Tao 53 (9)

To withdraw when your work is finished,
that is the Way of heaven.

Posted by Brian Pace on 23 November 02008 @ 10pm

Here, here! The nature of any organization is not only to survive but to grow. While this is particularly true of government bureaucracies, they are by no means the only ones guilty of this sort of inertia.

I spent 3 years around the turn of the Millenium working as a fundraiser for a 501(c)(3) in DC whose original mission had been to raise funds to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. It was dedicated in 1982, but with a small staff and several hundred thousand names and addresses of motivated donors there was no impetus to shut it down. Today they continue to do some good work but have obviously experieneced the kind of “mission creep” one ought to try to avoid.

Posted by Will on 24 November 02008 @ 5am

The work of all the principal people over at Raising Kaine has been generally top-notch. Good writing, good research. Great organization. Personally, I stopped reading or commenting over there some months ago when the attacks against Tim Kaine became so routine as to irreparably contradict the name and original purpose of the blog. I still wish them all well and I’m sure they’ll all go on to do more interesting and useful things.

Posted by Jackson Landers on 24 November 02008 @ 9am