Thread by @MarcGunther

This is quite something: Groups that serve nonprofits and foundations (and promote #transparency!) won't say how much they were given by @MacKenzieScott, reports @mariadimento in @Philanthropy. They don't want other donors to know. [1/4]

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Here's more from @Philanthropy about the so-called infrastructure groups in #philanthropy -- more than 70 nonprofits that want to influence or improve or lobby for the sector, many identity-based. It's all very meta. [2/4]

philanthropy.com/article/macken…

I know first-hand that some of these groups, like @CEPdata, @IDinsight and @4Sharedinsight, do good work. But does the sector need more than 70 organizations to "act as scaffolding to strengthen and advance organizations that do good?" I'm deeply skeptical. [3/4]

This is already enough report-writing, conference-going, webinar-watching, strategy-reviewing and navel-gazing in #philanthropy. These @MacKenzieScott gifts will finance more of the same.

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