The Navigating Our Future Model
The key elements of the NOF model include a powerful nationwide multi-media campaign aimed at attracting the attention of and engaging Main Street America. A variety of communication mediums are used in effective combination to present important information and trustworthy facts about America's crises; to communicate a message of hope that presents realistic possibilities and opportunities for creating a bright future; and to make an explicit call to action that tells Americans how they can become part of a powerful nationwide movement to create a healthy, prosperous future.
This call to action encourages those viewing, hearing, and reading the message to enroll as members of a vital trans-partisan citizens' membership organization. Members pay a small yearly fee. In return they receive a variety of benefits. These benefits include:
- Participation in a respectful, face-to-face and on-line process that is focused on reaching nationwide agreement on an inspiring vision for our nation's future and a combination of inter-related, actionable strategies for addressing American's crucial issues.
- A program of trustworthy, sufficiently substantive education about the issues and solution options and major perspectives on them.
- An on-line knowledge repository of trustworthy intelligence on national issues and opportunities, solution options, and the major positions associated with them.
In order to provide these benefits NOF's framework includes a number of innovative functions and features including:
- A process and supporting technical infrastructure for reaching consensus.
- A web-based platform for nationwide discussion and collaboration.
- A way for participants and their elected government representatives to engage together in a productive interchange that best reflects the intent of our Constitution interpreted within a 21st century context.
- A way for participants to take action on the positions they support.
- A financial model for the campaign and citizens' membership organization that ultimately will make it possible for them to be financially self sustaining.