“This isn’t about respecting our elders. It is about people keeping a senile man in a position he should not be in”
I, as I’m sure many other nonprofit leaders do, grapple with many of the questions being raised in the Inbox in the last few weeks: What qualifies as a need? Who is needy? What level of needy qualifies for the organization’s funding? How much of this process needs to be disclosed to donors? What level donor should have access to this info, if any?
I look at the distribution of funds from a different angle.
Baruch Hashem, I have ability to be a conduit of giving because of the generosity of others, but I’ve also lived the struggle of asking. Maybe that’s what made me establish a few cardinal rules:
1) If I personally choose to lend or give someone funds, I do not look at how they live or how they choose to spend it. If I choose to give it, I leave it to that person to choose how to spend it.
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