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I already have an amazing network on Twitter of some of the best human beings on the planet. When I visited SF in May, I organized several events where people living near each other met each other for the first time. I'd start by repeating this in many other major cities ASAP
I would get opt-ins from everyone from each of these meetups around the world and be a sort of master-host or moderator. I would ask people at every meetup what we ought to do with the money, and tabulate all the information
I'm gonna do this whether or not I get external funding; I'm planning trips to NYC, London, Berlin, Delhi, Bangalore, Melbourne, Sydney, Seattle, Austin, Shenzhen, Tokyo. It just moves slower when I have to save up to do it. Patrons help me move faster: patreon.com/visakanv
As a child who grew up on the Internet, and as minority kid caught between cultural crosswinds, I have always had to be really sensitive to how communities work. Watching great communities repeatedly decay and collapse has always been really sad for me visakanv.com/blog/communiti…
My current prevailing frame: I think there's a sort of life-cycle of communities; you can't really escape this. There are several ways communities die. But I think the important thing, ultimately, is training individual people to be great "root nodes". No substitute for that 
I kind of thing of it as like having roots that prevent soil erosion, or carbon atoms in steel. The metaphors are imperfect, but the point is – not all relationships are equal. Some people are "pillars of the community". I'd focus my attention primarily on those people
"You walk down the street with Uri Buri, he's like Bruce Springsteen. Everybody knows and loves him. He's the town historian. He built a hotel. He built a restaurant... He *is* Akko. He is the embodiment of the city, and he's the keeper of the flame."
