I thought I should share one of the things I encountered while I was in Queens visiting a person who I now I have come to know is my relative---her last name is Mtonga and we traced ourselves to the same  great-great-great-great grandfather.
 
She is a very successful accountant who has been trying to find ways to actually help with Zambia and she set up a small non-profit organization but was unable to reach out to people who had similar interests; and as a result she felt lonely and isolated. Financially, she was certainly in a good position but she had no long-term  structural initiatives to make sure that her project continues. We sat down and discussed how she can branch-out and how she can financially sustain her work.
I guess what I'm trying to find out is how much do we work on a global network; where it can be easier to tap into each other's resources to actually  execute our various work. I personally know that it is tedious, but I don't think there is a sense of a global network of non-profit organizations. In business you can find them  and can pretty much tap into your contacts for anything from lunch, job, and educational money; a guy I went to school with at Ithaca College when I was in high school just called me and has an offer from his father to help out with their business. I mean we can have this in our progressive work! But it requires people knowing people and throwing that out to other people in the same field or for that matter a field totally unrelated.

I told the woman to visit Idealist.org and hopefully she was able to; but the fact that there was somebody out there doing the same work that most of us are doing but yet feeling autonomous was scary because resources are scarce and it is rather imperative that networks offset what financially is burdensome.
 
Any help on creating this network, especially for places that are very remote would greatly be appreciated.