Linden Labs

O-Net Funding Description: http://www.omidyar.net/corp/p_ll.shtml

Web Site URL: http://lindenlab.com http://secondlife.com

Salient Points related to an Alternative Currency for Philanthropy:

• They run an online virtual world as a gaming environment
• Their world has its own internal currency and economy

Global Giving

O-Net Funding Description: http://www.omidyar.net/corp/p_gg.shtml

Web Site URL: http://www.globalgiving.com

Salient Points related to an Alternative Currency for Philanthropy:

• International focus - founded by former World Bank folk
• Creating a marketplace where donors and project leaders can connect directly
• Have mobilized over $2 million of donations to over 400 projects from thousands of donors
• Beginning in late 2005/early 2006 plan to introduce enhanced ratings, feedback, and discussion features
• Goal is to stimulate much more organic growth driven bottom-up by users
• Projects are primarily in developing nations

Donors Choose

O-Net Funding Description: http://www.omidyar.net/corp/p_dc.shtml

Web Site URL: http://www.donorschoose.org

Salient Points related to an Alternative Currency for Philanthropy:

• Donors can view various public school projects which need funding
• Donors do their own "due diligence" and select the project they want to fund

Keystone

O-Net Funding Description: http://www.omidyar.net/corp/p_a.shtml

Web Site URL: http://www.accountability.org.uk/research/default.asp?pageid=114

Salient Points related to an Alternative Currency for Philanthropy:

• "..building the world’s first reporting standard for civil society organizations."
• Sounds like they're creating performance metrics (a la Impact Units discussed in Sue's thread above)

COMMENTS

• Thanks, Arthur, for setting this up. --Sue.
• It's helpful to see this in one place. The common thread seems to be a dedication to fostering communities self-organizing around common projects and ideas - a network supporting new networks. A philo project with fiscal leverage based on reputation is fascinating but I'd be more interested to see this project enabling P2P microloans (also look at Grameen bank as another example for this page) and direct barters of time and talent services across borders. ~evonne (back to lurking, thanks again arthur)