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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This feels like a non issue. They spent half a percent of their budget on the kind of training and team building trip that is common for businesses and non profits. [/quote]

If you think that I want to audit any nonprofit you’re affiliated with. This is shameful stuff. [/quote]

Oh please.  This year alone, Trump paid $20 billion of your tax dollars to bail out Argentina and has spent hundreds of billions of dollars of our tax dollars on aid to Israel's military.  I am not going to clutch my pearls about a non-profit spending  $1200 per adult on a teacher development trip/training.  [/quote]

First of all, it wasn’t “teacher training.” Second, I don’t feel one bit better about government waste because there is other government waste you can point to. This is gross and bad. [/quote]

It was professional development, as you would know if you read the story link posted in the OP.   You can ask why they needed to take so many of their grantees, staff and board members on this trip, but it's not like they were embezzling funds or taking a week to gamble in casinos.
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“In 2024, Baltimore Children and Youth Fund (BCYF) took nearly 100 grantees, staff members and board members to Alabama to visit The Legacy Sites, a museum and memorial that document our country’s history of racial inequities and injustice, as part of our professional development program, the learning lab, in preparation to complete our biennial Racial Equity audit which is required by BCYF Bylaws,” a BCYF spokesman told Spotlight on Maryland.

This experience, like our other plenaries, consisted of long, immersive days that require constant engagement, reflection, and discussions on how the lessons we learn can be brought back to Baltimore and make tangible change in our community and in the lives of young people,” the spokesman continued. “This kind of professional development and training, which is a significant part of BCYF’s mission, strengthens these organizations and creates sustainable programs for generations to come. Our payment to Hemisphere Educational Travel included the cost of flight and lodging accommodations, as well as bus transportation for our attendees.”
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