How does it work?
 
What is a Proposal?
 
 
Projects are a way to create something new in the world that addresses a social problem at the root level. Why not watch the video to find out more?

 
What is a Plan?
What do you want to share with or see in your community?

What do you care about, are concerned with, need help with or want to help? What can you offer to the public, something to teach, to contribute, to respond to? What do you need help with, something to address a practical or long-term problem?

Plans is a new forum for personal community engagement. We can share what is important to us with each other. We can show that sensitivity is possible, that money and success are not everything. Who can use this? Individuals, informal groups, businesses – anyone who is doing good in the community and wants to show that making the world better is an option. Let us break down the barriers that keep us involved in a “marketplace” of anonymous, impersonal, self-interested individuals.
 
How can you use Projects?
We all have a dream for making the world better – to create something important, something that our community needs. But it's hard to start something new. Visionary Society Projects helps you get started.

For example, do you want to create a gathering place in a local park? Would you like to clean up your neighborhood? Get started by adding your plan and the steps that are needed to make it a reality.

Want to help refugees in your community? Want to resolve an injustice? Want to promote a referendum or issue (in a deep, not just political way)? Set up the steps, gather Support, and take make your Project real!
 
How do Plans work?
Choose the options you need to create the experience you want. You may ask for support or up/down voting, schedule a meeting (and ask for RSVP), raise funds, or allow comments.

Add a Plan, event or something you need help with
Offer something to the public
Ask for help with something you care about
Create something new in the community
Tell a story
Want help improving a business or organization, or any Visionary Society content? Visit the page and add the Plan there.
Anything else

Guidelines:
►   The Plan should mainly serve others (rather than a personal or business interest).
►   It should be beneficial to others, by providing a practical or lasting benefit.
 
Examples
What interests, skills or insights (and other resources) can you offer or share with the community? Possibilities:
– Teach something or offer an experience.
– Schedule a meeting on a topic of importance.
– Tell a story about something you care about.
– Do you have a specific skill, such as crafts, art, construction, cooking, life coaching, financial guidance?
– Promote any task, event or project.
Ask for any kind of help that you need. Ask for support, publicize a meeting, raise funds, or anything you can think of. Possibilities:
– Ask community members to help with a cause.
– Ask for volunteers.
– Abandoned kitten needs a home.
– Someone is alone, abandoned, depressed, addicted, or imprisoned, and needs help
– Have you started your own project that you'd like to share?
– Want help improving a business or organization, or any Visionary Society content? Visit the page and add the Plan there.
 
Project Elements
►   Addresses and resolves a basic universal principle such as understanding or compassion.
►   Community based and benefits the community. Open to all to create and participate.
►   Uses our personal resources (time, passion, skills, talent, money).
►   Works through direct action (by oneself, the local group, the associated group, and the community).
►   Doesn't depend on external help from established organizations – but may make Requests to them to engage helpfully.
►   Doesn't depend on the use of power (policy, law, or adversarial relationships).
►   Presents and tracks results over a course of several years.

Instead of doing good for others, we are using our own abilities to build new solutions to social problems.

 
How do Projects work?
►   Easily add your Project by entering a title and overview
►   Develop your Project Plan by adding Resources and Steps
Steps are practical elements of the Project. Add as many as your Project needs. Set opportunities for people to take a Step.
►   Submit your Project to the community for Validation.
►   Mark your Steps as a Success as they are completed.
When all the Steps are complete, the Project is a Success!