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Politics : THE BIN LADEN LOVERS' HALL OF SHAME AKA THE BIN LAUNDRY LIST -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KLP who wrote (123)	11/21/2001 8:45:53 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 383

KLP, I think it has to do with the perks a top exec gets. They think nothing of charging all sorts of personal expenses to the co. account. At a private corp., that is acceptable behavior for someone who is bringing in the cash. But for a charity, you are spending gifts from caring people and it is a different game. And I am saying this as someone who used to really milk the old expense account when I was growing my funds big time. I would have needed a few months of rehab before I could have gone from fund management to charity management. Also, many business execs get into the charity game to "network" for their next job or deal and they just don't keep as close an eye on the budget as they should. The United Campaign is famous for this. It is also one of the reasons why many lower level employees feel the co. putting the arm on them for contributions to The United Campaign. It is sort of a top executives social club and they all want to look good in front of their compadres. However, all that being said, some of these bloated organizations do a heck of a lot of good work and help a lot of people. I just dislike them because the abuses tend to cut donations from those who are naturally suspicious.