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From: Chronicle of Philanthropy
Subject: John and Tashia Morgridge Pledge $125 Million to Their Alma Mater
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International relief organization Doctors Without Borders operates with a racist, colonial mind-set that disadvantages, and even endangers, local staff in its field operations. a new investigative journalism report says. The medical nonprofit, often referred to as MSF after its French name (Medicins San Frontieres) pays its expatriate staff, who typically come from Europe and North America, much more than its locally hired staff in crisis hot spots, which it says accounts for expenses such as mortgages and taxes that still need to be paid back home. But it has also provided inferior medical care for local staff members while airlifting short-term expats to hospitals in Europe, sometimes making the difference between life and death, the report says. And it has put local employees in harm’s way while working to insulate visiting staff from danger, citing the greater risk Westerners face of kidnapping. Some former employees regret their association with the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization, but others say they have seen changes since 1,000 current and former staff members wrote a critical open letter last year. In a statement, a representative said, “Over the past several years MSF has begun to confront hard truths about how racism and colonialism are embedded within the organization, and how this affects our colleagues and patients.” (Insider and Reveal)
A board member of the National Rifle Association has gone to court seeking to have the nonprofit’s management, including CEO Wayne LaPierre, and board replaced. The gun-rights group faces allegations of corruption, including lavish expense padding and cronyism that New York Attorney General Letitia James argues is so systemic, she is suing to have it disbanded. Roscoe “Rocky” Marshall, who joined the NRA’s board early this year, has asked the judge presiding over James’s lawsuit to appoint a receiver — he has volunteered himself — to manage the election of a new board that could replace the group’s current management. Marshall is “part of a small group of dissident directors on the NRA board, which overwhelmingly has backed Mr. LaPierre.” (Wall Street Journal — subscription)
