AngelHEROS - Intro & Request for BrainStorming

Arlene Shipley here - I laughingly refer to myself as a woman who thinks shecan change the world - and can't even change her own sheets!   I also refer to my race as “intentional human being”

I have been getting the “lay of the land” for the group interaction for about 3 months - read the materials online - watched the video conference - all great stuff.  Iam impressed by the energy and ideas generated on zaadz and WFG - so I am divingin.

I work for free so $ is always a nebulous commodity :) Hmmmmm possibly that explains why my vision for changing the world always includes a concurrent currency! I know this is a professional group - and that we all understand individual content is copyrighted - Bri was nice enough to make that very clear recently - it is one of the reasons I have not been posting.

As it states below - I have a foundation, AngelAID - we are 100% volunteer and take no gov money (see why there is never any money?) We founded AngelAID 14 years ago after our first foster daughter died of AIDS from sexual abuse. Thousands of people's lives have been impacted in her memory - and God willing, once the AngelHEROS program is worldwide - millions will be in our family of choice.

What I am hoping to find here is guidance, brainstorming and support (being the keeper of the vision is hard work!) - I am not a techie -nor a programer , i'm not rich or powerful- my title at AngelAID is Co-Founder, ALCHEMIST AND CHIEF VISIONARY OFFICER.

14 years ago we mortgaged our home, spent our savings and risked everything we had because we believed in our vision, the lessons Tashia (and 50 teenage boys from the juvenile justicesystem who lived in our home inthe last 14 years) taught us.  The vision is large – I usually overwhelm people just by telling them about it :)! –  and we didn't know any rich or powerful people, so we took the piece of the vision that we could accomplish on our own,  AngelAID  and steped out in faith (we were so nieve).  AngelAID is now self-supportting and it is time to risk everythying again so that the rest of the vision can come true. We are selling our home to fund this. 

We've gotten to an age where we realize we have to provide a means for the next generation to take our vision where THEY want it to go.  We believe the rest of our vision will empower young people everywhere to have hope for the future - and a means to unite behind our commonality – our love of our families and a desire to leave a better world (while celebrating our differences).

In a nutsell it is a program called AngelHEROS - it is a game within a game - and a game within real life.  AngelSOURCEis the umbrella not for profit  online portal.  Blessings are the concurrent currency and the positive energy by which we will unite. 

So where do I start? 14 years ago I never dreampt that the online 'game' portion of this vision would evolve into an industy that  needs $10,000,000 just to START developing a game!!!!  Obviously I can't write this program - and I don't have millions- so brainstorm with me?

What I do have is a compelling story to launch the game ( I am writing a book about our experiences with these children- this game is the  “global” happy ending - story within a story :)) the book will be PR - and we are also planing to launch the game via a reality tv show “possibility tv” which will have the first three AngelTOWNS actually setting up their concept for the local community - deciding what their town needs, how to go about it, what to reward, etc. - and the nation will watch and go online and play along - sign up - vote, etc. (starting the pool and self funding for the future) voting wit their dollars for the ideas they like the best (and sending gtheir own ideas)

The game will interact with real life - and the internet - so it is a game inside a game. The platform would be something like “2nd life” - or “There!” - But with a commmunity purpose. When it is set up - existing games could have links - and use the Blessing currency - and interact with the game via it's own interface. I see AngelSOURCE as the umbrella, not for profit - that would be the liaison - the jumping off point for all games and communities. And all would be able to use the benefits of the Blessing currency and rewards online and in real life.

Real towns (mashup overlays from Google Earth or simililar) would be accessed via the AngelSOURCE portal (the home for all of the participating games and towns) So I live in jacksonville, FL - our town would set up an AngelTOWN JAX location - participants who already own property (not for profits, businesses, gov, etc., malls) could acquire the right to have their location live on the map. Participatnts could click and “enter” their world.

Other games - for instance There” could have a location where folks can move between AngelTOWNS and other MMPG games. There would be a common currency and language (Blessings) which would be useable in the real world and anywhere in the AngelSOURCE portal world - and the other games - (in addition to barter, trade, hour/hour trades (time dollar type) and ebay/amazon type sales where Blessings can be used as part of the multicurrency. A mashup could be with the offerings on micorsoft live, etc.

Blessings are earned or given. and kept track of via online accounting.  With a meetup type of situation and cell phones, skype etc. folks would be notified by computer that there was a function (by theire sign up desires) - in the Real world - going there and volunteering for say - the red cross, etc. would earn them Blessings - into their account - which could then be spent and traded online and in the real world.

For instance AngelAID has a 10,000 sq foot thrift shop - AngelATTIC and we are opening a 40,000 sq foot 2nd location - all the times are donated and Everyone is a volunteer - so people can Spend their Blessings at the thrift store. I need someone to watch my mom at night for a few hours - and I am willing to trade frozen homemade dinners. (millions of possibilities for trade of services and goods.)

It would be very involved - each “AngelTOWN” community would decide how the local Blessings were earned and spent - discounts - movies, restaurants (entertainment book on steroids). They could be earned for staying in school, not doing drugs, not being late for school, improving grades, not beating up the teachers :) being in school clubs, doing volunteer hours, cleaning up the neighborhood, grocery shoppping for old folks, the list is endless.

