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We are moving! Please join the We are moving! Please join the new Dream Club community!

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You are a member of the Dream Club Community. Please join us at our new location. We are shutting down the old community and starting a new one. See below for more details.
Dream Club has existed for ten years, since April of 2000. It started as a place where people who were discovering their passion and purpose in the world could meet with supportive friends. It continues to be that place. It started with casual meetings at a Star Bucks in Houston Texas, then it went online in the form of a Yahoo Group. Then two years ago we formed an online social network. It is currently at 89 members worldwide and growing. Now it's time to evolve.
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Dream Club we have decided to phase out the old Dream Club email list and the old online group and create them anew in a group in the new Dream Power online community "I Wanna Change the World."

The cool thing about this new community is that it's based on the Ning.com network which is growing faster than Facebook so we have the ability to get many more people involved. The Ning technology makes this community more pleasing to the eye and it's much more user friendly. You can also easily create your own interest and discussion groups within it. Of course you can create blogs, upload and embed videos and pics etc. So join and play around with it and see how you can make it better. We want to beta test it with Dream Club members before we officially launch it into the world.

So please join us at:

http://iwannachangetheworld.net.

See you there!

--
William Spiritdancer,
Director, Dream Power International
Web: http://www.MyDreamPower.com
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Give it up and trust God! Give it up and trust God!

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Yup giving it all up to God is the only way. Today I woke up feeling so down. It's crazy. I was lost in my head again! why do I keep doing that. it's usually triggered by a survival crisis. like having to pay the rent. that freaks out my wife and then i feel pressured to perform. then I start thinking about how I alone can make this work. then i start forming all kids of plans etc. this is not the way. so I just gave it all up and you know what a miraculous thing happened. first I felt immensely better. how am i going to do the movie? where am i going to get the money? I have no idea1 but i feel good and i realize now as I have realized many times before that this good feeling of peace is really really important. I should never leave it. I don't care what is happening. if the lights are bout to get cut off or if the rent is due. never leave this place.

The miraculous thing is now i feel guided to solutions. like for instance even though I did not plan to make calls logically with a set schedule today. I actually feel like making calls. why because i don't have to. i should never set schedules where I have to do something. that is a guaranteed way to get me to feel pressure and then do it from a fearful place. like "I have to make calls and I have to get donations etc. " this is the wrong way. let it all go and let the spirit guide your actions. how do you know. by how peaceful and joyful it feels. if you can't do it from this place then don't do it at all.

its like to get results I have to get in a place where I don't care about results. then I get the results. to not care means to not be afraid of the outcome. to not care if I fail. the only way to be in that place is to rest fully in god's grace. to really believe that god is there for you. if you depend or look to the world for solutions then you will be inherently fearful. so it is a paradox. to get good results from the world you must give up the world and depend fully on god then you can be guided to the right solutions.

What do you feel like doing?

Do that.
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Non Profit Fundraising Tips No Non Profit Fundraising Tips No. 1

From: spiritdancer
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Well I'm learning somethings about fund raising. I am in the process of raising funds to produce a children's film called Star Kids. These are my notes about what I am learning about this arduous process.

1. focus on businesses.

Approcahing individuals is almost a waste of time. I mean for all the work and time you spend trying to get something from an individual you might as well go to a business at least the payoff could be larger.

2. Phone calls to indivuals do not work. Nor do emails. The only time I can get donatios from individuals is door-to door or in front of a grocery store. You have to pull it out of them. It's crazy!

3. from idividuals I have gotten a couple pledges but nothing has shown up yet.

4. Emails do not work. They should only be used after the initial contact has been made as a means of communications but not as the main selling vehicle.

So I'm not going to call individuals.

Now setting up meetings with businesses. That is working as far as getting meetings. so far I have gotten one donation but we will see at the end of the week about the others. it's a more drawn out process with businesses . this is why we need a short term vehicle for getting short term money. Which for right now is going to be door to door. I don't like it but it's the only thing that seems to work. also I am going to focus more on quality encounters and not quantity. I am going to try to really connect with each person as if they are the only person.

5. Don't approach your family unless you really want to get depressed and discouraged.
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How to get discovered on the How to get discovered on the Internet

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Go ahead, post that dumb video online, you could get some work

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Voice-over work in Indiana wasn't too lucrative, so Daniel Geduld made a classic actor's move: He headed for Los Angeles, Califronia. And like most Hollywood dreamers, Geduld didn't get hired for much.

