Groundwork

Your "why" is confused with platitudes. Your how is muddled by that confusion. Your systems aren't well-built because clarity of intent is missing. It's not because you didn't think through the logic model, though maybe that's missing too. It's because you've left undiscovered the fundamental "why." The one beneath the surface level "because it's right." And you've built an organization or program on that fraudulent understanding. You haven't done the groundwork. Period. 
 

Most human service and economic mobility nonprofits produce few results of substance and reproduce many the structural failures they say they aim to combat. They are best at transforming public contracts or donor dollars in to small paychecks for the people working there. Nonprofits in these fields have become excellent as cheap out-sourced labor to government, but failed as agents of durable change. They deliver overly mechanistic solutions to problems often driven by the systematic fracturing of communities and denial of opportunity, and often a need for love and connection, all while muttering "I'm here to work myself out of a job" or trumpeting impact which is really just marketing masquerading as evaluation. 

 

That's a cosmic debt we won't carry. But we need this field to thrive. We believe in people with wild ideas and fire in the belly, who want to build organizational systems that produce the same quality of life inside their org as they aim to produce outside. All through the hard work of building powerful and soul-aligned internal systems. 

 

We aim to have fun doing important work with kind people. Curious? Let's talk.