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Scenario

When community organizations face conflicts over government partnership and patriotic compromise

Our nonprofit board is split on whether to take federal funding for our immigrant services program — half of us see it as pragmatic support for our mission and half see it as compromising with a system that's actively harming the communities we serve. We're supposed to vote next week and I can feel relationships fracturing over what feels like a question of patriotic duty versus principled resistance.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group must decide whether engaging with national institutions represents practical progress or moral compromise, exposing deeper disagreements about patriotic responsibility.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with National identity and patriotism examined?”

Peri

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