How charitable are charities?
12 min readFeb 22, 2020
When officials at nonprofits make many more times than the average American worker, are they really charities?
The 2020 NBA All-Star Game featured a new format in which players largely competed to give to charity. Some liked it. I didn’t. Bring back the old-school Eastern Conference-Western Conference rivalry.
Two Chicago nonprofit organizations, Chicago Scholars and After School Matters, really liked it. As beneficiaries of the NBA arrangement, they made an extra $400,000 and $200,000, respectively, not to mention additional donations that come with…
