The IRS rules governing nonprofits still required the Mozilla Foundation to beg big to go big: the parent had to go find big grants from Soros, Ford, Knight, MacArthur, and give smaller grants to many. This put it in the lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply revolving-door personnel sector of NGOs and nonprofits (too many glowies there for me, too). Which meant I had a hostile MoFo over my head the minute I got CEO appointment from the MoCo board…

Of course I can’t comment on anything about my exit, for reasons that only the most loopy HN h8ers still can’t figure out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251203

    • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      The original op took some things out of context, Ford, last I checked, was not a bastion of the left. He names big donors.

      Then he describes how that money trickles down; and the last I checked the not so polite description is more accurate than not.

      I don’t mind people bashing bad guys here; and I’m sure this fellow has spent years raiding your hackles. But some people like me, it’s just embarrassing to read

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        “Ford, last I checked, was not a bastion of the left.”

        The Ford Foundation is located in New York City at the Center for Social Justice

        The Ford Foundation is one of the primary foundations offering grants that support and maintain diversity in higher education

        https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Ford+foundation

        cc @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca