RaveThe Boston GlobeA series of letters that is part memoir, part non-profit white paper ...The open letter is a durable genre, and a venerable tradition in the literature of Black America’s fight for Civil Rights ... Ross’s original post was aimed at people in the non-profit sector. He usefully extends some of his critiques here ... But Ross’s criticisms of the non-profit industrial complex, as well as his accounts of dealing with the (mostly-white) administrators in charge of programs that serve (mostly) communities of color, lack the specifics of the stories he tells about his upbringing, and his disillusion with the myth of meritocracy ... I’m a white, Gen-X man, but I don’t work in the non-profit sphere. As an outside reader, too often, I felt I was grasping at a vague non-profitese.
