Corrina Dahl

Even these people’s own families do not want them. That says a lot about these people. And demanding that businesses subsidize them and agree to having the population shoe horned into their neighborhood at their expense is adding insult to potential property value and property use injury.

That’s the Mother Sheehan paradigm.

And I’m not implying any organization is above scrutiny. In fact, I’m not sure how you took that premise from my post. What I am saying, though, is your implications about nonprofits that serve the needy, and the Y in particular, seemed pretty harsh within the context of your post.

You keep refering to how the Y behaved badly. Do you have earlier post you could refer to with quotes, facts, etc.? I don’t know the story and would be interested in reading it.

And incidentally, you’re dead on about the Salvation Army. Great, great group. Those people walk the walk.

There are charities and then there are charities. I know people who devote their lives selfishly to helping others for no renumeration at all. And then there are professional charities run by people who make a decent salarty. The YWCA basically has its hand out for a ton of taxpayer money. Therefore, their request REQUIRES scrutiny. I can only judge the YW from its recent bahavior in the GlenPerry controversy. I saw an organization that set itself up the only party in the controversy that cared for homeless people. However the people within that organization feel in their hearts, they didn’t behave in a straightforward and honest manner.

You seem to suggest that because the YW is doing charity work, that they should somehow be beyond examinition and criticism. I reject that idea completely.

And I stand by my assertion that there are other organizations that do a much, much better job with this sort of work.

In truth, most are dedicated, hard-working people who are extremely committed to their cause. Frankly, we’re fortunate to have a number of such organizations in Peoria.

If there’s one maxim that’s true for any nonprofit, it’s this: No margin = no mission.

Of course the YWCA is focused on money. They don’t have enough to do want they need to do! Like all nonprofits, they require on-going funding in order to accomplish anything.

Think of all the posts you put on The Peoria Pundit about raising money and getting donations for the site. No dough means no show. It’s the same principle for them…except they’re in the business of changing people’s lives — not writing about them.

When you say, “If they really cared about the homeless,” you sound, frankly, a little arrogant and not-a-little-bit inflamatory. In essence, you’re saying your concept is the only one with merit. It also suggests, and maybe you do mean it this way, that the hard-working men and women at the YWCA simply don’t care about the homeless…that they’re just collaborating in a complicated scheme to get more money out of the government. (Obviously, it’s just a way to support their lavish lifestyles.)

Is that what you are seriously suggesting?

And as an aside, if “$467,758 in federal grant money” is earmarked to “buy and renovate” the property, then only a portion of those dollars would go to the YWCA for the purchase price. So it’s not “a scheme to give a $467,758 gift to the WYCA.”