Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too

DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Spending 1-2% on salaries

  These greedy cunts are probably 1% of the workforce though. How much is actually spent on salaries?

  Stop defending them

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  • Celestus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    How much would you prefer they made? Do you think the world would be a better place if they shut down their charity businesses?

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  • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Stop defending them

    Idk anything about them. I am just pointing out that having bad execs (whether incompetent, careless or outright embezzlers) is far worse than paying 1-2%. As far as I know, no one has came up with a better way to get good execs than paying them a lot.

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• BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Chief Philanthropy Officer probably heads their fundraising team. Aka sales

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s exactly what they do. They also usually act as a liason between their mega donors to ensure the money is spent in the way it’s ear marked for. Mega donors usually donate conditionally, basically a type of private grant.

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    • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Thanks for the extra info.

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  • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That makes sense, thanks for the info.

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• enbyecho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What you are describing is blackmail.

  “Pay us exorbitant salaries or we’ll be forced to embezzle the funds”

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  • MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s also human nature for the kind of psychopath executive positions attract.

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    • enbyecho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      So we should just accept that and pay them off rather than putting in mechanisms to prevent that and hiring people who are motivated by something other than the payout?

      It might seem like we have no choice but we do, collectively, hold the power of the purse here. And I think this post is a great example of that.

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      • MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        No, we shouldn’t, but that’s what is happening.

        And yes, I agree.

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      • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You are not necessarily paying of the same people. Even most honest/righteous people like money. So the charity willing to pay them get those and the charities that don’t risk getting the kind of people who don’t mind embezzling.

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  • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I am not an exec, so no it is not. It is just statement of fact.

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    • enbyecho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What is “it” in your comment?

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      • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        What I am describing is not blackmail. It is the same as saying that leaving unguarded food next to starving people encourages theft of said food. That is not blackmail. I am saying nothing beyond that. I am not commenting on morality of the situation or what the right thing to do is. Just pointing out it is not quite as simple.

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  • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Last time I checked prison was the real alternative.

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    • enbyecho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      For the little people.

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    • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Would be nice if that worked. If you embezzle the money smartly, e.g. giving lucrative contracts to friends consultancy firm, there is pretty much no way to prove it.

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• eran_morad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s only salary up there that should be elevated, but a more reasonable value would be $250-350K. At least in my extremely expensive market. That’s the guy that asks rich people for money. He generates multiples of his salary in value. He could get a well-paying job at virtually any large nonprofit.

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  • ricdeh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Who cares for your funking CFO? No way he’s the guy doing “innovative shit that saves lives across the world”, it’s the guys below him making a fraction of his salary.

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    • eran_morad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You try running an org without a CFO and see how it goes.

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  • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Interesting. Our local art museum pays their philanthropic director about $170k. Smaller org of course.

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  • MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Don’t want to dox you or anything but are you comfortable saying the nonprofit you work for? I’m just curious.

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    • eran_morad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Fuck no.

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      • MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Haha fair enough! Love it.

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