Bad nonprofits: An unfortunate reality of charitable giving in America
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I recently saw an article about “The WORST charities in America? These are the organizations giving over 90 PERCENT of donations to their fatcat executives – while ignoring their causes .” Anyone who’s worked with nonprofit organizations over time knows that, while most are reasonably honest and at least try to perform needed services, some aren’t. Since 1993, we’re written grants for somewhere between 600 and 1,000 nonprofits across America. When a prospective nonprofit client calls for a fee quote, I can usually tell within a couple of minutes if the caller is a true believer (about 10%) or a more typical nonprofit. It’s much harder, however, to tell if the nonprofit is honorable, because nonprofit executives are skilled in the art of happy talk—a bit like Gríma Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings. Click here to continue reading: https://seliger.com/2023/07/05/bad-nonprofits-an-unfortunate-reality-of-charitable-giving-in-america/
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11 个月After working with and for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities that received Medicaid funded services for 30 years, I found transparency was essential, providing giving options was key (i.e. volunteering, donations, legislative advocacy, etc.), and truly finding ways to sustain their generosity in attracting and keeping community supporters, foundations, and donors to fill in the gaps where Medicaid dollars fell short. Unfortunately there are unethical leaders for nonprofit organizations and for-profit companies that take advantage of their power to pad their pockets. The consequences when nonprofits misuse funds is more insidious as it makes it more challenging to receive supports, causes nonprofits to pull their limited resources to focus on damage control, and all of which take away resources from the vulnerable people needing those services. Keeping community supporters, donors, and foundations connected to the life of the organization is important to securing future grants.