The phrase catches. And there's a reason.

You're going to hear it often, from now on.

Go to www.changetheworld.org and find a home to get involved. Your world needs you. And just as important, your world is here to help.


When the tsunami hit Thailand, we all watched, detached, distanced, as bodies were swept away, many lost forever. I watched too and let those images sink in. Not long after, it became apparent; I had to do something. We all had to do something. I had to volunteer.

After searching the worldwideweb for a system to donate my time, my money, my resources, my self, I realized that no such method existed. So I kept searching. I found plenty of donate buttons but where the moeny would go was anybody's guess. I had to do something.

Many people feel moved by disasters. The best of people come out in such times. But sometimes the problems of day-to-day existence can become overwhelming. Changtheworld provides any user a place to ask for help. And a place for anyone, anywhere to offer it.

Mission Statement

changetheworld.corp (a 501c3 NPO) is a public benefit nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for educational and charitable purposes. Specifically, our organization a.) provides relief to the poor, distressed and underpriveliged, b.) provides instruction, supervision, networking and support to individuals, groups, companies, agencies, governments or other entities who suffer situations, c.) the dominant enterprise of changetheworld is structural, beginning with a website, as described below, which will allow any individual, group, company, agency, government or other entity (benefactor) to instantly network with such sufferer(s) to, within a directed and focused, organized and orchestrated framework, provide relief, supplies, support, efforts, contributions and other resources with the intention of assisting toward social and/or environmental change.

changetheworld.corp will launch their websites: changtheworld.org and thenewworld.org within a matter of weeks.

In continuance of the more structural support systems which changetheworld is creating, there will be a bank established with a focus on micro-loans, a system which recently won the Nobel Peace prize in economics for it's work in poverty.


Letter of Concept Introduction

CHANGE THE WORLD

Omidyar.net analysts indicate that 30 Trillion dollars will enter the social change sector of economics in the next 2 decades. By way of example, the United Nations announced this season that Gender Based Violence costs over 5.8 Billion dollars a year - in the US alone. If one could find a method to reduce the amount of abuse, consider something as simple as a private organization to oversee various sorts of temporary restraining orders, it may be possible to reduce both the sum cost of such abuses, as well the numbers of abuses themselves. This is but one of hundreds of the substantial issues plaguing our planet and one minor possible solution to a small percentage of those affected. Shall we consider also hunger, homelessness, slavery, water resources, and so on? Shall we discuss Peak Oil and the inevitable demand for alternative energies and fuels, transportation and community systems that according to Rand Corporation Analysts must take place within the next twenty years?

There are currently several thousand large charity organizations around the world, each trying to do their part. Tens of thousands of smaller ones as well as other groups, individuals, government and non-governmental organizations with intent to create cures of these social or environmental issues. But it is nowhere near enough. The tools are not yet available for these groups to network together in any functional, systematic fashion.

THE WEBSITE

Think MySpace meets the United Nations.

Within two months, anyone with access to the web will be able to upload to this website any issue of concern for them, their family, community, private or public agency, company, government or environment. Or issues for the benefit of someone else. The website will be established in every written language. The site will be designed to network group or individual concerns of any urgency with groups or individuals from around the world that are in a position to provide help.

Imagine a villager in, say, Pakistan. The dam above his village of 3,000 is cracking and has started to leak. The villager doesn't know what this means, really, or what might happen. But he types in his Issue: someone to examine the dam, here's a photograph. In Berkeley, California, a Professor of Structural Engineering has just heard about the website from his students and posted himself, his knowledge, as a Resource. The website puts the two in contact. A team is coordinated and a volunteer flies to the village with a satellite feed and a digital camera. More engineers from various fields are contacted to watch the live feed webcast as our volunteer walks around the dam, and, while we're at it, other parts of the village to determine the best solution and how best to execute it. The degreed professionals give counsel of various sorts based on the data provided from the feed. If the dam needs a cure, the website will coordinate the request for concrete and other construction materials from the closest donor(s) then enlist transportation of those supplies as well as a crew or group of individuals who have also posted their availability and willingness to donate time and skills to such a cause.

Bring this concept home, to an issue close to you.

Think ebay ..... except that on one side of the exchange are individuals posting "Issues" that need solving. On the other side are individuals, groups of any kind, size or purpose, as well as governments or transnational corporations. Anyone with any resource can post it, from extra medicine to mothballed aircraft. These entities will be able to list their "Resources"... knowledge, skills, finances or other resources which they are offering to the global improvement. The software will do the rest.

OUR VERY NEAR FUTURE

The youth of America feel that there is no hope. We've been watching our teens grow ever more detached, disinterested and overwhelmed with feelings of their complete inability to stop the inevitable downslide. The system in place is not working and yet it's too well established to do anything about it. This is about to change.

With the introduction of this website and the events coordinated in hip marketing fashion, feelings of Opportunity and Possibility will exist to these youth as they never has before. Further to that, positive opportunities for feelings of community, local and global will be readily accessible. Teens have never actually had such a possibility available to them. At first, only a percentage of teens will value such a network, an opportunity to change their world. But college students will be only weeks behind them and when the college students sign on, it will endorse the teen's hopes that these as-yet unrecognized feelings of optimism are validated. And action will begin right there, at first, on the web, where they spend most of their time. Professors and other professionals will be but days behind the students.

Every charity organization on the planet will be able to access the website for free. By doing so, they will access every other charity of their kind, as well as those which overlap or cross-purpose with theirs. The larger the network, the greater the number of solutions are possible, and therefore, the greater number of cures may be realized.

By this time next year, programs will be regularly created that will ignite optimism in not only teens, but in everyone on the planet that cares. Getting involved will be popular.

THINGS TO PONDER

Why is Bill Gates leaving Microsoft to run his charitable organization? Philanthropy, right? Of course this is true. But nothing Bill Gates does, loses money. Bill Gates will be the world's first trillionaire... his organizations will gather further immense power as the trend toward social change finds it's footing in this software. It will be apolitical in any social context to dismiss Global Improvement of any sort.

The website discussed herein will allow the human citizens to do what the UN has been trying to do since it's inception. The individuals will find themselves as part of a global network for change. Each visitor to the site will see actual results of groups which have formed, issues which have been solved. We will all be able to be an actual part in improvement, and we will be able to watch it happen. As the numbers grow, the world will attain a critical mass of intention and interest toward improvement and change. Of mutual support and social and environmental responsibility. That's when the world will change.

LET'S DO THIS NOW

This letter is designed to inform you of this new environment for social change and global improvement and to hopefully enlist your involvement, as we seek to establish specific relationships in your particular geographical region or area of professional expertise. I am hoping that your organization could join us, use/combine with our efforts to coordinate a with ours, and any and all others, to make this the grandest event possible, for the greatest good imaginable.


Eugene Ahn is the brilliant computer prgrammer responsible for changetheworld. He's based in Korea Town, Los Angeles. Personal cost to him: 6 months of total dedictation and personal sacrifice. Time, sleep and personal expertise. His work was developed in concert with the ideas of co-founder Vince Gerardis.