Some Longer-term Benchmarks of the Collaborative's Impact

• Individuals and organizations will have tools and support to re-examine attitudes, assumptions, behaviors and practices regarding money.
• There will be greater ease and comfort in talking openly about money in families and organizations, homes and businesses, in relationships in general and throughout society.
• The Sequoia Principles will provide a framework for re-imagining financial and economic systems and structures, and will serve as core values for an increasing number of individuals and organizations.
• Businesses and financial institutions will provide leadership for transforming money, financial, and economic systems.
• There will be a greater openness to and action on difficult issues such as poverty, the poverty-wealth gap and the financial inequities that result from class, race and gender bias.
• Innovative thinking, practices and models such as complementary currencies, ecological economics, and socially responsible, community investing and banking will have a “best practice” community in which to flourish.
• Existing financial and economic conventions and approaches to interest, debt, credit, taxation, etc. will be reconsidered and reframed in light of positive and humanized practices.
• The accumulation of wealth will be looked at for its potential benefit through reasoned release rather than solely through the lens of asset preservation.
• Philanthropy will be expanded, its practices reconsidered from the perspective of catalyzing wealth and money as social healing forces.

"We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."       - Martin Luther King