When did you decide your organisation should stop?
Asking seriously. I have watched several good organisations continue for years past the point of usefulness because stopping feels like failure. I would like to hear from anyone who chose to close.
3 replies
We closed the loan programme last year. The decision got easier when we stopped asking whether we could continue and started asking whether the people we served would be worse off if we did not exist. They would not have been.
The hardest part is staff. We gave three months notice and helped everyone find something, and that took longer than the closing itself.
diego_f: We closed the loan programme last year. The decision got easier when we stopped asking whether we could continue and started asking whether ...
That question is the useful one. Thank you both for answering honestly, this is not a thing people discuss publicly.
Create an account to reply
Anyone can read Shamp. To reply you need an account, so the person you help can find you again.
Create an account