Presenting the partnership between parents and corporate America known as
The MY Plan
Since you are reading this, that means you and I possibly had a conversation. Either that, or we are interested in what your organization is trying to do and we wish to help. So, thank you for being concerned enough about the same thing as we are here, that now bring the MY (Mine&Your) Plan forward. Our hope, is that if you have any recognition skills at all, that you will instantly recognize that the solution for your particular cause has arrived. It has arrived; and the MY Plan is finally ready to be laid on the table for discussion.
For sure, philanthropic gifting dollars absolutely do good and are crucial, given our current condition; but there are not enough gifting dollars to end these multitude of problems in K-12 schools coast-to coast. Spot-gifting, as is currently the practice, does not reach each and every child’s school across America; and that is what is needed. It’s just that simple. But, the big money that can end so many of these ills is there; and what is so crazy, is that it has always been there.
Please do not miss this next statement.
Charities exist because the problems they serve continue to exist. If the elimination of the problem is not the ultimate goal, then that is inept thinking. Our group, The Good Idee Group (The GIG) has spent the last 40 years fixing inept thinking for corporations. More about us later. Now though, The GIG, simply as parents, have turned our full attention to our children’s future.
As said, the Good Idee Group has been quietly been developing the MY Plan for the past 15 years. Why for so long though? Because quite honestly, we knew then as we still know now, the full gravity of what we are proposing. We understand the grand scope of our idea, and the implementation plan that is needed as well. So, we wanted to make sure we had thought of everything, checked all the boxes, and had all those conversations with others in all the various fields of expertise, before finally coming forward.
So then, very briefly, I think it important for you to know who The Good Idee Group is, that we think we have the skills to address a problem so seemingly unsolvable, that not another idea, to our knowledge, is even offered for consideration as a solution by any group in America. The MY Plan being the sole idea out there for us to even consider should be a scary thought to all of us. Yet, this is exactly why the MY Plan needs to be exhausted with consideration, since it is the one and only proposal being touted as…the permanent funding fix.
The GIG started out over 40 years ago as a small group of creatively abstract-type thinkers. We are scientists, chemical formulators, engineers, etc.; and we are from all around the globe.
Most of us in the GIG are somewhat like me. We recognized each other’s unique ability in their respective fields, and over the years, simply gravitated to each other to informally form the Good Idee Group. So, when one of us is consulted by a client desperately in need of a solution in a particular field, we often network that problem with other GIG members in various fields of expertise. Strangely enough, it is often a chemist who may help solve the problem of an engineer, and vice versa. What we have learned is that creative thinking skills are transferable from one specialty to another. We very much fly under the radar, yet offer a unique niche as a service for hire to corporate giants across America in our various businesses. The service talent we have offered for over 40 years has simply been this:
‘There is always an answer. If you are looking for the formulation of a solution to a problem that could cost your company to lose millions if not found, or you have just cause to think the company itself is in danger of going under if that solution can’t be found, then you need to have a conversation with us. If you are confident that your company has exhausted all of it’s internal resources to try and formulate that answer, and a solution still can’t be found, let us have a crack at it.’
I am not quite sure how to say this properly; but in that 40 years, if there was ever a time that we could not find an answer when challenged, I honestly can't remember when or what that was. Very humbly, I say that we normally just do not miss. Creative problem-solving has just always been our gift. You have heard of some of the things that we have done globally. Not only did you not know we were the ones that solved some of these problems, but most likely you also did not know that a problem even existed. We may not have many gifts, but we know we are very good at finding a creative solution when other believe there is none to be found. Such is the case here in presenting the MY Plan. So, the MY Plan is just our little gift back to all of us; especially all of our kids.
We ask for absolutely nothing in return. Here, we have just simply applied that same science of “out-of-the-box” creative problem-solving as we’ve done for clients all these years.. We have deeply studied and deeply questioned our educational and community dilemmas. We wanted to see if we possibly could find an actual solution that everyone has simply been missing.
“Problem solving is everything. As a society, we are still waiting for that one big idea to come along that will unite us all in such a way as to solve ours.” ~ Elon Musk.
“But we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” ~ Albert Einstein
The MY Plan trades-in our current inept system of funding education solely from our tax dollars, for an ingenious design of revamping a massive funding resource that we have simply overlooked all this time; and those overlooked dollars are indeed massive. All we wish to do now, is to get this idea seen and trusted into the right hands of those can present it to those that can provide the funds to create it. That entity can then take this plan and turn it everyone’s new reality. You, now reading and considering the MY Plan, are a vital link in this chain that can help introduce the MY Plan to those entities that can make it happen. No role is more important at this exact space in time, than yours as a co-facilitator.
