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When nonprofit boards split over ethically questionable funding

Our nonprofit board keeps voting to accept donations from companies whose practices contradict our mission and half of us think we need the money to survive while the other half thinks we're compromising our integrity and every meeting feels like we're fighting about who we are.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

An organization faces existential tension between survival needs and moral consistency, fracturing the group along different values hierarchies.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Institutional ethics and organizational integrity?”

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