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03.03.08
AngelHEROS - A Global Family of Choice
AngelHEROS Not For Profit Social Enterprise - A Virtual Division of AngelAID Foundation.
AngelAID is a 501(c)3 Not-for-Profit charitable organization based in Florida, USA serving children 
with life-threatening diseases or undesirable situations (homeless, abused, or in foster care). Our organization is 100% volunteer based and takes no government money. For fifteen years AngelAID has been self-supporting through the efforts of ordinary people who believe that we can make a difference. AngelAID has received numerous Senate and Congressional commendations including the President’s Points of Life Award.
AngelHEROS
A Virtual Division of AngelAID Bridging RL and the Virtual Worlds
GLOBAL VISION
To fulfill our global vision of helping all not-for-profits be self-sustaining, to enable them to help all families globally, we have done two years of research in the virtual worlds of Second Life. We are forming a new Not-For-Profit named AngelHEROS, which will be a bridge between Real Life and Second Life. It is a global community of choice where ordinary people are united by a common purpose: co-creating positive change through united effort. We will be united by our commonalities while celebrating our differences.
Just as SecondLife is a ground-breaking concept to fill the needs of a new virtual age, so too will AngelHEROS be a platform bridging the virtual world with real life. Within three years we expect to have real life chapters of AngelHEROS in communities globally, interacting with the virtual world via the AngelHEROS platform.
We knew our visionary concept would need a physical presence before it could be understood by non-virtual world sceptics. The first phase of our plan has been the creation of the amazing AngelHEROS Mainland Embassy and will be a perfect core headquarters for the implementation of our program and the prototype to market our concept.
- One picture of our Mainland Embassy
- Over 100 pictures of the AngelHEROS Embassy in SecondLife - on Flickr
Our entire vision and reason for existing is to help organizations have the ability to be self-supporting via participation in the AngelHEROS platform. Through participating organizations our vision has the potential to impact every street in the virtual community and every street in real life communities.
AngelHEROS believe that “every child is my child and every street - is my street’. We believe that global peace will happen one street at a time by ordinary people united to make positive change. When we each step out to heal one street, our paths will converge in peace. AngelHEROS will be one platform, one path for that convergent goal.
We will not compete with any existing services or organizations, but rather we serve as the liaison and find creative ways to fill needs using current available resources - wherever they may exist. Think of us as the not-for-profit social enterprise of the future (eBay, barter, time-dollars, points.com, Google, United Way and banking under one umbrella - and on steroids). Any participating organization will also be able to use this sim, and any AngelHEROS location, for fundraising activities.
We believe our world is desperatly in need of heroes. Being an angelHERO will allow individuals everywhere to remember that people are the answer. We are the heroes. Allowing our program the continued use of this beautiful platform will enable us to continue on to Phase II: implementing the Blessings con-current currency concept which is a vital part of the ability to help people and foundations globally.
The first phase of our plan has been the creation of the amazing AngelHEROS Mainland Embassy and will be a perfect core headquarters for the implementation of our program and the prototype to market our concept. This has been accomplished. Our build started from the generous donation of an 8000 sq.meter piece of land in the Jewell mainland region by Biff Zond, and we purchased small pieces (many sign farms) to grow to our current size. Mainland cannot receive reduced not for profit tier rates, so it is time to move to a more economic situation.
Our current fundraising goal is to raise $2000 US - the funds raised TOTALY IN THE VIRTUAL WORLD, PROVING THE VIABILITY OF SECOND LIFE FOR USE BY SMALL NOT FOR PROFITS. The funds will be used to purchase a reduced tier not for profit sim — this alone will cut our tier costs in half. This will be a tremendous blessing. Thank you for your support of AngelAID and of the new AngelHEROS virtual/global platform.
