Here's where we list ongoing projects that need YOUR participation
Projects
Save the world through conventional channels
Here we will have links to the usual suspect/save the world websites, like "Shop for
Change" and other
overviews of
charities and
ways to get involved
out there. This is turning out
to be harder than imagined, as each group of people doing good
works out there also seems to come with some ideological baggage.
Ajaban can still leverage this, but I have to figure out how
best to frame this. Remember,
we want to use the charity to further our own agenda and idea
of good works in this world, and not the other way around.
Well,
if you don't
like the charity, go out and make one of your own. And stop
calling it a charity. Non-profit?
Endeavor? Ajaban's
policy on charity is that this money is not a give-away but an
investment
in the future
and it's for
your own benefit that you are chipping in, not some random
"altruism" thing. At the very least, it is making the world seem like a safer
place where strangers will chip in to help out when others are flailing or systems
are down. Social insurance.
At the same time, Ajaban doesn't want to encourage free-loading or reward systems that
perpetuate failure and that sort of thing. No whiners. Nothing that appears to be a charity but is
actually disempowering. Genuinely empowering things. Must figure out a way to determine actual
or at least comparable quantity of empowerment offered by various strategies. So that we can
assign value and then rank different organizations/charities/approaches.
Yes. This is a impossible. Also known as "operationalizing conceptual variables." But most of all, Ajaban seeks to be proactive, not reactive. We want to systematically
rank charities and non-profits by their strategy and effectiveness likelihood with a higher ranking for
things that will make it better in the long run.
We're out drawing up the various ajabaction plans. We'll complete this section
when we get back!
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