This is a list of some innovative models of giving that involve peer to peer connections between "Helpers" and "Doers"

Our workshop April 27-28, 2006 in Paris will ask, "How can 6 billion people help each other to help themselves?" This question frames things from the perspective of massive abundance - a potential 6 billion people helping each other - in contrast to traditional approaches which begin with the notion that we have "too many problems and not enough money." We will be looking at what is happening "on the ground" in some of the poorest areas of the world, as well as what is happening in our network technologies and capabilities to connect people and ideas in new ways.

To bring together people of good will who are interested in creating an open, scalable, Internet-enabled infrastructure to support humanitarian and development activities on a global scale. To discuss notions of trust, community, and accountability in the context of a self-organizing, adaptive context in which those patterns of activity which successful transformational activities could be replicated. To examine possible technologies, such as a Philanthropic Markup Language, that could serve as a foundation for a global community that would create a space within which philanthropy can occur.