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I hate, hate, hate country music, but I have an enormous amount of respect for Dolly Parton. She's just a plain old good person, and also extremely savvy from a business and money point of view (while having to plough through patriarchal barriers both emotionally and financially): https://www.joshuakennon.com/dolly-parton/
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I am a nonprofit CEO who’s worked in community, sport, educational and health charities. Organizations and causes require people who work full time to help organize the charitable work. It is very difficult to find people to volunteer at this level and typically if you do, they are independently wealthy. Retired people can do more but typically they do not want to give that much time and have other things they want t…
I understand the need for professionals, but what grates me is seeing the leaders of these organizations renting expensive venues to conduct some of their activities, sometimes display expensive art and so on. As if they need to impress their donors. No, donors already believe in the cause, they don't have to be plied, taken to expensive restaurants, served luxurious food, etc. in order to get their commitments. They…
It's probably easier to get that guy you know who is high-up at Kroger to get involved in your charity in a mutually-beneficial way.
Or maybe I'm just really really over the edge jaded and cynical. It's probably that.
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$2.20 per child, per month. That’s the partnership contribution. Please reconsider where you place your time and outrage.
Zero outrage on my part. Just pointing out that the op’s view of how this works doesn’t jive with reality. There are a lot of people and governments putting money into this to make it work at the scale and scope that it does.
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$2.20 per child, per month. That’s the partnership contribution. Please reconsider where you place your time and outrage.
Zero outrage on my part. Just pointing out that the op’s view of how this works doesn’t jive with reality. There are a lot of people and governments putting money into this to make it work at the scale and scope that it does.