The Importance

With the current mix of slow growth and recession, sovereign debt crises, government redundancies and cutbacks and more, tax revenues and philanthropic donation are dropping. With the debt that both the US and the UK are carrying, governments are under pressure to cut costs like never before. The new UK government predicts 30% cutbacks in services and 1 million civil service jobs will be lost. The Obama administration is also under pressure, economically and politically, to scale back ‘big government’, whilst some of the largest states are cutting even core services.

At the same time, our social problems are increasing at home and overseas. Population expansion, ethnic conflict, resource disputes, environmental degradation, oil and gas exhaustion all contribute to major problems for global communities. Now add in addictions to: consumerism, alcohol, large families, drugs, property ownership, cigarettes and food – and a concurrent rise in depression, heat disease, debt, divorce and of course unemployment – and our communities are breeding grounds for poverty, downward spirals, civil unrest, crime and ethnic, tribal and gangland atrocities, mental
distress and physiological disability.

With less money to spend, but increasingly complex, interconnected and intractable social problems (often called WICKED problems), people are turning to the social sector to help deliver lower cost and higher impact solutions.

So with all the clear need and vested political interest in high-profile Netflix-style social solutions, why have we seen so few of them?

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