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Over the past year, we've transformed from an agency, to an open network, to a membership- based brand, and finally settled on something between.
“If you focus on developing your intention long enough, then it goes out and happens.”
–Peter Senge
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The Movement Network is our best bet that the future of meaningful work lies in working across disciplines and bridging geographic divides.
“Sustainable Local Economies can let us get what we need — food, energy, culture – with lower impact on the planet. The kinds of communities they nurture are psychologically far healthier than transient suburbia.”
–Bill McKibben
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Local resilience is key, but global visioning and interdependency is essential. Stewarding this network is our commitment to exploring new and better ways to involve those who should be, in the process of designing the world around us.
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please?”
–Galileo
“My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.”
–MuhammadYunus
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One of the valuable lessons we gained from working through our purpose with the community around us was one of sustainable finance...
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
–Peter Drucker
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We've been demonstrating the power of bringing groups together to create specific artifacts of purpose, and lasting relationships of value.
“Firms that have these dynamic capabilities are most likely to be entrepreneurial, with flat hierarchies, clear vision, effective incentives, and employee autonomy.”
-The World is Flat
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Through an open process, we'll continue to bring people in from the network to help us on these projects both online and in-person.
“Now humanity, having emerged from one great global mind, has finally, in the modern era, given birth to another. Our species is the link between biosphere and what Pierre Teilhard de Chardin called the “noosphere,” the electronically mediated web of thought that had taken crystalline form by the end of the second millennium. This is a mind to which the whole species can contribute, and a mind whose workings will have consequences for the whole species - epic consequences of one sort or another.”
– Robert Wright, Nonzero
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Slowly we’re growing toward our vision of a distributed network of betterment. This company is our commitment to carving a space for talented & passionate doers to produce on meaningful work that will make the world exponentially better.
“Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
–Margaret Mead
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What's significantly different about betterment, is an emphasis on what is possible now, in light of the future ahead.
“We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer a different vision. What if humans designed products and systems that celebrate an abundance of human creativity, culture, and productivity? That are so intelligent and safe, our species leaves an ecological footprint to delight in, not lament?”
– Cradle to Cradle
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It is this notion of importance that makes our work meaningful. We haven’t an answer on how importantness is determined, but we're up for figuring it out, with your help.
“What is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment?”
–Buckminster Fuller
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The world's wickedest problems are waiting to be addressed, what’s stopping us is not a technical barrier, nor a lack of resources, it is rather the very nature of how we are approaching these problems.
“By viewing the poor as customers (not recipients), and focusing on serving this market with affordable products that enable the poor to earn their way out of poverty, we can make substantial inroads in the mission to eliminate poverty and all its attendant social ills.”
–Paul Polak, D-Rev
