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How to navigate the ethics of patient capital withdrawal

We've been patient with this social enterprise for five years but they're burning through capital with no clear path to sustainability and I don't know if pulling out makes me pragmatic or complicit in their failure.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The responsibility of stewardship conflicts with the duty of care when good intentions meet poor execution.

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