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

It also took some serious communication efforts. But the result — a passionate, unified development team working hand in hand with the projects team to engage donors to help poverty-stricken children around the world — was more than worth the effort.

Tandon can’t stress enough that the starting point of all this was 1) a realization and acceptance of the underlying problems, and 2) creating a clear, unified vision that everyone could get behind — a multilayered “bottom line” that is broad enough to include the interests of all the involved parties but still very mission specific.