LibraryScenariosWhen your organization board can't agree on how to handle financial betrayal with sympathetic motives
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When your organization board can't agree on how to handle financial betrayal with sympathetic motives

Our community organization's treasurer was stealing donations for two years to pay for his kid's medical bills and when we found out some board members wanted to press charges and others said his circumstances made it understandable, and now we're paralyzed because we can't agree on what justice looks like.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The group is discovering that understanding why harm occurred doesn't resolve the question of what accountability should look like.

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“Where Are You with Justice and forgiveness — the tension?”

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