- While child sponsorship is a positive financial model (providing a long-term and fairly predictable source of funding), it is not necessarily aligned with positive development objectives. In other words, there is a financial incentive for World Vision to continue relationships with sponsors for as long as possible, but the organization should not aspire to work in and with communities for as long as possible. What results is a lack of urgency, because the organization knows it has the financial support (child sponsorship) to work in a community for 10 to 20 years. In recent years, the organization has made positive efforts to diversify funding, which impose shorter time frames, more discipline, and better documentation of outcomes. However, as long as child sponsorship remains the main source of funding, World Vision will struggle with the misalignment of financial incentives and development results.
- As the organization has grown larger, it has become more bureaucratic, efficiency-driven, and compliance-oriented.
