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When Funding Comes with Strings That Compromise Your Mission

I run a homeless shelter and a wealthy donor wants to fund expansion but only if we require participants to attend Christian services and I do not know if the extra beds are worth compromising our secular approach.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

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You must weigh the immediate good you could do against the longer-term harm of accepting conditions that violate your principles.

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