most helpful session so far.
Session 5: Michael Porter Focusing on trying to do good in the community.
Main idea: How do you do well at doing good? How do you serve effectively?
The church is an institution that is a unique aspect about our country… We try to help transform society.
Principles that add more impact. Assumtion is that most churches are not very effective in all that they try to do. Ultimately, the church gets poor results.
Most churches don’t think strategically. The effective ones do and provide measurements .
Most of our doing good is about the do gooders and not the recipient… We must not fall into that trap. We must focus on results. Some philanthropic efforts actually do more harm than good.
Questions for leadership groups: How does your organiAtion set goals? What are we trying to achieve? What area will we serve? Too many, less is better for results. How will we deliver value to the recipients? How do we align the people?
Points about goals: Define value: social benefits per dollar value. If you can’t so it better than someone else, just give them the money to do it. You have a societal responsibility as we all pay for that tax deduction
You must measure to guarantee effectiveness.
How to decide where to serve your community -worthiness of the cause is a trap… That isn’t something your able to argue… All issues are important. -Partly… This comes from your passion. -chosing must be based on Where can I add the most social benefit? -this can be determined by assessing your community to discover the most pressing needs of you community. What other organizations are there? Reinventing the wheel with your name on it is a tragedy. OUTSOURCE!
Internal question: What type of human resources do we have? This helps us know what we can actually do.
Where can we add more than just unskilled labor? Where can we do more than give money? Where can we use our skills for social good?
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