Director of Operations and Legal

Your top priority is to make sure that the organization is able to function effectively and efficiently. You believe that you are responsible for protecting the organization’s reputation and mitigating the risks to which it is exposed.

This is one reason why you have raised concerns about projects that involve sub-granting to smaller groups outside of the Acadia capital. You have heard from your finance officer that the sub-granting process is messy and that it is difficult for them to account for the sub-granting as the capacity of the groups on the ground is a little weak, and the groups on the ground need that support. In your experience, you have seen similar situations turn out badly, especially where the primary grantee does not invest in building the capacity of sub-grantees but inadvertently creates dependency on the primary grantee because they are the only ones that can navigate the donor requirements vis-a-vis reporting, budgeting etc.