I don't think it matters who sits in what deck chair on the titanic as long as our laws are designed to stop bad things from happening. I wonder if there is a way to dovetail this with a move toward a post-regulatory world where we eschew our imaginary sense of control and realize that our best chance at human survival is to set a general course and then government/electeds get out of the way. There will be graft and some bad things will happen, but guess what - we have this tightly controlled system and we still have graft and bad things happen. The folks who are hampered by the myth of regulatory control are very often the ones trying to do good things. If we could loosen up and shift our view toward cultivating good things, creating flexibility, and embracing a higher risk threshold we just might make space for more good things to happen. This would be a cultural shift and would require greater engagement by the voting public and would need to happen in parallel with a shift in leadership.
- Current resourcing for all of this is threadbare relative to the need. A big opportunity for more fundraising.
- Check out the Pipeline Initiative (pipeline.fund) for groups that do this work. There are several “campaign accelerators” like you describe; Run for Something in particular would be a model to invest in or, if you want a different focus, to replicate.
I don't think it matters who sits in what deck chair on the titanic as long as our laws are designed to stop bad things from happening. I wonder if there is a way to dovetail this with a move toward a post-regulatory world where we eschew our imaginary sense of control and realize that our best chance at human survival is to set a general course and then government/electeds get out of the way. There will be graft and some bad things will happen, but guess what - we have this tightly controlled system and we still have graft and bad things happen. The folks who are hampered by the myth of regulatory control are very often the ones trying to do good things. If we could loosen up and shift our view toward cultivating good things, creating flexibility, and embracing a higher risk threshold we just might make space for more good things to happen. This would be a cultural shift and would require greater engagement by the voting public and would need to happen in parallel with a shift in leadership.
Great piece. Some quick thoughts:
- Current resourcing for all of this is threadbare relative to the need. A big opportunity for more fundraising.
- Check out the Pipeline Initiative (pipeline.fund) for groups that do this work. There are several “campaign accelerators” like you describe; Run for Something in particular would be a model to invest in or, if you want a different focus, to replicate.