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| National Science Teachers Association Rejects "An Inconvenient Truth" |
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A reader asked recently about the tension between funding and authenticity in organizations. Recent news provides us with a sad example. After being offered 50,000 free copies of the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth", the National Science Teachers Association decided to reject them because it would, in their words, place "unnecessary risk upon [their] capital campaign, especially certain targeted supporters." One of those supporters is Exxon Mobil Corporation. I credit my science teachers with giving me some important tools for integrity that have served me well into adulthood. Too bad they can't live up to the lessons that they teach.
Posted: 12/3/06; 8:11:26 PM # |
| Four New Entries at The Authentic Organization |
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Our exploration of The Authentic Organization continues. Last week's entries include: Grief and Loss in Organizations; Mission Drift in a Social Enterprise; The Influence of Dysfunctional Leadership; and Do Be Do Be Do (addressing questions about the relationship between authenticity and action). The last three of these were each based on input offered by readers of Nonprofit Online News.
Posted: 12/3/06; 7:52:29 PM # |
| Call to Our Guiding Institutions |
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As part of my ongoing interest in coalition building, I have been learning more about a number of global organizations, including the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions. Back in 1999 they prepared something of a vision statement, which they called a Call to Our Guiding Institutions (56 page PDF). This call for peace, justice, and sustainability represents the work of five hundred people from a wide spectrum of the world's spiritual communities. Such a document could easily be nothing but poetic generalities, but I found that there were more than enough specifics in here to give most of the world's great institutions something to chew on.
Posted: 12/3/06; 2:53:10 PM # |
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