Re: Donors/charities matching use case

Quoting Danny Ayers <danny666@virgilio.it>:

> 
> An idea that came up in conversation with the wife - apparently there 
> are directories of  orgs from which grants are available, maybe 
> foundations/philanthropists. There are also plenty of charities around. 
> too. But it seems likely that there will be sets of criteria for which 
> charities are suitable - e.g. "medical research but no animal experiments".
> First pass this looks like a place where ontology + logic could be 
> applied pretty directly. Does that sound reasonable? Has anything been 
> done along these lines already?

It sounds both reasonable and very worthwhile.

A not-entirely-unrealted type of charity matchmaking I've been musing about is
matching would-be volunteers with charities and non-profits that need them. One
for the lazyweb right now though.

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Received on Friday, 6 August 2004 06:11:13 UTC