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Make your city beautiful
Fusterlandia, a neighborhood of Havana, Cuba based on the art of Antoni Gaudi.

By Visionary, Sunday, Dec 08, 2024
Yuditha’s Green Garden
Just to inform what is going on and how the applicants are happy. That they can't believe the way they got the money without any hastle.

By Yuditha, Sunday, Aug 25, 2024
 
Independence Day
visionary-society
Fight for inner liberty. Begin with freedom from culture, nature and your own identity. Become a universal human being.
Politics: Vote with your life
Politics, Government
Vote by what you actually do in the course of the day: the work you do, the places you visit, your friends and entertainment, who you help, what you create.
Turn a political issue into a Quest
Politics, Government
Every time a political issue is presented to us we can look for a deeper way, one not based on superiority or coercion. Take it as an opportunity to transform the field on which opposing parties...
Pages of Wonder: Monthly Reading for Children
Youth
The purpose of the "Pages of Wonder" project is to foster a love for reading among children, enhance their literacy skills, spark creativity and imagination, and provide a fun, engaging platform for...
The great no
visionary-society
The Great no is un-knowing, un-saying and rejection of everything. It is cracking the egg, initiation and rebirth. It is test and trial. It is breaking the archetype, throwing off the veil.
Give back the night
Conflict, Peace, War
Women should not have to fight for freedom. It’s not the duty of the abused to stop abuse. It’s we men who are responsible, and it’s we who must do what it takes to make safety possible.
Can we...
Stake your life on something
visionary-society
Don’t waste this one life that you have. Be discontented. Take risks for the sake of your soul. Make a firm promise to become capable of the good, the true, the beautiful, and to do so in your actual...
Culture: Beautiful Books
Culture, Art, Beauty
Is a glorious culture possible? The purpose of Beautiful Books is to promote and celebrate beautiful art. We want to remind each other that culture can lift and inspire, inform and transform....
Form a Peace brigade for any conflict
Conflict, Peace
Let’s form a Peace Brigade for any conflict, in which participants take a pledge for understanding opposing sides, with the goal of establishing genuine communication and acting at the root level of...
Paint & Passion with Rajabu
Culture, Art, Beauty
Paint & Passion with Rajabu aims to start a sustainable art business and offer art classes and workshops, creating additional income streams. The long-term goal is to expand to a dedicated studio and...
Tanzania Gathering: Culture & Art
Culture, Art, Beauty
Culture make society what it is. It suppresses us and feeds on our desire for pleasure, glory, power and violence. But we can do better.
   Great art wakes us up. It reminds us of our higher nature...
Relationship: Create a new Valentine’s Day
Relationship
Let's create a new and better Valentine's Day. Fight the idealization of romantic love. Bring together two souls for the elaboration of the good. Defend the possibility of true friendship!

