Someone donated 100k to them recently and they apparently gave it all to their community and didn’t use it to save their own org, so now they’re broke and dying.
Even cash won’t save you if you don’t know how to budget and plan.
Even cash won’t save you if you don’t know how to budget and plan.
i'm not sure if people here comprehend how much work it is to do and sustain something like this for almost a decade. a lot of the work is niche community-building, it's a hard slog fought one workshop at a time. its like herding idealistic cats, not easy. i will always appreciate those who hold the line and choose to die on weird hills like this.
while i commend them on their work to date, it's clear that this is a hard problem to solve within our current socio-economic environment. after all, plastic is around us, within us, and inevitably part of us now. as humans we need to stop burying it and confront what we are doing.
The fact that no one has any accurate figures is just one of many issues with this project and plea for help.
I don't think this is true, but I do think it's more than 2x harder to be both effective and well-meaning.
Getting things done without doing anything shady or unethical is sort of like winning a race while running on one leg.
And I see no mention that they have any plans to not do it again
This is such a weird critique to me. Their goal is to create a community… giving $$ to the community is furthering their goal.