The restructuring of the Morgan Foundation took three months. I worked with Elena, Marcus, Rosie, and a council of community leaders to create something genuinely different from what had come before. Not a hierarchical organization with me at the top, but a network of semi-autonomous centers, each run by local leaders who had been through our consciousness development program.
The shift in focus was radical. Instead of trying to solve problems directly, the foundation became focused on teaching people to solve their own problems. Instead of providing jobs directly, we taught people how to develop the skills to find their own opportunities. Instead of guiding human development, we created spaces where human development could happen naturally.
It was slower. It was messier. It was less eff
