Calendar
| July | Jonathan met with Rob Stewart, film-maker http://ffilms.org/revolution-2012/ Marje is going to Zambia courtesy Adco, the world’s largest farming supplier Public Universities as Social Innovation Catalysts (Brian D.) HBR article begun California Health Corps met with Gary Wolf, Co-Founder of the Quantified Self Waffles & Champagne @The Enterprise (Brian D.) July 20 PersonalGOLD – movie private screening 7/21 attended by Brian D & Mei Lin California Teen CEO Academy – Denise attended at Concordia University Franchise for Humanity on TV – featuring Tammy and Kennan- hosted by Mei Lin & Bill Daul’s great animoto video of F4H and FutureTalk featuring Jonathan Trent. Bruce Alberts President of National Academy of Science to 2005. Kennan (7/25) Science Tech Policy:Max Bronstein, Alexander Laszlo–Bill Fenwick,Kennan,Mei Lin Crowdfunding, Federal Reserve (7/24) Next frontier for Community Development Finance Steve Blank UCSF July 30 Lean Startups – he’s working with NIH (Kennan) |
| August | 1990 Institute – Workshop for California Teachers on China (Jim Caldwell) 8/10 Denise’s Tri-Birthday Bash–Manhattan Beach. RSVP Denise 310.754.9321 3rd Space Event for Yamana (Kennan) - creating open dialog in Minneapolis |
| September | TEDxLivermore @Black Box Theater – registration now open Michael Morgan (conductor of Oakland Symphony), Meg Lowman (California Academy of Science Director, canopy scientis) and more in an intimate setting Contact: Kennan Design Echoes Workshop Silicon Valley. Contact Riccardo or Juliana from Brazil or Sandy Bates. Green Energy Council Shanghai and Shenzhen conferences. Contact: Jim Caldwell TCPIP40 celebration in Washington DC - Montgomery County Sept 10. Part of Smart Montgomery initiative. Contact: Mei Lin |
| October | Neil Shulman Humanitarian Event, Atlanta Contact:Marje Etheridgemarje@sustainatlanta.org Delegation to China – Denise planning to attend. (American Chinese CEO society?) |
Attendees July 22
Tammy Chan
Denise O'Brien
Kennan Salinero
Brian Donohue
Jim Caldwell
Jonathan Trent
Jacqueline Chan
David Price
Attendees July 29
Kennan Salinero
Jim Caldwell
Mei Lin Fung
Stan Gould
Brian Donohue
Allen Byerly
Projects Check In
Franchise for Humanity – Plans and Roadmap (7/29) 1. Set ourselves up as an organization – Flexible Purpose Corporation or B Corporation? 2. Vision and mission, purpose, values: RFC - Request for Comments participation mode. 3. Tammy will take the lead on the website 4. We will discuss how we want to start and fund F4H as a organization 5. Webmaster possibility – Collective Discovery – recommended by Roberta English 6. Partner possibilities: Rotary International (129K members – Brian, Mei Lin via CHC), Edison Universe (Sandy and Mei Lin), The Mission Continues - local community level action (Sandy and Mei Lin) 7. Interns for social entrepreneurship– Kennan 8. Exchange between entrepreneurs and those who can help (mentors, interns) – Tammy 9. Creative Alignment – step out of compromise, get to a new level of creating, seeing 10. Branding: TV Show on Franchise for Humanity www.futuretalk.net/jpi.html (7/23) “What is F4H?”Flyer has been created – used in the Edison Awards Franchise for Humanity sponsored www.TCPIP40.com (5/10) |
Corstone (5/13) Steve Leventhal provided an update (please don’t distribute slides) on their ongoing work on building personal resilience to increase a person’s ability to function under stress: competently, powerfully and peacefully. See our notes. Not for public distribution. Programs are facilitated by women in the community with 8-10th grade education and they are providing research-quality outcomes tracking. Very low tech approach – work on the way the girls think about themselves – it turns out persistence is very important. Beginning longitudinal studies over 1-2 years.Expand to 900 schools in developing countries. Laurie Bodine in the Bay Area offers a program called START Leadership in the United States:http://www.trendhunter.com/keynote/speech-on-successful-skills |
OMEGA (7/22) Working with Lorien Pratt to set up a simulation model teaming in Kickstarter campaign for Developing 4 minutes Omega video Omega on Internet TV, see www.futuretalk.net - filmed 7/23 in Palo Alto, co-produced by Mei Lin Investigating possibilities in Singapore with Andrew Fung (met at Mei Lin’s 6/22) Potential series of local conferences in China – starting in Dalian - Jim Caldwell: Green Energy Council has eco cities program to make prosperous healthy resilient cities in China. UC Davis team project (5/27). Spoke with http://www.future500.org/ (6/10). Talking with Alex S. about getting Omega into China, Taiwan, Thailand, several meetings (7/22) Nandek in India – developed proposal to seek funding (7/22) Rob Stewart – filmmaker of “Sharkwaters” considering involving Omega in next film “Revolution” Contact:Jonathan Trent |
