This document discusses how social projects can change communities through collective online action. It outlines some of the barriers to change like bureaucracy and lack of funding or coordination. A proposed solution is a web-based platform that allows people to identify, fund, and deliver local social projects in a transparent, simple and agile manner. Examples of projects could include improving school equipment, parks, or adding trees to streets. The platform would facilitate the entire social project cycle from planning to delivery and evaluation. It aims to bypass traditional barriers and fund community change one project at a time.

1. Social Projects Change your world one project at a time

2. The World is Changing Right Now “ Newly capable groups are assembling, and they are working without managerial imperative and outside the previous strictures that bounded their effectiveness. These changes will transform the world everywhere groups of people come together to accomplish anything, which is to say everywhere.” from Here Comes Everybody By Clay Shirky

3. The Social Explosion Worldwide mobile social networking users, 2006-2012 facebook

4. The Situation So here you are… You see a problem that you would like to fix Your local school has 15-year-old computer equipment Your local park has tennis courts with no nets There are no trees on your street You need people, funding and a plan to get something done You want to make a change but you are stymied by barriers to change…

5. The Problem Top Down Faceless Slow Confusing Complicated Distant Manual

6. The Solution Bottom Up Personal Agile Transparent Simple Local Web

7. Examples of the New Order People are gathering online for collective action via a new web-based communication capability. What’s needed is a better way to identify, fund and deliver Social Projects…

8. A Profitable Idea Funding community change one project at a time Bypass the bureaucracy to get something done Be the change you want to see Get involved in projects near you Support the entire Social Project Cycle (SPC) Concept Stage (what, why, when, how, who) ROI Stage (cost benefit) Planning Stage (PM 101) Financing Stage (who and how much) Oversight and Audit (who how) Decision (Yes or No) Deliver (who what when how who) Value (how did we do?)

9. How does it work? A web-based platform like Kiva and Facebook Global reach / local usage Take ½% of all monies raised At 1B raised, that’s 5M in revenue, etc. Run a lean operation using cloud computing Create a viral marketing machine that runs 24x7

10. Financial Projections