March For Our Lives is slashing its employees and appointing a new leader.
The gun-control group announced it would cut ties with 13 of its 16 full-time staffers last week. It also named a new executive director. Jaclyn Corin, a 24-year-old Parkland survivor and group co-founder, will take the reins as the organization attempts to navigate bumpy terrain in the wake of the 2024 election.
“We are facing financial challenges as an organization, not unlike many nonprofit advocacy organizations in this time,” Corin told The 19th. “I am sure things would look differently with a different outcome of the election, but these are the systems and circumstances in which we have to make adjustments based on the financial situation we find ourselves in. It is incredibly unfortunate that these cuts have to happen.” …
Collateral damage in the great NGO gravy train derailment?
Was just watching fox, Ted Cruz said there were protestors that showed up almost every day from 0700 to 0800 and “protest” and they were gone promptly by 0901. Then one day, t just stopped. No stragglers, no hangers on, no holdouts, it just stopped.
Paid protestors that stopped showing up when the checks stopped showing up.
Normally yes. However this probably means that they’ve been suffering from lack of funding for at least a few years if they’re getting to the point of layoffs.
Nah. If you look at the tax statements of most of the grabber groups, they rarely have any kind of war chest. They are generally just the mouthpiece of one or two donors long term and when that money dries up, the org usually pulls back to one or two people with a day job cranking out press releases on name recognition.
