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Shared Prosperity

Welcome!

Let me start with a few questions to help you figure out if you have come to the right place:

Do you have a favorite cause, issue or nonprofit that you would like to be able to support at a higher level?

Do you have a vision for something you would like to do for your community, your society or even the world and would like to be able to fund some day?

And, if you work for a community organization, do you have members that would do more to support your work if they had a specific way to do it?

If you answer "yes" to either of these questions, you are in the right place!

The Shared Prosperity Project is a social enterprise that teaches

• regular people how to become philanthropists,
• community groups how to grow philanthropists,
• low-income people how to build wealth and
• everyone how to transform our legal system.

This is a strategy for people who want to make a difference with their lives. We do what we can, but there aren't a whole lot of opportunties for us to make a real contribution.

This strategy starts by teaching regular people how to become philanthropists(1). Initially, we will be focusing on making generous donations of money to good causes.

Can regular people become philanthropists?

I think we can. But we need to do it as a team. Here's why: one person donating $1,000 each month can help a bit. A team of five donating $1,000 each month begins helps a bit more. Ten teams of five donating $1,000 each month will donate over a half-million dollars in a year!

So, this strategy is not about individuals but about teams of philanthropists - together we can create change we can't even imagine now!

Here's the problem: most people like us aren't that interested in making money. We have beleifs that money is bad or to make it you have to exploit or hurt others. So, we leave the making generous donations to others.

But if we had the money we would use it do good things with it. And if we had the time freedom, we would spend a lot of that time working to make the world a better place. It's just a matter of finding a way to make that money that is ethical and that we can feel good about doing.

I want to show you first, how to beocme a philanthropist and then how to become fiancially free so you have more time and resources to devote to the causes and issues you really care about.

Community organizations/nonprofits can also leverage this strategy as a social enterprise (2) to raise money for their organization. Your organization can take this strategy and find your members who are ready to make a greater commitment and teach them how to become philanthropists using the same strategy.

Finally, we will use this same strategy to help low-income folks first learn how to escape poverty and then also become philanthropists themselves. We will provide micro loans for them to start their businesses. Everything we learn aobut becoming creating wealth in our fundrsaising teams can then be be taught to the loan recipients. Thus this strategy is also working to eliminate poverty in our society.

I have created a video of the potential impact this project can have on our society. Please give it a watch!

I look forward to working with you and together, creating a world that starts to work for 100% of humanity!

Notes
1. a person who seeks to promote the welfare of others, esp. by the generous donation of money to good causes.

2. when a nonprofit starts a business for the purpose of raising money for that nonprofit.

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