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If I'm donating money to fight cancer, and the majority of the money goes to administrative staff, that's inherently a flawed charity. It's exactly what led to
by legitster 5mo ago
If I'm donating money to fight cancer, and the majority of the money goes to administrative staff, that's inherently a flawed charity. It's exactly what led to the downfall of the Susan G Komen foundation.
There's also a death spiral problem. If donations drop and administrative costs stay the same, that charity's ratings only get worse.
There's a reason most examples of successful non-profit unions all rely on steady streams of government grant funding.
- skywhopper 5mo agoWhat do you think the core purpose of the Wikipedia Foundation is? Do you think the engineers who write the code and operate the site are “administrative staff”?
- appreciatorBus 5mo agoIf a new software or hardware innovation came along that would allow the engineers to operate the site 2x more efficiently, thus saving the foundation and it's donors a significant amount of money, would the union support it or fight it?
- jp_sc 5mo agoIs there any charity (older than five years) where the majority of the money doesn’t go to administrative staff?
- pas 5mo agoyes, check program expense ratios https://www.charitynavigator.org/discover-charities/best-charities/cost-effective-organizations https://www.charitynavigator.org/discover-charities/best-cha... but see also https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/blog/arent-the-best-charities-those-with-the-lowest-overhead-costs#why-arent-overhead-costs-a-good-measure-of-a-charitys-impact https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/blog/arent-the-best-charitie... and https://www.givewell.org/ https://www.givewell.org/
- iririririr 5mo agothis is all insane. it assumes you want charity forever! the initial assumption is already wrong. also, back on topic: Executive Salaries Position Salary (Annual) Ex-CEO (Katherine Maher) $789,495 COO (Janeen Uzzell) $503,844 CFO (Jaime Villagomez) $386,433 General Counsel (Amanda Keton) $396,514 Current Highest Salaries Position Salary (Annual) Software Engineering Manager $164,080 Technical Program Manager $159,200 Senior Software Engineer $109,513 Product Designer $95,972 Additional Salary Insights The median total compensation for employees at the Wikimedia Foundation is approximately $109,513.
- pas 5mo agodid you mean to reply to my comment? if yes, can I ask you to explain what do you mean by assumption? where is that coming from? regarding WMF (and other non-profits, like Mozilla), this is a well-known phenomenon - regarding C-suite compensation (it's usually about risk aversion, and that the board or whatever foundations have, is also usually sitting on other non-profits, and rarely they optimize by moving to the cheapest place and hiring folks for much cheaper, etc)