I love it. Along with the expected annual report, Engineers Without Borders posts their (usually) annual Failure Reports. They are full of things that didn’t work. Fun reading. There was a website that existed when this post was published but which no longer exists where all kinds of organizations posted their failure reports.
When we share our tough times and what we learned from them, we all learn a bit more and our donors appreciate our confession of being part of the same fallible humanity as they are.
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