When Amnesty International broadened its focus from traditional political and civil rights to the whole range of economic, social, and cultural rights, it seemed for quite some time to lose direction and impact. The most insidious temptation to muddy an INGO’s mission occurs when money is potentially available for some project that is not part of its core business, and for which it does not have readily available internal expertise.
其次，成功的INGO的一个显著特征是使命明确。最成功的INGO总是那些找到明确利基并坚持不懈者。当国际特赦组织将其注意力扩展从国际政治和公民权利扩展到全方位的经济、社会和文化权利时，在方向上和影响上迷失了很长一段时间。弄混INGO使命的最危险的诱惑情形是给钱让你从事并非核心业务的项目或你没有现成内行专业知识的项目。在这样的情形中，资源的流失和稀释以及专注力的丧失就成了不可避免的结果。