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When organizations balance funding requirements with protecting vulnerable community members

Our volunteer organization serves people without documentation and some board members want to collect more personal information for grant applications while others worry we're putting people at risk by gathering data we might be forced to share. We're stuck because better funding could help more people, but the information requirements feel like they compromise the trust we've built.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group serving others must navigate the conflict between institutional demands and their obligation to protect people who depend on them.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Rights — their origin and their limits?”

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