Integrative Community Ventures is a unique business perfectly matched for these times: the transition into a new knowledge-based, technology-driven, quality-of-life Integrative Economy. Just fifteen years ago we could not have imagined ICV and its new work platform. But with today’s incredible challenges and changing economic parameters, it’s now almost impossible not to imagine this business emerging.
While AI seeks to replace jobs with technology, the work humans do to ensure human capacity development still requires humans. And it is these humans who will have the capacity to manage the technology—because they have achieved the wholeness that enables them to take full responsibility for their lives, their families, their communities, and the world.
ICV Business Results
- A unique work experience: HCDPs develop their fullest potential while fostering the same in the children, adults with disabilities, and seniors who make up their daily work. Each team designs its own optimal outcomes—a self-directed system that parallels what we want for the whole community.
- High job satisfaction: The highest job satisfaction comes from those who help design the workflow and set the goals. That is exactly how ICV teams work—with minimal management input and high shared standards.
- Ownership of place: ICV staff live and work within a one-mile radius of each other. Being connected at the neighborhood level creates engagement with the local landscape—whether deep in a fast-paced city or in a rural setting—tapping local resources while protecting them.
- Design flexibility: The ICV prototype provides a basic organizational model, yet no two teams implement it exactly the same way. A common bond and language unite every ICV team, while each adds its own touch—a universal model that respects local needs.
Community and Economic Results
- Supports an Integrative Economy: As successful local businesses, ICVs help lower unemployment, increase quality of life, set environmental improvements in motion, and reduce demand on social services—helping establish the new employment sector.
- Strong communities: ICVs revive and strengthen local communities. The whole-person framework at the center of their work fosters mutual respect while empowering each person to take responsibility for their life, family, and community.
- An interdependent local economy: ICV contributes to an economy measured by quality of life instead of quantity of stuff—critical infrastructure for the emerging Integrative Economy that benefits all local businesses as it grows.