By decentralizing at its core, it is important to not do the obvious #NGO thing and centralize round one codebase and one instances, this is so obviously a stupid thing to do for the #Fediverse and the #openweb, but as you say it's a good thing to do for #mainstreaming so let's talk balance BEFORE you push this out as damage.
So everyone is clear and responsible for their actions, in public #4opens
Przekaż 1,5% podatku na ochronę i odtwarzanie mokradeł, by były pełne wody i życia - dla przyrody, dla klimatu, dla nas.
Mokradła stanowiły niegdyś ok. 18% powierzchni Polski. Dziś, wskutek działalności człowieka, niemal wszystkie przestały spełniać swoje funkcje. Ponad 85% torfowisk zostało osuszonych na potrzeby rolnictwa i leśnictwa, zmieniając się z pochłaniaczy dwutlenku węgla w źródło jego emisji do atmosfery. W wyniku regulacji i zanieczyszczenia 80% rzek ma znacząco pogorszony stan ekologiczny i znacznie niższą różnorodność siedlisk, a stanu ponad 80% jezior nie można określić mianem dobrego. Gatunki związane z mokradłami należą do najszybciej ginących.
Mokradła są kluczowym elementem przyrody, a ich ochrona i przywracanie do naturalnego stanu są niezbędne dla powstrzymania katastrofy klimatycznej i kryzysu różnorodności biologicznej, a także dla zapewnienia zdrowej i bezpiecznej przyszłości nam wszystkim.
Dlatego wrzuć 1,5% podatku w bagno!
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Pomóż nam chronić przyrodnicze bogactwo mokradeł oraz przywrócić dzikość, naturalność i pełnione funkcje tym unikalnym ekosystemom.
The #OMN instances are based on the history of "offline" activism. #Activism is the crusty protest camp and #campaign, a #NGO office. #OMN value is that we "bridge" the two and keep this bridge in place
So protest camps have their share of "nutter" mess and the #NGO offices have the power politics mess. Let's try and get the two to compost this messy aproch to social change and challenge.
Om 3 uger kører jeg og 7 andre frivillige chauffører for https://www.bilertilukraine.dk/ den lange vej fra #Aarhus til #Kyiv med biler og forsyninger - altsammen doneret af private og virksomheder, som vil være med til at gøre en forskel. Det er alt fra droner og hospitalsgrej til generatorer og mobiltelefoner, og modtagerne er dybt, dybt taknemmelige.
Bidrag går direkte til indkøb af biler, reparationer og diesel. Alle arbejder frivilligt. Der står chauffører i kø, så flere bidrag betyder flere biler afsted, og mere nødhjælp til dem der har mest brug for det.
MobilePay 669994, evt. med teksten "Saustrup". Alt gør en forskel! :-)
Job-Angebot: Eins unserer Mittel gegen Hass im Netz lautet Kreativität. Dafür suchen wir ab sofort einen Designerin.
Wenn ihr ein Auge für stimmige Layouts habt, Social-Media-affin seid und Lust habt, euch konzeptionell einzubringen, freuen wir uns auf eure Bewerbungen!
Gemeinnützigkeit als politische Waffe? Jetzt trifft es den #Volksverpetzer, zuvor bereits getroffen hat es #attac, noch versucht wird es bei der Deutschen Umwelthilfe #DUH. Missliebigen #NGO wird so die Finanzierung erschwert. Die #Politik bedient sich widerlicher Mittel, um Kritik zu verhindern!
Sometimes I reach out to an #NGO for an interview, and they often offer some white guy in #Europe.
In this case, I asked can I speak with your Indonesia staffperson instead? They...don't seem so keen. After a few days of back & forth, I decide to just reach out to the Indonesian via LinkedIn directly, and he responds within 10 minutes, happy to speak. 🤪
Take a moment to think about basics: activism/campaigning is about building resistance to the mainstream to change its flow in progressive directions. Were #mainstreaming is about shifting activism to reduce these resistances to the mainstream flow. Thus, it’s good to understand that #mainstreming is a #NGO agender to build the jobs of the people involved and is in turn funded to this end. Good not to get the shit mixed up.
Lifestyle is a way of forming a tribe inside this mainstream flow. The problem for activism is that this old school tribalism is obviously a BLOCK on social change, as looking and talking right are MORE important than being right. Being right would be “resistance” and lifestyle is about going with the counter flow.
On the other hand, the are advantages to “modern” tribal and lifestyle activism – it functions as social glue to hold campaigns together and provides a “uniform” flag to rally round. You notice I do not use words like anarchist, socialist, liberalism here as these have a different role in social change thinking – they are the ideas – the clothing is what I am taking about #fashernista is the hashtag.
