CHAGORA - The basics

Patent Pending

To begin, I’m going to talk to you about the CHAGORA “Online Public Square” concept and the catalysts that create it!

Chagora is a single online system offering donors and recipients for both Charity & Cause-based Non-Profits:

1) MicroDonation w/ Unified Accounting & Reporting

2) Electoral/Geographic Networking Facilitators and

3) Live Functions & Feedback

These are the catalysts which I believe will unite these constituencies online and eventually capture a major portion of the multi-billion dollar charity services industry.

A little later I’ll define those catalysts more specifically and tell you why I believe they are hooks for catching an important fish! And I’ll explain the name “Chagora” if anyone’s interested.
Yeah, there’s a lot of money to be made… probably for a lot of different enterprises, but first a little background… a little why before the how…

(more to follow, meanwhile see: http://CulturalEngineer.blogspot.com or www.YouTube.com/CulturalEngineer

Building CHAGORA: A field of dreams? If we build it will they come?

Whether for a charity, candidate or cause, whether a donor OR recipient… Why would you choose CHAGORA? The answer for both of course is because… it’s a better way.

There are certain constituencies which do well when brought together on the internet; eBay united the guys wanting to hold a garage sale with those wanting to go to one. And it created features like PayPal to facilitate that unification.
What will bring donors and recipients to Chagora?

For Donors:

· One-time sign-up for persisting account with multiple uses whether funded or not

· The MicroDonation capability especially when operating within a Live event and/or with others in group action

· Employer Connection – option through your employer to contribute something each month to Chagora Account

· Employer ability to match your charitable contributions per any agreement

· Unified accounting providing a single statement for all your charitable and political contributions both taxable and non-taxable

· Localization capabilities providing additional opportunities to locate and support LOCAL entities now disempowered

· The attraction of associated corporate coupons, sales, offers etc. available

For Recipients:

· There are approximately 30,000 non-profits created in the U.S. every year. Many of them are temporary (e.g. a candidate or fund for a memorial) and/or Local. Much like the little guy holding a garage sale (eBay) they will be greatly attracted by a central place to conduct their business.

· Smaller parties, candidates and charities (whether local or not) will also be advantaged by being able to operate on a larger field at a lower cost.

· Opportunities for parties, candidates and charities in conjunction with Live MicroDonation Events.

· Corporate sponsorships and linkages with unique and varied options.· Better opportunities for locally oriented non-profits whether charity or political.

· It’s where the Donors are!

· Because of convenience, the ability to contribute in smaller amounts and its reach to those donors previously neglected, CHAGORA also results in more contributions overall both in numbers of contributors and total dollars.

The Synergies (No discussion of what builds Chagora can be complete without some discussion of the synergies.) Here are a few things to remember:

· If a User opens an account to contribute for ANY reason, he will easily understand that it’s to his advantage to do his next from the same place. And then the next, and the next… for life!

· In all Live Events recipients and media provide free advertising for Chagora

· Smaller candidates, causes and charities will be the biggest initial supporters… and the larger will have no choice but to follow

· Media love scores, polls and feedback… The MicroDonation Live Debate is a huge media magnet during political seasons.

· Corporate sponsorships are free advertising for Chagora.

· While it's own developing and persisting User base quickly facilitates its Electoral/Geographic networking this may be greatly enhanced by the adoption of Google's OpenSocial standards.

Passion, Intelligence, Initiative and understanding of the value of this on multiple levels!

Contact me:
Tom Crowl
818 383-4064
CulturalEngineer@gmail.com