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Steering Committee Memo

Kirby Urner
3 min readFeb 20, 2024

From: kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: [math4wisdom] Math 4 Wisdom Steering Committee

What: global villages
Whether: we might make them
Why: to showcase options
How: as movies with not-fake props
Where/When: steering committee meeting

I was happy to join the Steering Committee. I was thinking in terms of cybernetics (cyber = rudder = to steer) and TrimTab (rudder that steers a larger rudder).

We talked about non-profits. The other half of my partnership, Dawn Wicca and Associates (I was an associate) was a nonprofit fund accountant i.e. non-profits keep their books differently than for-profits and my wife was an expert.

I have tangential knowledge of these matters, from working in the same office, sometimes for the same clients.

My wife to be, and I met at a Portland-based nonprofit that provided tech support (including training in computer desktop publishing and the then very new Apple LaserWriter driven by PageMaker): Center for Urban Education (CUE).

CUE, an NGO, also worked in refugee settlement in the wake of the American War in Indochina, with funding from the USG…

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