The disgusting nature of liberalism, at its worst:
…now the philanthropic world has something else to worry about. Today the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP), a research and advocacy group, will release a report offering “benchmarks to assess foundation performance.” Its real aim is to push philanthropic organizations into ignoring donor intent and instead giving grants based on political considerations.
The committee is part of a rising tide of politicians and activists who are working to change the face of American philanthropy — and not for the better.
The report, titled “Criteria for Philanthropy at its Best,” advises foundations to “provide at least 50 percent of grant dollars to benefit lower-income communities, communities of color, and other marginalized groups, broadly defined.” The committee looked at 809 of the largest foundations in the country, whose combined three-year grants totaled almost $15 billion, and concluded that the majority of foundations are “eschewing the needs of the most vulnerable in our society” by neglecting “marginalized groups.”
Two years ago, an advocacy group in San Francisco called Greenlining began releasing similar reports. Greenlining’s aim then was to pass legislation in California mandating that foundations report to the public the percentage of their dollars given to “minority-led” organizations and the percentage of their boards and staffs made up by racial and ethnic minorities. The legislation was dropped when several foundations promised to donate money to causes Greenlining favored.
Now Greenlining has put out reports in Florida, Pennsylvania and New York trying to shame foundations into distributing grants differently, as well as pressure them into recruiting more “diverse” board and staff members. The NCRP report picks up on this theme to suggest that foundation boards and staffs should include people with a “diversity of perspectives.”
To translate from the liberalese: “This is a nice, little charity you have going here – be a shame if something were to happen do it. Know what I mean?”
Real charities – to differentiate from the more bogus charities which go by the name of ACORN and PUSH, for instance – have to achieve results in order to keep the donations coming in…and there are just tens of billions of dollars floating through these hard working and dedicated charities. And what the heck does all that money do? Buy food and clothing? Provide a little medical care? What’s that all about? Liberal layabouts need some swag – and so the shakedown is on. Having already held up the government and corporations for ransom, the only large pot of money untapped by corrupt liberal “charity” groups is, well, charity money. You kick in that $5 to United Way, and now you can be pleased to know that 10 or 20 cents of that money will flow over to some “community organizer” who lives in a rich neighborhood while “organizing” a poor neighborhood.
Cool, huh?
Welcome to Barack Obama’s America, boys and girls.
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