Charitable business as fraud

By Jeff Trexler on May 3, 2009 5:50 PM | | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

Exposing waste and fraud in charity is a sure-fire way for a news outlet to generate publicity. Today, the Arizona Republic has launched a four-part series in which it portends to reveal an arrays of abuses in ostensibly charitable organizations.

I'm just beginning to catch up from a week of being waylaid by the flu or somesuch nasty thing, so my thoughts today will be brief. Suffice it to say that I believe such stories expose as much about our perception of charity as they do concerning charitable organizations.

The following is a particularly interesting exchange from the comment thread. Note the attitude toward business activity--the underlying assumption is that charity is by nature noncommercial, such that commercial activity is equated with deception & self-enrichment:

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