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7. Help me out - I'm looking for a word / phrase ...
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 08:28 PM
Jan 2012

(no, not 'scum of the earth' - that kind comes easy)

Komen is a one of many groups that have/are these large, highly visible, so-called 'non-profit' campaigns / presences / corporate behemoths. I've often wondered, and sometimes heard it discussed academically, to what extent do they exist not so much for their ostensible 'cause' but rather to perpetuate their own existence and pay the reasonably high salaries of their executives?

I'm not saying that all of them do that. I'm just saying that I've often suspected that SOME of them are like that.

I'm looking for a succinct word or phrase to describe that type of organization and/or activity. I'm sure I've heard something used in the forementioned academic discussions, but I can't come up with it.

Anyone know or have an idea?

(and back to Komen, this increases my sense that they belong in that category. They will not see another dime from me. If they sponsor a jeans day at work I will NOT participate.)

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