So there is some justice in this world: Three stupid MFers who got in a fight with a Family Dollar store security guard in 2020 over masking and wound up shooting him in the head, killing him, have all been sentenced to life in prison
The security guard, Calvin Munerlyn, was shot after telling a customer she needed to wear a mask in the store, prosecutors have said. The altercation occurred when retail employees and customers were required by a state-wide executive order to wear masks to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
Sharmel Lashe Teague, Larry Edward Teague and Ramonyea Travon Bishop were each convicted on murder and felony firearms charges in connection with the shooting, sentencing documents show. Larry Teague was also convicted of a habitual offender offense.
This is something I really don’t understand. What would “sustained growth” look like in an operation like NPR? More news bureaus around the world (staffed by reporters and analysts with fabulous names)? And how would that benefit the funders? If you care to elaborate, I would be interested.
Also, I have assumed that corporate funders were more like customers than owners. They do business with NPR or they don’t. Are any of them large enough to threaten enough to cause enough problems to cause management to change their practices? I do indeed hope not.
Well, I’m just spitballing here, but foundations have their own investors to worry about. So they need to be able to say, “See, we’re funding NPR, which is doing all these great new things with the money you’re giving us.” I don’t know that they need to see explicit operating revenue growth per se, but they want to constantly see innovation and improvement, which is often impossible to achieve without revenue growth. So it might translate to more news bureaus around the world, or it might translate to special projects requiring additional staff, or an additional radio show, or something interesting that foundations can say to their donors, “Hey, look what we’re doing with your money.”
Meanwhile, nonprofit boards often comprise corporate types who make a ton of money and have a hard time conceptualizing success in anything other than $$$. They are put on the board to solicit donations from their rich friends and colleagues, so it’s a deliberate choice on behalf of the nonprofit, but it can lead to a disconnect between the board’s ideas of what a successful nonprofit looks like vs. the staff on the ground.
With corporations it’s a bit different, because I would imagine whatever tax write-offs they are getting figure heavily. I understand the PR side a little better - corporations are concerned with the image that they are doing good with their money, and often what they are funding is designed to offset, in the public consciousness, whatever damage they are doing. So a big oil company would have a whole foundation arm dedicated to natural preservation or something. Some corporations have their employees decide on key issues to address with the funding. Some have their pet interests. I have no idea what corporations are funding NPR or how that figures in, in this case. In my experience, corporations tend to be heavy on giving in areas related to “community” improvement, so improved social services, economic growth/job preparedness, youth education (especially STEM), community development, and lately a whole slew of anti-racism initiatives.
But I guess my overall point is that nonprofit or not, there’s a certain business-like culture that is hard to avoid. How much influence a given foundation/corporation has on actual non-profit governance depends a lot on who is at the helm. Some orgs will jump at any chance to gain more revenue and others will say, “Fuck no, we’re not doing that.” Some funders don’t particularly care what you do with the money as long as your overall organization is strong, others have very stringent requirements.
I’m less sure about the private foundation piece. I’m not positive how those operate or how they are accountable to their investors. I’ve always wanted to try out grantmaking, and see what it’s like on the other side.
But don’t be unfair to this lady. It is wrong to infer from this information that she is bad at getting out of storm drains. She may have been in storm drains thousands of times, but she only gets publicity on the three occasions that she has to be rescued.
A Canadian woman is about to lose her home because she has stopped paying her mortgage, because the Queen of Canada has told her that the banks are fake and all debts will be forgiven.
This is so sad. These Q creeps are con artists who take advantage of these sorts of people. I can’t even imagine how many have died because of this garbage let alone lost their homes.
It seems that ole’ Ramona sniffed out a way to make some $ at the expense of ignorant people. I wonder when she’ll tell 'em all to off themselves for some equally stupid reason.
It’s Q creeps taking advantage of Q creeps. I feel bad for the kids, but there is too much other suffering in the world to get worked up over the self-inflicted plight of the mother. Pointing and laughing seems appropriate.
That’s the land of crazy. Florida is the land of sanity.
I’m starting to think that the anti-mask, anti-vax, anti-covid, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin promoting Surgeon General isn’t as smart as his title suggests. I wonder if he might also be wrong about Florida being the land of sanity?
I read the article. WTF? “Bonnie” is a complete moron. I suppose she’ll camp with the queen. The same morons who complain the government is too large, has a deep state, yet the morons continue their freedom to willingly get duped and suckered by someone who has no idea what government is and just lies.