Are there no profit charity organization where everyone is a volunteer and no one draws a salary?
Lots of these orgs often seem like they exist to maintain the organization than benefit their cause.
Lots of these orgs often seem like they exist to maintain the organization than benefit their cause.
Organizations and causes require people who work full time to help organize the charitable work. It is very difficult to find people to volunteer at this level and typically if you do, they are independently wealthy. Retired people can do more but typically they do not want to give that much time and have other things they want to do.
4 hrs a week which is a typical volunteer shift at our hospital does not lend itself to pulling all the details together.
Good people deserve to get paid to do good work. Just like in tech, you get what you pay for. And typically a nonprofit worker puts extra hours and time in as does their family members in support of the cause.
I often hear, well, if you don't pay them top salary you are not going to attract people from private enterprise. I don't think you want people whose main motivation to contribute is money.
It's probably easier to get that guy you know who is high-up at Kroger to get involved in your charity in a mutually-beneficial way.
Or maybe I'm just really really over the edge jaded and cynical. It's probably that.