Comments on: And there you go! http://www.blackinformant.com/commentary/and-there-you-go-2 Engaging the culture by challenging the status quo Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:28:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Carol http://www.blackinformant.com/commentary/and-there-you-go-2/comment-page-1#comment-6680 Carol Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:46:12 +0000 http://blackinformant.wordpress.com/?p=4624#comment-6680 "Indeed, the most important thing I've learned is that none of this is rocket science. We already know what works. What we lack is the will to do it. Instead, we have a hit-and-miss patchwork of programs achieving stellar results out on the fringes of the larger, failing, system. Why are they the exception and not the rule?" The final piece of this puzzle of "what works" is finding something that can scale. The reality is that until people get away from the non-profit structure, there will continue to be pockets of successful, but unsustainable or un-scalable solutions. And that's at least part of the issue with our community being 90-plus-percent liberal. The idea that solutions to social problems can only come from non-profits and the government prevents us from seeing possibilities that can come from a profitable business model. See World of Good (http://community.worldofgood.com/index.jspa) or any of the businesses listed on the B Corp website (http://www.bcorporation.net/community/). “Indeed, the most important thing I’ve learned is that none of this is rocket science. We already know what works. What we lack is the will to do it. Instead, we have a hit-and-miss patchwork of programs achieving stellar results out on the fringes of the larger, failing, system. Why are they the exception and not the rule?”

The final piece of this puzzle of “what works” is finding something that can scale. The reality is that until people get away from the non-profit structure, there will continue to be pockets of successful, but unsustainable or un-scalable solutions.

And that’s at least part of the issue with our community being 90-plus-percent liberal. The idea that solutions to social problems can only come from non-profits and the government prevents us from seeing possibilities that can come from a profitable business model. See World of Good (http://community.worldofgood.com/index.jspa) or any of the businesses listed on the B Corp website (http://www.bcorporation.net/community/).

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