My nonprofit board and I discovered our executive director has been using organizational funds for personal expenses but she's also the only reason we survived the pandemic and serves communities no one else will touch. Half the board wants to fire her immediately and half think we should handle this quietly internally, and I'm realizing we have no real framework for what integrity even means when the stakes are this high.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group must navigate the tension between institutional accountability and pragmatic effectiveness when ethical violations intersect with organizational survival.
“Where Are You with Institutional ethics and organizational integrity?”
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