A word of warning as I begin. If you were planning to read this blog aloud in polite company, I would recommend against it. Are you seeing why I started with a disclaimer? If not, try saying shelf-sitters five times fast. I have to credit my uncle and Foundation Trustee, Phil Langford, with the coinage. We want our initiatives to have as long of a life and as much influence as possible.
In other words, shelf-sitters are bad. We should send them down the drain. We want to wipe away the very possibility of their existence and flush them entirely. Then we should wash our hands of them. In the world of philanthropy, an immense amount of money goes towards projects that ultimately fail. Philanthropy has the luxury of being able to take risks with capital that for-profit businesses cannot.
That said, we still want our risk-taking to result in a lot more success than failure. Failure can be tricky though. Those are shelf-sitters. No shelf-sitters for us. November 29, Share. Side note, all puns are great puns, and anyone who tells you otherwise is wrong.
