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:
“In common with other rural regions much of the Iowa farm lore concerns the coming of company. When the rooster crows in the doorway, or the cat licks his fur, company is on the way.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“American thinking, when it concerns itself with beautiful letters as when it concerns itself with religious dogma or political theory, is extraordinarily timid and superficial ... [I]t evades the genuinely serious problems of art and life as if they were stringently taboo ... [T]he outward virtues it undoubtedly shows are always the virtues, not of profundity, not of courage, not of originality, but merely those of an emasculated and often very trashy dilettantism.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)