The Mussolini Approach Toward Individualism Is Alive and Well in the Non-profit Sector

Benevolent Feudalism and its discontents. #CrappyFundingPractices

One-of-a-kind ceramic Carp, sculpted by Weston, and put together and decorated by the author, The slip cast design is one of many productivity assets that I must protect, preserve, and place. See my mission here.

Having grown up and spent much of my adult life engaged in a small independently owned free enterprise that designs and makes hand-crafted ceramics, I am very familiar with the Mussolini attitude being directed at small free enterprises by the non-profit sector, merely for being free enterprises, and this while the non-profit sector covets funding from large foundations created by publicly-traded corporations highly subsidized by taxes on the free enterprise economy. Any social criticism that might be directed at the large corporations that fund the non-profits is redirected to the small free enterprise sector, which by nature is an individualistic and independent culture. Central management hates that!

More importantly in the small free enterprise sector, ownership is disperse…