Community Development Collaboration

Community Development Collaboration

3 Steps to Better Design Change

To understand the complex nature of our community’s challenges, we need to combine existing, traditional disciplines and invent new ones. Access Ventures works to leverage our team and process to identify gaps and develop new approaches that require first-mover risk capital. The role this requires, is one of a “beta-tester” that is willing to prove examples that have potential but no certainty of success. In many communities, funders want proven, seemingly “off-the-shelf” solutions. Yet, many of the challenges communities face, demand new, untested, unverified solutions.

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Consequences Of Ignoring to Scale Solutions

Consequences Of Ignoring to Scale Solutions

We like organizations that have a proven track record and that are surpassing our expectations in every way. However, by neglecting to scale what works, we rob these very organizations of the resources they need to attract and retain the talent required to deliver those results quarter over quarter. Appealing to a person’s altruism for employment only works for so long. Organizations eventually have to support their employees competitively or risk losing the very talent that makes the organization distinctive and worth scaling.

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