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Executive Summary:

We are building the seamless,

compelling and easy social

platform for civic engagement.

Opportunity:

A significant opportunity exists today

that encompasses a vast demographic.

Our social platform will address millions

of social network (ie.- Facebook) users

who are frustrated with privacy issues

and advertising plus millions more who

are disenfranchised by the current post-

”Citizens United” political landscape.

Social Media

Users with

Privacy

Concerns

Frustrated

Citizens

Issue-

based

Advocates

With an easy to use, visually-

compelling, privacy-protected

social network at the core -we

will be integrating open source

components that will allow

people to evolve beyond the use

of electronic petitions to creating

law, policy, voting and

prioritizing local, state and

federal budgets.

The civ.works Solution:

The civ.works community will include

people that are presently frustrated by

constant changes in privacy settings

for existing social platforms, advocates

that create or respond to electronic

petitions and those looking for more

influence in the political process.

Audience:

At approximately 60,000 subscribed

users we expect to reach viability

(will no longer need to rely upon

grants or donations) to afford

operating, development and

research resources.

This is based upon a monthly

subscription fee of $2.99 for users

that subscribe to the service and

includes approximately 35% of the

accounts to be free for academic

users (.edu email domain).

Viability:

60,000 Subscribers

will provide Viability

Start with core early adopters

(invite-only to build demand ie -ello

and Google gmail success)

Use invitation demand, referrals,

earned media and social media to

achieve subscriber mass and scale.

Marketing Strategy:

Founding Team:

Golda Velez, Chief

Architect

You don't have to be a rocket

scientist but it helps. Golda began

software engineering at Jet

Propulsion Laboratory while

completing her academic study at

Caltech in Mathematics. She has

since worked for Factual, Oracle

and others major enterprises and

start-ups directing complex projects,

programs and teams.

Adam Lake,

Network/Outreach

Adam has been working on issues

related to civic cooperation,

empowerment and engagement since

emerging from Virginia Tech. He is a

disruptor of the conventional and his

concepts, ideas and vision continue to

shape the civ.works concept.

George A. Polisner, Founder

George has spent the last several years of

addressing highly-complex conceptual

technological and economic challenges for

government, large enterprise and society.

He remains active and engaged in socio-

economic and environmental justice,

participatory democracy and budgeting,

transparency and accountability in

governance and he has significant

experience in corporate social behavior

(CSR) and addressing externalities.

Needs:

We are seeking $225,000 (in a mix of crowdfunding, large donations from high-net worth individuals

and foundation grants). We have cash flow analysis that supports viability after our initial funding which

will be primarily used for software engineering, user experience design and leveraging social media to

gain subscription and use momentum. Our platform design, development and engineering phase will

require six months, followed by our alpha and beta releases. We expect to be at break even 9 months

after our alpha release (1.5 years after full funding).

Design, Development & Engineering : (6 months) Alpha/Beta Testing

(3 months) Break-even (9 months)

Visual Platform Direction/User Experience:

User Activity Dashboard

User Profile & privacy controls

Status/

Newsfeed

Democracy

OS

Participatory Budgeting

Seamlessly navigate

through your dashboard,

profile and newsfeed, and

track your voting, events,

and participation

User Profile:

User Profile (similar to facebook -user controls who can see what

information) work, education, favorite organizations and causes,

books, films, societal heroes, tags/keywords of interest (helps weight

feed relevance, friends, groups and photo albums).

Activity Dashboard:

User Activity Dashboard

(We will encourage engagement

through gamification/competition)

● Participation Trends

● Content Shared

● Votes/Polling

● Petitions

● Democracy OS

● Participatory Budgeting

“You have 6 active

campaigns”

“You have voted 27

times this week”

“You have 12 new

group members in

your campaign”

“Karli J. posted a photo of

you : ‘Love this pic from

the SpeakOut event on

Saturday!’”

“You have 3 new

event invitations”

Standard Newsfeed: Can anyone tell me how to get an initiative on the

ballot in Massachusetts?

Here’s the latest article on restrictive voter ID laws from

Public Citizen. www.pubcit.com/voterID

Any other moms out there who are interested in

meeting up about the new traffic laws in Dover?

Rally tonight at Gerald Park for our Firefighters!

Come and show your support at 7pm!

Click here to learn about the ballot initiative

process in Massachusetts

6 friends are attending

Add to your events

Democracy OS Pages:

What is Democracy OS? Democracy OS is a web-based platform for

civic engagement that is going to be used

around the world. Democracy OS allows users

to share information and debate on important

public policies, and then vote on the issues they

care about.

How Does it Work? Representatives and local law-makers can

connect directly to voters to get your input on

important matters. This allows our law-makers

to make our government more representational

and allows your voice to be heard.

Sample of Democracy OS Online Demo / Taken from democracyos.org

By connecting civ.works with Democracy

OS, users can have a seamless 360 degree

view of their civic engagement.

Participatory Budgeting:

What is Participatory Budgeting? Participatory budgeting invites citizens to have

a say in how your local government or other

organizations allocate spending.

How Does it Work? Local governments and organizations set aside

a certain amount of funds and allow citizens to

vote on how those funds are used. Participatory

budgeting is being used in over 1500 cities

worldwide, and is being used by New York City

Council and Toronto’s Public Housing Authority.

civ.works: the platform

for civic engagment

Thank you for considering to be a part of the

future of democracy and engagement.

civ.works is coming.