The Freedom Schooner Amistad, a replica ship educating about the slave trade and in particular one important event that resulted in freedom for a group of slaves, recently returned from a challenging trip accross the Atlantic where it retraced the slave trading triangle.
According to reports, the ship did not have a consistently smooth sail. No question, sailing a schooner is hard and many things can go awry. But these "waves" might have been addressed through better planning or at least, more money.
The questions for this blog: a number of aspects did go wrong and the natural question: shouldn't these unexpected events have been planned for better? And if the answer is yes (which I believe to be the answer) - who was responsible for the lack of planning: board or staff or both? Did the board know from the staff about the stuff that could go wrong and the money needed to ensure it didn't and then didn't raise the needed money? Was it the board's job to raise this money in the first place? Is it always the nonprofit board's job to raise money? And, if plans indicated trouble would be brewing, should the board have signed off on an adventure that wasn't fully funded?
Your thoughts are welcome.