Christine Egger's profile
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- My web address:
- http://www.SocialActions.com
- About me:
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2-min. description of Social Actions (Peter Deitz & Christine Egger; Video by Hatef Yamini for Frogloop.com)
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 and long-term commitment to building Social Actions. Thank you, Peter Deitz, for creating that opportunity!
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* 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
* Developing a conversation/webinar series on ways to thinking about and practice "taking action on the issues we care about"
2008 CONTRIBUTIONS
* Social Actions' mission statement and terms of collaboration, and secured endorsements from 30+ social action platforms
* Meetups for social action platforms in New York City, Washington DC, and San Francisco
* An inventory of Social Actions' level of engagement with, and lessons learned from, each of 120+ social action platforms
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)
The work being done by Toronto's ARC Institute and its founder Billie Mintz
Peter Brock's film They Come in the Name of Helping
Franke James' visual essays
Latest Activity
Christine Egger's Blog
The Overhead Question: (More) opportunity to reflect on the future of nonprofit assessment and reporting
Posted on February 3, 2010 at 9:00pm —
The Overhead Question: Opportunity to reflect on the future of nonprofit assessment and reporting
Posted on January 19, 2010 at 3:00pm —
Social Entrepreneur API expands to include Global Social Benefit Incubator Alumni
Posted on January 14, 2010 at 9:00am —
A surprise party for Beth Kanter: Happy Birthday, Beth!
Posted on January 11, 2010 at 8:30am — 4 Comments
Disruptive Philanthropy: Important resource in the works for online giving community
Posted on January 8, 2010 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments
Comment Wall (73 comments)
- At 12:02am on January 19, 2010,
Leah O said…
- Thank you for reaching out Christine. I will check out that link in the morning. :)
- At 9:06pm on January 18, 2010,
David Connor said…
- Thanks for the welcome - your link didn't work :( off to take a look around...
- At 12:06pm on January 6, 2010,
Claudio Batista said… - Hello Christine, thanks for the welcome. Looking forward to browsing around and learning about the different opportunities for giving and receiving.
Thanks and God bless,
Claudio
- At 8:03pm on November 4, 2009,
Ashley Hill said… - Hi Christine, thanks for the welcome. I am actually a graduate student at MSU majoring in public relations and I found out about Social Actions through my Public Relations and Planning Course. I am trying to learn more about the Social Actions community for an assignment that I have to complete.
- At 11:33am on November 3, 2009,
Maha Chehlaoui said… - Thanks so much for the welcome- looking for ward to learning my way around! And I will take a look at the api and see what's what.
All the best,
Maha
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