@doublemonkeyfun - Yeah, non-profits and charities are similar in that. It's capitalism co-opting community movements.
The goals of that non-profit are good, as you've mentioned. But the apparatus of the non-profit and forcing it to find "funding" from capitalist sources are limiting. And that's by design.
It makes sense that it has the problems its having.
My section where I say I'll work with some charities if it has an apparatus that helps with an immediate goal applies to non-profits as well.
I don't think of them as "sell-outs" - I just dont think that model works at all. The examples that you've given align with my understanding.
As I sit in my mom’s house without power for the second time in a week, I realize that I’m kind of sick of these “freak” storms we’ve been having.
My mom said to me tonight, “So with climate change we’re going to keep getting more of these?”, and I was simultaneously proud and heartbroken.
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