I have been thinking about this basic idea a bit, trying to reason how to design durable institutions that can help function as crisis mitigation organizations while also working on problems in a community, or put in terms of the article, how to structure an institution that is morally competent.
One problem to this is that many institution that have a morally competent start soon struggle with many of the problems that plague institutions, things like nepotism, political players attempting to coopt the organization for their own good, institutional survival over problem solving, and the like. While these problems can be mitigated by strong boards of directions who adhere to a larger mission, I think the better idea is to have many small organizations that promote problem solving while being part of a larger network that has the goal of solving the problem, and hope that the morally competent people can be spread about the network enough to encourage the solving of the problem, instead of the working on the problem.
One problem to this is that many institution that have a morally competent start soon struggle with many of the problems that plague institutions, things like nepotism, political players attempting to coopt the organization for their own good, institutional survival over problem solving, and the like. While these problems can be mitigated by strong boards of directions who adhere to a larger mission, I think the better idea is to have many small organizations that promote problem solving while being part of a larger network that has the goal of solving the problem, and hope that the morally competent people can be spread about the network enough to encourage the solving of the problem, instead of the working on the problem.