#service space

Resting untroubled in the goodness of the Universe

“The world will not be saved by old minds with new programs. If it’s saved, it will be saved by new minds with no programs at all.” — Daniel Quinn I’m an awful lot like the cartoon character, Inspector Gadget. Remember the bumbling inspector who, yes, always saved the day, but had no clue it was actually his niece, Penny, and his dog, Brain, who did all the work? Gadget got the credit even…

In 1999, Nippun Mehta and some of his tech friends walked into a homeless shelter and volunteered to build a website for the organization. Not long afterward, he started an organization called Service Space, which evolved from building free websites to spawning many other organization projects that promote kindness and generosity.

Here are the five reasons. Click on the link above for the context.

Serve to discover abundance: the radical shift from "me" to "we."

Serve to express gratitude. “[S]ervice doesn't start when we have something to give—it blossoms naturally when we have nothing left to take.“

Serve to transform yourself.

Serve to honor our profound interconnection.

Serve to align with a natural unfolding.

The Gift Economy

Service Space, formerly Charity Focus, is a volunteer run organization founded on these three principles.

SOME GREAT NEWS FOR A POSSIBLE FUTURE

Pavi Mehta  is a storyteller and one of the leaders of Service Space, an organization the basic aim of which, is to do good. It is about radical, creatively imagined generous acts of kindness that are changing the world.

Listen/watch Pavi as she describes Service Space's way of proceeding, a fresh way that "breaks every rule of business" but works. Just for a taste, here are three short snippets from her presentation:

"We live in a time where we have mastered the art of “liking” each other on Facebook. We have forgotten the art of loving each other in real life."

"Disconnection is a growing epidemic... a growing cancer in the workplace. A recent study showed that 70% of all people at work are emotionally disconnected. It costs an estimated $300 billion dollars a year in lost productivity. So what are we going to do?"