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> In North America alone, nonprofits are a $300 billion-a-year industry. There’s a lot of fat in there. If we do our jobs well, we can remove friction as it rel
by serge2k 11y ago
> In North America alone, nonprofits are a $300 billion-a-year industry. There’s a lot of fat in there. If we do our jobs well, we can remove friction as it relates to giving
Well that sounds scummy as hell.
- npkarnik 11y agoI think the point is that people give to charities as a proxy for "helping people." Massive research oriented charities probably won't be displaced by something like GoFundMe, but the idea is that average people can directly fund the needy on a case by case basis (i.e. instead of paying for the administrative fees of a charity that helps sponsor scholarships, you can directly fund the recipient?)
- serge2k 11y agoNo, I got it. and they have no qualms about publishing the fact that they just want to skim right off the top.
- nosuchthing 11y agoGranted the recent revelations into the Red Cross grossly mishandling resources in Haiti and not sharing records of their financial expenditures [1] it's safe to assume Non-Profit Orgs don't have enough paper trail to safely verify what the money actually does. More direct funding for specific projects might not be perfect, but it may simplify the process of getting real things done.
- nosuchthing 11y ago* [1] http://www.npr.org/2014/10/29/359365276/on-superstorm-sandy-anniversary-red-cross-under-scrutiny http://www.npr.org/2014/10/29/359365276/on-superstorm-sandy-...