PROJECT GREEN FIELD

Project Green Field

Project Green Field

Introduction

Green Field Expansion isthe concept of giving donations to organizations that provide services to benefit the greater community is found throughout history in all cultures. 2 In the United States, the importance of providing mutual community support is found in the earliest writings of the settlers of the New World. One of the first is John Winthrop's “A History of Christian Charity” (1630) and his image of founding a “city on the hill” based on the support of community members. These settlers of colonial America also were averse to forced contributions dictated by a government body. Instead, they placed a high premium on the innate generosity of their neighbors to help meet community needs according to their individual abilities, their personal values, and their moral conscience. This inherent need for voluntary community assistance to support the public services in colonial America also encouraged the leaders of those communities to develop ways to encourage their constituents to provide that needed support.

The first fundraising efforts in colonial America were focused on the church, but as secular agencies and services also emerged, an effort was needed to reach out beyond the tithing habits of a local congregation. One of the first recorded fundraising efforts in the colonies involves three trustees of Harvard University in 1641. Harvard at that time was facing a fiscal deficit. To meet this gap, three trustees were sent back to England to lobby potential wealthy donors to make up this deficit and ensure that Harvard would continue. Their strategy was simple: Each of the three would seek one or several donors to make a donation and return to the colony of Massachusetts with the needed funds.

Body: Discussion and Analysis

Green Field Expansion consists of a complex web of traditions rooted in continental philosophy and now globally diversified across all major human science and professional disciplines. Transcendental Green Field Expansion is the name of the tradition that begins with Husserl. Husserlian phenomenological research proceeds through transcendental reflection as practiced through the eidetic reduction (bracketing) or epoché. In the transcendental reduction, the researcher withdraws from the natural attitude of the taken-for-grantedness of the everyday world and of objective science. Husserl stresses that the phenomena (persons, things, objects, events, ideas, etc.) of which we are conscious are not simply retrievably in consciousness (as in a box); rather, they are constituted as being what they are ...