Proto-projects

Ideas, beginnings, suggestions, and experiments which are waiting for either more participants (beyond belonging to an individual) or more practice (committed time, process, and product) to be considered official projects supported by ABC.

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Brainstorm the biggest possible vision (without removing anything the other adds)
Categorize individually everything written as Must Do (MD), Will Do (WD), Can Do (CD), Have Objections (HO), and No Thanks (NT)
Add a + to those things which seem best suited to do together.
Create a proposal structure here that puts the items in order of importance and likelihood of success and toss out the bottom of the list, making a list of the things toward which we've agreed not to put time.
Add specifics and recruit support.

Brainstorm

the biggest possible vision (without removing anything "impossible")

From: Nick Walker
Date: Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: [ABCcouncil] Re: Joining ABC

Hi Patricia,

Here are a few of the things I want to do in a nonprofit:

- Collaborate with Brandon on the Guardians of Peace project that he proposed to me some years ago and that has been on hold while he and I have both been in grad school ( http://www.abcglobal.net/<wbr/>Projects/Guardians_of_Peace ).

- Develop and offer aikido-based trainings in conflict resolution and mindful interaction for various communities that could benefit from such trainings (I've been doing some of this on a volunteer basis, but at this point in my life I can't afford to not be paid for my time, so I'm hoping to get grants that would allow me to further develop such programs and that would include stipends for the developers/instructors).

- Create an aikido dojo which in addition to regular aikido classes offers specialized, grant-and-donation-funded programs for at-risk youth, special needs youth, and other underserved populations (raising enough funds for an actual physical dojo building is a major project that could take a while; I'd start by just offering such programs in whatever temporary facilities we could find).

There's more, but that gives the general gist of it.

Categorize

individually everything written as Must Do (MD), Will Do (WD), Can Do (CD), Have Objections (HO), and No Thanks (NT)

Add a +

to those things which seem best suited to do as part of the first big push.

Create a proposal structure

Put the items in order of importance and likelihood of success and toss out the bottom of the list, making a list of the things toward which we've agreed not to put time.