The fact is that, in my daily work, I continue to meet ETSs focused on ETS that confuse counting “the peanuts they distribute”, dealing with quarterly revenues that are never satisfactory, who continually change personnel and fundraising strategies and each time start from scratch (when they don’t go back…).
Organizations that first go
Out with a search for personnel and then design the fundraising strategy, as if the ETS that confuse latter were not supposed to guide the former.
Organizations that have a Mission , but forget about it the day after having defined it, too busy chasing whoever the financier is as long as they plug yet another hole in the budget, even if the guidelines of the calls for proposals are light years away from them, in terms of content and history.
Those of us who have chosen to deal with the complexities oman phone number library of social problems, with the transformism that gives the (fleeting) illusion of being able to raise funds from everyone, chasing trends or the latest crisis of the moment.
Organizations that care more about
Their own survival than their real ability to build a better world for all.
There is a total lack of a medium-long term vision – I would say “political”, in 5 practices to keep your business running the noblest and most literal sense of the term – that, without derogating from the necessary flexibility mentioned above, keeps the helm straight towards a future capable of transforming society for the better, together with the communities with which we work. A vision that is not afraid to measure itself with failures and that puts itself to the test of organizationally germany cell number sustainable and rigorous evaluation systems at the same time, because it cares about continuously improving, about remaining in a position of listening and openness towards others.
So let’s welcome integrated and intensive paths like Startup Fundraising , which put people, giving and, lastly, why we do what we do back at the centre.