I may make an attempt of my own over the next week or so.
Regarding:
It is usually better to work a highly-paid job and donate because if you work for a charity you replace the person who would have been hired had you not applied
Certainly this will be true for some people, but my impression is that skilled labor is often a limiting factor in the philanthropic world and this makes the situation more murky. I’ll have a lot more to say about this in a future post.
Excellent. I think you would write an excellent article, and Jsalvatier I see has put up some $.
Regarding $ vs time, typically if you have 10 equally skilled people who can each either donate $30k/yr or offer $30k/yr worth of labour, you end up best off having 7 donors and 3 workers, because you have to pay salaries to the workers (even if small salaries), plus overheads, plus money spent on tangibles like advertising. And probably at least one of your 3 workers should be a dedicated fund-raiser/donor relations.
So even if someone can offer skilled, ideologically dedicated labour, 66% of such people should just become donors.
Roko,
Great to see you again!
I may make an attempt of my own over the next week or so.
Regarding:
Certainly this will be true for some people, but my impression is that skilled labor is often a limiting factor in the philanthropic world and this makes the situation more murky. I’ll have a lot more to say about this in a future post.
Excellent. I think you would write an excellent article, and Jsalvatier I see has put up some $.
Regarding $ vs time, typically if you have 10 equally skilled people who can each either donate $30k/yr or offer $30k/yr worth of labour, you end up best off having 7 donors and 3 workers, because you have to pay salaries to the workers (even if small salaries), plus overheads, plus money spent on tangibles like advertising. And probably at least one of your 3 workers should be a dedicated fund-raiser/donor relations.
So even if someone can offer skilled, ideologically dedicated labour, 66% of such people should just become donors.