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Nonprofit Structure Backfires on 'Our Revolution'
Tonight I want to introduce you to a new, independent nonprofit organization that is called Our Revolution, which is inspired by the historic Bernie 2016 presidential campaign, said Sanders at the event, which was livestreamed to some 300,000 supporters. The group, Sanders declared, will be fighting at the grassroots level for changes in their local school boards, in their city councils, in their state legislatures and in their representation in Washington.
But the enthusiastic applause that greeted Sanders in Burlington contrasted sharply with the messy controversies and bad press dogging Our Revolution even before its official launch. On the same day that Sanders introduced the group, The New York Times reported that Our Revolution had been met by a staff revolt in the form of eight staff resignations. The malcontents blasted Sanderss selection of his campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, to head the new organization, and complained that Our Revolutions structure as a nonprofit 501(c)(4) social welfare group creates organizational and ethics problems.
http://prospect.org/article/nonprofit-structure-backfires-our-revolution