Christine Egger's profile
Profile Information
- My web address:
- http://cdegger.com
- About me:
- A little background
I used to be exclusively involved with for-profit, small business development (with lots of volunteering for nonprofits on the side), but then took a year to backpack through about 20 countries... Came back with a new professional commitment to non-profit international development work... Earned a master’s in international development, researching the influence that chaos and quantum theories could have on the way we go about making the world a better place... Led to a strong interest in the way the Internet is facilitating decentralized development and philanthropic initiatives... Led to a full-time commitment to building Social Actions (thank you, Peter Deitz, for creating that opportunity!)... Which we then handed off to GuideStar! I'm currently doing a few facilitation gigs here and there, and wondering what I'd like to be building next...
http://www.twitter.com/CDEgger
http://www.linkedin.com/in/christineegger
I loved being a part of building Social Actions. Here's one of the quickest explanations of what it is, in a 2-min. video taken by Hatef Yamini when Peter Deitz and I were practicing for the 2008 N2Y3 competition (all Peter's idea, the project and the pitch!).
And a beautiful video created by John Haydon:
- My featured action:
- Living Social Actions' mission
- My featured action web address:
- http://www.socialactions.com
More information:
Current projects
*Finding a new organizational home for Social Actions
* Bringing more social action platforms into the Social Actions API, and developing a multi-lingual dataset
* Bringing more energy, cohesion, and resources to My Social Actions
* Developing an interactive, comprehensive directory of social action platforms
More:
http://cdegger.com
http://bit.ly/sa-2009summary
BOOKS & OTHER THINGS I LIKE
My thesis Wholeness, Understanding, and Development: an Episystemic Inquiry (explains my interest in considering quantum and chaos theories as we seek ways to help one another)
F. David Peat's Gentle Action: Bringing Creative Change to a Turbulent World (cross-disciplinary examples of how to take action in a way that's most likely to benefit as intended)
Bill Somerville's Grassroots Philanthropy: Field Notes of a Maverick Grantmaker (reframing the role that foundations can play in supporting individuals)
David Ellerman's Helping People Help Themselves: From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance (Evolving Values for a Capitalist World) (how to deliver autonomy-creating, rather than dependency-creating, assistance)
Fritjof Capra's Uncommon Wisdom (strongly influenced my passion for research and conversations)
Tobin Hart's From Information to Transformation: Education for the Evolution of Consciousness (information - knowledge - intelligence - understanding - wisdom)
George and Nancy Axinn's Collaboration in International Rural Development: A Practitioner's Handbook (theory and handbook-type tools for community-level projects of all kinds)
*Finding a new organizational home for Social Actions
* Bringing more social action platforms into the Social Actions API, and developing a multi-lingual dataset
* Bringing more energy, cohesion, and resources to My Social Actions
* Developing an interactive, comprehensive directory of social action platforms
More:
http://cdegger.com
http://bit.ly/sa-2009summary
BOOKS & OTHER THINGS I LIKE
My thesis Wholeness, Understanding, and Development: an Episystemic Inquiry (explains my interest in considering quantum and chaos theories as we seek ways to help one another)
F. David Peat's Gentle Action: Bringing Creative Change to a Turbulent World (cross-disciplinary examples of how to take action in a way that's most likely to benefit as intended)
Bill Somerville's Grassroots Philanthropy: Field Notes of a Maverick Grantmaker (reframing the role that foundations can play in supporting individuals)
David Ellerman's Helping People Help Themselves: From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance (Evolving Values for a Capitalist World) (how to deliver autonomy-creating, rather than dependency-creating, assistance)
Fritjof Capra's Uncommon Wisdom (strongly influenced my passion for research and conversations)
Tobin Hart's From Information to Transformation: Education for the Evolution of Consciousness (information - knowledge - intelligence - understanding - wisdom)
George and Nancy Axinn's Collaboration in International Rural Development: A Practitioner's Handbook (theory and handbook-type tools for community-level projects of all kinds)
Latest Activity
A blog post by Christine Egger was featuredSocial Actions Transition: Introducing the GuideStar Team
"Today, I have the privilege of announcing to the Social Actions community that the pioneering open source project we have been working on for the last 3.5 years has found itself a well-resourced and mission-aligned home. Early this morning,…See More
Christine Egger left a comment for 'Joshua Chiamba'"Joshua, welcome to My Social Actions. Don’t hesitate to fully leverage this community to connect with others and draw attention to topics that overlap with Social Actions' mission. Lots of suggestions here:http://bit.ly/sa-10WaysIf…"
Christine Egger's Blog
Ode to apathy
Posted on May 26, 2011 at 10:30am
Chicago, Chicago!
Posted on May 20, 2011 at 9:30am
Social Actions Transition: Introducing the GuideStar Team
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 9:00am — 1 Comment
Coolest mashup prize ever for DonorsChoose.org "Hacking Education" contest
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 1:30pm
Be the change, build on strengths, hold ourselves accountable: a review of The Pollyanna Principles
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:00pm
Comment Wall (101 comments)
- At 5:18pm on April 13, 2008,
Peter Deitz said… - Hi Christine, You're #2 (excluding me). Welcome to Social Actions. I wanted to run the idea of creating this Ning by you before launching it, but one thing led to another. And there it was, ready to go. What do you think?
- At 12:25pm on June 9, 2008,
JoeSolomon said…
- Christine - It was so wonderful meeting you @ Net2. I look forward to staying in touch and working together to do wild things!
- At 3:51pm on June 9, 2008, Christine Egger said…
- Joe, equally wonderful to have met you and I can't wait to see all the wild things we do together!
- At 9:12am on July 15, 2008,
Lexi Hansen said… - Hi Christine! I'll try to do a better job of detailed response to what I read about on the blog and website. And I'll point out when I'm lost! :) So excited by what you're all doing though!
- At 1:36pm on July 15, 2008,
Danielle Brigida said… - Thank you for the compliment and the warm welcome! I look forward to being a part of the family :)
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