2.1. Question 1: WHAT IS OUR MISSION?
Peter F. Drucker
What is the current mission?
What are our challenges?
What are our opportunities?
Does the mission need to be revisited?
Each social sector institution exists to make a distinctive difference in the lives of individuals and in society. Making this difference is the mission—the organization's purpose and very reason for being. Each of more than one million nonprofit organizations in the United States may have a very different mission, but changing lives is always the starting point and ending point. A mission cannot be impersonal; it has to have deep meaning, be something you believe in—something you know is right. A fundamental responsibility of leadership is to make sure that everybody knows ...
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