How

To Prosper

A mission of CLOH.Org is to strive for improved quality of life. To make better communities and community life for the individuals and families among our tangled web is to create real prosperity. To flourish and to thrive is to deal with real prosperity.

Consider prosperity in the words of Henry Ford:
"Only when things are produced in quantity at the lowest cost and of the best quality and sold at the narrowest margin of profit can we hope for real prosperity."

Perhaps the level of real prosperity in Pittsburgh is lagging because of our lack of low cost, high quality, narrow margin programs centered upon community building.

Many programs in Pittsburgh are of low cost and low quality.

Many options exist in Pittsburgh in the realm of high quality. Consider a CMU education or a heart-lung transplant at one of the area's medical centers. The quality is unmatched and so are the costs.

Narrow margin profits are part of the mix with the programs at CLOH.Org.

Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.
Peter Drucker

Exceptional Results via Exceptional Tools

To make these projects a success in the communities, we'll need to leverage exceptional tools and a range of services with the internet.

Exceptional tools such as eVote for decisions can lead us to democracy and matters of stability. For collaboration, groupware is requried, as is FLE3.

No other non-profit organization in our market is using such an impressive suite of digital resources. These distinctions can make us effective.

CLOH.Org's Mingling of Missions and Mentions

CLOH.Org's websites should speak to both the head and the heart. They should tell various flavors of a compelling story that grabs the visitor's interest, and then convinces the visitor to take action.

To present a case that speaks to both the head and the heart is hard to do, at the same time and place. Some of these pages are for the head, HQ.CLOH.Org. Others talk to the heart, Idealist.CLOH.Org. In addition, CLOH.Org speaks to the body, Dorm.CLOH.Org, Guard.CLOH.Org, and to the soul, S6.CLOH.Org.

Interesting Characteristic

Once started, a project develops some force that tends to keep it together precisely because of the possibility of forking. For the maintainers, this means they sometimes have to accept things from the community they don't like. Meanwhile, the community accepts the decisions of the majority, fights to convince them otherwise, or takes pains to start and maintain a respectable fork of the project. On both sides, natural forces try to avoid forking. Nature tends to create en equilibrium.

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