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HelpMatch
Business Strategy
Work-in-Progress
Contributors: Barry Crist, Al De Castro, Jarvis Ka, Kurt Kirkham, Ruth Malan,
Carl Ozkaynak, Jeff Price, and Gene Shin |
HelpMatch Strategy
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HelpMatch
Identity |
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Mission: In the
face of chronic (poverty) or acute (disaster) need,
create a way to effectively use help that people feel
moved to offer, by matching help to need. Founding
Assertion: Willingness to help is being "left on the
table" because there is no effective mechanism to match help
people are willing and able to offer, to needs that compel
them to act. This is especially true in the area of used
goods, where relief organizations can't manage the
distribution logistics of huge volumes of donated goods.
Vision: HelpMatch
will be the de facto place to go online to create and
plug in to projects that form around helping a person, a
group or community in need. HelpMatch will offer support
for social networking for help projects, and also
provide mechanisms to match help in the form of goods
and services, as well as fund raising, to needs.
Principles and Values:
- By the
people for the people: HelpMatch will be created and run
by an open community of volunteers, with the goal of
serving people in need.
- Personal yet
large scale: HelpMatch will personalize the face
of need, and build the mechanisms to mobilize
personal response to need.
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HelpMatch Value
Propositions |
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to
people in need:
- Allows personalized
requests for goods and services
- Get help!
- Create access to a
broad network of corporate and individual donors
to help project
coordinators:
- Setup up and control
help project/community area; control project content
- Can create and
authenticate networks of people and groups in need
- Supports collaboration
between sponsor and community to collect donations
and/or distribute donations
- Put crisis assistance
procedures in place before crisis occurs
- Gain visibility for the
cause you champion, and goodwill for your effort
to donors:
- Find people in need who could make good use of
lightly used "goods" or volunteer services
- Manage the logistics of distributing goods through
social networks, so that there is no waste
- Donate through trusted
networks that provide authentication of need
- Non-profit as middle-man
to make donations tax deductible (direct
person-to-person donations not deductible)
- Values donations and tracks donation
data for tax deduction reporting
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to
directors on the board:
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The opportunity to guide and
shape a new kind of help organization--the "World Bank"
of help, run by the people, for the people.
to
angel fund donors:
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Magnify the impact of your
philanthropy by enabling mass mobilization of highly
personalized help
to
architects:
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Our world needs us to do this!
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Push technical frontiers; architect the prototypical Web
2-prime system:
- architecture for mass participation
- rich, highly tailorable, user experience
- not just a social networking site, but a network
marketing and fraud avoidance system
- not just a shopping cart/inventory mechanism, but a
matching engine
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Create an open architecture that will be built and
continually enhanced by the open source community
- a proving ground for your architecting skills
- provide a "sandbox" system for learning and advancing
the state of our art
to developers:
- take social responsibility to new heights
- participate in building a really interesting,
frontier-pushing system
- be able to say "I helped build HelpMatch" on your
resume
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HelpMatch
Capabilities |
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See Your Contributions Here
You are invited to
contribute to the Architecture of HelpMatch.
For example, you can suggest other value propositions and you can submit
a strategy proposal along the lines illustrated above, or using any
method you choose to express the strategy.
Changes
to this Webpage
Please let Ruth
Malan at Bredemeyer Consulting know if you have any suggestions for
HelpMatch in general, and for this web page in particular.
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