Organizations are broadly speaking one of two kinds, for-profit or non-profit. For-profit Organizations are legally bound to maximize the economic profit of the shareholders. People working as leaders in for-profit organizations often find themselves in moral paradoxes where profit maximization is incompatible with their moral compass, the environment's health, or the people's well-being. Nonetheless, profit maximization is a must and terrible environmental and social impact happens far away from the corporate office. On the bright side, for-profit organizations are also very efficient in moving the world around. The economic incentives are capable of organizing large groups of people towards an objective with great efficiency.
On the other hand, non-profit organizations are generally driven by a noble cause and rely on the support of other people and institutions that share the interest for that noble cause. One notable weakness of these organizations is that they constantly depend on outside funding to continue their operation. NGO's have developed a reputation for being a bureaucratic apparatus that consumes most of the resources donated before the actual beneficiaries get a small fraction of the budget in the shape of help. In short, they tend to be dependent and inefficient.
At Nangu we envision an ecosystem of purpose-driven organizations (PDO's) that are created to fill niches of needs and serve our noble cause of "All Beings Thriving". They can be part of the primary activities of growing, processing, and distributing forest products, in which case they will most likely be for-profit as well. Other PDO's can be part of the support service category filling the need of the PDOs in primary activities by providing services like IT, HR, accounting, market research, product development, legal services, permits, and so on. All these organizations must be financially viable and self-sustaining over time with an interest for profit, the key difference is that they are created to fulfill a need from the network, not to maximize profit of the shareholders, instead they maximize the well being of the stakeholders of the network and align to the noble cause.
There are needs of the communities that might not be profitable on their own. In this case, the community can choose to create a budget to fund PDO's that are not self-reliant, in which case they would be evaluated according to the impact that they bring into the network. They would be part of Nangu's caring economy that provides non-monetary benefits to the community, for example: caring for the elderly and children, preventive medicine consultation, learning journey, conservation area's maintenance,
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