed when most said they wouldn't support an organisation like that - they would prefer to donate, rather than be charge more etc. That was only a small test group, but I would think that if a product is good quality and roughly priced at market value then people will support it. I have helped design products so would be interested in helping.

I was interested in starting a software organisation staffed by volunteers to code software similar to OpenOffice and other common main stream applications. I like what the Natural History Museum are doing at the moment with simple science kits. I even bought a scale model of the ear for my research!

I was impressed by Kiva ( www.kiva.org ) that help people provde short term loans to people in developing countries. This highlights peoples desire to help as there are not enough entrepreneurs to meet the demand from lenders!
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Hi Richard

What you are doing sounds great. Check out brightone.org as they would be good partners. I also would love to work with other tech volunteers to solve social problems innovatively and cheeply then generate income that can be used to fund even more innovation which is the aim of the Traidmark.org business structure. The aim is to have cheeper products (through innovation) that also donate 100% net profit to charity so the consumer gets cheeper goods and also knows where the profits are going:)

This may be of interest (and will be a great way to meet some clever
tech guys who made SuperCoolSchool:)

I am running a 'class'/discussion about the Traidmark.org business
structure that you saw me present a while back and thought you might
want to interact with it online here
http://startup.supercoolschool.com/classes/432 (FRIDAY 29.05.09 13.30 GMT)

I am hoping to persuade the supercoolschool creators to donate 100% net
profit from Supercoolschool to fund innovation that solves social problems.

I am currently using this business model to set up
http://openspacecafe.ning.com/ which aims to generate profit from
cafe/restaurant sales to invest in innovation.

do join the Traidmark.org group for updates and add comments there so EVERYONE can see them without having to log in (open everything:)

No No No Yes. Saying Yes / No Happiness and 8 hours!
1.
What is the unmeasurable negative effect of people saying no or being negative on you me and society? Is it worse to ignore someone than say no to them? Probably...

Here is a list of obvious ways to handle any situation from bad to good...

BAD - Insult, Ignore, Say No, Suggest something, Encourage, Congratulate, Say Yes, Recommend - GOOD

So it takes less effort to say to someone that they are doing well and makes you feel good too.
It appears to be all linked to the EGO that makes some people confused and think that they are better than others so don't want to care or help them which leads to the BAD reactions to any/every enquiry. As these people are negative to other people they get negative responses too leading to a cycle of negativity which makes the egotistical person feel worse and worse. The person who has control of their EGO and acts selflessly helping others gets rewarded many times over as others are nice back to them creating a cycle of GOOD where everyone wins. Often stress creates the negative cycle but this can be combated by looking at others who have 'less' making you feel humble and by laughing at ourselves as in the grand scheme of things nothing we do (nor our lives) appear to matter.

2.
This leads on to how you live your life. To enjoy it or to reach some goal that your parents/society has imposed on you? The TED talk below makes me step back and think about what is important and how money and status are worth less than self belief and pride...
Do not look for happiness but create it with what you have got.


http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html

When people have no choice they change their preferences to make them more happy about what they have. When they have choice they are always comparing what they have to others so are less happy as they compare with the average.

On average nothing is average!

3.
Which leads to what you do with 8 hours of your life! well 3 sets of 8 hours.


8 hours working...

If one person can do a job better than someone else should they take ove the job?

How does that apply to what you do? Would you step aside if someone could do your job better than you?

If you step aside then you would be able to do a different job that you are even better at.

So everyone should keep looking out for someone who could do their job better than them. When they find that person they should give them their job so that they can go on to work in areas that they excel in.


8 hour sleeping...

Is there a way to do good while you sleep? Create a website that offers advice/ helps others that will be online while you sleep.


8 hours relaxing...

Is there a way to do good while you relax? Finding your passion in life and using that to build something that can be used to help others in your local/global community be it art/writing/acting/dancing/singing/playing...

4.
FREEtraid.com aims to help anyone maximise the positive effect of using any time in their day by sharing free advice on using any skill to give away free products/services in exchange for donations so that you can then fund even more great work. Its a gift economy that funds innovative work.

@whymandesign

FREE LOVE GIVEAWAY (and happiness too just help others and give your love away:)

Introduction to the web... as simple as 1 2 Infinity

Make yourself happy and content by giving. Please share your experience of making yourself happy by giving (takes 5 mins and will help someone else)...

How can we modify structures to maximise the long tail of innovation. How could it best be facilitated so everyone can contribute without comments being lots in the depths of the web? It seams that there is SO much potential for government and the public to achieve using new media. The key appears to be how to communicate this potential and empower everyone to take that step down the rabbit hole of independent innovation and collaboration at everyones own grass roots (though this has been done outside of new tech since just after the beginning of time:). Is there a way to reward individuals to take risks by trying new things and fail/succeed? The dot com approach of rewarding successful innovation by buying it out appears to work for successful innovation. How best to reward innovators that try things that fail is unclear. It may be best to enable lots of innovators to innovate without rewarding success so that peer review enables success to be rewarded socially while larger volumes or innovation can be facilitated by funding lots of people with smaller amounts. The http://www.Traidmark.org business structure aims to illustrate how this can be done by funding innovators to create products within a not for profit that then invests any surplus funds in other innovators who are working on different products/services. This enables commerce and government to interact with the public while safely funding innovation that fails and succeeds with interesting outcomes that exceed expectations. More details are on the http://www.whymandesign.com Innovation research blog.