GivingSpace Is Moving to a New Home in the Uplift Academy!

GivingSpace is moving to become the Philanthropy Interest Area in the Uplift Academy. We will be moving this site over to its new home, as well an updated, more flexible web site. This will allow continuation of the original GivingSpace thrust towards generosity and philanthropy, but will also give us a richer connection to other forms of uplift. Uplift Academy is still supported as a project of the Visions of a Better World Foundation. --- Feb 1, 2005

Our Mission:

To sow the seeds of a global self-organizing, self-propagating infrastructure which allows the creation, discovery, commitment, and fulfillment of meaningful giving opportunities within a trusted environment.

This vision is based on the success of another remarkably simple idea - the invention of the World Wide Web:

“What was often difficult for people to understand about the design of the web was that there was nothing else beyond URLs, HTTP, and HTML. There was no central computer “controlling” the web, no single network on which these protocols worked, not even an organization anywhere that “ran” the Web. The web was not a physical “thing” that existed in a certain “place.” It was a “space” in which information could exist.” Tim Berners-Lee, Creator of the World Wide Web

Mailing Lists

To subscribe to the GivingSpace mailing list, please send a message to munnecke at the domain name of CSLI dot the famous University in Palo Alto dot edu.

Here are the Archives of the list.

Announcement of a Meeting on Positive Media Nov 10-11, 2004 Washington DC

Announcement of a Meeting on Omidyar Network at Stanford September 29, 2004

Report on Meeting on Positive Media in New York Aug 16,17

Report on Meeting with Google at Stanford May 26, 2004

Report on ChiliPloP Patterns Workshop in Carefree, Arizona Apr 14-16, 2004

Report on Workshop on Uplift Academy, Dec 11, 2003

Report on Stanford Pattern Language Meeting Dec 10, 2003

Report on Workshop on Pattern Languages, July 20-23, 2003

Report on the Ben Lomond Meeting May 6-7, 2003

Report of Design Workshop at Stanford April 7-8, 2003

Report of Design Workshop at Stanford Mar 6, 2003

Report of Design Workshop at Stanford Feb 6, 2003

Report of Meeting at Asilomar Conference Grounds, Sep 16-17, 2002

Report of Meeting at Santa Fe Institute May 13-14, 2002

Report of Meeting at Benton Foundation, Washington, DC, January 11-12, 2001

Thanks and Acknowledgements:

The following organizations have contributed to GivingSpace:

The following people have contributed generously to GivingSpace, and deserve recognition for their efforts:

Aldo de Moor, Allan Saxon, Amer Araim, Ami Sun , Amy Sanger, Andrius Kulikauskas, Antonio Rodriguez, Arnon Kohavi, Bea Mah Holland, Bernard Lietaer, Bliss Browne, Bonnie DeVarco, Brian Johnson, Bruce Baumrucker, Bruce Seeley, Carolyn Koenig, Chellie Kew, Chris Cook, Chris Dent, Chris Eyre, Christy Chinn, Clare Hedin, Clark Quinn, Cliff Figallo, Daniella Pontes, David Brin, David Cooperrider, David Ellerman, David Morrison, David Sevier, Dennis Whittle, Deva Marie Beck, Diane Bock, Dianne Tillman, Dorai Thodla, Doug Engelbart, Douglass Carmichael, Duane Elgin, Ed Wondoloski, Ed Yoon, Eric Smith, Erin Pond, Eugene Eric Kim, Gary Alexander, Gary Gunderson, Gavin White , Gayatri Naraine, George Donnelly, Ginger Richardson, Guatam Patil, Harold Koenig, Heather Wood Ion, Henri Poole, Howard Liu, Inne ten Have, Jack Park, James Hubbell, Jan Hauser, Jane LaPointe, Janet Reinick, Jean LeVaux, Jeff Kwaterski, Jeffrey Ashe, Jennifer Kirk, Jerry Michalski, Jim Fournier, Joan Condon, John Cocoran, John Graham, Jon Haidt, Jon Larson, Joy Tang, Juan Valesco, Judy Kader, Kaliya Young, Karen Wesolski, Keith Devlin, Kerry Macnamara, Kyle Eischen, Larry Harvey, Lisa Casganozzi, Liza Behrendt, Mac Odell, Marcia Odell, Margaret Chambers, Mari Kuraishi, Marian Goodell, Mark Roest, Mark S. Miller, Mark Watson, Matt Hamilton, Mei Lin Fung, Mercy Wambui, Michael Gelobter, Michael Litz, Michael Mitchell, Mildred Robbins Leet, Murray Gell-Mann, Nancy Glock-Grueneich, Nancy Tomich, Nic Fulton, Nipun Mehta, Owen Davis, Pat Jordan, Paul Andrews, Paul Chaffee, Paul Rankin, Paul Swider, Paul Thompson, Paulo Bizzari, Pierre Omidyar, Ralf Muehlen, Richard Miles, Richard P. Gabriel, Richard Stallman, Rita Cleary, Rob Miller, Robert Kolodner, Robert Stephenson, Roberta Baskin, Roger Sailant, Ron Lichty, Rupert Douglas-Bate, Russ Hall, Ruth Mota, Saadia Sabah, Sam Bowles, Sam Hunting, Sandy Shaw, Sanjay Bhargava, Sanjay Verma, Sarah Newhall, Scott Bossinger, Sergio Lub, Shawn Murphy, Siegfried Woldhek, Steven Foster, Stuart Gannes, Stuart Kauffman, Suresh Subramanian, Suzanne Dulle, Thomas George, Thomas Tighe, Tom Munnecke, Tony Christopher, Tony Hoeber, Toshio Yamagishi, Tracey Wilen, Uli Heine, Usha Jha, Victor Grey.

"Life is a gift that comes bearing a gift, which is the art of giving"- Dee Hock