Nonprofits are supposed to be inherently good, helpful organizations that give back to the community.

However, faith in non-profits has been dropping. They can't keep up with for-profit salaries in the current job market. They have to

turn away those that they want to help. And many nonprofits have found themselves stuck in a dangerous

cycle. So why does this happen? Is the system of how non-profits operate broken? And if so, is there a way to fix it?

Hello and welcome to the corporate casket. I'm the Illuminati and today we're going to be talking about non-profits.

Initially I wanted to discuss non-profits that come across as performative or can only help on a

superficial level.

For example, maybe you've heard about non-profits offering classes on financial literacy.

Many say that these types of classes have helped them tremendously, insisting we need this sort of help to be more

widespread and available.

However, there are also those that say financial education is only a superficial fix.

It can't fix poverty, and what we really need is structural change.

In a weird way, this kind of reminds me of when McDonald's offered a finance guide to their

employees in 2013.

The Budget McDonald's created for their employees suggested

allowing $20 for health care, $600 for rent, and $150 for a car payment.

It didn't even include gas for said car or even a food allowance, thereby coming across as extremely

tone deaf.

Tio Reyes, the program director for Restaurant Opportunities Center United, said that this might have actually been commendable if McDonald's

were trying to be a part of a movement to increase wages. Instead, this was just disingenuous

and insulting. Or another example, the case of Locks of Love. Now I've mentioned and talked

about them in an entirely different episode how they give wigs to children with

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