The Big Idea of 5 for Fairness
OUR VISION is a world where girls share fully in the best humanity has to offer: education, human rights and the opportunity to live healthy, productive and meaningful lives.
OUR STRATEGY is unique. When members join our group, they contribute a minimum of $5 to our Grant Account. As the Account balance grows, members of the community create Teams for organizations they believe deserve a 5 for Fairness grant. When the Account reaches $5000, the community votes where to send the grant, choosing from among the five Teams with the most supporters. Then the whole process starts over again.
We hope you'll learn more about us and then JOIN US!
How many social entrepreneurs have dreamed of creating an "ebay of philanthropy," or an efficient and effective marketplace for social capital? Yet, I personally kindle far more to a site like 5 for Fairness with a point of view, a community, and the spirit, not of a marketplace, but of a living room where one meets with friends. A women's consciousness raising group might be a better model than is a "social capital market" for curing what ails our body politic. "Be the change you seek in the world." Breathe in anomie, breathe out community. Give where givers and recipients embrace, rather than shake hands. Give where you might imagine singing or dancing. I learned these truths from women who taught me.
