With more Massachusetts residents in need of social service programs, many nonprofits that provide such services say one of their biggest challenges is building stronger relationships with the corporate donors that fund them, a recent survey by the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network and Natixis Global Asset Management shows.
The survey, of 103 Massachusetts nonprofits, highlighted the difficulties such organizations faced when the economic downturn put more people in need of help but led corporations to cut back on giving as their businesses suffered. That forced many aid agencies to compete against each other for a smaller pool of money.
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So the charities must become corporate slaves just as have our governments. Liberty Mutual just got $$46.5 million from the state and city to subsidize their new office tower, plus tens of millions in other tax waivers on buildings they recently bought; now the company is hailed as a hero for giving $17 million (and I'm not so sure what that consists of). State Street's latest public gift is an $11.5 million property tax waiver. Charity begins at home -- our homes, the taxpayers' homes, who perforce give it to big corporations and then gratefully wait for crumbs to trickle down. Meanwhile, the government gets another excuse to slash services. Does no one understand this neo-conservative/neo-liberal death spiral?