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Originally Posted by IKE
While asking "FIRST" for a solution seems like the thing to do, I would instead paraphrase a famous leader:
"Ask not what FIRST can do for you, ask what you can do for FIRST."
Issues: Leadership, Mentorship, Sponsorship, Resources (space, tools, ...)
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And to add another phrase:
"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime"
IMHO -
Sustainability is something the FIRST
community should be addressing and is NOT something that Manchester should be dealing with. Manchester has other fish to fry. I don't think that 'centrally planned' sustainability efforts will be one hundredth as effective as students maintaining a presence in front of the public and transmitting a steady drip drip of positive messages to their community.
I don't like the idea that we teach students or foster an attitude that we always look to 'HQ' for all the answers. We will be in much better shape as a society to teach students how to run an effective organizations, for-profit, and non-profit. We should teach students how to solve problems, not delegate problems upward.
Having finished with that rant....where do we go from here ? Do we need to create a top ten list of things to do that make sure that teams are on track to staying sustainable.
I'll start off
# 1 - thank your sponsors, during the summer, show them examples of impact
# 2
# 3
etc.......