World Vision Shifts the Focus of its Development Efforts From Silos to Support and Gets Everyone Working Together to Engage Donors in Saving the World’s Children

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

“We realized, in the middle of that, that because the two divisions had not been listening to each other, projects had a very different idea about what we wanted to do. In their minds, being donor-centric meant that the fundraising division was really willing to accommodate donor wishes to a degree that would, in fact, harm children and communities,” Tandon says.