A proper balance in Board selection should place more weight on program development. For all its practical importance in NGO survivability, fundraising will always remain an enabling component for program delivery, which is key to achieving a nonprofit’s core mission.
Category: Programs
Programs are often based on an NGO’s mission and are strategic in nature. They need to be funded in order to run and develop. One of the quickest ways to kill programs is through “mission drift,” a travesty of fickle management where leaders get carried away by emotions or pet projects and gradually diverge from a program’s main thrust.
Development Issues
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The Futility of Fighting for Migrant Living Wage
What is more relevant is to question the very essence of labor migration and point to sending-governments’ culpability for their lack of political will in comprehensively developing their economies and creating viable jobs at home.
Operations
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Mission Drift Is Leadership Failure
Nonprofit leaders are chosen not just for charm or smarts, but even more so, for upholding the organization’s Vision, Mission, Goals and Strategies (VMGS) and core values. To drag the organization outside of these guiding parameters can be one of the worst transgressions a CEO/Executive Director can commit.