The MY Plan would also cover all future college tuitions so desperately needed even more by long unfairly denied communities such as Blacks and Latinos, traditionally at the bottom of the economic rung. Statistically, these groups do not send their children off for higher education at the percentage rates of Caucasians. To the poor, post high school education just represents more debt to so many, when they need every meager penny they earn just to feed and clothe their children.
After letting all of this sink in, my question to you is simply this.
Where do you think everyone would spend their family income dollars now?
And once we see what those dollars that we spend as Americans are now doing for our children and our communities, could you ever even imagine going back to when you made consumer goods purchases yet received nothing back in return? It would be like being asked to turn in your cell phone. The hell you say!
We also say, “Don’t be intimidated by big ideas. They happen all the time. Big ideas all start as a simple thought in just one person’s mind. That thought then evolves into a tangible thing we can see and touch and before you know it that idea becomes just a natural part of our consciousness. i.e...the cell phone…. Facebook… Amazon… Microsoft… Wal-Mart. Most of these are now realities occurring just within the last 25+ years.”
Philanthropist investing their dollars in this way would be creating an entity that takes their donated dollars, and maximizes those dollars by creating a ‘perpetually funding entity’ as opposed to current donations that are a one time gift to this or that charity that consumes that money quickly because the problem itself, was not been eliminated. In investing by creating MY Stores, you also then will make philanthropists out of even “the least of these” in our society. Philanthropists building these stores would be creating givers, “self-philanthropists” in mass. Think about that. This would now allow everyone to feel the power and joy of philanthropy that a philanthropist feels when they give.
Hard to imagine My School Stores all across America? Sound crazy? Unrealistic pie-in-the-sky?
Pie-in-the-sky is us thinking that eventually something will happen without a plan of action, as if we will all just somehow have a collective kumbaya moment where all cultures will miraculously finally get on the same page and start thinking and doing alike. No, the reality is that we are who we are. Our individual thinking, our opinions, are too deeply engrained. That is the beauty of the MY Plan. We believe that we have found that elusive, one and only ”thing” which allows us to have our differences while still bringing us together as a collective in which, when we both support this proposed idea, the end result will be…. I save your child…and you save mine. Maybe then when we all get on that same plane we will begin to listen, learn and appreciate our different cultures.
Now do you get it, and do you have even an inkling of the kind of money we are taking about here?
Sometimes the answer has always been right there, right in front of us…and sometimes the answer really is, just that simple.
MY would also be, indirectly, putting huge savings back in you and your family’s pocket since much of the dollars you used to pay out-of-pocket for things like tuition, would now be paid with the dollars you have accumulated from your years of MY purchases.
The MY Plan is an ingenious “kills 20 birds with 1 stone” design.
And as one person asked… “Once in-place, couldn’t MY funding possibly lower our property taxes since so much of our educational system is currently funded through our property taxes?”
That is an interesting possibility.
For this to work, honesty and integrity of the MY Plan would have to be designed and set up in such a way as to the MY entity dollars being unquestionably accountable. Full transparency of all MY operating expenses and profits must be accessible to everyone.
We’ve got to realize our combined power as a spending force and as a “profit making machine” folks. By choice, we give our money away freely when we purchase goods for our families, making those business owners extremely wealthy. Now though, we realize that we could be doing that same thing for our children, and our world.
The very definition of IRONY? Allow me to blow your mind a bit…
Imagine passing a Latino or immigrant mother with 4-5 kids in tow on a MY isle. That family, with 5 kids, naturally spends much more on food purchases than those families with higher incomes with only 1 or 2 kids. Therefore, though they may work hard and only minimal dollars per year, that family of 5 kids would spend more on food and essential goods than the family with fewer children and higher income. That means, in a MY scenario, more dollars would be spent by that poorer Latino family, thus them contributing more $$ going back into schools as education dollars, than that of the family with a more comfortable income that has only 1 or 2 kids. Think about that. That means a poorer family could be at a higher philanthropy level than those with a higher income. That’s irony, that’s true empowerment, and that’s the beauty of the MY Plan.
“Yeah, but many families are on govt. assistance dollars that are taken from my hard earned taxed income and are given to them!” you say? OK, that’s true; but that is our reality. At least those dollars from their spending that were “your dollars” are now going back into '“your” child’s school and are benefiting your child as well as theirs. So, it is like you getting some of your money back now isn’t it?
I think we can all agree these are all problems in desperate need of a solution yet can also agree that our tax dollars simply can not even come close to paying for the debts that resources cost that are needed from one end of the country to the other.