We Need a Single National Donation Clearing House

See the prior blog entry.

Money is our social decision making medium of exchange tool for the allocation of resources.

Money is our medium of exchange vote of free choice traded to get what we need and want and  satisfy those needs and wants.

"Donations" of money are a Class of monetary transactions that have common attributes that express in the aggregate both what is wanted by the donation as well as what is not wanted.  Donations are a social oriented decision at the micro and macro level.

Each individual knows their specific intent in their donation transaction exactly as much as spending money for any other thing they need or want.

What we do not know with equal precision is the aggregate macro level expression of social decision making intent involved in class of Donations.

If all transactions in the Class of Donations go through a single Donation Clearing House point of entry the macro level intent would be subject to aggregation and examination for the benefit of knowing what what we want as well as who the entities are we call "We" that want it.

Money has been given a greater and louder and more measurable voice to convey what it is saying about our decision making too in the Information Age than the simple micro and macro economics of "this thing for that thing" means of revealing or guessing in the past.

"Monetize the Information Data Base" or "Turn Information Into Money" is a business model made profitable expressed in terms of money by the Information Age.

Money transactions in the transaction class of "Donations" are a weird bird.  There is certainly money profit to be made in the business of this domain where the business of the domain is called "Non-Profit" and the business of Non-Profit is growing.  In large part it is growing as a function of "Monitizing the Information Data Base" to get more money into the the business of "Non-Profit" enterprises.

Beyond the extraction of information for the data base of financial donations for the purpose of getting more donations for the recipient entity purpose their is a vast amount of aggregated information to be extracted regarding the social micro and macro level intent of the donators.

That extracted intent made possible by the Information Age produces metrics in terms of Meaning that can be precisely captured beyond Metrics in terms of money that are precisely capture down to the last accounting penny that have a previously unknown or assumed association with intent.

A single National Clearing House for Donations is the means to capture a more precise and useful measure of the meaning of Donations associated with the financial metrics of donations that was not previously possible because the Information Structure was not in place to provide for that input and capture it.

Aggregate level "Meaning of Donation Transaction" is of interest and value to whom?  Not so much the individual recipient entities of financial donations.  Getting that aggregate level of "Meaning of Donations"  has to be of some value to a major stakeholder in that information before systems are designed to get the "Meaning" and use it.

Who is that "Stakeholder" .

It is all the Donators.

Society.

What agency does Society have to implement its primary Stakeholding interests?

Duh!  That is Agency with the big "A".

Clue:  "Agency" that acts in the Stakeholding interests of the Public beyond private profit Stakeholding entity agency called business or at the top level "Big Business"?

Its our form of self governance called Government.  Or, in derogatory terms "Big Government" when it has a greater Stakeholding interest on behalf of those governed than "Big Business" which is also a governance system.  The difference is that one votes with Votes the other votes with Money.

Our governance system, our government, is the responsible agency to establish within the domain of government or the domain of official govern sponsored enterprise entity" a "National Donation Clearing House System" that serves the public as its principal Stakeholder to extract social meaning as a public information decision making tool.

We need to be able to know the meaning of what the public intends to say, for and against, extracted from the association of the expression of that meaning with the decision making tool of money to convey meaning.

We need to see it on an Information Age public website that conveys metrics of meaning for the purpose of an informed public.  To tell us what we mean to say as a precise qualitative measure of expression, for and against, extracted from the quantitative measure of money donated.

Who is going to run that flag up the flag pole?

There must be somebody, some entity somewhere that has already run it up where I can join in saluting it?????