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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charity_assessment Charity Assessment] | *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charity_assessment Charity Assessment] | ||
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y1xJAVZxXg A Video by the News Show " [[Last Week Tonight with John Oliver]] " Titled "Televangelists" ] (It essentially goes over cases wherein churches (a type on non profit, under USA law) are used to enrich the owners) (They went so far as to file the paperwork for and (for a short period) run "Our Lady of Perpetual Tax Exemption", before donating the money raised to Doctors Without Borders) | *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y1xJAVZxXg A Video by the News Show " [[Last Week Tonight with John Oliver]] " Titled "Televangelists" ] (It essentially goes over cases wherein churches (a type on non profit, under USA law) are used to enrich the owners) (They went so far as to file the paperwork for and (for a short period) run "Our Lady of Perpetual Tax Exemption", before donating the money raised to Doctors Without Borders) | ||
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_ykevdIwpg A Tedx Talk at TEDxIEMadrid by "Diana Ruano" Titled "Bursting the bubble of non-profits" ] | |||
Revision as of 23:03, 19 March 2021
Basics
- A Non Profit that still makes profit, but does accounting in such a way that they can appear to be making no profit
- Mainly an issue of lack of Oversight / Transparency
- This may be helped via the Open Budgeting Standard , existing similar things, and future government / multi-state action along these lines
- Also probably merging this with critiques of "philanthropy" / a "psudo-non profit" page
Internal Links
External Links
- The Wikipedia Page on Charity Fraud
- The Wikipedia Page on "Badge Charity"
- Charity Assessment
- A Video by the News Show " Last Week Tonight with John Oliver " Titled "Televangelists" (It essentially goes over cases wherein churches (a type on non profit, under USA law) are used to enrich the owners) (They went so far as to file the paperwork for and (for a short period) run "Our Lady of Perpetual Tax Exemption", before donating the money raised to Doctors Without Borders)
- A Tedx Talk at TEDxIEMadrid by "Diana Ruano" Titled "Bursting the bubble of non-profits"