We received the fol­low­ing press release from Heifer Inter­na­tional about a unique global brain­storm­ing event. The event called IdeaAid will gather peo­ple around the globe to think of ways to solve the world’s prob­lems. The first prob­lem on the agenda; how to raise a bil­lion dol­lars a year to bring the world’s poor out of poverty.

Set to launch on Nov. 14, the first Idea Aid™ chal­lenge seeks to find novel ways to raise $1 bil­lion annu­ally to help erad­i­cate global hunger and poverty. Ideas will come from peo­ple all over the world who will brain­storm online and share their best think­ing with Heifer Inter­na­tional, a global non­profit ded­i­cated to end­ing world hunger and poverty.

“We believe the time is right for Idea Aid,” said Mensa Process Man­ag­ing Direc­tor David Wynett. “It’s a rev­o­lu­tion­ary way to iden­tify poten­tial solu­tions to prob­lems, and it’s espe­cially rel­e­vant in today’s eco­nomic cli­mate, when peo­ple may not be able to donate money, but still want to give back.”

Idea Aid is spon­sored by Mensa Process, a brain trust that helps its cor­po­rate clients solve com­plex prob­lems and iden­tify new growth oppor­tu­ni­ties. Mensa Process works with some of the world’s bright­est minds — mem­bers of Mensa, an inter­na­tional orga­ni­za­tion of 100,000+ peo­ple, open to the top 2 per­cent in intelligence.

For Idea Aid, Mensa Process is invit­ing every­one, every­where, to help change the world. Mensa mem­bers, along with tech­nol­ogy, finance, devel­op­ment and pub­lic health experts, stu­dents, edu­ca­tors and informed con­sumers, will brain­storm online to find new solu­tions. Mensa Process believes that com­bin­ing high intel­li­gence, cre­ative minds and cause-directed energy will gen­er­ate remark­able results.

How Idea Aid Works
For a sin­gle week — Nov. 14–21, 2009 — peo­ple around the world will come together online to brain­storm about the com­plex prob­lem of global poverty. Those inter­ested in par­tic­i­pat­ing can reg­is­ter at www.ideaaid.com. Ideas will be col­lected, assessed and refined and then shared for implementation.

What’s needed to put an end to global poverty? Accord­ing to Heifer Inter­na­tional, one of the things that make a big dif­fer­ence is money. At this point, how­ever, there’s no sin­gle way to effi­ciently and con­sis­tently gen­er­ate the level of funds nec­es­sary to com­bat hunger and poverty.

“The prob­lem demands new ideas and new meth­ods of col­lec­tion to make giv­ing eas­ier and more effi­cient,” said Tom Peter­son, direc­tor of Inno­va­tion for Heifer Inter­na­tional. “We need meth­ods, ideas that can be used online, offline, glob­ally, locally. Some­thing sim­ple that every­one, any­one can par­tic­i­pate in,”

Donat­ing Ideas to Change the World
Mensa mem­bers are also excited about the chal­lenge. “Many Mensa mem­bers are active in vol­un­teer­ing in their com­mu­ni­ties through our ser­vice pro­grams,” said Pam Don­a­hoo, exec­u­tive direc­tor of Amer­i­can Mensa. “Idea Aid gives us a unique way to use our knowl­edge to serve the world.” Idea Aid is open to every­one. Those inter­ested can reg­is­ter at www.ideaaid.com.

About Mensa Process
Mensa Process is the only con­sult­ing firm in the world with exclu­sive access to the unri­valed brain­power of Mensa — a highly respected, inter­na­tional orga­ni­za­tion whose mem­ber­ship rep­re­sents some of the world’s most intel­li­gent peo­ple. By tap­ping into this group’s unpar­al­leled intel­lect and com­bin­ing it with the cre­ativ­ity of other bright minds, Mensa Process helps busi­nesses grow, inno­vate and solve prob­lems. www.mensaprocess.com

About Heifer Inter­na­tional
Heifer International’s mis­sion is to end hunger and poverty while car­ing for the earth. Since 1944, Heifer Inter­na­tional has pro­vided live­stock and envi­ron­men­tally sound agri­cul­tural train­ing to improve the lives of those who strug­gle daily for reli­able sources of food and income. Heifer is cur­rently work­ing in 50 coun­tries, includ­ing the United States, to help fam­i­lies and com­mu­ni­ties become more self-reliant. http://www.heifer.org

About Mensa
Founded in 1946 in Oxford, Eng­land, Mensa is a respected inter­na­tional orga­ni­za­tion whose mem­ber­ship is open to indi­vid­u­als scor­ing in the top 2% on accepted, stan­dard­ized intel­li­gence tests. Mensa mem­bers are geo­graph­i­cally and occu­pa­tion­ally diverse, rep­re­sent­ing more than 100 coun­tries and thou­sands of pro­fes­sions and pas­sions. www.mensa.org, www.us.mensa.org, http://www.mensa.org.uk

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