Genge Grocery: Fresh Finds for a Thriving Community
People in need
Genge Grocery is my vision to bring fresh, affordable groceries right to our neighborhood, creating a welcoming spot for our community to shop and connect. I hope to not only provide essential goods...
Uplifting Local Farmers with Sustainable Practices
Food
Farm to Future focuses on improving local farmers' incomes and reducing post-harvest losses by enhancing agricultural practices and providing better storage solutions. The project aims to support...
Fatma’s NutriMeals for Students
Food
Fatma’s School Meals offers nutritious, affordable lunches to secondary school students, enhancing their health and academic performance. The project plans to secure contracts with schools, create...
Blandina’s Tailoring Boutique
Women
Blandina’s Tailoring Boutique offers the community affordable, custom-made clothing and uniforms, focusing on high-quality craftsmanship and efficient service. The project aims to expand its...
Vailet’s Fresh Juices
Food
Vailet's Fresh Juices provides the community with fresh, healthy, and affordable juice options by sourcing local fruits and using eco-friendly practices. The project aims to expand production and...
Develop a distinctive art scene here!
Culture, Art, Beauty
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Oneness with people in need
People in need
Learning center and community hub
Understanding - Education
Let’s create a new kind of learning center that is open to everyone.
Undertake your education as a monastic vow to grasp your higher nature. We need the mental fortitude to approach any question,...
Tanzania Gathering: Money & Business
Money, Work, Business
Money is the life-blood of society. But it suppresses us. It keeps us working at jobs we don’t care about. It stops us from having time to achieve our dreams. But all that is based on an illusion. We...
Tanzania Gathering: Conflict & Peace
Conflict, Peace, War
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Grain to grain: A community-driven maize milling initiative
Food
The project aims to expand local maize flour milling to ensure a consistent, affordable supply, enhance food security, and positively impact the community.
Mandazi Project: Cooking Beans, Soup, and Snacks
Food
The Mandazi project aims to increase sales, ensure high-quality products, create jobs, and expand our brand locally and online with diverse offerings.
Batik fusion
Culture, Art, Beauty
This project combines traditional batik techniques with modern designs to produce high-quality, culturally rich products and achieve sustainable income while preserving traditional craftsmanship.
Yuditha’s Green Garden
Food
Yuditha's Green Garden focuses on improving vegetable yields using organic methods and better soil and water management. The goal is to create a sustainable garden that provides fresh produce, with...
Make your city beautiful
Community and city
Can you imagine the future of this city? The future is approaching fast and we need to be ready for it. But: Change has to happen in a local way – maintaining the cities unique identity. There are a...
The destiny of artificial intelligence
Society
Artificial intelligence threatens our position as masters of the universe. It’s going to overturn the way society operates.
Visionary spiritual community
Spirituality
Can we construct a practical spirituality for the disaffected modern life?
Become a Visionary citizen
Community and city
What does it mean to become capable of Visionary society? To become capable of understanding and love? Of goodness and beauty?
Can AI improve society?
Politics, Government
What are the advantages and risks of artificial intelligence? How will it affect or endanger our humanity?
Find the root of homelessness
Homelessness
Homelessness is a result of who we are. It signifies something about our own character. If we want to resolve it, this is where we have to go.
Refugees
Since attaining its independence in 1961, Tanzania has historically been a steady and nonviolent nation. However, Tanzania’s stability has led it to become a sanctuary for refugees fleeing...
Food
Tanzania has experienced steady economic growth in recent years. However, 27 percent of the population of Tanzania still live below the poverty line and an additional 8 percent live in extreme...
Education
Free and accessible education is considered a human right in Tanzania. However, enrolment of primary school-aged children has been dropping. But only about 76% of Tanzanians are literate. Almost 70...
What is our moral condition?
Culture, Art, Beauty
What are the guiding principles of modern society? How can we respond to bureaucracy and dehumanization? Is exquisite sensitivity possible?
What is your calling?
Self, Visionary Citizen
What can you do with your life that is of great importance? Everyone needs a cause, and a good one. What is yours?
Just doing your job is criminal
Money, Work, Business
Money is magic. It’s a lucky charm, a talisman, a nomadic object. What can we do with it? Achieve personal happiness? Or can we go all the way?
Ask soldiers to be thoughtful
Conflict, Peace
There is always a place for the intelligence and conscience of the individual — even for soldiers, who are required to obey the chain of command. How can we engage soldiers in transforming the...
Enhance 400 Cambodians’ lives through Education
Education – Understanding
Salariin Kampuchea runs a school of English, Chinese, Computing, & Life Skills classes in Siem Reap, one of the poorest provinces of Cambodia. Children from rural areas don't receive a proper...
Help Rural Cambodians Escape Hunger & Poverty
Food
Trailblazer Foundation, a community development NGO, is working in Siem Reap province; one of the poorest regions of Cambodia. Through our Food Security and Economic Development programs, we focus on...
Improve Health with Clean Water in Rural Cambodia
Food
Trailblazer's mission is to improve health, food security, education and economic development in Cambodia's Siem Reap Province. Our first priority is the health of our partner villages. It all starts...
Empowering Cambodian Girls with Health Education
Education - Understanding
PROJECT G, as in G for Girls!! We are focused on bringing health education and sustainable menstrual solutions to girls in rural Cambodia. Without basic hygiene education and sanitation, rural girls...
Provide women and girls education in Tanzania
Education - Understanding
Access to information and knowledge is the most effective method of self-empowerment. This is why Women's Resource Center provides free emotional support, referral services and informal education to...
School 135 poor Cambodian children to prosperity
Education - Understanding
Two schools for vulnerable, disadvantaged children from poor families that have operated for 10 years in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, Cambodia need donors. Administered by a registered NGO of 25 years,...
Help 10 young women in Zanzibar learn English
Education - Understanding
We have 10 friends in Zanzibar that would like to learn English. We work in local shops for minimum wage and believe that we can improve our situation if we knew English. $800 would be enough for all...
Visit Zanzibar!
Community and city
Affordable reality tours from Visionary Society core members. Not your standard tourism, this is a way to find out what life is really like in Zanzibar....

