Projects with Clear Short-Term Goals

These projects all have short-term goals. Ideally each contributes to a campaign with a clear, well-defined path to a goal. Ideally, there are targets—people, institutions—that the project (and/or campaign) pressures and which, if pressured, can help achieve the goal.
#TeamTrees
Practitioner:
MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) and Mark Rober
Date:
Oct 25 2019

When And Where Will #TeamTrees Plant 21.5 Million Crowdfunded Trees?

Two months after reaching one of the most ambitious crowdfunding goals in YouTube history, #TeamTrees is getting closer to delivering on behalf of its 800,000+ unique donors.

The Ugly Conference
Practitioner:
Vanessa Rochelle Lewis, Stephanie Gary
Date:
Mar 23 2019

Last November, when you Googled the phrase “ugly Black woman,” Vanessa Rochelle Lewis’s photograph was the second to come up.

“Which I’m offended by,” says Lewis, a Bay Area–based artist and writer, “since I’m an Aries and I like to be number one in everything.”

Mainstream Media Is Blowing Its Coverage Of Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test
Practitioner:
Elizabeth Warren, Prominent Tribal Leaders, Donald Trump.
Date:
Jan 4 2019

WASHINGTON ― Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was positioned to make a strong bid for president in 2020, but she infuriated tribal leaders by releasing the results of a DNA test to prove her Native ancestry and now her future is unclear.

The Fearless Girl Statue
Practitioner:
State Street Global Advisors, Kristen Visbal
Date:
Mar 8 2017

On the eve of International Women’s Day and the one-year anniversary of its SPDR®SSGA Gender Diversity Index ETF (ticker: SHE), State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), the asset management business of State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is calling on the more than 3,500 companies that SSGA invests on behalf of clients, representing more than $30 trillion in market capitalization1 to take intentional steps to increase the number of women on their corporate

Gray Area
Practitioner:
Gray Area
Date:
Sep 17 2018

Being a Kuwaiti citizen makes you feel like you belong to Kuwait, as nationality is a legal relationship between a person and a state. But what if you are a “halfie” and are finding it hard to answer the question “Where are you from?” Those whose fathers are Kuwaiti are automatically considered Kuwaitis but those whose moms are Kuwaiti and fathers are not, they are not granted the nationality, even if they are born here.

CONVICTED KILLER WINS BEAUTY PAGEANT IN WOMEN'S PRISON
Practitioner:
The Instituto Penal Talavera
Date:
Dec 6 2019

In its thirteenth year, the annual Miss Talavera Bruce beauty pageant is held in unlikely surroundings: a women’s prison in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Instituto Penal Talavera is the only maximum-security women’s prison in the city with inmates serving life sentences for murder, fraud and drug trafficking.

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