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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I volunteered for this organization to sponsor an Afghan refugee family The person who founded it is a now at Stanford. https://www.irocenter.org/about-immigrant-refugee-outreach-center-dmv[/quote]

And that person who allegedly started it (shhh.. it was her mom), hasn’t done anything with it since she left for California. I know this because l also volunteer with them. It’s run by other people who care while the founder is having fun at Stanford. At least they continue to do good, and l had an amazing experience with their help, but definitely not thanks to the founder! [/quote]

The website is clear she is a founder but she doesn't run it.[/quote]

It is her lawyer mom that runs it, right??[/quote]
DP, and when the previous PP says "the website is clear she is a founder but she doesn't run it..." (as if to defend the founder), this seems to illustrate the point: Since it was founded in 2019 (as per the web site) and within 2 years the founder has stepped down from any operational role, that is a pretty clear indication of the founder's short-term motivation. Moreover, to have the founder prominently featured on the web site (e.g. with the video of her the about page, citing her [rather than the mission] in the first sentence of the 'about' blurb.), these are all reinforcing the conclusion that this non-profit was a self-promotional tactic.

And how exactly does a non-profit keep running after a couple of years when its supposedly main founder steps away? There would need to be a backup management team/ individual in place by that time, one that has some sort of established role, to keep operations going. Either the founder has built such a team, or groomed a successor, (both unlikely in the <2 years she 'ran' it before college)--or there is already a shadow leader in place, which isn't really a secret here, as her mother is also the co-founder (but chooses to give her daughter top billing for some mysterious reason!).

The web site also says that the founder hatched her non-profit 2 months after completing an overseas refugee-related project. It's not rocket science to see that this sort of timeline is jumping in somewhat impulsively before really learning the lay of the land and taking time to research what has been most effective in this type of work. 
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