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Given the urgency of our causes, such conservatism is unforgivable. We should reject totally a culture of caution and instead build for ourselves environments that are in constant turmoil, where change and invention are nurtured and encouraged, where innovation is honored, even revered, and where "wrong" is not necessarily a bad place to be. This may require a new approach to budgeting. The innovation culture has a totally different sense of failure to the operations culture. In the innovation culture each failure takes us a step closer to ultimate success. Donors need to understand this and be a part of it. (They often are — and enthusiastically so. In America these generous, rich and far-sighted people are referred to as entrepreneurial donors, or "philanthrepreneurs." Maybe that is going a bit too far …)