Quote Originally Posted by Tybee View Post
It's funny that the term "do-gooders" becomes an insult.

When aren't we all interesting in doing good?
I do mean it as less than complimentary because their efforts remind me of herd activity, group-think, going back to high school where THE group activity was rah rah rah ing for our team. I didn’t give a flying fig about our school’s sports teams and could not wait to get out of that environment.

Do-gooding for my neighborhood has traditionally been focused on buildings, infrastructure, and beautification, all goals which I embrace. I’m on the Board of Directors to that point and so am a do-Gooder in that regard.

When they (people in my neighborhood) have to cast about for persons to help, those efforts nearly always reach outside of our neighborhood boundaries. Too much much focus outside of our neighborhood boundaries is wrong. Those discussion of “how much” to “reach out” bore me because it isn’t as though we have everything inside our boundaries under control. We do not. We lost 70% of our revenue last year. Houston we have a problem.

The most ridiculous effort was last year’s plea for money to give to an organization that works in human trafficking. Fortunately, even the members of our dogooder section thought that was reaching a little too far outside of our charter. It was a Board member who asked for the money, though. Ugh.