Veterans, Suicide Prevention Mental Health (6/10) Generated a Gates Foundation proposal “Community Dashboard for the Poor and Underserved” through the Northwestern University Brian Donahue, Linda Neuhauser, Valerie Landau Mei LIn Jonathan Trent False Memories, TED talk National Quality Forum Community Action Guide Review Committee 6/10-11. How communities can become learning systems for health. Sandy and Mei Lin following up. (7/29) Quantified Self (7/18, 7/28) Show and Tell – 7 minutes, slides advance every 15 seconds. Powerful to have people reporting on how they are tracking what they are doing for health. |
Public Universities and Social entrepreneurs (7/1) 27 states in the US have passed constitutional amendment to allow for-profit companies to invest in social good.Met with Jennifer Grantholm, former Gov of Michigan. Spoke with Marje. Proposal for DoD created 6/15. Preparing Article “Public University as social innovators” targeting Harvard Business Review for publication. Contact:Brian Donohue Interviewing teachers in Latin America, to assess the ecosystems. Research to be available for the whole world - a white paper to the World Bank in Latin America? http://www.startupchile.org/about Contact: Waldo Soto Bruno Kennan and Brian will follow up. |
Social Innovation Academy (5/27) Sponsored by Ashoka – Waldo’s slides Chile Social Innovation academy to nurture social entrepreneurs inside universities to foster a better mindset, better tools for making challenges Improve community of innovation ecosystem or rainforest Umbrella org Collaboration Lab inside the University - President of Chile agenda to improve the social innovation climate inside Chile - improve society to use the social innovation approach, create social enterprises and social companies. “I must change myself and each of the people in the community must change” Rainforest ecosystem can break down silo's. Sandy working with 9 Mediterranean regions Universities are detached from these groups. Social entrepreneurs are perfect link. Contact: Waldo Soto Bruno |
China & Student Exchanges (5/20) https://americanchineseceosociety.wildapricot.org/widget/event-903715 Senator Bob Huff, Brian Peck from the Governors office in Sacramento attending to bridge Chinese business community and CA Government together Denise will be an adjunct Professor at Stanford for Chinese CEO exchanges. Linda Staheli’s friend Shao-Lin. well connected in China & US: Energy, Sun-wind systems. To facilitate business between China and US - have real time translation of conversations automatically. Contact - Jim Caldwell |
CleanTech (7/22) Kimberly Wiefling business advisor toIce911.org, founder Leslie Field debategraph.org/Ice911 Candidate forSan JoseMayor, Sam Liccardo,veryinterested in sustainabilityat neighborhood level, city and region. Strong focus on water resiliency as well as green buildings. Green building evolution group working together, not competing: Eco-Cities and integration of many aspects -Building and infrastructureintegration to support ecosystem,people & economies. San Jose State Engineering “Communiversity Model”neighbourhoods connect to Green City http://ClimateRealityProject.org Profitable to be green and clean–let’s make it fun! Stephen Andrew http://www.pacificrimeco.comBerkeley team on water projects in central China Explorerswheel.com. Facilitating collaboration. Julian Gresser working with Monterey sustainability, wrote a book "Piloting through Chaos: The Explorers Mind" Building Information management-Morton Frank Salt Lake City has successful model for affordable housing. Jim in 1990, set up an institute for children's art of the environment to raise their and parent's awareness: now children's mural project that is conducted yearly Pay for Success Financing – Vol 9 Issue 1 – Crowdfunding, investment funding for community development. More positive examples emerging. Brian D has friend in Concord Chamber of Commerce, been doing this for 30 years, investing, rehabilitating, making money. Multiple stakeholders involved all working to make the project succeed. Contact: Jim Caldwell |
Science Tech Innovation Collaboratory in DC (6/17) Anna Duran, founder of nonprofit. American Association for Advancement of SciencesContact:Linda Staheli and Kennan Salinero |
Meaningful Purposeful work (7/22) We can shift people so they can find meaningful purposeful work - lot of potential to build skills thru the Internet. During interview with Vint Cerf, Tammy asked for his ideas to help unemployed workers build skills on the Internet. Vint is enthusiastic about online education and building skills therehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpQF84T97JQContact: Tammy Chan Developing affordable housing, education, job training, jobs and resilient communities, all over the Bay Area: keeping everyone well connected, those who know, teach the rest. F4H Presentation: Resilient Communities as Living System Partners. Contact: Jim Caldwell Met with Engineers without Borders. Contact: Jacqueline Chan Caroline Malley – Business solutions for Global Poverty 7/22 Contact: Jacqueline Chan TEDx on Creativity –Don’t opt out of being creative. Don’t judge – we can support each other to practice creativity Creative Confidence by David Kelley – IDEO. Contact: Kennan |
