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How to move forward when your organization can't agree on its core purpose

Our nonprofit board is split between members who think we should focus on direct service and others who want to do more advocacy and policy work, and every decision gets filtered through this fundamental disagreement about our purpose. We've been paralyzed for months because we can't even agree on what success looks like.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group is discovering that their shared commitment to a cause masks deep disagreements about strategy and theory of change.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.