Chip Johnson at the San Francisco Chronicle just wrote an investigative article regarding the Lao Family Community Development, a nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California. Apparently, the current director of the organization has began to employ all of his relatives, and his family currently makes nearly a quarter million dollars a year. Although my gut reaction in reading this article was that it somewhat villainized Southeast Asian Americans, I think the sad reality of the matter is that not all nonprofits are as legit and well-meaning as we often hope. If we don't keep each other in check, who will?
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