We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return. Clearly, there's some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What's missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area. Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it's quite astonishing.
~Bill Drayton : Social Capitalism: http://www.fastcompany.com
embrace [and] release with daily sequences and routines (and arty pages)
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“So much of life is spent tending to ordinary things while carrying
extraordinary things we never asked for. Routine gives us somewhere to put
our feet. It...