“A hardening of foundation arteries caused by insufficient oxygen of risk and the plaque of a command and control culture.”

“Foundations with early signs of funderitis may be overly prescriptive and obsessed with the ‘accounting’ of accountability, direct their attention and resources to what they consider to be strong ‘gold standard’ organizations and practices, and pass over capacity building for emerging organizations and coalitions.”

Excerpted from TAP: Learning Through Networks, The story of a remarkable collaborative process and its implications for the future of organizational and community capacity building.