Against Philanthropy

The central argument of this article is philanthropy, but also the main critiques of the nonprofit sector and funding. Jenny Price wrote about how they are getting big donations from huge corporations to the organization but by the being said, they are receiving tax write-offs in return. I like how Price put in the article how “The average major U.S. corporation maximizes profits as its primary goal while paying more limited attention to social and environmental consequences.” This shows that the companies aren’t paying any attention to the issues like; having vaccinations or refusing medication. 

 For example, the use is to help like, “In the Niger Delta, a $218 million Gates Foundation program provides polio and measles vaccinations.” Then the different organizations start to create more problem that links to the different cause of having polio and the measles. These examples show how nonprofits are fixing something but not the problem at hand.

(I’m going to be doing my old internship because I don’t know much right now about the internship I’m at right now) The YMCA in Smithfield they have received little too big donations from members of different companies. They always used the money where it really should be used instead of different programs, giving a raise to the employees or even making someone full time. The author has shown me they the nonprofit organizations need to know where to put their money to and how to make a well-balanced organization between the members and the staff. It would be better off with a nonprofit understand where the donations need to go before just putting it somewhere.