COMMUNITY GUIDELINES

OVERVIEW:

We’re committed to creating a more inclusive, sustainable, and equitable future! 

At People of Impact, we are all about “Collaboration, Co-creation, Transparency and Respect”. 

We created this community to enable engagement, knowledge sharing, and collaboration towards more effective co-creation of social impact solutions and accelerated advancement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our ultimate goal is to create a more inclusive, sustainable, and equitable future for people and the planet. We create spaces where together, we can co-create solutions to social issues, advance dialogue on key issues and learn, network, collaborate and grow together towards this common goal. 

PLEASE DO:

• Be Kind and Courteous: 

We’re all in this together to create a welcoming environment. Let’s treat everyone with respect. Healthy debates are natural, but kindness is required. Treat others online as you would treat them in real life.

• Thoughtful Language:

Be tolerant towards others viewpoints; respectfully disagree when opinions do not align. We’ve learned that written communication has the potential to be easily misinterpreted, especially by members from different cultures and backgrounds. Make sure everyone feels safe. Bullying of any kind isn’t allowed, and degrading comments about thinks like race, religion, culture, gender, or identity will not be tolerated 

Respect the privacy and personal information of other members.

• Respect everyone’s privacy

Being part of this group requires mutual trust. Authentic, expressive discussions make groups great, but may also be sensitive and private. What’s shared in the community should stay in the community. 

• Be punctual and participate

To achieve the BEST outcome in every event, it’s important that you are punctual and participate to the fullest of your ability!

• Share your knowledge.

If you think you may be able to help another member, then we’d love you to post it.

• If someone has helped you, show your gratitude.

In a collaborative and co-creation environment, being grateful shows respect for the other people, encourages others to continue helping and gives great satisfaction for both parts and example to others.

• Keep it legal.

Understand that we do not support any illegal activity. If we feel there is something suspicious going on we will address it privately. If you see any suspicious activity please click the “Report” button or email community@thepeopleofimpact.com directly. 

• Co-create with us the community

We are all here… in different stages in our placement. We are here to support each other, learn from each other and to motivate each other. Share with pure sincerity and always offer some sort of lit or hope in your comments.

• Protect yourself. 

We are here to bring you together in a safe place. If you develop friendships, partnerships, or any other relation outside of this group that is great. Be safe when sharing your private information. We are NOT responsible for any issue that happens between any of you OUTSIDE of this group. You are NOT required to share information or reach out to others if you are not comfortable… respect any member that does not want to share.

• Non-political and Non-religious-The People of Impact is non-political and non-religious and is seeking to highlight positive stories and content that can progress social challenges. The community is not a platform for criticism of any actor within the ecosystem in a way that would be countering the objective of finding solutions and common groups across multiple stakeholder groups with differing objectives. The purpose of the platform is to advance social innovation, support grassroot communities through solutions and drive multi-stakeholder collaborations. Any individual bringing in political or religious ideologies to stor dialogue in self serving directions will have their account closed without notice.

PLEASE DO NOT

• Post advertisements or spam

Give more than you take in this group. AdvertisementsSelf-promotion, spam, and links that are not irrelevant to the purpose of this community links aren’t allowed. We have special spaces where you can promote your services, products, fundraisings, jobs, or volunteer needs. Please contact us in community@thepeopleofimpact.com

• Post content for the purposes of Fundraising 

People of Impact is registered business in the United Arab Emirates, governed by its laws, which do not permit fundraising or exchange of donations unless by an authorized organization. Please refrain from such activities on the platform. Failure to do so will result in account closure without notice.

• Post your private information

Do not post sensitive information, such as your credit card information, social security/identification numbers, pictures of your passport, or other sensitive information.

• Make personal attacks on other community members
• Use, promote, or share hate speech.
• Use defamatory remarks or make false statements against others.
• Post prejudiced comments or profanity.
• Bully or make inflammatory remarks to other community members

If we find that some content is not aligned with what we stand for, or harmful content that goes against our policies or local laws of the UAE which is where our enterprise operates, we’ll remove it and inform the author of the reasons. 

Since this is a collaborative network, if in any case you feel the content is inappropriate or is lacking any of our policies, please report it to community@thepeopleofimpact.com 

If someone repeatedly violates the policies of this community, we will have to suspend the member after 3 warnings. 

We have Zero-tolerance to any discriminatory language, hate speech, or any actions or words that can be considered pro-violence or could be perceived as fueling or instigating it, anyone found to be spreading extremist views or opinions or promotions will have their accounts closed permanently. In these cases, the member will be expelled automatically from the community without prior notice.

USE MESSAGING RESPONSIBLY.  

These tools are intended to keep members in touch with one another, to help facilitate networking and to promote common interests. Some examples might include:

• Inviting local area member to a networking event
• Helping to coordinate a meeting. 
• Reaching out to individual members for advice, to reconnect or to join a group.
• Prohibited activities include solicitations for business or personal services, fundraising, self-promotion in cold approaches or mass-messages. There are special spaces where you can do this. If you have any doubt on how to get your information in the best way, contact us in community@thepeopleofimpact.com