tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220098.post4404833021511369474..comments2023-10-02T09:09:12.963-07:00Comments on NonprofitEye: SOLVING THE NONPROFIT IDENTITY CRISISP. Ashlundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08849994782572188510noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220098.post-35058519955737785652006-09-06T14:40:00.000-07:002006-09-06T14:40:00.000-07:00If you consider that the term "liberal" in modern ...If you consider that the term "liberal" in modern political usage devolves from the concept of Liberal Thought as we define the school of political theorists Including Hobbes, Locke, and John Stuart Mill among others we shouldn't be surprised by its drifting definition. Aside from your brilliant reflection on the liberal use of red herrings, slight of hand and other forms of misdirection perfected by the very same politicians who want to eat our lunch, I want to remind you that one very good way to lose one's (c)3 status is to engage in unfair competition with any and all for-profits. This is legally defined as doing the same activities as a for-profit but for much less because we use volunteers and/or slave-labor (thats an inside joke on not-for-profit wage scales.) This of course smacks of the entire realm of unfair competition we lump together as anti-trust. Imagine lumping us together with BIG BUSINESS like MIcrosoft and Standard Oil and such!!!<br /><br />But back to your central theme re 'do-gooders' and Maslow and such: This entire issue exists because of two things: the disappearance of the huge "housewife" class who volunteered in a multitude of ways to escape brain death, and the late 1960's beginning of large amounts of federal grant dollars directed to community based organizations to, well, do good. In other words the posibility that one might be paid to do this stuff. This opens the 'other sector' to the other gender, and its been downhill ever since. If we utilize gender in organizational structure analysis, the biggest complaints against femal models has been their inefficiency; against male models it has been a tendency toward the absence of ethical constraints. Thus the integration of classic business modeling into any nonprofit venture will ipso facto carry with it the virus of relative ethics.Nonprofit Pundithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02091571125550822079noreply@blogger.com