Is your Mission Statement working for you – The Eight-Word Mission Statement

This is an interesting article which touches on the battle of verbiage and catch phrases. Is your raison d’être clear and concise?

Mission statements in the social sector are often the same kind of word-salad [as for profit companies], but there isn’t a common raison d’etre. As investors in impact, we—the Mulago Foundation—don’t want to wade through a bunch of verbiage about “empowerment,” “capacity-building,” and “sustainability”—we want to know exactly you’re trying to accomplish. We want to cut to the chase, and the tool that works for us is the eight-word mission statement.

Read full article at The Eight-Word Mission Statement | Stanford Social Innovation Review

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