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We believe that anything that is worth doing at all is worth doing we
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We seek to live in harmony with our natural environment.
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If we cannot disclose something publicly, we wouldn’t do it.
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We don’t let our personal biases and pre-conceived notions influence our analyses.
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We adhere to very high standards of financial propriety in financial management.
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We preserve a secular code of conduct with respect for every religion.
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We work in realistic timeframes and strive to stick to them in so far as possible.
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We believe in selecting the best people for our team based solely on merit, competition and required skills and excellence.
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We believe that all resources are valuable and that their wasteful use should be discouraged.
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We feel ourselves accountable to internal and external stakeholders in resource utilization, in program design and implementation and in management decisions.
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We do not allow our governance, program delivery and financial management decisions to be influenced by considerations of race, gender, religion, caste or creed in any manner whatsoever.
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We believe that all resources are valuable and that their wasteful use should be discouraged.