Really Simple Social Action (RSSA)

Micro Philanthropy is an activity space for ways of using RSSA to discover and amplify patterns of uplift for philanthropic and humanitarian activities. It's notion of philanthropy is based on the definition of the word "philanthropy" as "love of humanity." Although in some circles, this has evolved to "fundraising" and "check writing," the RSSA perspective is more general and open to discovering and amplifying many other patterns of uplift.

Munnecke and Wood Ion wrote Toward a Model of Micro Philanthropy after the May 2002 GivingSpace/Santa Fe Institute Workshop on Complexity and Philanthropy. Nobel Laureate and Santa Fe Institute co-founder Murray Gell-Mann presented his ideas On Being A Philanthropoid Ape.

The idea was discussed further on omidyar.net as part of a 2005 Micro Philanthropy Experiment.