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The most interesting thing to me is that the gifts are unrestricted with no reporting requirements. (Also unsolicited)

An enormous amount of philanthropic money ostensibly meant to support the marginalized ends up spent on paperwork and "middle management" to do applications, book-keeping for allocation and reporting requirements, and reporting -- and the salaries for the people doing all that, who are not usually the 'marginalized' intended to support.

Eliminating all that with unrestricted gifts with no reporting requiremens is huge -- and very unlike most of the "data-driven" "entrepeneurial giving" that is all the rage.




In that case you have no idea how the money is spent, right? Maybe it’s an improvement, but I’m inclined to say better the devil you know.




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