The Importance of Meeting Needs at the Smallest and Least Centralized Level

The only time and place where we should turn to not-for-profit organizations is if we're dealing with something at a level that can't be dealt with otherwise. Some of the most important work in the world is never done on the basis of profit, he says. "A better defense than Meals on Wheels is a neighbor who looks across the fence ... and notices that her elderly neighbor is getting skinny"