The defining moment in my life that shifted the way I was thinking...and brought me to ubuntu.
Great question. Tough to answer.
In the sense of living and breathing and working and playing.
"If you want to make $50 million dollars selling violent video games to kids, go for it and we'll put your picture on the cover of Wired magazine, but if you want to make half a million dollars trying to cure kids of malaria, you're considered a parasite yourself."
Enough said.
This is a serious subject. The issue with non-profits keeping their overhead low is the universal theme in the non-profit sector. Everyone wants to donate directly to the cause, understandably so. But what if, to get your $25 donation for a chicken to a family in Uganda, it takes a few people to facilitate? What if, to make 100% sure that that family gets the chicken, and knows how to feed it and care for it and butcher it, there are PEOPLE involved in the process? Why wouldn't we want to ensure that the touchpoints are the entire system is taken care of so that the work is as efficient and far-reaching as possible?
There are so many non-profits now so people ask, "Why aren't issues being eradicated?" A huge part of that lies in the fact that we need to keep administration costs low. Money surely doesn't inspire everything, but job security and a high quality of living do a ton to inspire great minds to choose a career path in the non-profit sector.
Maybe there needs to be more non-profits that find a way to serve economic needs locally, in order to make some money. Better yet, maybe every for-profit company could do some major work in leveraging the funds they make to go to charitable causes?! Who needs 50 million dollars?!
We need to "Revamp the whole way that humanity thinks about changing things." That, my friends, would be social innovation.
Enough said.
This is a serious subject. The issue with non-profits keeping their overhead low is the universal theme in the non-profit sector. Everyone wants to donate directly to the cause, understandably so. But what if, to get your $25 donation for a chicken to a family in Uganda, it takes a few people to facilitate? What if, to make 100% sure that that family gets the chicken, and knows how to feed it and care for it and butcher it, there are PEOPLE involved in the process? Why wouldn't we want to ensure that the touchpoints are the entire system is taken care of so that the work is as efficient and far-reaching as possible?
There are so many non-profits now so people ask, "Why aren't issues being eradicated?" A huge part of that lies in the fact that we need to keep administration costs low. Money surely doesn't inspire everything, but job security and a high quality of living do a ton to inspire great minds to choose a career path in the non-profit sector.
Maybe there needs to be more non-profits that find a way to serve economic needs locally, in order to make some money. Better yet, maybe every for-profit company could do some major work in leveraging the funds they make to go to charitable causes?! Who needs 50 million dollars?!
We need to "Revamp the whole way that humanity thinks about changing things." That, my friends, would be social innovation.
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