How to Change the World

A traditional corporation follows a predictable path - It starts up, gets investors who risk money in the hope of getting back more money than they risked. Eventually if it's lucky it goes public and gets a whole bunch of new investors who give it more money with the hope of getting back more money than THEY invested. In the meantime the corporation provides a service to the public, and hopefully they do it better and cheaper than everyone else.

Sounds great right? The problem with this paradigm is that things like the environment, world hunger, and many other issues are never addressed by society.

Sure governments can address these problems, but they have to beg for money from their citizens in the form of taxes, not to mention the fact that large multi-national corporations have in many ways taken over and corrupted most governments. Every time a country tries to spend money on something important like fixing the environment you hear cries of "It will cost jobs!", "We'll have to raise taxes!" and "Who's going to pay for it!' In the meantime millions of people spend their day building a better television while people around the world starve and the planet's natural environments are devastated.

How about a corporation where there shareholders would be the citizens of the world and indeed the world itself. Where the board of directors are the people of the world who vote on how to spend the money. Whose mission is to use our profits in a way which will benefit all of humankind by spending the money first were it's needed most.

This new type of corporation is called a "Public Benefit Corporation" (PBC) which is just a fancy name for a for-profit non-profit, or a corporation who makes money in order to give it away.

Ok, maybe the name won't catch on but hopefully the concept will... Will this be the idea that changes the world?

One such corporation already exists, it's called Dreamer.Me and it's a non-profit search engine. Users vote on which causes and charities get the profits.

Causes include The Environment, World Hunger, Education, Health, and Technology.

You can find it at http://dreamer.me

For more information on how Dreamer.Me is changing the world
http://dreamer.me/how-to-change-the-world

How it donates its money
http://dreamer.me/donate-to-charity

And which causes it donates to
http://dreamer.me/list-of-charities

Finally, how you can volunteer to help
http://dreamer.me/become-a-volunteer