Somehow it manages to claim it’s taking on the huge issue of “do non-profits drive social change” while also:
- never citing a single piece of data or quoting any experts.
- proposing three unrelated “ideas” without even trying to make the claim that the three are the holistic.
- never mentioning the impact of non-profits in the developing world, or on the lower income folks in the developed world.
- never mentioning a successful social movement, or even defining what “social change” is.
- for some reason conflating “elite status” with social change.
- assuming that any non-profits have him as a target population (rich professor at a university) in the first place.
I honestly felt embarrassed for the author (and the editors that okayed this) while reading this essay.
I don’t think this should be on the front page.
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Edit: I looked up what “Comment” was, since I hadn’t heard of the publication before. This is how they describe themselves:
> Comment is one of the core publications of Cardus, a think tank devoted to renewing North American social architecture, rooted in two thousand years of Christian social thought.