EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM
We’re a 501(c)3 scientific nonprofit deploying high-tech products & people for sustainable global impact. Make a splash!
Our projects
Homelessness
Digital donations for travelers. Give widely, help locally.
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Empulse is a joint venture between Todreamalife and Empulsive Ink.
Todreamalife develops and maintains the Empulse app & platform at the bottom tier of their sliding scale rate and processes micropayments for a 7% fee. Empulsive Ink recruits nonprofits to the platform and funds technology development.
Both organizations reinvest a portion of revenue to recruitment and training of formerly homeless and post-incarcerated consultants.
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Mobile technology makes it easier to give geo-coded charitable giving.
Cryptocurrency payments allow anyone in the world to easily buy charitable services.
INCUBATION
Collecting, developing and funding ideas that help >1 billion people.
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International incubator based in Dubai, UAE. 100 ideas under construction and funding, 100 cafes around the glob crowdsourcing development and scouting). The mandate of the cafe is to collect, develop, and fund ideas that will help a billion people.
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A major innovation of Web3 is decentralized finance. This social project is designed to cross national boundaries using decentralized funding and innovation mechanisms.
Technologists
Technologist apprenticeship. Cultivate talent, enable genius.
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Delinquent Savants Techrentice program is joint venture between Todreamalife consulting group and Empulsive Ink nonprofit.
Todreamalife offers work placements to talented people from groups with limited opportunity for advancement (i.e. formerly incarcerated, people of color, refugees, single moms, people experiencing homelessness). If these candidates need a training period prior to meaningful contribution Empulsive Ink pays their salary for the length of the internship.
Both organizations divert a portion of revenue to recruitment and diversification of this pool, and job placement following internship.
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The Todreamalife consulting company is 100% virtual and consultants work from >27 different countries with >15 native languages. Virtual work networks enable recruitment and retention of genius from areas of the world where there is severely restricted opportunities.
Distributed learning on the internet means we can train recruits real-time, on real-projects, and at their own pace. We utilize video clips, voice recording, digital translation, and screensharing for lateral transfer technological skills for free at rates far faster than traditional didactic schooling. This is ML-assisted education and opportunity.
Reforestation
Helping smallfarmers reforest the Amazon.
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Savimbo is a company created by, and for, indigenous smallfarmers in the Colombian Amazon.
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This project is made possible by the utilization of blockchain smart contracts to tokenize and track individual trees.
It also relies on drone-assisted monitoring technology like lidar to validate carbon sequestration, and register the carbon offsets in the ACR carbon registry.
AGAPE
We created Empulsive Ink because we were grateful. Really grateful for the abundance that surrounded us in friendship, intelligence, and nature.
Sustainability
We live in an era of intense technological change. But we truly believe that people can adapt and live sustainably within our biosphere.
consciousness
We value consciousness in all its myriad forms. Sensitivity to beauty, suffering, and other beings is not a weakness, it’s a superpower.
Our values
SCIENTIST-FOUNDED
We’ve got a lean, mean development team. Here Drea explains about our parent company Todreamalife.com and how we’re affiliated.
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FounderDrea Burbank is an MD-technologist with a boutique consulting firm for high-tech in hard science. Her international collaboration of 300+ 'delinquent savants' specializes in hacking unsolved problems, and prosocial projects, products, and prototypes. A digital nomad with a yoga addiction, Drea has a propensity to profanity and only pretends to live in San Francisco.
DO YOU SHARE OUR AIMS?
We’re a registered US 501(c)3 nonprofit. Our mission is effective altruism. We create and promote independence among people who are economically disempowered with revenue-generating Web3 tech projects that are designed to be self-sustaining, market-creating, globally beneficial, and transition to local self-governance via DAOs. Everyone has something of value to contribute in this world, and we will make it so.
