Concerns
At the turn of the 21st century, a number of overlapping areas of concern arose and reshaped the environment for governance. These included:
- International debate about the role of civil society
- Concern about scandals in the private, public and voluntary sectors concerning those in governing positions
- Gap in understanding between funders and regulators on the one hand and small charities and voluntary organisations on the other
Competing governance requirements have arisen, and each stakeholder in small organisations has concerns about governance:
- Regulators are concerned with declining public confidence in charities.
- Funders are concerned with reputation and financial risk.
- Trustees/management committee members feel that the duties expected of them are unclear.
- Members find themselves competing with funders, as accountability to funders usurps their role in controlling the organisation.
Read more about this topic: Small Charity Governance
Famous quotes containing the word concerns:
“Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it’s somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.”
—Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)
“By intervening in the Vietnamese struggle the United States was attempting to fit its global strategies into a world of hillocks and hamlets, to reduce its majestic concerns for the containment of communism and the security of the Free World to a dimension where governments rose and fell as a result of arguments between two colonels’ wives.”
—Frances Fitzgerald (b. 1940)
“If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.”
—Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)