Group pushes to diversify volunteering
at Minnesota nonprofits
Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN],
by
Kelly Smith
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
12/29/2020 12:47:13 AM
Minnesotans have rallied to help nonprofits during the pandemic, but across many organizations, most of those volunteers are white. A statewide organization is trying to change that with new research calling attention to disparities in volunteerism. "It's about time somebody looked at this system," said Karmit Bulman, who leads the Minnesota Association for Volunteer Administration (MAVA), an advocacy organization.(Snip) But another problem is most nonprofits don't have equity strategies for volunteers, Bulman said, instead relying on a "white savior complex." "If you go into any food shelf right now, you will see that 98% of the volunteers are white," said Bulman, who is white,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
mean Gene 12/29/2020 12:53:06 AM (No. 643746)
80% of Minnesotans are white.
What do they want to do?
Discourage whites involvement with charities?
Brilliant......not.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Jeremiah29_11 12/29/2020 12:55:16 AM (No. 643747)
Don’t you know that Black people receive charity and not hand it out?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Vesicant 12/29/2020 1:21:02 AM (No. 643751)
She's white, but she presumes to speak for blacks? I thought that was white privilege or something. The answer is obvious -- all whites in Minnesota should stop volunteering and let the food rot. I'm sure the Somalis will pick up the slack.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
OhioNick 12/29/2020 1:35:32 AM (No. 643753)
Two words -- "entitlement mentality."
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
qr4j 12/29/2020 3:53:49 AM (No. 643796)
As I recall, MLK dreamed of a world in which people were not judged by the color of their skin, but by the quality of their character.
I suppose MLK’s dream is dashed.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Highlander 12/29/2020 4:12:36 AM (No. 643801)
Whites, in general, are really good people. The greatest men and women in our history are white in overwhelming numbers. Christianity thrived in this country due mostly to whites. Tremendous numbers of whites died in all our wars. Progress in technology, medicine, and human rights was, and still is, made possible by guess what? The best POTUS we had in generations is white. I can go on and on. I don’t care what BLM, NAACP, and the Congressional Black Caucus says, the whole world is better off with whites in charge. If whites were to disappear off the face of this cursed world, it would go completely to Hell! You know what? Our whiteness has nothing to do with all the great things done for the benefit of mankind! Think about it!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 12/29/2020 5:38:28 AM (No. 643814)
Never thought the color of my skin should qualify how I should give both physical help or monetary help to a charity. Thanks for telling me, This article is very disturbing.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rather Read 12/29/2020 5:44:07 AM (No. 643818)
Is someone at the volunteer agency standing at the door saying "we don't want you"? I doubt it. It's the same thing when it comes to the national parks. By and large not as many black people visit but no one is turning them away. If someone doesn't want to volunteer, don't make them!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
FleetUSA 12/29/2020 6:15:03 AM (No. 643827)
Maybe they'll try legislating black participation or they'll sue to get some loony left judge to require it or, shockingly, he'll shut down the charity. ha ha ha
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Gruntmedic 12/29/2020 7:16:12 AM (No. 643840)
How are they going to change this force non whites to volunteer?
What are they going to do if the folk just stop helping?
Whites give most of the donations, what will happen if they start giving money other places?
What maroon's
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 12/29/2020 7:23:27 AM (No. 643843)
Savage said it best: “Diversity is perversity”
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
philsner 12/29/2020 7:31:31 AM (No. 643846)
Thank you for the pay wall.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
NancyD 12/29/2020 7:31:35 AM (No. 643847)
Okay! You got it! I'm out. I will donate and volunteer helping only Military and animals. They don't care the color my skin. All of this is ridiculous.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 12/29/2020 7:53:49 AM (No. 643867)
This is so ridiculous that the article isn’t worth reading. Kermit here isn’t busy enough that she has to come up with something, that to her, is important. Is she going to turn away volunteers who are white while waiting for a non-white to appear? Common sense is non-existent in Liberal brains.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 12/29/2020 7:56:36 AM (No. 643871)
What these people like Karmit Bulman can not control they wish to infiltrate and destroy. By the way, I was on the board of a not-for-profit and one of the key directors and workers was black. Karmit is executive director of MAVA. I'll bet she's not a volunteer but gets paid.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Sanddollar 12/29/2020 8:48:23 AM (No. 643905)
Look at it this way. Maybe those that get help from a charity should have to devote some volunteer time for the help they are getting. It would not just be a handout. Time to "give back", a term that the woke like.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
AltaD 12/29/2020 8:55:08 AM (No. 643909)
FTA: He added that nonprofits need to eliminate barriers — from having volunteer hours only during the workday to requiring formal applications and training. Nonprofits could also offer transportation or child care and reframe volunteerism,
I don't think he grasps the concept of volunteering.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
PostAway 12/29/2020 8:57:34 AM (No. 643914)
Minnesota Association for Volunteer Administration? Karmit Bulman is being paid to provide Big Brother’s Boot to volunteer organizations through selecting and exerting power over leadership. If you look at their website, MAVA isn’t interested in the Meals on Wheels deliverers or the volunteers at the reception desk at the local hospital. Their website reveals a Gramscian approach to getting Leftist claws into volunteer organizations by selecting and indoctrinating each volunteer group’s leadership. If you aren’t aware of Antonio Gramsci you ought to look him up as his ideas are the root of the vine that is strangling our country.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/29/2020 9:00:28 AM (No. 643919)
Are you effin kidding me? The demographic in question does not like to work when they get paid, why would they work for free? They want "positions" where they can yak on their $500 cell phones all day and sexually harass the females around them.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
janjan 12/29/2020 9:09:16 AM (No. 643929)
There are no words to describe this idiocy. Do they understand the definition of ‘volunteer’?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
PostAway 12/29/2020 9:33:56 AM (No. 643955)
Sorry for the second post but #19, the leadership of not-for-profit groups MAVA is interested in will be paid. However, I would guess that their selection will have to be approved by MAVA in order for the not-for-profit for which they work to qualify for government grants and other monies. The selection of Leftist minorities will ensure that weak or criminally minded people with chips on their shoulders and poor educations are at the helm of sectors that were once free of Communist infiltration. Therefore, you work all day at a corporation that is compliant with Leftist demands and in the evening, during your down-time playing oboe with the community orchestra or meeting with your local Children’s Hospital fundraising group to plan a gala, you are actually also working to further goals of the Left. Some day Atlas will shrug.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
mizzmac 12/29/2020 10:05:05 AM (No. 643979)
I see where this is headed. NGOs are racist. All future aid must come from the government. (Which--is majority white, but touts the right "woke" ideas so that everyone will have less and be equally miserable and dependent.)
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
columba 12/29/2020 10:26:10 AM (No. 643998)
I accessed the original article and then the comments there. The 2nd comment said that the article was the stupidest article he had ever read. I clicked to give him a thumbs up and was given my social security number as a prompt.
Hmmm.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
rusino 12/29/2020 10:47:02 AM (No. 644009)
Minnesota has Five and Half Million Population. Five Percent are Black! That explains the lack of diversity among volunteers!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
bad-hair 12/29/2020 1:13:00 PM (No. 644143)
Opps Nope. We've got too many white volunteers. Yep Cat 5 Hurricane but the Cajun Navy is too WHITE and probably racists too. SARC OFF
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Diversity = Balkanization
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 12/30/2020 11:06:16 AM (No. 644890)
Well, Uno and Toivo are just generous with their time, dontchaknow.
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