Causing Good Things by Empowering and Enabling Purpose

Our human ecosystem called society, is made up of various stakeholder participants, each playing a crucial role in its smooth operation(whether that Society be our neighbourhood, state, country or the ONE world we share.)

These Stakeholders are:

•  Government
•  People
•  Business
•  Causes (NGOs, Social Enterprises and Projects for Good)
•  Community  (the clubs and associations where we foster fellowship)
•  Institutions (Schools, Hospitals etc.)
•  Faiths ( Religious and Non institutional faiths/beliefs )

As a citizen driven project, we ask that you join us to help shape a Better World for the near future and for future generations.

Join the 'CAUSE GOOD THINGS' Community (link coming soon)

The current political system is broken in so many countries.

Political co-operation to solve the world's complex problems including working out how to leave future generations a sustainable planet and society....is sadly failing us.

We believe Capitalism and Democracy are the answers.

BUT Extractive Capitalism that destroys nature and is about winners and losers. Like other systems that have been tried before from Socialism and Communism through to Fascism, Neoliberalism is failing us.

Divisive Democracy is destroying our nations where rather than seeking bipartisan solutions we are driven to take sides.

After all we all want the same things: Freedom, Prosperity, Meaningful work, Secure income, Love, Happiness and a better future for our kids. Don't we??

Fear, Scarcity, Greed, Competition and Hatred are winning out over Hope, Abundance, Sharing, Collaboration and Love

So what's the answer??

There are many names for similar concepts: Stakeholder Capitalism, Sustainable Capitalism, Regenerative Capitalism or Ecolutionism as we call it.

As for Democracy, we believe we need to harness the wisdom, creativity, ideas and energies of citizens better to develop policies from the grassroots up, working with politicians and bureaucrats, rather than politics doiwn where lobbyists and corruption thwart healthy effective democracy.

Citizen Assemblies can play a key role.

We need Systemic Change and we believe the solution is as simple as:

1. Conceive the Future we want

2. Plan a roadmap as to how to get there

3. Take the action steps and make it happen

A new decade dawns - the 2020s

What better time than 2020 to create Visions of a future world of 2040.

If we can see these visions with clarity (with 2020 Vision) we can start mobilising to make it happen and give our politicians some meaningful plans, projects and policies to workk with to make it easier for them to provide better leadership.

If you ask Google what the answer is to the meaning of life....

It will tell you it's 42

At Cause Good Things we believe that's not the answer but rather the path to the answer.

3 Steps, 6 Pillars and 42 Lessons

The actual answer is simply 'True Happiness'

'True Happiness' is partly joy and fun and love, but it's also very much about us discovering who we are and how we fit into this complex, fast changing world. By discovering our purpose, we have a compass to help steer us through life.

It's also learning to centre ourselves and not let WORRY (wasted energy on future fear) or Regrets (wasted energy unless learnings are made) or 'Playing the Victim' sabotage what we can make out of our time on the planet. We help you gain new perspectives so that each morning you wake up HAPPY and eager to tackle this abundant thing called life.

We have designed a scientific experiment to validate our Theory that we have unlocked the 42 Learnings that if applied will deliver improved Happiness.

It's called the '42 Experiment'

It's a free online course of videos and workbooks to help you discover your place in the world,....and the first round of the experiment will be launching soon.

At present we anticipate enough support to launch this as a Six Week Challenge in late 2020, where each day will be a lesson with a video, workbook and support coaching via forums. You will then be able to self assess when you complete that lesson and work towards your Certificate Of Attainment in the principles of happiness.

The scientific part is analysing the data to see how many people who start the course stay engaged and how many who complete, find a self assessed increase in their Happiness score.

It's based on a 3 Step Virtuously Spiralling Cycle of Happiness and Prosperity - LEARN to EARN to GIVE

Find out more about LEARNtoEARNtoGIVE and the 42 lessons (7 for each pillar)

A core part of this process is helping you identify Your Ikigai

Click on People in the menu

Empowering businesses and Social Enterprises to have more purposeful and profitable operations.

Biz4Good4Biz.com is an online Academy to give your business the strategic tools to plan for increased prosperity by transforming your Business into a Business with higher Purpose.

We believe a massive transition is underway that will involve systemic change and disrupt many industries.

Using our 'Ecosystems Design Thinking' methodology based on the Stanford University 5 Step design thinking process and the mimicry of Nature's Ecosystems dynamics we can help your Business seize the opportunities from this transition.

