@cicerone imposter,
I sat on the Board of a non-profit whose mission was to provide training for mentally impaired adults. It was a day program and we would offer job opportunities, we had a woodshed, green house and pottery and some people would earn money for the various products they made. These people are all wards of the State, and the State provides the funding for special needs, the day program and most if not all of the funding needed.
The Board members were all unpaid volunteers, but during the time I served I became increasingly concerned about our fund-raising efforts. The CEO was well paid, but the people trained in caring for our population made far too little money. I'm not talking about minor housekeeping, I'm talking about people with MA's in special needs folks and it takes a special kind of person to work with our folks. My concerns were with the cozy relashionship between the CEO and the people he would hire to run special events. One project was the building fund, they wanted to expand. They hired a party planner to set up a gala and we spent obscene amounts of money to raise money. The CEO told us her budget was $28,000 but it was like pulling teeth trying to find out if she stuck to her budget. All he would admit was that she had gone over and that was 8 months before the event. When all was said and done, we raised $180,000 and when you subtract the party planner's fee, the video she had made, the hotel party room, the catering and the band we cleared $14,000. Plus the frigging tickets were $250 and it was a cash bar.
I had to resign, I couldn't prove anything was wrong but I wanted to get out before any or if any wrongdoing or mishandling of funds occurred. I was on the Executive Committee and if I couldn't get answers it made me very uneasy.
