Filed under: Charlotte, community services, empathy, innovation, social media | Tags: charitable needs, crowdsourcing, Mission Possible, transparency
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If you haven’t caught it already, a local media coalition under the umbrella name Mission Possible is collecting public ideas to answer the growing need of charitable groups feeling the pressure of a challenged economy. Soliciting ideas from a local constituency is not necessarily a new concept, and it definitely falls in the category of crowdsourcing. Even the Obama administration has been putting structures in place to ensure the transparency of their multiple agendas. Leveraging the collective wisdom and expertise certainly can’t hurt, especially in a time when more radical thinking is required. From the website, some of the areas they’re exploring are:
- New ways to conduct fundraising
- New ways to administer programs
- New ways to let individual citizens make a difference through volunteering
- New ways that an individual personally could make a difference
- New ways to use technology to help meet charitable needs
- New ways for potential donors to learn of charitable needs and what assistance is needed
- Wholesale changes in how charitable needs are met
Start by submitting your thoughts and ideas here. (Via Charlotte’s own innovation connector, Edison Nation)
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[...] up with Steve Gunn, the Charlotte Observer’s Innovation Editor, was to learn more about Mission Possible, the project that his paper spearheaded to find innovative ways to meet the city’s charitable [...]
Pingback by The Charlotte Observer wants to figure out how to make newspapers new again « It happens here: Consumer-centric Innovation in Charlotte and beyond August 3, 2009 @ 7:49 pm[...] I just realized I missed the deadline for entries after I got around to creating a mindmap for the Mission Possible project, so I guess I’ll post it here. Maybe there’s a nugget of an idea in there [...]
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