If you had the resources available to create a philanthropic non-profit organization or fund what would it be?

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I think right now, first priority has to be doing something about global warming. Global warming is by far the largest issue facing us; even the millions of refugees in Darfur, which truly make my heart bleed, are small in comparison. The war in Iraq makes my so angry my vision blurs, but global warming is more important.

It is a little sad for me because I am not particularly skilled or talented in this area, but the need is so great that I feel I have no choice. Jim Hansen, a NASA scientist (and therefore a Federal employee) and the first to really raise the alarm, has written that we have perhaps ten years to avoid catastrophe.(See the article in my Sources.) The rise in temperature is already irreversible, and in fact would continue for a while even if we were able to stop producing greenhouse gases entirely. Eventually the sea level will rise.

If we continue the way we are going, we will see a five-degree temperature rise, which means a sea level rise of 80 feet, submerging Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC and the state of Florida. World-wide, hundreds of millions of people would be displaced. It would be an almost unimaginably huge disaster.

But we can deal with this, if we have the political will. According to Jim Hansen, we have about ten years. That means our next president will have to be the global warming president.

Steering us out of the spot we are in will require leadership with exceptional skill, vision, flexibility and honesty. We need change in nearly everything we do. For example, scientists may have to abandon their own research goals and focus on monitoring rising temperatures and their effects, particularly on ecosystems (all over the west, aspen trees are dying for reasons probably related to global warming, but people only realized the problem wasn't just local by accident) or developing palliative measures.

We need to lobby our government for policy changes, particularly in reducing subsidies for coal and oil, and increasing them for wind, solar, and sadly, nuclear. We need to develop a plan for when, for example, bacteria, molds and insects native to Mississippi spread to Kansas, or when forest fires increase in number and severity because of longer, drier summers (all this is probably happening now, but we don't even have enough data to know for sure. ) I would much rather do something to empower people in some way, like teaching them job skills, or work to fight genocide or child abuse.

But this is more important. Sources: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19131 .

It would be a NPO to help young, african american boys look up to stable, loving father figures Too many of these young men have no guy to look up to. Like big brothers, I guess, but focused on that one group. Sources: My answer .

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What are the best resources (books or on the Web) for learning better organization.

I worked for a non profit organization which was run by two benefactors to that organization. Is that legal?

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.