Post #2095135

2026-04-05 18:47 UTC

@roadblock161_ it really is as a veteran of decades experience at incompetent charities, i have a whole theory, which is that a really incompetent charity still monopolises its problem space and sucks the air out of the room for a hypothetical more competent one if i had no ethics i'd get on the precise nonprofit grift path you outline

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@davidgerard@circumstances.run 2026-04-05 18:50

@roadblock161_ Nonprofit Kit for Dummies is a fucking amazing book, by the way, and more people should read it, especially if you're the sort of person who gets sucked into projects because you want to help their cause

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@brib@bribstodon.xyz 2026-04-06 09:12

@davidgerard @roadblock161_ The status of "we're a nice charity and can never do no harm 🥺 👉 👈 " also does a great job of deflecting criticism, both within the charity (i.e. to its volunteers/workers) and outside it. And I suspect competent charities probably engage with awkward questions like how modern capitalism and the general fuckery of the ultrawealthy is the root cause of many social issues and you can't address that without getting :neocat_shocked: political :neocat_shocked: . If you don't engage in those questions you piss off the ultrawealthy less

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