How Not to Accidentally Implode

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Our Mission is Saving the World. Our Reality is Losing the Password.

In the non-profit world, we’re great at the big stuff. We can mobilize a vaccination campaign in a monsoon. We can draft a policy paper that changes national laws. But ask us to produce a signed Conflict of Interest form from 2022? Suddenly, we’re looking at each other like we’ve been asked to perform open-heart surgery with a spork.

We’ve all been there: the “administrative oversight” that feels like a minor annoyance until it turns into a $2 million audit finding.

Welcome to The Resilience Roadmap. Drawing from the 2024 Administrative Error Case Study Library, we’re spending the next eight weeks looking at 25 times organizations tried to change the world and accidentally punched themselves in the face. It’s funny because it’s relatable; it’s serious because, well, $2 million is a lot of mosquito nets.

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