Just an idea. How about a website called WorkGang, which links together unemployed graduates and the growing number of public-sector unemployed, who want to find people near them with the same interests and skills — with a view to forming an autonomous self-managed group to do a short-term “socially useful project”, on their own terms and in their own time?
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by Pete Collins
14 Jul 2010 at 13:23
I’ve been knocking around a vaguely similar idea for a few weeks – crowd sourcing help for charities – and I have blogged about it here: http://petejamescollins.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/crowd-sourced-consulting-for-charities/
I’m not aware of anything similar, but it sometimes feels like everything has already been thought of!
Thanks,
Pete
by site admin
14 Jul 2010 at 18:53
Hi Pete. I was thinking of something much more autonomous, and reliant on tacit local knowledge about what needs to be done in a neighbourhood or city (or online). Less about having to get bogged down in drawing up constitutions, and charity aims + rules, health & safety, and long serving staff who’re ingrained in the “apply for funding first” mindset.