Mission First Solutions
Disruptive innovation is a concept developed by Harvard Business School
Professor Clayton Christensen that has gained widespread traction in
the business world, and increasingly in the social sector. According to
Christensen, a disruptive innovation is a technology, process, or
business model that brings to market a product or service that is much
more affordable and much simpler to use than what is currently
available. It enables more consumers in the market to afford and/or
have the ability to use the product or service. The change caused by
such an innovation is so big that it eventually replaces, or disrupts,
the established approach to providing that product or service. Mission
First Solutions (MFS) is a disruptive innovation.
The Mission First Solutions ‘management engine’ gives organizations
the opportunity to spend more of their time on mission, substantially
reduce their costs and enhance the quality of experience for themselves
and the people they serve.
Mission First Solutions simply put does four things:
- Outsourcing
- Collaboration
- Education and Training
- Economic Development
The combination of these four activities creates measurable third sector improvement.
Mission First Solutions provides nonprofit organizations with highly
proficient outsourcers for non mission related functions (Evaluation,
Accounting, Administration, Bookkeeping, IT and HR). Through a COOP
method MFS, also creates opportunities for outsourcers to use the
services of both the nonprofits or other outsourcers to help them
achieve more mission (HR organization can have its IT done by the IT
organization in the system.) MFS provides funding for the nonprofit
first movers in the system by leveraging foundations and government
agency funding to grant capacity and sustainability. This allows
everybody in the system to deliver significantly more mission
efficiently and effectively. Ultimately when our 20,000 nonprofits are
accomplishing more of their mission – we can truly end homelessness,
domestic violence and find the cure for cancer in Colorado. When our
outsourcers are at capacity serving many organizations at once – and
not spending their time on business development, marketing and PR they
too are meeting more mission and drastically improving economic
development. When our Foundations and Government agencies can put
their money and resources toward the most effective and efficient
organizations spending their time on mission they can give more money
and resources to solve more.
Mission First solutions also creates both a filter and a central
clearing house for volunteers and organizations throughout the state to
focus their energies when they want to become involved with a cause
they care passionately about and efficiently use their gifts and
talents to serve more effectively.
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