Gregory's Server@tinker in canada, non profits have work in the areas you are discussing. I have work at one site, a job that is difficult to fill at a site that struggles with hiring. Yes non profits can be considered "sell outs", compromising values for funding, but they do provide for people struggling. I cook 2 days a week. In 4 years this building has been open, they have only had one other person cook my shifts, and only for 5 months. The site i work at hasn't had a janitor in over two years. The people who live there used to be homeless and many of them struggle with substance use/self medication. Another option for joining in.
@doublemonkeyfun - Yeah, non-profits and charities are similar in that. It's capitalism co-opting community movements.
The goals of that non-profit are good, as you've mentioned. But the apparatus of the non-profit and forcing it to find "funding" from capitalist sources are limiting. And that's by design.
It makes sense that it has the problems its having.
My section where I say I'll work with some charities if it has an apparatus that helps with an immediate goal applies to non-profits as well.
I don't think of them as "sell-outs" - I just dont think that model works at all. The examples that you've given align with my understanding.
@doublemonkeyfun - Yeah, non-profits and charities are similar in that. It's capitalism co-opting community movements.
The goals of that non-profit are good, as you've mentioned. But the apparatus of the non-profit and forcing it to find "funding" from capitalist sources are limiting. And that's by design.