A second chance for teenage mothers in Tanzania
Youth
Until November 2021, teenage mothers were banned from continuing their education in public schools, and even now there are few public schools that meet their needs. We are setting up a new inclusive...
Post Secondary Education for Girls in Tanzania
Girls Education International is partnering with Project Wezesha, a local NGO, to ensure that young women in Tanzania have access to the education, support, and skills necessary to achieve their...
Donate for lifesaving projects in Mwanza Tanzania
Health
Tanzania Rural Health Movement runs three lifesaving projects providing immediate healthcare services to the underserved population in urban-rural Mwanza, Tanzania. Among them is the Street Medicine...
Support Women’s WONDER Hubs in Tanzania
Women
The WONDER Hub initiative is part of the Women's EARTH Project which provides One Health training to rural women in Tanzania. One Health is an approach that recognizes the link between human, animal,...
Help 200 youth in sustainable agriculture Tanzania
Youth
Help Networking for Society Development Organization to implement the project of solving among of the main challenges facing youth in Tanzania which is unemployment caused by population increase...
Educate Girls in Tanzania
Creating the education infrastructure needed to make a meaningful difference in the lives of young girls requires a multi prong approach with efforts lasting years, if not decades. Our first priority...
Startup toolkit for graduates with disabilities
Disability
In Tanzania, there are still stigma and discrimination practices in the community regarding employing people with disabilities, and this has made it a challenge for graduates with disabilities to...
Reconciliation of Refugees from Exile
Social services
The 2020 post election period in Burundi opened an opportunity for those who fled the country in 2015 crisis to return to Burundi. Two convoys from Mahama Refugee's Camp in Rwanda returned back to...
A Vibrant Space for Arts to Thrive in Tanzania
Culture, Art, Beauty
Nafasi Art Space is Tanzania's most vibrant & vital independent art space, providing artist studios and mentorship, trainings for young artists, curators and arts managers, and creating platforms for...
Take 2 Minutes to calculate your carbon footprint
Solving climate change requires reducing carbon emissions. When you offset your footprint, you neutralize your emissions by protecting forests that absorb carbon from the atmosphere.
It’s easy to...
Literacy and learning in a Dar es Salaam slum
Education in Haiti is highly valued, and yet the literacy rate in Haiti is only 60%. Many adults would love to have the opportunity for learning, both the basics and learning about society and life.
...
Be my friend in Dar es Salaam!
I’ve had a hard life here in the slum of Cite Soleil, but for the most part I can take care of myself. What I want is a friend — someone who cares about my real situation and wants to learn and...
Digital storytelling in Zanzibar
We will create a 6 - 10 minute video to tell a story about important events in our lives, Videos may include drawings, photos, and songs.
Free and low-cost spay/neuter
Animals
Improve the welfare and reduce the population of feral and stray cats through spay/neuter programs and education.
Feral, stray and pet cats.. Vaccines. Healthier cats. Save money.
Running team can take shelter dogs on runs
Animals
Members of the St. Joseph High School cross-country team in California invited more than a dozen shelter dogs to accompany them on their morning run this week. I am not sure who was more excited and...
Help the elderly continue to live in their homes
Elderly
90% of elders would prefer to age at home, but the resources just aren’t there. As we get older our social group tends to get smaller. Neighbors help neighbors stay neighbors.

Develop any idea you...
Support the homeless in creating their own center for self-improvement
Homelessness
Help create a center that can serve as a shelter, meeting space, and a base for a series of activities and projects. Members of the Association (all of whom are homeless) design their own hygiene...
Connect people to the social services they need 24/7
Social services
A computer application to find social services for homeless people. “Chalmers,” a web-based app designed by tech non-profit Ample Labs with the help of people experiencing homelessness, uses...
Support Anti-Corruption Grassroots Work
Politics, Government
Support local and international grassroots anti-corruption efforts, led by a small group of Port-au-Prince residents.
Support an orphanage in Dar es Salaam Tanzania
Youth
The Tysea Orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti is a small house with 34 children. Because of the virus and the overall situation in Haiti we are not able to feed them or provide basic necessities. The...
Fight homelessness and social exclusion by building a solidarity network
Homelessness
Fight social exclusion by building a solidarity network between small business owners, neighbors and homeless people that recreates social ties at a micro level. Small local business owners...
Understand: Think for yourself
Understanding - Education
Find the heart and soul of any issue. Each person must set their own learning path. Let’s begin again, as a newborn babe.
Community-wide podcasting/radio program for poignant awareness and action
Education - Understanding
Let's tell stories about matters of importance and create a new network of creators, listeners – and social action.

