Gaia Think Tank

May 3, 2006

I said I would create a women's think tank and here it is:

Gaia Think Tank
Revolutionary women thinkers for social change.

The Gaia Think Tank is a group of multi-disciplinary theorists and intellectual women who provide advice and ideas on how to help solve the world’s problems. Our mission is to think global and act local by helping develop programs in our communities that can be adopted throughout world. GTT partners with community government and other organizations who share the goal of creating a sustainable and peaceful world where all people and Mother Earth can thrive.

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The ideas to get it started:

The goal is to get 100 Bay Area members in the first year, inviting select women who are already serving as leaders in their community as CEO or President of a company, non-profit or other organization. The longer term goal is to get 100 members each in 9 other cities within the first 3 years for a total of 1,000 members.

The plan is to physically bring our members to key organizational community events (such as the Mayor's luncheon on SF Connect) to see how our collective mindshare can have a larger impact. We would hold an annual retreat where we can network, collaborate and share in a relaxing environment (somewhere warm like Hawaii and the Bahamas).

I plan to set up a rich online social online networking environment for the group using a new amazing tool called Plum, www.plum.com(a friend of mine started the company). It is like Yahoo Groups meets myspace on steroids. Our group can post information relating to our mission that can be read by the world. Outside parties can also build their communities and posts around our forum.

Strange thing is after I created the premise for it I read a Time Magazine article about how the world is one giant think tank and corporations should consider shutting down their R&D departments and asking the world at large about how to create their products and market their services.

How funny and synchronistic, because part of my plan was to get corporations to pay GTT (Gaia Think Tank) for our collective mindshare to help them with their business strategies and questions. They would pay GTT a fee so GTT could serve non-profits for free. The money would go to paying expenses to fly our members to various strategic socially conscious events where are live participation will have critical impact.

Know anyone interested in joining who has held a President or CEO title? I already have 25 potential members in the Bay Area.