Towns could decide what they want to focus on - say a town in Africa needs a well dug and a portable water treatment setup. They could put out a “request” and anyone could trade/advance them Blessings to purchase the equipment (mini microloans of their time hours) or they could offer their local handicrafts for trade andthen repay the blessings within their own commuity (hours spent setting up the community water system, etc.)

All of the banking would be done online - via AngelBLESSING swipe card (like visa) and via cellphone.   towns without computer access could have cell phone access - and could keep manual accounting that could be mailed to a contact to enter. 

As individuals we could give our blessings (which we earn) to organizations or towns that we agree with what they are accomplishing - a business like Merril Lynch could set up online at their company location where kids join an investment group- learning stocks etc. and earn Blessings for participating.  rooms could be set up to meet for tutoring - and all received blessings - for tutoring and for being tutored.

I could donate my blessings to my local school to augment the teacher's salaries o to reward atendance or turning in homework.  Mother against Drunk drivers could give blessings forevery month that kids in school stay off alcohol - or don't get speeing or drinking tickets.  . Families could use their Blessings to buy basic needs - food, day care, clothing, etc. - and that way available cash could be used for other things. Mothers could stay home and care for their children, if they wished, because their hours could be rewarded with Blessings that would create family income while they did good things.

Blessings could be for any life-enhancing deed or decision - classes such as: balancing a budget 101 - being a good parent 101 - being an environmental citizen 101 - negotiation and compromise 101; how to be a good parent 101; how to choose a good mate 101 - zillions of possibilities.

By interacting in the REAL and Online world - actual live communities would be created - and good wold be done - games could build into them that a certain “actual task” had to be performed in the real world to be able to advance in the online game (game in a game) but people wouldn't only have a life online - it would carry over to bettering their own town.

Last weekend we had a fundraiser for AngelAID - a boat poker run - the Marines usually send 30 guys to help with all the hard work (thank God! I'm too old to do this any more) but they were put on alert and couldn't come.

I could have put a notice via the game - for emergency help - that I would issue Blessings for every hour worked - and the computer would send out emails and cell notice alerts and anyone who wanted to could show up. You could come - or you could email that you can't make it but will donat Blessings to help get the work done.

When this is in place world wide - an an emergency like the tsunami or New orleans hits - it would be in place - immediate response - immediate “needs” posted and filled.  alternate currency immediately available.

It's much more involved than this (I have had this vision for 14 years - a long time to dream) But we are finally in the place with the two thrift stores - to offer a starting point where the Blessings can be physically spent - as a model. We will start rewarding volunteers with Blessings when we open the new store. We are starting to set up a Teen and a Young Adult Board to decide what they want this to be. The entire idea is so that young people can have hope and a venue to change their world - the way they want to.

Need someone to even suggest  what to do next!  But you are all future and present shakers and movers!

Need volunteers to write the business plan

need volunteers to write the video game

need voluneer editor for the book (need everyone to pitch and buy the book)

need website and techies for the portals - etc.

need soeone with banking contacts (or knows Mr, Hock at Visa) to help set up the multicurency baking and blessings accounting

need public relations

need someone to organize the possibility tv show - and contacts in the industry

and we need ten million people to send us $1 each - as an investment in the future - their first Blessing!

All of these will be for profit social enterprises under the AngelAID not for profit (so the people who accomplish this with AngelAID - will be co-owners of the particular portion of the vision they create - and benefit from it)

Eventually I see Blessings being used to pay taxes, and health insurance, etc.   the possibility or expoential! 

Please help me change the world - one blessing at a time!

ps - need a volunteer to help this storyteller (me) be able to encapsulate and verbalize this vision so I don't scare people to death!  I know it will happen - the first half of my vision has already come true - so will this.

Have a blessed day, it is a choice

Arlene Shipley

AngelMOM@angelaid.com

http://www.angelaid.com

AngelAID is a foundation for children with life-threatening diseases or situations (homeless, abused, etc.)

Re: AngelHEROS - Intro & Request for BrainStorming

Clarification:

My apologies for not making this clearer - this would be a for profit social enterprise (under the not for profit umbrella) - the game and the  different enterprises and franchises that come about  because of the AngelTOWNs will be for profit social enterprises in partnership with AngelAID and whoever (would not need to be a not for profit)

The game has a scenario of its own - based on the battle between positive and negative energy in our world.  The premise is that we are all born as angels - we forget until we obtain the necessary lessons - and meet the necessary teachers.  The Earth can no longer compensate the the massive imbalance that mankind has created - so she is fighting back - and unless manking finds a way to balance the energy in our world (by ceating excess + Blessings) she will eliminae mankind to save herself.    So the job is to create venues (towns communities that work toward find solutions to our worlds real problems)  it would be done online and in the real world - but all would count toward the positive balance (shoot and destroy games in other worlds can sign up to interact - and their choice could be to continue to create negative energy – the challenge is for AngelHEROS to consciously choose to counterbalance whatever negativeis being created - What is the WORLDS  balance - what can we do to fix it?  - real life happenings would be reflected in the balance - and shown on the town overlays (which we can choose to aid or not)

Does that make more sense re the online game - that is why is is a game within a game  (war of the world could be parti cipating in the OVERALL world imbalance or balance - etc.

I so appreciate your taking the time to answer - I obviously don't know how I am to go about this - I just know it will be done - Half of my vision has already come true -this will too - I just need to know the path to follow -

Arlene