Owning the problem

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“Sometimes you don’t have to be a voice for the voiceless, you just have to pass the microphone.” — ?

When working in the Saving-the-World business, be it social enterprise, nonprofit, or government, there is often a disconnect between those trying to do the saving and those “needing to be saved.”

This paternalistic relationship has led to countless well-intentioned misadventures in policy and…