More site-specific platforms, like Small Change, is seeking to make a tangible difference in Pittsburgh and environs, by not only crowdfunding the rehabbing of commercial properties, but also launching its "tiny house" initiative, to actually finance the building of small unit, affordable housing on currently empty lots.
Global action is an amalgam of millions of tiny personal initiatives, and sacrifices.
A tiny city program, Immigrant Opportunities Initiative, saw its budget halved to $5 million in fiscal 2010, and then zeroed out in the mayor's 2011 budget.
Across the hardscrabble Iraqi countryside, dozens of modest construction initiatives, many so tiny and inexpensive that they could be called microprojects, are generating at least a taste of the good will that Congress envisioned when it approved billions of dollars for grandiose rebuilding plans that have mostly been delayed.
But still, through the internet all kinds of small cultural initiatives are flourishing like tiny, but vital, blood transfusions within the body politic throughout the region.
So the Netflix initiative is a very, very tiny first step, rather than a giant leap forward.
The discovery comes four months after the announcement of Breakthrough Starshot, an initiative to build and send tiny spacecraft to the nearest star system within the coming decades.
Their impact is tiny compared to the multilaterals, or faith-based initiatives, or even the development aid provided by the Pentagon.
Yet these kinds of initiatives are underfinanced and serve only a tiny fraction of children in need.
PETER PROVET President and Chief Executive Odyssey House New York, Feb. 13, 2012 To the Editor: California cities' meager tax payments are a tiny fraction of the costs of their misguided "medical marijuana" initiatives.
