EVOKATION

1. The Place. My proposal is to make a difference in two places, the first being in Renton, Washington state and the second being in a virtual space that is available globally. Planting the seed in my current local community of Renton will keep costs down for the seed funding while allowing me to easily utilize regional allies (Renton Chamber of Commerce, Renton School District) that I've already made, as well as my local business venture (EarthShod) and my qualifications as a licensed teacher (recipient of the 2007-2008 Classroom Partner Program Award from Facing the Future) and certified counselor in Washington state. Nurturing a virtual space that is available globally will allow my ideas to spark and spread and for more allies and opportunities to spring up all over the earth, especially in the developing world.

2. The Challenge. The social problems that I intend to tackle, both directly and indirectly, are named in the Millennium Development Goals, the Changemakers list of social issues and the World Bank's most urgent problems faced in the developing world. Directly, Children & Youth, especially young girls in a movement toward Gender Equality, will be aided with Education and Public Participation & Engagement will be leveraged to indirectly solve other problems across the globe and in the developing world. I will change the lack of power that children and young girls currently have to have a vision for great change by educating them directly with creative ways to inspire ideas and intuition, and then allowing them to collaborate with the global community to allow ideas to form and spread. Businesses will also be able to use the ideas and request the services as a way to grow funding in the future.

3. The Idea. I will succeed where others have failed simply because my solution is so innovative and creative that it has not yet been conceived on such a broad scale. We already have computerized prediction developed for weather, seismic events and more. We already leverage the ideas of communities through commercial focus groups and surveys. The first phase of my solution begins with educating students in the Renton School District. During the 2010 Renton Chamber of Commerce Business and Education Exchange, I taught Numerology, a creative and inspirational prediction method used to solve problems in many cultures, to elementary school children. Now, those children and families who are interested could be selected to learn other idea-generating techniques, giving special priority to collaborating with a diverse group of children and allowing access to young girls. Dream analysis and other divination methods used in many cultures exploring the subconscious creative potential and Jungian archetypes for solutions to social problems would also be explored. At this point, the second phase of my solution could be implemented. A web-site would be created that provided a prediction market for the students' solutions as well as solutions from other members of the global community. Students would then be encouraged to solicit local and global social problems and participants. Businesses, universities and governments could use the prediction market for research on their own problems for a reasonable donation fee that would feed directly back into the program.

4. The Money. The first $1,000 given or invested in support of my vision would go towards purchasing materials and resources for teaching the local students, and development of the global prediction market web-site that would later fund the project with business and other contributions. Sufficient finances in the future could then pay for me to be able to travel to the developing world to train other children and expand the web-site's features and accessibility for those with language limitations or other special needs. I'd like to encourage consideration for a travel scholarship to the EVOKE summit in Washington DC so that I can share my vision for the future with other potential allies at this stage of the idea's development.