Let me describe to you a scenario that is an everyday occurrence in our life. I need you to use your power to visualize the following scenes.
Picture a
young woman standing with three small children hanging on to her dress and peering around her. She sees the three following settings:
Setting 1 - An angry man scowling at her with fists doubled up ready to strike her. Behind him is a dormitory type room with food and clothing. A woman’s shelter, if you will. To get there she has to take a brutal beating, but if she makes it, she has assurance she and her three children may be able to live in the cramped quarters, but safely. That assumes there is room for them. If not, she may have to return home and take another beating, or go on the streets to join the homeless ranks with her three children.
Setting 2 - An angry man with a scowling face, with fists doubled up standing by a casket accompanied by the three children, looking at their mother in the casket.
Setting 3 - A community of people, all are greeting her and the angry man. Her children are with them and they are all working together with the people from the community. The people are holding out Domestic Violence Prevention programs and welcoming them to join them, and work out the p
roblems surrounding the little family, there are employers, clergy, law enforcement, school administrators and other members of the community.
Off to the side stands a well-dressed man with a handful of dollars and he is trying to decide if he should give the money to the shelter or the community prevention group. In the prevention program scenario, all of the families are being cared for, not just the half as in the dormitory setting and no beating is required.
Given a choice which do you think the woman would choose?
Which does the rich man choose? Every single time he chooses the shelter, leaving the woman and children to weep and suffer.
Daily large corporations are opting for Setting One and Two, and totally denying funds to option three. Just last Friday, Boeing made that exact choice. The Friday before that, Salt River Project made the same decision.
Domestic Violence prevention is just not on the list of things to donate money to. It is too hard to quantify the results. Corporations must fear there is not enough instant gratification and
recognition in donating to prevention.
John says: Nothing is real to you until you experience it; until then it is just hearsay.
Picture a
young woman standing with three small children hanging on to her dress and peering around her. She sees the three following settings:Setting 1 - An angry man scowling at her with fists doubled up ready to strike her. Behind him is a dormitory type room with food and clothing. A woman’s shelter, if you will. To get there she has to take a brutal beating, but if she makes it, she has assurance she and her three children may be able to live in the cramped quarters, but safely. That assumes there is room for them. If not, she may have to return home and take another beating, or go on the streets to join the homeless ranks with her three children.
Setting 2 - An angry man with a scowling face, with fists doubled up standing by a casket accompanied by the three children, looking at their mother in the casket.
Setting 3 - A community of people, all are greeting her and the angry man. Her children are with them and they are all working together with the people from the community. The people are holding out Domestic Violence Prevention programs and welcoming them to join them, and work out the p
roblems surrounding the little family, there are employers, clergy, law enforcement, school administrators and other members of the community.Off to the side stands a well-dressed man with a handful of dollars and he is trying to decide if he should give the money to the shelter or the community prevention group. In the prevention program scenario, all of the families are being cared for, not just the half as in the dormitory setting and no beating is required.
Given a choice which do you think the woman would choose?
Which does the rich man choose? Every single time he chooses the shelter, leaving the woman and children to weep and suffer.
Daily large corporations are opting for Setting One and Two, and totally denying funds to option three. Just last Friday, Boeing made that exact choice. The Friday before that, Salt River Project made the same decision.
Domestic Violence prevention is just not on the list of things to donate money to. It is too hard to quantify the results. Corporations must fear there is not enough instant gratification and
recognition in donating to prevention.John says: Nothing is real to you until you experience it; until then it is just hearsay.
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