I've done my research here. Now it's your turn. These people's names are all on the Charity Navigator pages I referenced. Try them on LinkedIn & other online sites.
Tell us what their qualifications are, what other jobs they've held, and where they live.
For bonus points: what political causes do they contribute to? Civil Service laws prohibit forcing employees to make political contributions, but those laws don't apply to employees of these orgs, AFAIK.
> If you don’t trust them, you don’t have to give them your money
This is untrue from my experience of interacting and be part of several non-profits. Most of these non-profits have actual executives from well known companies in similar positions contributing their time to be unpaid volunteer. Great non-profits I know have largely unpaid executive staff. When I see non-profits with significantly paid executive staff, my heart sinks and I would rather stay away from them. More often than not these are pseudo non-profits exploiting holes in the tax laws and essentially getting tax free revenues to pay themselves.
Fun fact: several racial supremists, left as well as right extremists personalities don’t actually have full time jobs. They are typically head of some “non-profit” created specifically for them where rich people can donate money and they get this money as salary to “run” the non-profit.
Do you expect qualified people to work for these charities for free? 100k is not a lot in SF, and it's very likely the people in those roles could make multiples more at private organizations.
Non-profits should hire people who personally care about the non-profit's mission. Paying less than average is a good way to filter out people who're only in it for the money.
Hmmm - "if you work for a non-profit and you don't give money to charity, what exactly are you doing in this job?" Well, from the charities that I've seen, the money they pay in salaries is far below what the same job in the private sector would pay. Not a fair comparison IMO
At least in DC a lot of foundations/non-profits are a way to brush up the resumes of children of well-connected people with "leadership" and other qualifications while they make very good money. I am also very skeptical since I learned about this.
Add churches and a lot of other non-profits to that list. I think all these institutions deserve a close look as to how the money is spent and whether they deserve tax breaks. When I lived in Northern VA I met quite a few non-profit higher ups that made huge salaries and did absolutely nothing for the public good.
Do you believe that there are no resources needed for non profits? That donations made by person A magically get to person B who needs them? You are oblivious of the underlying business aspect that any nonprofit requires as they grow. Someone has the make running that business their job, and they do deserve to be paid for it. Non profits must disclose what they pay or compensate those people and its public information. You're more than capable of looking into any organization yourself before donating to them.
Are those non-profits financed by local companies? Yes, it's usual that they will try to solve their own problems, that's why you select good people and give them a reason to thing about the bigger picture (that is, you pay them)
Tell us what their qualifications are, what other jobs they've held, and where they live.
For bonus points: what political causes do they contribute to? Civil Service laws prohibit forcing employees to make political contributions, but those laws don't apply to employees of these orgs, AFAIK.
> If you don’t trust them, you don’t have to give them your money
I don't, but the City still does.
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