A non-profit running an adult literacy program is comparable to a non-profit
running a Business Improvement District. In order to undertake any activity
in the public sphere at all -- and worthy activity in the public sphere is
the chief function of any 501(c)(3) -- it must choose specific programs that
are inherently at risk of being controversial. So to set a standard of
universal contentment as the benchmark for any non-profit's legitimacy is
absurd, an impossible test to meet.
One problem not only Ray, but also others on list at times fall prey to, is
the habit of treating UCD as if it were sui generis, a thing of a kind. In
truth, it falls into various classes of agent, all of which have existing
rules and regulators. You may or may not be satisfied by these rules and
regulators. If you don't like them, let's put some thought into how they
might be revised. That's the only useful direction I see for this thread,
and the laudable purpose for which Ray started it. If it's just to be
another naughty-naughty-UCD list ... yawn ... goodness, what time is it ...
g'night, all....
-- Tony West
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From: "Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
idea: ucd should remain scrupulously neutral in public
questions/disputes/contests, not taking sides or
even appearing to take sides.
A good precept politically, perhaps, but an impossible for any agency to
carry out operationally in any walk of life. To follow your reasoning
strictly, an adult-literacy program that choose to employ Curriculum A
should refrain from taking any action as long as there were public
advocates of Curriculum B. It would be better, you are in effect
proposing, for there to be no literacy programs at all, than
controversial literacy programs.
That's not what his reasoning says at all. He's saying that the adult-
literacy program should choose the Curriculum without input from UCD.
Frank
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