METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ALIGNING PRINCIPALS AND AGENTS OF SOCIAL GOOD

摘要

The present invention provides a system for managing charitable funds and social currencies in the ecosystem of principals such as corporations and philanthropists, and agents such as volunteers and non-profit organizations that do social good. Principals cause to issue a finite number of social currency units, with varying conditions on use. These units are transferred to volunteers who are supporting a non-profit organization corresponding to the volunteer hours spent by each. The earned units may be gifted by each volunteer to any non-profit organization. Alternatively, the units may be directly granted to a non-profit by corporations and philanthropists corresponding to the units earned by each volunteer. The non-profits voluntarily accept the units and spend it to generate social good. These new methods to pledge, sponsor, configure, issue, denominate, value, track, earn, buy, store, gift, redeem, sell and spend the social currency units create a vibrant community that multiplies the social good generated.

主权项

1. A method for improving social good, comprising:
creating finite units of a social currency by a processor of a computer server, wherein each unit has a face value and a store of value associated therewith; storing the finite units of the social currency in a memory coupled to the processor; enabling a principal to pledge and guarantee the finite number of social currency units at the computer server, wherein the finite number of social currency units is sponsored at a fraction of the face value associated with the finite number of social currency units; enabling a volunteer to earn at least one social currency unit at the computer server; enabling a non-profit organization to receive, pledge-back, trade, and redeem the at least one social currency unit at the computer server, wherein the volunteer contributes time and efforts at the non-profit organization to earn the at least one social currency unit, and wherein the time and efforts correspond to volunteer hours and a skill level of the volunteer, respectively; enabling a validation of the volunteer hours and the skill level of the volunteer at the computer server; enabling an assignment of the at least one social currency unit to the volunteer based on the validation, wherein the volunteer hours and the skill level are matched with the store of value of the social currency units at the computer server; enabling a transfer of the at least one social currency unit from the principal to the volunteer based on the assignment; restricting conversion of the at least one social currency unit by the volunteer for personal consumption; and facilitating the principal to credit charitable funds to the non-profit organization in exchange of the at least one social currency unit at the computer server, wherein the at least one social currency unit is gifted by the volunteer to the non-profit organization, and wherein the credited charitable funds are equivalent of the face value associated with the at least one social currency unit; wherein the principals include corporations and philanthropists, and the agents include volunteers and non-profit organizations.