entity Updated 2026-08-21 Tags: Organization, Addiction-Recovery, Community, Philanthropy

The Phoenix

The Phoenix is the addiction-recovery community example Chase Koch gives in Charles & Chase Koch on How They Quietly Built a $150B Empire. Chase names Scott Strode and The Phoenix as an example of backing a person close to a problem who already had a working model.

The source uses The Phoenix to illustrate Barrier-Removal Social Change by showing rather than telling. The point is not only that philanthropy funds services, but that effective social change may come from people with lived proximity and a model others can observe.

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