Our community center board is trying to decide whether to accept a large donation from a corporation that some of us see as harmful to our neighborhood, and the discussion keeps getting shut down because people say we can't afford to be 'picky' about money. I feel like we're being forced to choose between our principles and our survival as an organization, and that choice itself feels wrong.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group is being forced to choose between financial necessity and moral consistency, but the framework of that choice itself may be obscuring other possibilities.
“Where Are You with First-generation identity?”
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