No I think charities should ensure their grant funding goes via them, not via defunct phone stores. And if their ops folks can’t manage that I probably hold the charity leadership accountable.
Will was an unpaid adviser, right? While the extent of his involvement is unclear to me, it’s not obvious he in particular should have been expected to monitor the organization’s ops.
I suspect they were told at a high level that the payments were made through various entities for tax/accounting reasons and didn’t dig into the nature of each of those entities. Indeed, there almost certainly were good tax reasons to structure certain payments other than through the 501c3. I don’t think I would downgrade them for not independently investigating each of the grantor entities. There’s just no ex ante reason to think one of them would be a chain of defunct phone stores. . .
No I think charities should ensure their grant funding goes via them, not via defunct phone stores. And if their ops folks can’t manage that I probably hold the charity leadership accountable.
Happy to be wrong, but I’m pretty confident.
Will was an unpaid adviser, right? While the extent of his involvement is unclear to me, it’s not obvious he in particular should have been expected to monitor the organization’s ops.
I suspect they were told at a high level that the payments were made through various entities for tax/accounting reasons and didn’t dig into the nature of each of those entities. Indeed, there almost certainly were good tax reasons to structure certain payments other than through the 501c3. I don’t think I would downgrade them for not independently investigating each of the grantor entities. There’s just no ex ante reason to think one of them would be a chain of defunct phone stores. . .