#Revolution is about blowing up the flow of the mainstream so it floods into a different path, with much “calcollateral” damage in the process as we live inside a highly urban complex society. Both paths can be useful, both have costs.
Mal nach langer Zeit wieder was farbenfrohes und fröhliches zum #StraßenSamstag:
Am letzten Samstag vor den Missionen der #AitaMari und #SeaEye4 organisierte die lokale #NGO#AuroraSuport ein Basketball-Turnier, an dem Teams aus beiden Schiffen, von Aurora, der Werft und Personen aus der Stadt teil nahmen.
Das ganze Event war nicht nur eine gelungene Veranstaltung nach innen, bei der alle nochmal Kraft für die kommende Mission tanken konnten, sondern auch nach außen, um der Stadt den ganzen NGO-Haufen❤️ näher zu bringen.
Our head of emerging media @cjammet shared his thoughts on how #musk 's ruination of #twitter highlights the the importance of the #fediverse, especially for #governments, #NGO's, and #journalists. Give it a read and share your thoughts!
🇵🇱 [PL] Chciałbym, aby w przypadku NGO, fundacji i stowarzyszeń istniał jakiś proces publicznego audytu i oceny efektywności. Czy coś takiego funkcjonuje? W tym roku przekazuję 1.5% podatku na rzecz Centrum Ochrony Mokradeł (https://bagna.pl/1).
Ostatnio dużo czasu spędziłem na analizie działalności różnych aktywistów i natrafiłem na liczne projekty – niektóre z nich otrzymywały granty w wysokości kilku milionów rocznie – które, mimo ogromnego finansowania, okazywały się być nieskuteczne, edukując o problemach, które nie istnieją. Czasami mam wrażenie, że niektórzy twórcy NGO traktują to jako biznes i nie mają interesu w rozwiązywaniu problemów, które deklarują zwalczać.
Oczywiście nie liczę na jakąkolwiek odpowiedź w fedi na kontrowersyjne i trudne pytania. puszczam to jako przemyślenie i info dla niektórych czytelników.
🇬🇧 [ENG] I believe that NGOs, foundations, and associations should undergo a process of public auditing and effectiveness evaluation. Is there anything like this in place? This year, I am donating 1.5% of my tax to the Wetlands Protection Center (https://bagna.pl/1).
Recently, I've been delving into the activities of various activists and came across numerous projects – some receiving multi-million grants annually – that proved to be ineffective, educating about non-existent issues.
Sometimes, it feels like some NGO creators have turned this into a business and are not genuinely interested in solving the problems they claim to address.
Of course, I don't expect any response on Fedi to controversial and difficult questions. I'm sharing this as a reflection and information for some readers.
Als Betroffenenberater*in stärkst du politisch engagierte Frauen, die digitale Gewalt erleben. Unterstütze uns dabei, ihre Stimmen in der Politik nicht verstummen zu lassen. Starte jetzt in Berlin oder remote!
The is an unspoken negative effect of traditional foundation funding agendas on grassroots #openweb projects. These grassroots projects often have different priorities and goals than traditional organizations, and the formal processes used by existing #NGO projects, such as decidim.org and loomio.org, may not be well-suited for them.
#The#OMN team aims to address this issue by focusing on empowering communities through decentralized decision-making processes. Their experience and track record make them well-suited to carry out this mission.
If successful, the #OGB project could have a significant impact on the way communities make decisions in the future. By empowering grassroots movements and organizations, it could help to ensure that their voices are heard and that their needs are addressed.
Why do all alt grassroots events have the same speakers
I start to understand why all alt/grassroots events have the same speakers. Looking about, you send out invites to everyone who has done it before. To reach out to new people would be taking a risk, would be hard work to hand hold them though the process. The lack of time and resources leaves little focus than to just repeat the past. This is a hard realization and incite into poverty.
Am starting to feel slightly ashamed of not knowing this before. Ideas please, we do need to fix this.
“To be honest, you should be commended for putting it all together in the first place. No one else is doing it and it’s essential. Every form of direct action is worthy and amazing given the world we live in.”
“1 a bit of mentoring goes a long way
2 offer expenses and look for some funding – either grant funding or crowdfunded
3 offer speaker training events”
Your idea would work if we had the time and the funding, time is relative, but funding for alt/left is tiny and hard to get. Almost all left’ish funding is dispelled in #NGO and #fashernista pointlessness. Ideas for diverting some of this waste might be a start? Actually it is a good time to try this, who is up for it?
Ukraine Stove Donations - If willing and able, please consider donating to deliver stoves to front line areas (they also can pool partial donations) 💜 🔥