Nearly eight months after the FireAid concerts raised $100 million to help victims of the Los Angeles wildfires, essentially none of the cash has actually gone to help victims.
Instead, the Annenberg Foundation has showered the money on politically connected nonprofits that burn the donations on social-justice activism and other absurdities.
Of course, the foundation honchos calls them “trusted local nonprofits” that are concerned with “connection and well-being across entire communities.”
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Trusted by who? Which communities?
Certainly not the actual people who were burned out of their homes.
So who did get helped?
Nonprofit groups donating money to nonprofit groups that teach nonprofit groups how to most effectively support other nonprofit groups . . . have we got that right?
In the 40 years since LiveAid set the pattern for benefit concerts, superstars have lined up to raise funds in the name of AIDS, farmers, 9/11 first responders, Haiti, African famine and a host of other worthy causes.
People rightly dug deep to help the needy, near and far.
Yet a whole industry of middlemen has evolved to divert this charity off into an unaccountable vortex of professed do-gooders who mostly seem to scratch each others’ backs.
It’s sure looking like Big Philanthropy has become one giant con.