Dear Friend of the World Café,
We send our warmest greetings and best wishes for the holidays. For the very first time ever, we also want to actively invite your financial contribution to the World Café at a vital time in shaping its future.
 We frequently hear from people whose lives or work have been deeply affected by the World Café. We love these stories and are committed to ensuring that key World Café resources continue to be freely available as the World Café spreads around the world.
If you, your organization, or community have benefited from the World Café, we invite you to make a contribution now to help ensure that the gift at the heart of the World Café will continue to travel and be of service in engaging collective intelligence and fostering wise action.
Those present at the birth of the World Café knew immediately that the process should not belong to or be controlled by any single person or group, and those guiding its development and dissemination since then have been committed to ensuring that the ideas spread freely and core materials are readily available at no charge.
Thanks in part to a year of tremendously exciting developments, the World Café today is at a threshold. Its success is spreading ever more rapidly around the world and there are many creative ways to steward its co-evolution. We're also asking: How can all of us play a role in resourcing the work that serves the whole?
 During the World Café's first twelve years, we funded its core infrastructure and activities primarily through an innovative "tithing" model pioneered by Juanita Brown and David Isaacs in collaboration with their corporate consulting network - together with smaller gifts from colleagues and innumerable in-kind contributions from friends of the World Café. With David and Juanita now in their 60s, it's time to enable a much larger circle of friends to offer their support.
Specifically we invite you to:
ˇ Make a tax-deductible financial contribution to the World Café Community Foundation by check or through PayPal.
Your gift will be used to expand our online communications, engage next generation leaders, develop our regional stewardship network, create new conversational leadership tools and opportunities, help harvest and share World Café stories, and continue serving the burgeoning global network of World Café hosts. Each contribution, however large or small, is an opportunity to make a difference!
ˇ Join us as a thinking partner in our development of creative resourcing processes and stewardship practices consistent with the gift economy spirit and principles of the World Café. Please contact Tom Hurley if you'd like to offer your ideas or support.
ˇ Forward this invitation to friends or colleagues whose lives have been touched by the World Café, to give them the opportunity to "play it forward" and help ensure its ongoing vitality and availability.
ˇ Buy the World Café bookfor your friends and colleagues. All royalties are donated to the World Café.
ˇ Participate in our growing stewardship network or in additional ways such as sharing your World Café stories or becoming active in the online community space.
Please contact us if you have ideas about other ways to contribute, suggestions concerning others who might be interested in supporting the World Café, or any questions.
Thank you for your work on behalf of life-affirming futures.
Warmest regards and best wishes,
Anne Dosher, David Isaacs, Juanita Brown, and Tom Hurley
The World Café Community Foundation |
