A blast from the (GlobalGiving) past

In late 1999 when Mari and I began to think about the concept of what is now GlobalGiving, we jotted down this "manifesto," a copy of which I found in my new year's cleaning.  GlobalGiving has come a long way since then (and has a long way to go), and some of what we wrote ten years ago seems naive.  But I am also struck by how many of the main principles remain the same.

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