Comments on: Dear Nonprofiteer, Whose money is too filthy to take, and why? http://nonprofiteer.net/2012/04/06/dear-nonprofiteer-whose-money-is-too-filthy-to-take-and-why/ Nonprofits Without The Nonsense--and that's just the tip of the iceberg! Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:23:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Nonprofiteer http://nonprofiteer.net/2012/04/06/dear-nonprofiteer-whose-money-is-too-filthy-to-take-and-why/#comment-7058 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:14:26 +0000 http://nonprofiteer.net/?p=3249#comment-7058 Bill, I agree but the topic isn’t the humanity we share but the interactions of organizations with which we’re affiliated. Everyone working at a particular corporation may be fine and yet its business may reflect badly on the recipient of its largesse. It’s not a purity test so much as an examination of how to be respectful to the public and your other supporters.

]]> By: Bill Arvanites http://nonprofiteer.net/2012/04/06/dear-nonprofiteer-whose-money-is-too-filthy-to-take-and-why/#comment-7012 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:04:08 +0000 http://nonprofiteer.net/?p=3249#comment-7012 Every time we apply a “purity” test to anything we deny the basic humanity we all share. Quite simply, that we are all a complex set of contradictions and failings. Strive as we might, we are all on a road to failure so the real issue is, along that road do we advance our own given agendas or do we presumptivley and self-righteously turn the cannon on others, lest it find us!

]]> By: Anita Bernstein http://nonprofiteer.net/2012/04/06/dear-nonprofiteer-whose-money-is-too-filthy-to-take-and-why/#comment-6797 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:20:54 +0000 http://nonprofiteer.net/?p=3249#comment-6797 You’re right of course that “the mission” is a vague and elusive thing. I was just inclined to defer to management. Nonprofit boards have next to no accountability anyway! The bosses, I figure, are under enough pressure to bring in bucks that when they choose to turn away a controversial gift they probably know what they are doing.

]]> By: Nonprofiteer http://nonprofiteer.net/2012/04/06/dear-nonprofiteer-whose-money-is-too-filthy-to-take-and-why/#comment-6795 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:03:14 +0000 http://nonprofiteer.net/?p=3249#comment-6795 It is pretty routine, but of course Max made a big fuss about his gift’s being rejected and like Pavlov’s dog we responded; sorry. However, it is often debatable what would constitute “harming the mission,” which is why this is an issue that won’t go away. If Mothers Against Drunk Driving takes money from Seagram’s, is that suitable repentance or does it damage MADD’s credibility?

]]> By: Anita Bernstein http://nonprofiteer.net/2012/04/06/dear-nonprofiteer-whose-money-is-too-filthy-to-take-and-why/#comment-6794 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:56:38 +0000 http://nonprofiteer.net/?p=3249#comment-6794 Isn’t it routine, and not too newsworthy, for nonprofits to refuse large gifts that in their opinion would harm the mission? Planned Parenthood is different from Lincoln Center in that it depends much more on government funding and smallish gifts. Both might be jeopardized by this gimmick.

If Tucker Max had been offering money in good faith, he had the option of donating anonymously. He’s good at marketing himself and I suspect he realizes that at 38 he is aging out of his fratboy shtick and needs a new stunt. I’d ignore him and the pseudo-controversy he confected.

(He’s not just a blogger, alas, Nonprofiteer: Max has apparently made money from his nasty-sounding books. I’ve never seen them, but he says they are bestsellers.)

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