alt Hacker News"It’s just that almost nobody looks."
Looking will blow up too many cushy deals for too much of the Powers That Be. A great deal of it is non-show "chairmanship" jobs for the family and friends of politicians. Legal bribes.
Feeding Our Future was another fine example of the shenanigans that go on in the US. Power Forward Communities was setup with $100 and captured $2 billion in EPA grants; caught while still doing only token work and not yet having been drained into the pockets of the favored. Abundant Blessings in CA was another nest of fraud; in criminal court right now.
Seems like you can't go more than a couple days without another non-profit scam mess hitting headlines.
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OK - except I recall a tour of Japanese graduate students at CompuMentor in San Francisco, studying the whole setup.. the reason? there are no "non-profits" in Japan (at that time, still?). CompuMentor was a great example -- both dipping deeply into the tills with special sales and large steady cash flows AND serving a genuinely underserved niche.
Throw-down on some EPA effort As If That Is Typical, is intellectually dishonest. Mitigation and remediation are expensive and take time. And also there is substantial abuse and greenwashing. So you throw out the baby with the bathwater, so to speak.
"Its all a scam" says the barstool attorney, doing nothing.
So many people sitting on the wealth created by the hard working people, lol.
Can you explain what you're referring to about Power Forward Communities? As far as I can tell it's a network of established non profits like Habitat for Humanity and Rewiring America, it seems they did more than token work in things like electrification before their grant was rescinded.
The actual org itself acts as an umbrella to coordinate work among the participating non-profits.