<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The queen of strategies for how non-profits can squeeze money out of those who have too much and have earned it in nefarious ways (almost always) is a woman named Lynne Twist. Lynne teaches a brutal workshop called "The Soul of Money." The big takeaway from her workshop is: "those of us advocating positive social change have a sacred duty to move that money from where it was ill-got and put it to use in rightful ways." Unfortunately for us at the Center, we don't know any uber-Capitalists.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 4:45 PM glen <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com" target="_blank">gepropella@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">At the risk of offense, I'm not sure how I feel about Lloyd being put on admin leave. The old trope about 'dirty money' has always rang hollow for me. All money is always dirty. It reminds me of this guy:<br>
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<a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2013/04/portland_man_accused_of_druggi.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2013/04/portland_man_accused_of_druggi.html</a><br>
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I can't find it now. But he supposedly open sourced his patents and was a member of the dorkbot community. At what point do we forget the origins of some funding? I mean, Bill Gates' money was aggregated via some filthy monopolistic methods. Does that imply nonprofits should turn down their help?<br>
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On January 11, 2020 12:35:59 PM PST, Marcus Daniels <<a href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com" target="_blank">marcus@snoutfarm.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>Waiting for the other shoe to drop..<br>
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><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mit-review-cites-big-mistakes-taking-epstein-donations-n1113911" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mit-review-cites-big-mistakes-taking-epstein-donations-n1113911</a><br>
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glen<br>
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