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Campaign for Community Change
Dear Colleagues From: Deepak Bhargava, Campaign for Community Change to meThis is their URL http://www.campaignforcommunities.org/ and some contact info from their website. home | who we are | what we do | act | contact us | terms of use | donateI would like to see an organization like this partnering with TrueValueMetrics so that the work that they are doing can be 'valued' and compared to what the big organizations in the corporate world are doing that wrecks 'value'. I was very proud as I was growing up that fascism had been defeated ... and proud of the socio-economic progress that was being achieved post war in Europe and the United States ... and proud of progress in many aspects of civil rights. But my big disappointment has been the way in which the modern economy tries to make money and in the process 'guts' society. I am proud of my education and my training as an accountant ... but disgusted that accountancy is such a power for measuring money and is irrelevant in measuring the value dimensions of society and economy with the result that big profits get made on top of value destruction in society. Wrong measurement ends up with wrong results. I would imagine that this group could be more important for the United States than Goldman Sachs ... but nobody will ever know unless they do something like TrueValueMetrics (TVM) to measure the impact they are having on society. Bluntly put ... good people need to wake up and do TVM type reporting so that the world starts to pay attention to people doing good rather than only paying attention to people making profit. I am not against profit ... I just think it is only half of what should be being measured! Peter Burgess |