SF Pledged $120M to Help Black Residents. The Money’s Gone in Some Strange Directions
The San Francisco Standard reports that despite the many success of Dream Keeper program distributions, the program is a bookkeeping nightmare for nonprofits, businesses, and grantees, and Mayor Breed recently intervened to order a freeze on funds for certain organizations that were seen as misusing city money.
Joan Harrington, current fellow at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, said she wasn’t concerned with directors getting a raise but called the creation of LLCs “a red flag.”
“If the city is going to continue giving this kind of money away, it needs to adjust the system through which it makes and supervises the grants,” Harrington said. “It sounds like they didn’t have a good handle of what was happening through the nonprofits.”
Joan Harrington, Ethics Center fellow, quoted by The San Francisco Standard.