There are so many important untold stories to tell! Stories about important...
Restaurant Day:  A day on which anyone can open a restaurant
Food
Restaurant Day – Fostering Cross-cultural Gatherings Through Shared Meals. The idea is to bring people together and foster cross cultural interaction, have fun, share new food experiences and enjoy...
Share your home to solve two problems: Loneliness and practical help
Loneliness and limited affordable housing are two problems with a common solution: homesharing.
A program that matches householders in need with people who are willing to lend a hand – perhaps with...
Give tricycle rides to the elderly
Elderly
The elderly have a right to wind in their hair, the right to experience the city and nature close up from the bicycle and by giving them an opportunity to tell their story in the environment where...
Art installations for reducing anonymity
Culture, Art, Beauty
The Emotional Baggage Drop installation mimicked a luggage drop. Instead of collecting luggage, however, the private booth—which had design parallels to a church confessional— allowed people to share...
Support Beyond Borders in ending child slavery
Youth
To create the kind of social change needed to end child slavery permanently in Haiti, we’re addressing the conditions that perpetuate this system – extreme poverty and social acceptance of child...
Install a water purification system in a village near Dar es Salaam Tanzania
Food
The neighborhood of Fequier in Cite Soleil has poor access to safe water. We would like to install a bio-sand filter provided by the organization Clean Water for Haiti.
Ask police officers to be thoughtful
Conflict, Peace, War
Let's forge a partnership with police and citizens for real thoughtfulness. We don't have to go along with the growing coarsening and aggression in society.
“Participatory defense” - Families & communities participate in criminal defense
Conflict, Peace
Families and communities most impacted by mass incarceration in the United States can effectively participate in the criminal defense process and transform the landscape of power in the court system.
Reframe sports to promote empathy
Culture, Art, Beauty
Reframe the rules in which sports are played to promote empathy, team-work, inclusion and leadership in young people and adults, in a way that appeals to everyone playing soccer – from professional...
Mini-library, museum and café – and plenty of cats
Create a synthesis of a tiny library, museum and cafe, and put it in a mall, big box store, or any commercial or residential street. Librarians select their favorite books. Museums loan special works...
Cooperative café, bookstore & thrift store – with a Cause
Bookstores and thrift stores are natural places to create a cooperative, because they may be able to get most of their stock at no cost. Many people are happy to give away used books and clothes for...
Art in every home (and business)
Culture, Art, Beauty
Art, creativity and beauty is a natural part of everyone's life. We need to expand our concept of art, the way it is used and the way it is available to the population. Should original art be...
Media for Deep News (Radio and more)
Education - Understanding
We need new forums for stories that are normally not presented, because they do not fit into the standard narrative. There are countless unrecognized and unheard voices in a region, people who have...
Change the paradigm of old age
Elderly
Put the elderly at the center of attention as protagonists as much as beneficiaries. Transform institutions of care into cultural and community centers of creative expression and growth. Find new...
Food cooperatives & Community markets
Food
We can restore local control of the industrial, corporate food system. In food cooperatives food is selected from local farmers, producers and artisans. It honors the environment, restores the local...
Clean back country land with help of homeless people
Homelessness
As a person who regularly uses Salem’s off-road trails, I envision a program that would rid Oregon’s sensitive back country land of garbage, while creating jobs that are filled in part by people who...
Profound Peace
Conflict, Peace
Profound Peace is resolving conflict at the root level, through introspection and direct, personal, collaborative action. We can step out of the cycle of violence and establish meaningful,...
Set Aside One Percent for Meaning
Set aside a space or create a service in which money-making does not play any part, where concern for well-being is the only motive.
Class on Vegetarianism (with Action)
Food
Create and offer a one month class meeting weekly examining vegetarianism from the perspective of health, environment, ethics and treatment of animals. During this class all students will stop...
Art and Play at Bus Stops
Culture, Art, Beauty
Create a space for art, reflection and play at any and every Anchorage bus stop. Reach out to local artists and anyone with a creative inclination or new idea and install them at our bus stops.
 
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Visionary Projects are a Meaningful Solution to a Personal or Social Challenge
– Projects are a way to create something new in the world that addresses a social problem at the root level.
– Projects work through direct action by all who Support it, use their personal resources (time, passion, skills, talent, money).
– Projects don't depend on the use of power (policy, law, or adversarial relationships), government or big business.
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