[WS:] How many nonprofits do you know? Most of them are supported by sales and government contracts (check out this site for their revenue structure http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/charitablestats/article/0,,id=97176,00.html#2 They are basically businesses exempt form income tax. Going after donors and dealing with volunteers creates more problmes for management - so the management relies them only if they absolutely have to, except for churches and affiliated organizations. Nonprofits need some minimum amount to meet the "public support" criterion required for their tax exempt status, but they often use government contracts for that purpose. Likwise, most volunteering and philanthropic giving in this country goes to religion and also school- and recreation related programs (e.g. parents helping organize activities for thier children.)
Wojtek
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:21 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> But isn't this the NGO/non-profit wet dream? Let the idealists work for
> free, while we (the admins) pocket the guilt donations from the world. Call
> it democracy from the ground up. Lather, rinse, repeat.
>
> Joanna
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
> KPFA morning show: off
>
> The idiots and maniacs who are now running Pacifica have decided to lay off
> the entire staff of the excellent KPFA Morning Show and to take it off the
> air: BREAKING: Pacifica management lays off entire staff of Morning Show |
> KPFA Worker. The show is the station’s most popular, and its best
> fundraiser. But its quality comes at a price: much of the staff actually
> earns a salary, with benefits.
>
> KPFA faces serious budget problems, but the union has proposed a way to
> deal with them. It looks like a faction of the local board has won the ear
> of the network’s executive director, Arlene Engelhardt. Their dream is to
> turn the station into an all-volunteer “community” station, which means an
> endless revolving door of amateurs who have no idea what they’re talking
> about.
>
> I’ve about had it with the whole Pacifica scene. It’s going down—and
> Engelhardt & Co. are helping.
>
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