Donor's Prospectus: Major Focus of Services
Naturally, we reserve the right to delve into other issues, including somewhat esoteric issues, which befits our deep focus philosophy. We do, however, have certain main foci we intend to address.
The Poor
Many nonprofits, some of them shady, some honestly mistaken, and some perfectly good, use the poor as an emotional foil for fundraising.
We take a different approach : 'the rich' are simply poor people with money, while the converse is not so true.
We feel that most people are, on average, a help to the world around them. If you take a look at "parathermodynamic agency dynamics" in the math section, you'll note a difference between constriction of possible help and increasing the topography of possible help.
The more workers, the more good the world has. The many are, quite provably, better able to provide all the types of help than the few. Thus do we advance the status of the poor, be they rich or poor poor, in society, so we can get the help of everybody.
Our primary position is that poverty is not intrinsically bad and poverty should not be an obstacle. One cannot eat or drink paper certificates, and the basics of crafting and manufacturing come not from arbitrary digital numbers on a statement, but from the material world and the people doing them. We'll even take it a step farther - if you cannot have a good life with few to no dollars, you probably cannot have a good life with them. Foundation first.
The common populace cannot provide more types of good to the world if their time and efforts are occupied by something else, and they cannot provide more types of good to the world if they die. Our focus is on removing obstacles and making it easy to be poor.
Because of the root questions, we feel that facilitating other possibly-marginalized groups, such as children, the disabled, and quite possibly nonhuman animals, is included in our concern for the poor. Many insights are, always, more helpful than few.
Those interested in the mathematics from other angles might want to look into the deadweight loss associated with oligopoly and oligosopony in economics.
Nature, Including Urban Nature
Most of our planets' species can neither eat concrete nor breathe automotive exhaust.
Our natural habitat, and most of our historical resources, including food and water, come from untouched nature. The Trust for Public Land and the Nature Conservancy are both excellent organizations devoted to ensuring that the planet we're on actually exists as something other than a sterile husk.
We have no affiliations with either, but we do hope to divert a minority of our donations to those doing similar work.
For those interested in the effects of the historical interplay between humans and other species of the planet, the Children in Nature Network's Research Library is an excellent resource, and an internet search regarding urban nature and violent and property crime may also be of interest.
Traumatic Stress
Traumatic stress decreases outcomes and is redistributed to the people around one.
Thankfully, we have almost as much internal recourse to expertise in psychology as we do to simple mathematical simulation.
We are unlikely to remove all sources of trauma. The existence of school, for instance, was shown to increase felony arrest, violent felony arrest, and drug use drastically by the 40-year Perry Preschool study and managed to bring the populace from a roughly 90% literacy rate to an almost 2/3rds illiteracy rate, while destroying knowledge of basic crafts and trade in the community, yet it seems nearly untouchable. (And if you're involved in the school system and somehow manage to not increase the suicide rate of the children who encounter you, thank you).
This does not mean that we cannot decrease the background level of trauma in society. Both interventions and institutional structural facilitation can make a difference, and we feel we can provide them.
Trauma levels are to all evidence the sole determinant of antisocial behavior. We can directly change how many problems society has.
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