My business partner and I run a social enterprise working in East Africa, and we're facing a crisis because our biggest donor wants us to shift focus to what I think are their pet projects rather than what local communities actually need. He's more willing to compromise to keep the funding, while I want to risk losing it to maintain our principles, and we haven't been honest about how much our different risk tolerances are shaped by our different financial safety nets.
More people experience this than they realize.
Partners are confronting how their different levels of economic privilege affect their willingness to take principled stands that could jeopardize their shared venture.
“Where Are You with Development economics — why some countries are poor?”
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