This is going out to all members of the Voices of Humanity Steering Committee.
Your participation is wanted as we restart the Voices of Humanity project after implementing several major changes:
* The "Gender Crosstalk" project has been rebranded as "Voices of Humanity".
* The structure of the process has been simplified. All groups now automatically belong to a single easily accessed cross-group discussion called Order Out of Chaos.
* The Order Out of Chaos discussion now has a built in local to global slider that goes down to the city level. If your profile does not list your city, please add that information. Click "Me and My Friends" on the left to get to your profile page when you are online.
* There are also checkboxes for five special groups: Indigenous, Interfaith, Refugees, Other Minorities, and Veterans. If you belong to any of these groupings, please edit your profile and check the appropriate box(es).
* The first round of the Order Out of Chaos discussion will be complete as of International Women's Day, March 8, 2016. At the new moon on March 8, we will select the six winning messages for the Voices of Humanity: women, men, youth, middle-age, seniors, humanity-as-one.
* Between now and March 8 we will be doing fundraising, including crowdfunding. Eighty percent of the funds raised will be donated to the nonprofit designated by the author of the overall winning message on March 8. The remaining twenty percent will be used to promote the VoH project. The idea is to use the money to incentivize participation.
Please click in to the Order Out of Chaos discussion here and take a look at the new setup. Post a message if you have not done so already - that is super important - we need several hundred new messages in the next couple of months. There are a few rough edges to the recent changes still to be taken care of. If you find a problem, please let me know: Roger Eaton - rogerweaton@gmail.com.
After you click in, you may make a donation via the "Make your gift work twice" button on the left to give a few dollars. If you give $20 or more, I will mail you a cool Voices of Humanity bookmark as evidence you were an early co-conspirator for human unity. Join the crowd to make it happen.
If you would like to become more engaged in the VoH project, please let me know. I am thinking to set up a wiki so we can coordinate our efforts.
All the best, and Happy New Year 2016!!!
-- Roger Eaton
rogerweaton@gmail.com
