Our Values: The Culture of Can Do
Proving What's Possible
We believe that continuous exploration of new business concepts is the key to building a thriving organization which serves our mission and vision. We constantly strive to better understand the people with autism whom we help, the communities we wish to work in and the customers we intend to serve. We challenge ourselves to step outside of our comfort zones, grow as individuals, reflect on what we can do better and translate this to business success.
Collaboration is King: Be flat, be fun and listen to your mother
We believe that collaborating with customers, other organizations and all our employees creates symbiotic relationships, minimizes wasted effort and achieves the most innovative and inclusive solutions possible. To collaborate effectively we must be flat, be fun, and listen to our mother.
Be Flat
We believe that innovation comes from all levels of our organization. All our employees are given the opportunity to contribute to the direction of our company. To unlock their potential, we incentivize all members of our staff to voice their ideas and opinions about any aspect of our operations and provide them with the information, support and autonomy to make the right decisions.
Be Fun
We believe that a fun environment breads creativity, acceptance and loyalty which are conducive to collaboration because they magnify passion for our mission and coax customers to contribute their insights. We do our best to make all of our ventures as fun as possible.
Listen to Our Mother
Mother Nature is the best collaborator of all time. We aim to build our business like nature builds ecosystems. By partnering with our suppliers and other outside organizations, we strengthen our endeavors and amplify our impact.
Be Trustworthy
We believe that it is crucially important to place trust at the center of everything we do. We gain trust through transparency in all of our actions, providing a quality product at a reasonable price to our customers, creating a safe work environment for our staff and accepting responsibility for our mistakes and shortcomings.
Love All Stakeholders
We believe that it is not enough to simply consider our impact on our stakeholders; rather we enthusiastically love all of our stakeholders and strive, with endless energy, to create value for each of them. Along with our investors, we consider our stakeholders to be:
- Our customers
- Our employees
- The communities in which we work
- The environment
- Our partners
Be Scalable
We believe that, in order to fully actualize our vision and have the greatest impact possible, we must be financially sustainable through our operations. A financially independent model can quickly proliferate and grow in perpetuity. Conversely, relying on donor or government funding would limit the scalability of our ventures because these revenue sources are inherently limited to the size of the funding pool and are volatile based on fluctuating interests of the constituents controlling them. Therefore, we aim to run each of our ventures using the same business principles as a strictly for profit company.
