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"Disparagement of nonprofit workers is disheartening, disrespectful, and just plain wrong." That's the opinion of the CEO of the Health Trust of Silicon Valley in San Jose, Calif., after a number of local candidates for public office have criticized the work of nonprofit organizations, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
"We could not disagree more with these assertions," the nonprofit says in an open letter.
"We have never met a nonprofit staff person who wasn't a professional striving to improve lives."
The letter comes after one candidate wrote on social media that "nonprofit executives are not paid to solve our city's problems just to manage them."
Another candidate sent out a mass email saying nonprofits "have no incentive to deliver results."
"Nonprofit staff want to address the root causes of societal issues, while recognizing that few of these issues can be solved overnight by a single organization," the letter says.
"They are passionate about serving; creating thriving, healthy, and equitable communities; and working together to create results."
"Disparagement of nonprofit workers is disheartening, disrespectful, and just plain wrong," the letter continues.
"We urge all candidates for office to join us in saluting our nonprofit colleagues and thanking them for their heroic work."
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Foundation: Community Foundation of Broward
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"People used to go swimming in it, and then how grateful [they] are for the work that we're doing in conjunction with the government and other organizations," Mike Smith tells This Week in...more
"No matter how hard we work, until we get our capital aligned, we're not going to fix the problems," Cory Donovan, executive director of ImpactPHL, tells Technical.ly. That's why the nonprofit in...more
Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences recently honored three of its alumni with 2024 Outstanding Alumni Awards.Vijay Nandula, of Overland Park, Kansas, was this year's recipient of the...more
If you're looking for a way to boost your community's sense of place, researchers at Gustavson University in Sweden have just the thing. They've developed a set of five principles that community...more
Foundation: Changemakers
The US may be the world's top emitter of carbon dioxide, but the European Union is No. 1 when it comes to researching and developing green technologies. In fact, the EU is No. 1 when it...more
When Brazil takes over the presidency of the G20 in 2024, it will be the first country to do so from the developing world. But a new report from the Chatham House think tank warns that Brazil...more
When Josh Fryday joined the California Service Corps as a 17-year-old high school senior, he never imagined he'd end up as the state's chief service officer. But that's about to change. The...more
Google has a new privacy-related headache to deal with: its own self-driving car. In a blog post, the company explains that it plans to start testing its own self-driving car in the US next year,...more
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