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Nonprofit Pathology

Harvard Business Review

I was also strongly influenced by my dad, a construction worker in Boston. This vitriol points to something other than the solving of social problems being at the root of peoples' motivations. And while they lament it, they have no commitment to doing anything about it. Merton was right, and not just about nonviolent protests.

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