Mission Drift in Nonprofits
Mission drift — how donor-image-of-the-organization detaches from the mission itself.
Mission drift is the decision to re-budget the mission around the money rather than the money around the mission.
The LHS Lens treats mission drift as the inheritance-and-conditioning-of-the-founder's-early-network-and-cohort-own-the-mission-itself; the discipline is to ask which vanity-income shifts the program toward pursuit-without-mission-out.
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