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.
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AI
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Towards A Principled NGO Stand on AI
Nonprofits should not remain nonchalant about AI’s potential and actual harm to the social sectors they have committed to serve. They can take baby-steps towards making a principled stand and lend their collective voice to making AI serve social justice rather than its opposite.
Fundraising
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Suckers for CSR
Despite comprising a mere 2% of any company’s annual budget, CSR funding exerts an inordinate amount of influence on NGOs. Every effort is made by them to develop partnerships with big corporations in the hope of catching tiny morsels from meagre donation pots.
Operations
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Corporatizing Nonprofits: A Caveat
Balancing between the need for corporate efficiency in NGO operations and preserving its humane culture (its “soul”, as some would have it) can be tricky. One does not preclude the other, but too much of either can undermine a nonprofit’s strategic goals.