Jeff its saddening how big organisations often treat what they perceive to be smaller ones on the sorts of issue you raise

Maybe we are being optimistic but whilst most of the Brixton Hub work is below the radar (like yours so to speak), we aim to cultivate some big friends. It certainly energises our co-worker culture; whether it will cause accounting departments to treat us with respect remains to be seen!

p1 http://theelders.org

Hello

This follows up from a conversation which I had with Natalie on Friday where she asked me to send a summary note.

Yunus1000 Forum is an emerging intercity 2-hour event where Dr Yunus greets 1000 citizens interested in popularising debates on the future of capitalism which open social business enterprise models can now sustain across cities. We will be celebrating Dr Yunus' new book on this subject http://www.publicaffairsbooks.co m/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/dis play?book=9781586484934

Londoners have been authorised by Dhaka to assemble the first such Forum, probably in march 2008 coinciding with a planned visit of Dr Yunus on other matters. I am on the assembly team looking after world class networking partnerships due to my 25 years old experience on world class brands, and social network futures (my father's entrepreneurial specialty at The Economist between 1950 and 1990). http://macrae.tv/_wsn/page3.html

As Dr Yunus is a Mandela elder and Sir Richard the chief UK elder, we wanted to inquire about mutually beneficial ideas for multiplying goodwill of Elders and YunusForum1000. A particular focus of YunusForum appears to be empowering citizens to identify action projects both before and after the forum. This is a role my fellow assembly team member Sofia Bustamante supports out of the Brixton hub - a 30 person workspace for testing citizen projects. For example, the hub is the planning centre for Green in the City: a 150 person theatre arriving on the South Bank next year alongside the Queen Elizabeth Hall - a citizens demonstration space of how photosynthesis offers abundant clean energy to any city that changes its roofs.

YunusForum also hopes to connect action projects from other summits beginning with the world entrepreneur network 1000 person summit http://www.wes08.net/ in January hosted by Rebecca Harding, formerly chief economist at the Work Foundation

Yunus1000 Forum was finally authorised last week so we are at the very open co-creative stage of executing the value Dhaka has asked us to live up to : Impossible becomes possible when right action right place right people right time

Love any questions, ideas... chris macrae us tel 301 881 1655