Strong upvote from me. I really appreciated the frank sharing of your experience and also that it was playfully written (and more on this forum could be!)
Particularly keen on the policy mandating anonymous donations, and building a receiving organisation to do this and (presumably) pool all different donations for cause / intervention X together and administering them? TBH, it seems like a no-brainer to me to do in the first place if governance was being prioritised. Main reason I think you would keep the close donor-adviser relationship in place would be:
historic precedence, this being the expectation in classic philanthroty
a belief that if you make a strong relationship with the donor, you can influence their donations to better places and at higher scale (and not an unreasonable belief at that)
something something ‘donors deserve this for their money’ something something ‘accountability’ and other things which someone might put forward a more earnest argument for that I would
And I’m genuinely curious if people who advise donors 1:1 think that such interventions / policies you list would deter donors? Or if, on the plausible trade-off between anonymity-as-prevention-against-capture Vs. getting donations, they think it’s net positive?
Would also be keen to hear views of donors directly on this (even if this thread might not be the most hospitable place given Eigenrobot’s unpacking of how these structures necessarily corrupt).
Strong upvote from me. I really appreciated the frank sharing of your experience and also that it was playfully written (and more on this forum could be!)
Particularly keen on the policy mandating anonymous donations, and building a receiving organisation to do this and (presumably) pool all different donations for cause / intervention X together and administering them? TBH, it seems like a no-brainer to me to do in the first place if governance was being prioritised. Main reason I think you would keep the close donor-adviser relationship in place would be:
historic precedence, this being the expectation in classic philanthroty
a belief that if you make a strong relationship with the donor, you can influence their donations to better places and at higher scale (and not an unreasonable belief at that)
something something ‘donors deserve this for their money’ something something ‘accountability’ and other things which someone might put forward a more earnest argument for that I would
And I’m genuinely curious if people who advise donors 1:1 think that such interventions / policies you list would deter donors? Or if, on the plausible trade-off between anonymity-as-prevention-against-capture Vs. getting donations, they think it’s net positive?
Would also be keen to hear views of donors directly on this (even if this thread might not be the most hospitable place given Eigenrobot’s unpacking of how these structures necessarily corrupt).