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dnautics is talking about how they separate donations given via their site from their overhead costs: 100% of what you give on the site goes to fund treatment,
by tnorthcutt 13y ago
dnautics is talking about how they separate donations given via their site from their overhead costs: 100% of what you give on the site goes to fund treatment, and overhead is paid for by "donations" (funding) such as the one mentioned here, and by people who give via the site but elect to target some of their donation to cover overhead (that option is presented when you give on their site).
- dnautics 13y agothanks for clarifying for me, I clearly needed more coffee before posting!
- maxerickson 13y agoI apparently failed to make my point. To informed people, that overhead is being funded by separate donations is clear enough. Uninformed people are developing a habit of thinking Watsi is a for profit business (and then making angry noises). It is my view that phrasing like "The idea of separating overhead from donations" exacerbates this source of noise.
- dnautics 13y ago"that overhead is being funded by separate donations is clear enough"... that's not always the case for all nonprofits.
- tnorthcutt 13y agoDo you have a source for the thinking that people perceived Watsi as a for-profit business?
- maxerickson 13y agoMostly Paul Graham's twitter conversations and the occasional paranoid comment posted here.