The “Third Sector” (e.g. Non Profit, Charity, Volunteering organizations) is nowadays the real ground of hope in a better future, since its goal is, in a number of ways, the good of mankind, while, crudely put, public sector (“first sector”) goal is political power and private sector (“second sector”) goal is profit.
WTSO (i.e. "OMTS", "Organizzazione Mondiale del Terzo Settore") is a Non Profit organization founded in Italy in 2008, and in 2010 it has applied for registration to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Through various initiatives and, in particular, the development and spread of an innovative web-based software platform, WTSO aims to: simplify management of Third Sector initiatives, increase human and financial resources, allow cutting of fund-raising and administrative costs, facilitate coordination among organizations to promote global changes.
Unity is strength, so the hope is that WTSO will unite men and women of every country, reinforcing their actions for a better world. Making WTSO much easier than today for people to organize initiatives and to support them, hopefully many new people will discover the importance and beauty of helping our neighbour, of doing the just thing.
If something good become easier to be done, more people will do it, bigger results will be reached.
WTSO platform will make it easier to organize efficient Third Sector initiatives, to be informed about them, to evaluate these initiatives and to contribute to their success. Today many potential givers and volunteers are not reached by adequate communications, especially on local initiatives, and find it difficult to contribute. Moreover, a lot of time and money (sometimes more than 50% of total funds!) are wasted in fund-raising and administrative activities.
More importantly, many of the saddest problems of mankind (starvation, wars, oppressed human rights, destruction of environment,..), to which Third Sector organizations try hard to bring relief at local levels, can only find adequate solutions at global level. It is of the utmost importance that all Third Sector organizations find a way, and WTSO could offer this way, to lobby policy makers with a transparent, single and authoritative voice.
Hundreds of millions of people in the world are directly or indirectly helped by Third Sector organizations. Thanks to WTSO, they will receive more help since more volunteers will be involved, more funds will be raised and less money will be wasted.
Moreover, the best initiatives will receive extra-funds when winning the WTSO prizes, thus creating a virtuous circle. In fact every year, based on democratic vote, part of fund money will be given to winners of contexts (e.g. the “WTSO Prize for the Environment”) among all initiatives, based on criteria of efficiency and effectiveness of their actions.
The goal is to provide such a good platform that WTSO will become soon a global aggregative entity for thousands of goodwill organizations and people. Once they are together on a platform where communication and coordination is easy, very important results, also in terms of promoting new local and global policies and changes, will become really reachable.
