We were just thinking…
There’s a lot going on in our urban community, and we need to take a moment to process it all.
We’ve been hearing about the rise of gentrification in our area, and with it, the rise of non-profits. It feels like there’s one popping up every month, and while that makes us excited to see more resources being made available to those in our community who need it most, we’re feeling torn about how to approach these resources.
We’re not sure if you feel the same way we do, but some days it feels like there are two different ways to approach life: cooperation or competition. We’ve been raised in a system that is designed around competition and it’s become such an ingrained part of our existence that now we can’t even imagine what an alternative might look like. It’s so hard for us to imagine a world where we don’t have to compete for jobs, or for clients, or for the attention of people at work or at school.
So when we see organizations across town working towards the same goal of helping people in need—organizations that may even depend on each other’s services as part of their mission—we’re left wondering: Could we do the same in our neck of the woods? Do we already?
“We could accomplish so much more if we worked together towards a common goal, instead of competing. “
We could accomplish so much more if we worked together towards a common goal, instead of competing. There are many non-profits out there that focus on the same goals—they should not be in competition with one another, but rather working together for a cause.
It seems like everything in our world is built for competition—even our churches.
