Edited to clarify that my experiences were all with the same organization.
Some personal examples:
I worked for an EA-adjacent organization and was repeatedly asked, and witnessed co-workers being asked, to use campaign donation data to solicit people for political and charitable donations. This is illegal[1]. My employer openly stated they knew it was illegal, but said that it was fine because “everyone does it and we need the money”. I was also asked, and witnessed other people being told, to falsify financial reports to funders to make it look like we had spent grant money that, in various situations, we either: hadn’t spent, didn’t know whether we’d spent it or not, or may have spent on things that the grant hadn’t been given for. Depending on how the specific sums of monies had actually been spent, that was anywhere from illegal to at least a massive breach of the contracts with our funders.
I worked for an EA-adjacent organization and was asked, and witnessed other people being told, to falsify financial reports to funders to make it look like we had spent grant money that, in various situations, we either: hadn’t spent, didn’t know whether we’d spent it or not, or may have spent on things that the grant hadn’t been given for. Depending on how the specific sums of monies had actually been spent, that was anywhere from illegal to at least a massive breach of the contracts with our funders.
Edited to clarify that my experiences were all with the same organization.
Some personal examples:
I worked for an EA-adjacent organization and was repeatedly asked, and witnessed co-workers being asked, to use campaign donation data to solicit people for political and charitable donations. This is illegal[1]. My employer openly stated they knew it was illegal, but said that it was fine because “everyone does it and we need the money”. I was also asked, and witnessed other people being told, to falsify financial reports to funders to make it look like we had spent grant money that, in various situations, we either: hadn’t spent, didn’t know whether we’d spent it or not, or may have spent on things that the grant hadn’t been given for. Depending on how the specific sums of monies had actually been spent, that was anywhere from illegal to at least a massive breach of the contracts with our funders.
https://www.fec.gov/updates/sale-or-use-contributor-information/
Wtf?! This is extremely concerning.