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*[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" ]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_ykevdIwpg A Tedx Talk at TEDxIEMadrid by "Diana Ruano" Titled "Bursting the bubble of non-profits" ]
*[https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/know-your-enemy-pseudo-philanthropic-neoliberalism "An Article by "Canadian Dimension" Titled "Know your enemy: The dangerous futility of pseudo-philanthropic neoliberalism" ] ( [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Dimension Their Wikipedia Page] shows they are "biased", but eh this is my echo chamber dammit)


[[Category: Business/Economics/Finance]]
[[Category: Business/Economics/Finance]]

Revision as of 00:01, 20 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

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