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The non-profit apocalypse
« on: April 03, 2020, 08:38:29 PM »
I'll donate it to the Food Bank ...or whatever organization is left standing.

Charity giving has mostly dried up, especially the big, corporate donations that allow capital projects.

A friend who works for an educational non-profit says that now it's just a question of seeing who is still standing when this is over. "Mom and pop" non-profits will survive, because they have no paid staff. The big players will survive, because they have resources to weather the storm.

The mid-sized organizations may drop like flies. People are freaking out.
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/its-different-this-time-handling-your-nonprofits-staffing-under-covid-19/


I'm trying to stay ahead of my scarcity fears and keep donating or increase donations to organizations I want to see still standing when its all over. In many cases, their work will be more important than ever and resources more limited.

Full disclosure: I'm not always living up to my goal.

When this is all over, we're still going to have to deal with a few other small problems, like, say, education, climate change and other pollution, lack of safe drinking water in much of the world, etc, etc, etc. So even though it seems far less urgent than supporting food banks, I am also trying to keep supporting organizations who never take their eyes off things I care about in the long term, even if I'm getting distracted like everyone else in the short term. Because, for example, the big polluters never take their eyes of the prize either.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/29/21198674/coronavirus-epa-trump-regulations

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Re: The non-profit apocalypse
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2020, 09:21:38 PM »
>Charity giving has mostly dried up

For individual giving, that was a predicted outcome of the last tax overhaul.

Those that rely on physical product donations, sweat, and grunt work -mom & pops, Salvation Army for example- might hold up. Most of the middle is toast.

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Re: The non-profit apocalypse
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2020, 09:23:07 PM »
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Churches are a dead man walking.