| Change of Name to towww.F4H.collaborate.org Video showcasing both Collaborate.org and the Edison Awards Kevin Montgomery was interviewed on the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/bizdaily,- About tracking human trafficking. OMEGA will be a pioneering F4H project on the site. Contact: Kennan Salinero |
www.Debategraph.org/F4H (4/1) Let David know if you want a tutorial. Contact:David Price |
California Health Corps (7/22) Has become official part of the US Public Health Service network of 900 Medical Response Corps www.Debategraph.org/CHC F4H Members who are part of CHC: Bill Daul, Kennan Salinero, Dan Desmond, Brian Donohue, Dan Esbensen, Mei Lin Fung, Jacqueline Chan, Tammy Chan, Tim Berlyn, Cindy Mason.Contact:Bill Daul, Co-founder of CHC Working on visionary work and community based learning system. Contact- Jacqueline Chan California Health Corps and Quantified Self – A new era of self healing, bring forth our diagnostic ability – Contact: Kennan |
Corporate Kid (6/4) Neil Shulman's book. BackSack (Be a Corporate Kid, Support a Corporate Kid) project - piloting 100 CEOs with 100 kids. Doing a reality show, a documentary. Set up Advisory Board that will kick off in August. Inspire all 100,000 applicants who want to be in the Quest Game where everyone begins a quest and is supported by the community. Contact:Marje’ Etheridge |
Final Words
July 22
Tammy Chan - I will not attend next Tuesday because I will be on vacation in Hawaii.
Denise O'Brien - Sharing a few words from my mentor Mary Kay Ash: "Let's take a really good look at what God has entrusted us with and decide if we are doing all we should with it. I want you to take the brakes off your thinking. It really is true that whatever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve." So blessed by God because of the opportunity to be the proclaimer. To proclaim what we are doing, to the world
Kennan Salinero - Always fascinating
Brian Donohue - I like our check-in approach to hear how people are doing, ask questions, see how they're doing.
Jim Caldwell - Supposed to present next week on how collaboration creates breakthroughs on healthy communities.
Jonathan Trent - Look forward to another talk next Tuesday. Substantive rather than speculative. "If the sky is the limit, why do we have footprints on the moon?"
David Price - Excited to see output from Just Picture It program
July 29
Mei Lin - a pause, reflection
Jim - the F4H abbreviation is nice to have, shortens the long words, but there needs to be a compromise - could have a URL for short and long and both point to that same site with the full name that captures the mission more fully.
Kennan - ruminative discussion - each putting a piece in the stew - we are looking at the larger pool together
Stan - thank you
Allen - working with Knowledge Federation and Program for the Future since December 2013 - these areas are very near and dear to me - knowledge discovery is something I've been interested in for many years, and felt compelled to participate in this - I've been on my own entrepreneurial venture for the past several months and with a health start up - I hope the work I do contributes to all the things you have been talking about
Mei Lin
Final reflection 1.5 hours after our call...... a poem I found in a link from a post on Quora
Ithaka is where Odysseus was heading back to after the Trojan wars, it took him 20 years, in the story by Homer. Ithaca, NY where Cornell University is, is named after it.
When you set out for Ithaka
ask that your way be long,
full of adventure, full of instruction.
The Laistrygonians and the Cyclops,
angry Poseidon - do not fear them:
such as these you will never find
as long as your thought is lofty, as long as a rare
emotion touch your spirit and your body.
The Laistrygonians and the Cyclops,
angry Poseidon - you will not meet them
unless you carry them in your soul,
unless your soul raise them up before you.
Ask that your way be long.
At many a Summer dawn to enter
with what gratitude, what joy -
ports seen for the first time;
to stop at Phoenician trading centres,
and to buy good merchandise,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
and sensuous perfumes of every kind,
sensuous perfumes as lavishly as you can;
to visit many Egyptian cities,
to gather stores of knowledge from the learned.
Have Ithaka always in your mind.
Your arrival there is what you are destined for.
But don't in the least hurry the journey.
Better it last for years,
so that when you reach the island you are old,
rich with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to give you wealth.
Ithaka gave you a splendid journey.
Without her you would not have set out.
She hasn't anything else to give you.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka hasn't deceived you.
So wise you have become, of such experience,
that already you'll have understood what these Ithakas mean.
Constantine P. Cavafy