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B.O.S.S... Its a Movement

We're often asked...What are your goals for the B.O.S.S Movement? B.O.S.S is a uniquely positioned (built from the bottom up) organization that has one (1) mission... and that is to teach people how to become self-sufficient. B.O.S.S. is an acronym that stands for Building Our Self Sufficiency. We are a cooperative organization on a mission to end generational poverty. We know this is an ambitious goal, (you wouldn't be a BOSS if you lacked ambition) and this is why we are reaching out to our fellow bosses to enlist YOU in this movement! 

You may be asking the questions Who? Us. What? End Generational Poverty. When? by year 2031. Where? everywhere we live, work, and play. Why? because happiness belongs to the self-sufficient and everyone deserves to be happy! How? Commitment + Communication=Stronger Communities

Steps We Need to Take to Strengthen Our Communities:
  • Remove what no longer works
  • Don't concentrate on process, focus on progress
  • Align communication to include a common commitment
  • STOP playing defense and being reactionary 
  • Unselfish cooperation of individuals 
Our Vision: We will eliminate generational poverty through education, market based social entrepreneurship, and community service. 

Building
  • A group of individual investors through the use of crowd-funding
  • Walkable neighborhoods in order to reduce reliance on the oil and the auto industry
  • United economic structures where we invest in ourselves and communities
  • Sustainable communities by creating businesses that can be passed on from generation to generation
  • Self determination in individuals. We must determine our worth, not minimum wage laws.  
Our 
  • Education system should be liberating and teach us how to change the undesirable conditions in our personal lives, families, and communities
  • Health & Wellness is not limited to our physical condition it must also include our emotional, mental, and spiritual health as well
  • Housing has to be energy efficient and affordable with many low income people spending more than 30% of their income on housing, its time to build a system in which we effectively address this
  • Businesses have suffered from lack of growth and sustainability because we fail to recycle our community dollars. Many of us have developed the destructive habit of spending more than 80% of our money outside of our community
Self
  • Reliance, we must learn to rely on God first, then self, then family and friends in order for us to maximize community growth and sustainability
  • Worth, we must understand that we are all valuable and must share our gifts by committing to work for ourselves on behalf of each other
  • Respect, we are all here on purpose and we must contribute our time and talents to uplift the masses
  • Determination, we must gain control of our lives and not look to people outside of ourselves to end our pain and suffering
Sufficiency 
  • Education
  • Food 
  • Clothes
  • Shelter
This blog will serve as a information clearinghouse to help us all realize the BOSS vision. As we embark on this journey we can't focus on what we don't have we must remain mindful of what we do possess...

B.O.S.S Top 5 Resources

  1. People: Every person counts
  2. Property: Ownership has its privileges
  3. Time: We all have 24 hours in a day, let's make them count
  4. Money: We all have the ability to make a contribution, let's start by making $1 investment in our future success
  5. Knowledge: Use it to the fullest, its power! 


Location: New York, NY, USA

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