Project Mission A half-billion are suffering from autoimmune diseases like Crone’s disease, psoriasis, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and Fibromyalgia. Another half a billion people are suffering from depression and other mental illnesses. Indeed 12 people will have committed suicide by the end of this article. Hopefully, not as a result of this presentation, but I […]
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Advisory Board Job Description
The role of an Advisor is to donate 1 hour of their cognitive bandwidth per month to help us determine the most effective ways we can allocate our limited time and resources to the eradication of dementia and mental illness. To minimize any burden on the time of the advisor, there are numerous ways they […]
Building Non-Profit Networks
Build and nurture nonprofit networks, treating other groups as allies Ways We Build Non-Profit Networks Open Source Software We do this by creating open-source software that can be used by other research organizations to collect data and create studies. Affiliate Organizations We also sponsor local affiliate Crowdsourcing Cures Meetup groups. This involved bringing patients, physicians, […]
Inspiring Evangelists
Convert individual supporters into evangelists for the cause Great nonprofits see volunteers as much more than a source of free labor or membership dues. They create meaningful ways to engage individuals in emotional experiences. Ways We Inspire Evangelists We reward citizen scientists for their data donations and researchers for publishing studies using this data.
Serve Individuals and Advocate to Government on their Behalf
Work with government and advocate for policy change High-impact organizations don’t just focus on doing one thing well. They may start out providing great programs, but eventually, they realize that they cannot achieve systemic change through service delivery alone. So they add policy advocacy to access government resources or to change legislation, thus expanding their […]
Make markets work
Harness market forces and see business as a powerful partner Tapping into the power of self-interest and the laws of economics is far more effective than appealing to pure altruism. Great nonprofits find ways to work with markets and help businesses “do well while doing good.” Ways of leveraging market forces to achieve social change […]
Exponential Solutions
We are attempting to implement solutions that produce exponential benefits that feedback and accelerate its own progress. That is one of the primary reasons we chose to focus on improving the human mind. Better brains have the ability to find solutions to produce even better brains. This produces a snowball effect of benefits. Not only […]
Moonshot Thinking
Moonshot thinking is when you pick a huge problem and set out to create a radical solution to the problem. To make this happen you have to abandon the idea of creating a 10% improvement. Instead, the focus is a solution that will bring tenfold (or 10x) improvements, or solve it altogether. 1. Huge Problem: Pick […]
Key Performance Indicators
Key performance indicators (KPIs) refer to a set of quantifiable measurements used to gauge a company’s overall long-term performance. KPIs specifically help determine a company’s strategic, financial, and operational achievements, especially compared to those of other businesses within the same sector. Organizational KPI
6 Habits of Highly Effective Organizations
If you do what other successful people do, over and over again, nothing in the world can stop you from eventually getting the same results that they do. And if you don’t, nothing can help you. So what do successful organizations do differently from unsuccessful ones? In a word, leverage. Give me a lever long […]