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Mission, Vision, and Organizational Values

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Mission: purpose, raison d’être, goal, aim, duty, pursuit; Organizational values: guiding principles, beliefs, tenets; Vision: dream, visualization, image, mental picture (all of the future), end result

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Mission is an organization’s purpose, what it exists to accomplish.

Vision is a picture of how the community will be not only different, but also better, as a result of the organization having accomplished what it set out to do.

Organizational values are guiding principles for organizational behavior.

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Mission, vision, and values are terms frequently used in the nonprofit or nongovernmental organization (NGO) sector by staff, board directors, volunteers, clients, donors, community leaders, and other stakeholders, as well as consultants, college professors, planning professionals, and authors speaking or writing about the business of nonprofits/NGOs. Unfortunately, all too often, these distinct terms are used interchangeably or misused altogether. This...

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Temkin, T. (2016). Mission, Vision, and Organizational Values. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2603-1

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