The Five Rivers Scandal has been going on for over a year now. This is one of the rare cases where people who were working for a nonprofit agency acted in their own best interest and did things for their own profit. This went against all ethics rules and laws to the detriment of the agency. I assume that the parties involved saw how easy it was for them to obtain monies from the federal government and other agencies that had a genuine interest in helping the sort of clients that Five Rivers was supposed to be helping and they took advantage of that kindness.
As a result of that, you see people becoming more and more angry when a nonprofit agency asks for funds. Nonprofits do that simply because they do just that. They do not operate for a profit. While I think this is rather silly, it makes sense because one of those philosophies is the fact that they are trying to help people and not make anyone rich. I will continue to keep up with the saga of Five Rivers. While stories like this are not my thing, I am interested to see how this comes out because you do not hear of people getting caught doing this to a nonprofit as much as you hear about people embezzling funds from a for profit corporation.
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