Changing The World One Gift At A Time
With 4,121 communities and 3,890,000 members worldwide, The Freecycle Network is a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns - the only ceveat, everything posted must be free, legal, and appropriate for all ages (here’s how it works)
It provides a worldwide online registry, and coordinates the creation of local groups and forums for individuals and non-profits to offer and receive free items for reuse or recycling, promoting gift economics as a motivating cultural outlook - in fact, as this article points out, regifting is becoming quite a trend.
The Freecycle Network mission is to build a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources & eases the burden on landfills while enabling their members to benefit from the strength of a larger community.
In a world where some people are succeeding in making money from things available in the public domain, this comes as a refreshing change.
Perhaps one more lesson for us lies in the fact that in the online world, as in the offline world, the most loyal communities would be those that are built around a purpose
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