Archive: 10%Club Notes from Cloudpad
From CloudPad 2006 (retrieved from WayBack Machine/ Internet Archive)
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The 10% Club
Two years ago I decided to try an experiment in awareness and empathy. I made a vow to consistently donate 10% of my income to help end suffering in this world. Every time I got a paycheck, or sold an artwork, I would move the decimal point over and donate that much (10%) towards a project I believed in. The internet made it easy. Feeling 'rich' enough to donate Something is step one in this process, and it gets easier not harder...because it has nothing to do with how we usually categorize ourselves. It's about becoming more aware of all we DO have and our place in the world. If you are somehow reading this on a computer somewhere, most likely you are 'phenomenally' rich in comparison to a vast population of humanity. One, you have somehow learned to read... and two, you have access to a computer and the internet. That is to say nothing about all the other things in your life that made it possible for you to be here now...the things we take for granted...like clean water, a roof over our heads, access to education and information, opportunities in general.I feel the 10% vow has changed my life in miraculous ways. It is something that must be understood from the inside and this is why I hope to encourage others to try it and see for themselves.
What if everyone did this? Mathematically. Picture the immediate branching helplines, visualize the change in the world. Like a healthy nervous system working with immuno-response in our larger body. Where there is suffering, the body responds...each cell contributing nourishment... could this be a simple solution to the challenge: “To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.” - Buckminster Fuller
"Micro philanthropy affords each of us the opportunity to contribute to whatever need evokes within us a sense of compassion, and as a scalable phenomenon helps us to participate globally in celebrations and appreciations which can be a contagion of love, or an epidemic of health. Creating an infrastructure which allows a massive amount of small scale interaction can have an explosively powerful effect. A means of supporting micro philanthropy on a global scale could be one of the most powerful uses of Internet technology."- Tom Munnecke on Towards a Model of Micro Philanthropy (http://givingspace.org/papers/microphilanthropy.htm)
Avalokiteshvara (http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-BH/bh117498.htm) requested "If I need to benefit all the sentient beings until samsara ends, may I have one thousand arms, and one thousand eyes. May these one thousand arms manifest as a thousand universal monarchs, and the one thousand eyes manifest as a thousand Buddhas". Buddha Amitabha granted him his wish with one thousand arms and one thousand eyes, each eye in the palm of each hand.
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Project
How to spread the 10% Pledge as a successful business model and meme for conscious individuals and corporations
(Microphilanthropy meets tithing as a consistant cooperative process towards a BetterWorld Tipping Point)
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Steps:
creation and maintainence of The 10% Club community/journalon (http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=10percentclub) LiveJournal.com. (43 members and counting.)
creation of 10%Club group and discussion threads on omidyar.net (http://www.omidyar.net/group/tenpercentclub/) (48 members and counting)
hopefully solicit membership and collaboration/help/ideas to snowball The 10% Club into a far-reaching campaign
create 10%Club group on SecondLife (t-shirts and info available on BetterWorldIsland)
create 10%Club group and profile on myspace.com
development of webpages for The First 1000 and 10percentclub.org (in progress)
research and contact businesses and individuals who are already donating 10% to be a part of the network
List/Links of 10%ers to contact possible 10%ers- Do they fit requirements? Accountability?
Branding/Awareness:
Logo (red stamp)on products, storefronts (decal) and websites (clickable jpg)
T-shirts + gear on CafePress store +Virtual on SL
(10%ers will be registered and linked together in The First 1000 and eventually Pier10)
"The concept of charity is more than writing a check to our favorite organization. It has to do with attaining a level of selflessness so that we realize that it is not us giving anymore. We are just vehicles through which something that is needed is passing." -Rabbi David Cooper, from 'God is a Verb'
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[edit]
The 10% Club
Two years ago I decided to try an experiment in awareness and empathy. I made a vow to consistently donate 10% of my income to help end suffering in this world. Every time I got a paycheck, or sold an artwork, I would move the decimal point over and donate that much (10%) towards a project I believed in. The internet made it easy. Feeling 'rich' enough to donate Something is step one in this process, and it gets easier not harder...because it has nothing to do with how we usually categorize ourselves. It's about becoming more aware of all we DO have and our place in the world. If you are somehow reading this on a computer somewhere, most likely you are 'phenomenally' rich in comparison to a vast population of humanity. One, you have somehow learned to read... and two, you have access to a computer and the internet. That is to say nothing about all the other things in your life that made it possible for you to be here now...the things we take for granted...like clean water, a roof over our heads, access to education and information, opportunities in general.I feel the 10% vow has changed my life in miraculous ways. It is something that must be understood from the inside and this is why I hope to encourage others to try it and see for themselves.
What if everyone did this? Mathematically. Picture the immediate branching helplines, visualize the change in the world. Like a healthy nervous system working with immuno-response in our larger body. Where there is suffering, the body responds...each cell contributing nourishment... could this be a simple solution to the challenge: “To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.” - Buckminster Fuller
"Micro philanthropy affords each of us the opportunity to contribute to whatever need evokes within us a sense of compassion, and as a scalable phenomenon helps us to participate globally in celebrations and appreciations which can be a contagion of love, or an epidemic of health. Creating an infrastructure which allows a massive amount of small scale interaction can have an explosively powerful effect. A means of supporting micro philanthropy on a global scale could be one of the most powerful uses of Internet technology."- Tom Munnecke on Towards a Model of Micro Philanthropy (http://givingspace.org/papers/microphilanthropy.htm)
Avalokiteshvara (http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-BH/bh117498.htm) requested "If I need to benefit all the sentient beings until samsara ends, may I have one thousand arms, and one thousand eyes. May these one thousand arms manifest as a thousand universal monarchs, and the one thousand eyes manifest as a thousand Buddhas". Buddha Amitabha granted him his wish with one thousand arms and one thousand eyes, each eye in the palm of each hand.
[edit]
Project
How to spread the 10% Pledge as a successful business model and meme for conscious individuals and corporations
(Microphilanthropy meets tithing as a consistant cooperative process towards a BetterWorld Tipping Point)
[edit]
Steps:
creation and maintainence of The 10% Club community/journalon (http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=10percentclub) LiveJournal.com. (43 members and counting.)
creation of 10%Club group and discussion threads on omidyar.net (http://www.omidyar.net/group/tenpercentclub/) (48 members and counting)
hopefully solicit membership and collaboration/help/ideas to snowball The 10% Club into a far-reaching campaign
create 10%Club group on SecondLife (t-shirts and info available on BetterWorldIsland)
create 10%Club group and profile on myspace.com
development of webpages for The First 1000 and 10percentclub.org (in progress)
research and contact businesses and individuals who are already donating 10% to be a part of the network
List/Links of 10%ers to contact possible 10%ers- Do they fit requirements? Accountability?
Branding/Awareness:
Logo (red stamp)on products, storefronts (decal) and websites (clickable jpg)
T-shirts + gear on CafePress store +Virtual on SL
(10%ers will be registered and linked together in The First 1000 and eventually Pier10)
"The concept of charity is more than writing a check to our favorite organization. It has to do with attaining a level of selflessness so that we realize that it is not us giving anymore. We are just vehicles through which something that is needed is passing." -Rabbi David Cooper, from 'God is a Verb'
Retrieved from "http://www.cloudpad.org/wiki/index.php/10%25"