DSM Club -- "Do Something More"

20181219 DSM Club-V07

DSM Club

"Do Something More"

A discussion group with a potentially international reach

Main Topics:

Retirement, charitable, and investing activities – especially aimed at interests of older gentlemen.

Domain names acquired to-date:

Newworldcharities.org

Angelsonline.org

Grandparentsonline.org

Grandparents.online

Sample activities

(Done by individuals or by the group):

Education – worldwide -- job skills (possibly extend Perpetual Education Fund or liberal education ideas).

Missionary work -- (new methods need to be explored using new technologies).

Crisis hotline – counseling: drugs, suicide, pregnancy, etc.

Adoptions -- (I believe the LDS Church has stopped working in this area).

Migration -- (Assist in Europe and South America. Could be an aspect of religious gathering.).

General friendship, advice, and counsel -- grandparent-style.

Other

Notes

Participants are encouraged to bring an idea to share and discuss, something that they might like to do themselves or might wish to join with others in doing. There are millions of good things that could and should be done in the world. Hopefully, the individuals in this group can do a few of them. The world keeps trying to pull itself apart and someone needs to keep trying to put it back together.

●We should consider using existing communications and social media technology in new ways - to do more good and less bad.

●Church members might get special responsibilities and special privileges, but others may be involved.

●No money collected, at least to start with. Eventually group members may have activities of common interest, such as cloud-based telephone management and fund accounting systems.

Two big sample project ideas:

●Almost every transaction and interaction of life could be funneled through the new concept "Angel" system (to be designed) to offer help or receive help on an organized or individual charitable basis.

●People, whether young or old, might be encouraged to register with the new-concept "Life" system (to be designed) – much like registering with government social insurance systems, but all done privately.

kent.huff@gmail.com

801-615-9032

December 22, 2018

Some potential charitable project ideas, large and small

Use $3 billion to create 30 blockbuster Christian-friendly movies – give Hollywood some serious competition in influencing the culture.

Use up to $3 billion to create competing Facebook, Twitter, and perhaps Google Internet applications to help resolve the current lack of proper social controls and parameters for social media.

Move 30,000 Honduras church members to a safe place. That safe place might be Spain or Germany or the United States, for example.

Move 4 million Middle Eastern/Syrian Christians from Lebanon and Jordan to some safe place, in Europe or in the United States, for example

Find a way to provide foster homes for some of the children on the southern US border who came from Central America. Or return them to their families, and then move the entire family to some place safer.

The church ended its adoption program. Maybe someone should start up an alternative.

Use one year's church genealogy resources to complete all the genealogy for the United States going back 12-15 generations by using new technology. That would free up about $5-10 billion over a 10-year period for other projects

Improve high school graduation rates in Utah and other states

End the constant debates in Utah and other places about medical services for the poor and other support systems for the poor. Create an independent system on the proper scale to deal with these questions, ending the waste, fraud, and abuse of government systems, and returning charity to its proper Christian base.

Create smaller neighborhood and city-level charitable projects.