Her slides are posted at http://givingspace.org/dec2003/Heather.ppt by
the way.. (01)
Lets see what Heather says about this... (02)
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From: Sam Hunting [mailto:shunting@etopicality.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 12:30 PM
To: yak@collab.blueoxen.net
Subject: [yak@collab] Profit vs Non-profit (03)
At Tom Munnecke's excellent uplift workshop last week, Heather Ion had a
very interesting comparison between profits and non-profits: To
summarize
(perhaps too briefly): (04)
* Profit: the avatar is a hero
* Non-profit: the avatar is a martyr (05)
This conforms to my experience, since I've worked in both fields. To the
hero avatar we owe all the corporate hagiography (and, I grant, some
genuine heroism), and to the martyr avatar we owe the institutional
dysfunctions many of us may be familiar with: the cheeseparing, lack of
a
positive discourse, suffering seen as an end in itself, etc. (06)
The question I want to ask is this: Isn't it possible that there is
another avatar for non-profits, in addition to the martyr: (07)
* the evangelist (08)
? (09)
Sam Hunting
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