Mind the differences between vision, mission statements

Abstract

With the new year upon us, many nonprofits take the opportunity to refresh their mission statements and/or vision statements to take into account any changes the organization has undergone or plans to undertake in the coming year. But often, organizations are unclear about what the mission statement should say versus what should be included in the vision statement—in fact, many nonprofits simply conflate the two, when experts argue they are indeed two separate things.