Hello,
very often it is believed that working for the nonprofit means to be exclusively voluntary. Very simplistic vision of reality!
I am not a fundraiser, but realizable consulting for nonprofits and the signed
profit is mainly a market. However, for many nonprofits realize unpaid advice, which I like to call donations. These works do not expect anything in return that one day I even commissioning a consultancy, granted him a job because I believe in their cause and why I feel like it!
I do not understand the controversy! If Prof. Melandri receives income from his work there is nothing strange, indeed I think is discussion / debate is a waste of time. Teacher! Not fossilizziamoci of ste discussions and dedicate ourselves to discussions more productive.
Hello
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I agree with you! vm

If the matter is this, also a doctor, "take advantage" of the patient's illness, the plumber of the leaky pipe .... And so on ad infinitum.
Do not work for profit as a consultant but also as a volunteer and frankly I never thought anyone to steal bread. If I could live off their wealth and do my job without asking a dollar, I'd be happy ... but my rich uncle is still alive.
What I read is the speech of those who do not realize the work we do ... fortunately, we are all needed, but no one is indispensable.

But because you that you care for non-profit doing what you do for free?

Why would anyone trust us and believe that what we do should be done and then serve the best motivation, time and preparation.
That someone is called a donor.

more 'than anything else we should place limits, stakes. Why in the non-profit organization you can 'find both personal profit, as in the case of brokers and consultants who are there' for gain and profit is not as volunteers, who do it to help others without expecting financial rewards. You can do both the one and the other, it is right that we are in the third sector and salaried consultants who do to pay the rent and it is right that there are volunteers who do it to help others without wanting anything in return. What you can do is be the one that the other is, or is it profit or nonprofit.
Why else would it turns out that facilities designed for non-profit volunteers, such as the ability to receive bequests and inheritances or tax cuts, they become accessible to people who do it for money, with the result that these legacies then do not reach poor and marginalized, but these remain in the hands of profiteers.
Lacking clear rules in the third sector: could be a recipient of donations and bequests should not any return on its activities to help marginalization and poverty, including salary, expenses, et cetera. And vice versa if it is to be paid for his work in any way can not ask for donations.

Again, apart from some inaccuracies, it seems to me that what is said is correct. You can not 'be voluntary and paid at the same point. One can not 'hide behind the non-profit purposes without declaring that its profit. I do not do volunteer work 24 hours a day. I work for the nonprofit world because I know this is the world queso and why is what I can do. And every time I enter an organization openly declare that I paid employment. Sometimes, however, openly declare that I am paid, but the type of work, the professionalism that we put, commitment and passion are exactly the same. In one case work and are paid in the other work and are not paid. But what most 'convinces me is the position a little anarchist Francesco Barnaba (if it really is called that ...). I have always been agreeable maverick ... because at least we try .... To fight against this wall of rubber that is sometimes our custom!

Hello Valerio, I have resisted so far in this debate that I think are very useful, indeed, make us think only time ... but it's stronger than me, I hear there's one thing to say:
Courage! Is it possible that you can not imagine a situation in which profit and non-profit (and I might add also the government) can not only coexist, but even (think a little ') work??
But the extent to which we are culturally and intellectually trapped because she could not imagine how to operate other than a model of organization in our community has so far adopted and that (especially in recent months) has shown all its obvious limitations.

Who said that is good by definition non-profit and profit is not evil as such? But we decide whether or not out of this dichotomy that is just cultural??

Just do not do to have a little 'trust in mankind and in the fact that they are possible forms and patterns of organization other than those we have experienced so far and that there may be people who act according to interests that are not only monetary??

But we are at the point where if a volunteer is a day of his life, instead it must be granted, must justify why the other day does not??

Let's put things a little bit to the right place. But volunteering is measured in quantity?

Would not it be better to give reasons why it is voluntary and not because you do not, I would find more constructive and even a little 'more intelligent and public utilities.

All this seems very narrow minded and inflexible makes me think that those who say things like that are trying out securities that is not in himself: convinced a volunteer does not care why other people do or do not, but reserve their energies for the solution of this or that problem, is concerned to make effective its actions and this is enough for him.

The fact that these discussions almost always come from non-profit operators on the one hand saddens me a lot, then pisses me off because instead of making some good touches to spend the time to talk to him, but it makes me realize how far we still have much work to do and ... there is still to play.

Allow me to point out only two books I'm reading in this period and that are helping me to open my head a little and imagine different things:

Homo consumens of Z. And Bauman. Erickson and Beyond homo economicus of L. Becchetti and. New Town.

Because as Albert Camus said: "Why change the world thought, they must first change the life of the man who expresses it."

And now to work!

Hello Valerio, sorry and thanks for the outpouring of hospitality.