who is Ellen Gustafson?

[reddread]

9-11 out of the gate. I dont think Im gonna make it to the main event.
a sustainability food resources advocate who partnered with Neil Bush's daughter Lauren?
tell me more...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Gustafson

[trudyco]

1. What is this about?

The FEED program ?

[SwampG8r]

2. Is she the grandma on gustafsons milk cartons?

[jberryhill]

3. Character in Fargo?

[CorkySt.Clair]

4. Somebody nobody ever heard of

That's supposed to be for Hillary.

[reddread]

5. Neil Bush knows who she is

[Recursion]

7. So do hundreds of thousands of children in African and East Asia

who were fed, clothed, and sent to school through the program she runs. Where the fuck do people get off criticizing her for this?

[reddread]

11. they wear these things?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEED_Projects

[Recursion]

13. No, people in the developed world buy those bags and the money goes to feed and educate

children in the developing world. It's like the one laptop per child idea where you buy a laptop at Best Buy and they give an OLPC to a kid in subsaharan Africa.

[reddread]

16. I wonder if you might suffer some cynicism if other people were involved?

not a double standard or anything, but you know, some of those "charities" they seem to need a lot of maintaining.
some of them get exposed on occasion.

[Recursion]

18. I wonder what you actually know about poverty in the global south

I would take money from Satan himself for the kids I work with in Dharavi.

[reddread]

19. have you received help from them?

[Recursion]

20. No AFAIK they aren't doing much in South Asia

Not to mention that Modi has made it difficult for NGOs to take any foreign money at all, so all of our fundraising is within India. Which is particularly a shame because with the Rupee being as weak as it is you could get some real philanthropic "bargains" from a country with a stronger currency (I used to have a good pitch that talked about a weak local currency as a kind of matching fund).

[reddread]

12. I can smell a poverty scam from 8,000 miles away

this is all so much worse than I hoped.

[Recursion]

6. Someone who's fed and educated hundreds of thousands of poor children in the developing world

Which means, of course, that keyboard "progressives" love to piss on her because she partnered with someone named Bush to do so. C'est la vie.

[reddread]

8. was it worth it?

[Hiraeth]

10. yes.

[reddread]

14. was there a special place in Hell available?

[Hiraeth]

17. you are better than this.

[reddread]

21. no Im not

poverty is where the money is and money is where their hearts are.
I remember when Neil Bush was another word for fraud in the Democratic Party.
or maybe that was just America's pov?

[Hiraeth]

22. okay then. enjoy your thread. ciao.

[JI7]

15. keyboard progressives are mostly tinfoil types

[JI7]

9. lauren Bush married ralph Laurens son which makes her lauren lauren

If she uses his name.