Wednesday, May 17, 2017

What Trump And A Number Of Nonprofits Share In Common

    What Trump shares with a number of nonprofit organizations are the following:
1.  They are good at pointing out problems, creating the impression that they have the solution.
2.  They promise a lot, and no one ever holds them accountable as to what they actually deliver.
3.  The lack of accountability and scrutiny regarding efficacy allows them to go on and on in the case of many nonprofits, with many getting ever richer and more entrenched in people's minds as the answer to an array of problems that they actually do little to nothing about. In Trumps case, as long as he operated in the insular world of the Trump enterprises, he could do as he wanted. He made the mistake of putting himself into a spotlight that is unlike anything he experienced before.
      Trump's ego demanded the presidency, a world of scrutiny far different than what many nonprofits or Trump enterprises ever experience. That was his undoing. Fortunately for a number of nonprofits, and unfortunately for the populations they serve, they have no aspirations beyond their continued survival, self promotion, and wealth expansion.
        Without critically examining an organization as to its efficacy, there can be no true accountability in the nonprofit world. People too easily are willing to blindly follow based on words, marketing and propaganda. Words and promises keep a number of ineffective, even harmful, nonprofits alive and strong. Words and promises handed Trump the presidency.

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