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Why Isn't Everybody a Nonprofit?!

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Feb 13, 2026
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@adneyahate Feb 20, 2026
Thank you so much for contributing and helping with the setting up of NICU in Sierra Leone
@gavin5995 Feb 20, 2026
I want to see the scope of nonprofits widened and incentivized with increased wage benefits. Nonessential businesses can be for profit with guardrails to keep essential non-profits the priority.
@Lupus-mm7eu Feb 19, 2026
I work for a credit union (have actually worked at two separate credit unions) and credit unions make a big point about being non-profits compared to banks, which are for-profit. You actually see this because you see the funds first pay for the necessary things (bills and wages) and go back to bene…
@craiginzana Feb 19, 2026
Now explain how the non-profit, OpenAI raised so much money from investors?
@bruhdabones Feb 18, 2026
The accounting work is a PITA, that’s the answer.
@mikewynne540 Feb 18, 2026
What stops the people in charge of the nonprofit, from giving themselves very large paychecks? How do the employees earn raises to their salary and what's to stop an employer of a nonprofit from hiring their son or daughter or other family member and paying them a high salary they grows every year …
@spidermanandsnape Feb 18, 2026
Absolutely amazing p4a, best so far in some ways but also every year is the best so far! They're all good and hopeful and wonderful
@MsMarkleaf Feb 18, 2026
Is there a difference between 'non-profit' and 'not for profit' or is just two ways to say the same thing.
@jo_naash Feb 18, 2026
Honk
@YTdCeX7nWrcLp Feb 18, 2026
I don't think you're right on taxes. Donating doesn't increase your take home income.
@somgesomgedus9313 Feb 18, 2026
I really wish the non-profit status wasn't so strictly tied to the traditional idea of 'charity.' Lichess is a perfect example of why this model should be a standard option for any digital service. The biggest advantage here is the liberation from growth expectations. While other for-profit chess p…
@carysluther5864 Feb 18, 2026
Have you seen the Dan Pallota Ted Talk “How We Think About Charity is Dead Wrong”? He brings up really interesting drawbacks of Non-Profits in the US that I had never thought about before… I’d love to hear your thoughts on his message