So Geduld combined his creative talents with his abundance of free time. He took footage from the 1980s "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" cartoons, re-edited it and redubbed it to make the evil Skeletor and his cronies into a bumbling gang of losers. Geduld added incongruously peppy jazz by Django Reinhardt, called his farce "The Skeletor Show" and posted episodes on Google Inc.'s YouTube .

Geduld added his e-mail address to the credits, along with this line: "Please give me a job. I'm talented."

Actually, that was a joke. Geduld didn't think much could come of it.

But he was underestimating how much the Internet has broadened the ways people get discovered today, often for jobs in the entertainment industry that didn't exist until a few years ago.

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Enough people liked "The Skeletor Show" that it got mentioned on some popular blogs. Before long, several Web sites were paying Geduld to do similar comedic "mash-ups" for them. Video portal Heavy.com hired Geduld to be a voice for its new horror channel.

When he got the first e-mail inquiring about his services, Geduld, 30, was shocked. "Oh my God, this actually worked!" he thought. The first few gigs paid only around $500. But now he's making "enough to support myself," and offers keep coming. A tech company asked if he'd do promotional material. He got invited to a sci-fi convention.

"It just gets better and better," Geduld says. "I'm thinking of getting an agent."

One of Hollywood's animating legends is the story of the ingenue who got discovered by a studio honcho while she sipped a soda in a drugstore. The myth spoke to the lightning-strike luck that making it big generally took in a system controlled by a few big studios.

Now, the Web has blown things open. It is easier than ever to get discovered. Web sites trying to develop into entertainment hubs are hungry for people to write, shoot or star in new content, so its representatives scan for talent in the piles of homemade videos on MySpace , YouTube, Revver and personal blogs.

It's certainly no secret that the Web can launch new faces. The medium already has its tales of regular Janes who made it big, like Lisa Donovan, who leaped from YouTube to the cast of Fox's "MadTV," and Brooke Brodack, a Net video character signed to a TV production deal by Carson Daly. This is the vision that drove the creators of YouTube's "LonelyGirl15" faux-reality videos.

But the lesser-known story is of non-stars like Geduld, riding the Web's radical openness to find new kinds of online entertainment work.

Often these online jobs are with sites that may be a step above the user-generated schlock of YouTube, but still are sorting out the economics of attracting advertising. As a result, discovery sometimes comes with modest trappings. And it often extends to people who wouldn't have made it through Hollywood's old-school gatekeepers -- or even tried.

Consider the experience of Jessica Hagy, a 29-year-old freelance advertising copywriter in Ohio.

Last fall she started a blog that commented on the world through clever diagrams. (You have to see it to get it -- check out http://indexed.blogspot.com ) Aft er brothers Gregg and Evan Spiridellis encountered the blog in Los Angeles, they e-mailed Hagy and eventually asked her to produce diagrams for content debuting this fall on their growing comedy site, JibJab.com. There aren't big bucks involved, maybe a few thousand, depending on how much advertising the segments attract.

"It just seems to be the new modus operandi for creative people," says Hagy, who has yet to meet the Spiridellis brothers in person. "There are so many more people out there than you could find before. ... I was just a random kid in Columbus, Ohio. How was I supposed to find anybody under the old way?"

This is not to say everyone who airs dumb stunts or lip-synchs on YouTube has a chance of landing real work. Representatives of professionally produced content sites who pore through user-generated videos see more rough than diamonds. When there are decent finds, competition can be intense.

Jason Marks, a former MTV executive who oversees programming and development for Heavy.com, swears this story is true, and that similar things happen several times a month:

A while back he came across a YouTube video of some young guys "in their dorm room, flicking boogers on their wall." Marks was only mildly amused, but he sensed there might be something in these kids, so he figured he'd scope them out. Marks says he left a message for them -- and got his call returned by someone in a very prominent talent agency.

"They refer us to their agent!" Marks says. "I'm not even kidding, man."

In many ways, today's talent search is a reprise of the height of the dot-com boom. Then, sites such as AntEye, Icebox, Mediatrip and Z.com cast themselves as "incubators" and served as scouts for film studios and television networks, essentially producing low-cost pilots and hoping for a hit.

That model has resurfaced. Last year, UTA, one of Hollywood's biggest talent agencies, launched an online division to scout for people who could be in videos for ad agencies, Web sites and traditional media outlets. While most agencies refuse unsolicited work, UTA encourages online submissions.

Grouper.com, a site owned by Sony Corp., recently decided to stop trying to make money from user-generated videos and will focus instead, under the name Crackle, on scouting online prodigies for Sony.

