Why Thrive! Is Needed!

   Our communities and world are broken in many ways and their futures are endangered.  Thrive! is the call for action to fix what is broken and build and sustain a thriving future.                                           

There is too much vulnerability.

• Vulnerable people (persons)

• Vulnerable families

• Vulnerable neighborhoods, villages, cities, counties

• Vulnerable regions

• Vulnerable states

• Vulnerable nations

• A vulnerable world

  Our communities and world are doing poorly.

• Performing poorly or badly (as individuals and communities (all levels); on key issues)

• Poor (financially)

• Poorly nourished

• Poorly housed

• Poorly protected (exposures, crime)

• Poorly educated

• Physically/mentally ill

• Poorly growing/developing

• Not doing well “physically”

• Living within poor or bad habitat

• Excessively vulnerable

• Unstable, destructive climate

• Not sustainable