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Saydrah · 4648 days ago · link · · parent · post: Not so fast on the KONY2012 thing. Please get the facts before you give.
I don't really have a problem with high salaries in the nonprofit sector, IF the organization paying the high salaries can show ROI. Many founders of organizations work for a small stipend or volunteer their time, then using donations to hire an experienced Executive Director. There's a little bit of a conflict of interest, IMO, if someone founds an organization, solicits funds for charitable work, and then insists on being the recipient of the highest salary in the organization. I don't know that these two young filmmakers are necessarily the best people to direct an international nonprofit. They might be the best people to make movies about Joseph Kony, but they're paying themselves from donor funds to make movies that represent the organization as directly aiding children in Uganda, when it may or may not do that at all.
Call me old-fashioned, but these guys just strike me as more interested in their personal fame and going on an exciting crusade (have you seen that pic of them posing with assault rifles and the Ugandan army?) than in actually helping Ugandan children. Especially when Kony is no longer even active in Uganda, I wonder why else they would continue to fund an army that is itself known for sexual assault and other atrocities.