Our Online Learning Platform will help you decide how you embed Purpose within your business.

Whether you're:

• A Regular Business looking for ways to help improve staff engagement and to meet your Corporate Social Responsibility requirements
• A Purpose Driven business where there's a strong alignment between the way you operate and a higher purpose
• A Social Enterprise 

Find out more about Biz4Good4Biz

Click on Business in the menu

A platform to enable Not-For-Profits and Causes to attract the awareness, resources and skills they need to best achieve their mission.

We do this THREE ways:

1.  Providing a range of no-cost tools, processes and systems 
2.  Empowering Start up projects and Social Innovations with a Blueprint Step-by-Step process from Idea to measured Impact.
3.  Connecting Projects with potential Supporters either locally or from around the world

It will also be a Zoom In: Zoom Out Network with a similar structure to the Cagora Community Network with:

•  Locations:  Global >Australia > Melbourne > Stonnington 
•  Causes: Humanitarian relief > Disaster Relief > Disaster Food Relief where Projects can be posted with Summary Info and Needs so that Volunteers and Financial Supporters can find projects to engage with that align with their interests.

It also enables much more effective analysis of projects being conducted across the globe so that learnings can be gained. For example there are countless initiatives tackling Water Sanitation in Developed countries. But how easy is it to see what has been done in the past, what's being done now and where these projects are and what technologies are being used with what success.

At present this project is being rolled in to a collaborative initiative with FuseChange.org a 501c Registered Charity based in Portland Oregon.

The platform will be called FuseGood.

Find out more about CauseGoodThings 

Click on Causes in the menu

This is where Cause Good Things had its origins. Back in 2003 we created a zoom in:zoom out network of:

•  10,000 Local communities around the world Australia > Melbourne > Stonnington 
•  10,000 Communities of Interest:  Sports & Recreation > Boats > Kayaking

It's called Cagora because its a Community Marketplace much like the Ancient Greek Agora which was a Marketplace

At Cagora you could connect with people, advice, articles, photos, video that was relevant to you.

There was a 'community marketplace' for each Intersection (eg Australia Kayaking had more content than Melbourne Kayaking which had less than Melbourne Boats

Google owns SEARCH, but still no-one owns 'BROWSE on the Internet to make it easy to find the things that interest you locally or for your favourite hobbies.

Similar to Google and Facebook it will operate as a free to use network and will have advertising. The difference being the profits from the ad revenue generated is distributed to Charities and Community Groups rather than Shareholders.

NOTE to Past Cagora Supporters. Please get in touch to find details of a plan to repay you for your loyal support as the Cagora transitions to a Not-For-Profit Model.

 Click on Community in the menu

If Cause Good Things lives up to its potential and becomes a trusted intermediary, it will be well placed to create value for Education and Healthcare (both public and private) in two main ways:

1.  Learning systems
2.  Privacy Secured records keeping. 

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Cause Good Things has the potential to act as a bridge of tolerance and understanding between faiths.

Our 'Ecolutionism' philosophy has been created as a model to be congruent with all existing belief systems that match our Values systems which are universal to almost all Religions, Faiths and Sprituality. (refer About Us).

The difference being how as an individual you interpret what is widely referred to, but relatively unknown - The Noosphere

It's the intangible layer above the atmosphere that most Religions call 'God', The Spiritualists call 'The Universe' and Atheists know only as 'The Internet'

Click on Faiths in the menu

Project Drawdown has identified 100 solutions to the Climate Crisis. We have identified a further 150 that if acted upon can not only minimise the damages of global warming but also create better society and better environment for us and future generations.

So please if you previously have not believed its a significant issue and have not believed that dramatic Climate Change is possible and could adversely affect the wellbeing of yourself and those you care for....check out our approach.

If you are already alarmed by our 'Business as Usual path' then please explore further our approach to harness the wisdom, creativity, energy and passion of citizens to turn things around.

Coming Soon:

ClimateSolutionsAlliance.org - Citizens and Organizations coming together to tackle the Climate Emergency

Strikes are Good, Solutions are better

1. Climate Crisis Guide - an introduction to what it's about.

2. Climate Crisis Facts - an introduction to the Science

3. Climate Denial Facts - an introduction to debunking denial misinformation

4. Climate Solutions Blueprint - a 14 step roadmap to reducing global warming

5. Climate Crisis Actions Guide - actions you can take to make a difference

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