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

And that might work for a while. For a long while. But especially in today’s climate of ever-increasing donor demands, organizations that don’t tone down that ’tude eventually will hit a wall. One cause for support for that notion is hidden in the numbers on giving that we read every year. On the surface, it looks great: The U.S. office of World Vision raises about 50 percent of the $2 billion-plus annual budget for the entire organization globally. But …