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Visions Unite
The Problem: Individuals with amazing visions are constantly recreating the wheel or falling short of what is possible due to a lack of collaboration. Our Solution: Uniting people through shared resources and experiences to fuel visions into reality. Connection + Collaboration = Empowerment + Achievement
People Who Give a Damn, Inc.
Purpose:
To build, fund, and promote the technical and physical infrastructure needed to connect people who care about making their own or others’ lives better in one or many ways,
To educate the public about tools to help people meet, co-ordinate, and act together.
To foster and support democratic decision-making.
Knight News Challenge Proposal (December, 2009)
* Project Title: Visions Unite, Boston * Requested amount from Knight News Challenge: $150,000 * Expected amount of time to complete project: 2 [years] * Total cost of project including all sources of funding: $250,000 * Describe your project: Visions Unite is a movement for people who want the news to matter. At first for [...]
Uniting Visions
There’s a lot that’s wrong with the world. People die early, some people steal from others in violation of the law or with its assistance, economics and prejudice deny talents and passions the chance to do all they could, and you were delayed 45 minutes traveling home some time ago. There’s a lot that’s right [...]