The state uses nonprofits to redirect activist energies into career-based modes of organizing instead of mass-based modes of organizing capable of actually transforming society.
Educational videos by Another Slice on the nonprofit-industrial complex here. Watch them all or you're a liberal.
Oh I am but this was largely something I've been aware of. Definitely gonna share with libs though, looks real good.
Same here, haha. They're all highly informative. If you read this post, these videos are why I'm stressing the vetting of nonprofits so heavily.
This is why Baltimore's protests were extremely tame this year. In the wake of the unrest in 2015, there was an upsurge in liberal nonprofits that hire black paid "activists" that go to protests with megaphones and loudspeakers to tell everyone to stay peaceful and obey the cops and that we can change everything if we just vote. They also have vigilante groups that would go around and apprehend anyone throwing stuff or whatever and hand them over to the cops in the name of "keeping our city safe " or whatever. They've basically created an environment where unrest is nearly impossible.
True facts. The boards of nonprofits are often stacked with literal capitalists and a few token “community members.” And IME they definitely take advantage of their workers by appealing to the moral nature of the work, less pay longer hours because “we’re not in it for the money.”
But then at the top, there’s always some executive director who gets at least 6 figures to do some unspecified hobnobbing and lecturing (and the actual salary is weirdly not transparent).
Most non-profits are required to publish their financial information as a result of their tax exempt status. If you read the post I made here, you'll find helpful tips in analyzing the financial workings of a nonprofit before making a donation. You'll generally be able to find information about executive salary in their Form 990s. Political nonprofits are a fuck though.
Not all of the non-profit sector is a scam, just a lot of it. There are some genuinely good ones that actually strive to help others. I'll always shill pretty hard for Feeding America and their partners. All tax exempt non-profits publish their financial reports to the public and I hope that this post gives you some of the tools necessary to determine if a non-profit is worth donating to.