But Steven Starr, a former talent agent who heads the Web video site Revver, says what he sees emerging is "a creator economy online" whereby the Internet will carve out its own slice of the action, rather than just serving as a development league for TV and film.

"That will start to make it possible for any creator to develop income and careers online and not just be fodder for large media enterprises that are looking to move them off onto other platforms," Starr says.

Even if untapped talent is not necessarily easy to find, the economics of Web entertainment startups dictates that they try hard to do it. Old-school casting calls -- and Hollywood's union contracts -- wouldn't work for digital media that comes together quickly and relatively cheaply.

"Hollywood as it exists today was built to produce a relatively small number of very large productions," says JibJab's Gregg Spiridellis. "The new studios ... in digital are going to exist in a way where they can produce a very large number of small productions. I need to produce content at the price of the craft services table on a television shoot."

Sometimes, online video can juice an entertainment career already in progress.

Nick Stevens had a decent life as a comedian in New York, supporting himself with acting and writing gigs on TV and radio. But things got more interesting after he launched a zero-budget video blog in his living room. Called TownieNews.com, it features rants by fictional Boston sports nut Paul "Fitzy" Fitzgerald.

Fitzy developed such an online following that a Boston TV station, believing he was real, called to set up an interview. (Stevens set the reporters straight.) The blog also got noticed by the people at Heavy.com, who hired Stevens to host their regular "SportsCenter" takeoff known as "The Burly Sports Show." Stevens plays himself, more or less, but Fitzy appears as a character.

Stevens, 33, says he lives pretty well on what he gets paid to do two of the online episodes every week -- which sometimes amazes him.

"The guy who was buying his coffees with nickels and dimes in 2003 and having beans on toast for lunch is very thankful," he says. "The Web is great. The single greatest distraction from employment is also the single greatest enabler of employment."

Original article: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/08/01/discovered.web. ap/index.html
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Make a donation to help make t Make a donation to help make the Star Kids Movie

From: spiritdancer
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Hello, my name is William Spiritdancer and I am founder of Dream Power International, a non-profit who's mission is to help people with their gifts and life purpose. What we call their "true dream" in life. Our goal is to help people discover what they love to do (their gifts) and apply it to a problem in the world they care about (their purpose). We believe our gifts are to be shared as unconditionally as possible and so we follow "The Economics of Love" and give all of our products and services away as freely as possible. How do we do this? We have many cool projects the first of which is our Social Community Website MyDreamPower.com which I would love for you to join. We also give away our last film a documentary "Journey of the Dream Warrior" free of charge. You can view it on our website or we can send you a DVD if you like. Please check out our website for our other programs.

The reason I am writing is because I need you financial help to make our next movie, a children's film called Star Kids. The purpose of Star Kids is to teach inner city kids the positive values of Peace Truth, Love and Unity. We want to do this to counter all of the negative values they are learning from home, the street and other media such as rap music etc. We also want to show inner-city kids doing non-stereotypical things in film such as climbing mountains, taking initiative, being creative etc. In alignment with our mission, we also want to use the film to teach kids that every child has a gift and a purpose. (In this case their purpose is to save the world!) And lastly we want to stimulate a discussion about why so much negative media is aimed at inner-city kids perpetuating many of the problems we see in the inner city. Our goal is to film the movie this summer, edit it this fall and release it in early 2009. We plan to distribute it free of charge to children all over the world via the Internet, local screening and free DVDs at youth organizations such as the Boys and girls club. Our goal is that one million kids will see this film.

Please go to our website to find out more.

You can make a donation here: Star Kids Donation As a thank you, you will get free tickets, DVD's, premier party invites etc.

Thank you very much for all of your help.

William & Roxann Spiritdancer

Founders, Dream Power International

Email: dreams@mydreampower.com

Tel: 206-274-6276

Web: MyDreamPower.com

~What's your dream?

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Help one million kids learn the important values of peace, truth, love and unity
by helping us make the children's film, Star Kids: Awakening to Purpose!
Check it out at Star Kids the Movie
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The Purpose of Inspired Kids The Purpose of Inspired Kids

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The purpose of the Inspired Kids Project is to expose families, without adequate financial resources, to experiences that are inspiring, positive, creative, artistic, beautiful and joyful, in order that they can develop to their fullest potential. Our goal at Dream Power is to expand their worlds. We believe that inspiration can open up the realms of unlimited possibilities that are all around them. And, once inspired, they will dream again, and their dreams will then reveal to them their gifts and true purpose in the world.
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