Pay $49.95 to the nonprofit group which owns the Little Free Library trademark to make my almost-Little Free Library official, or not. Hmm... (apparently quite the charity moneymaker). #LittleFreeLibrary
@shekinahcancook Promoting them and selling kits to build your own, or pre-assembled libraries. Yeah, tough call for me. They do have an online directory of those libraries, but it's not costing $3M a year to run that directory, I assure you.
They SELL the kits, or give them away? If they're selling them, I'd lean toward a "no" on that one. They're already covering their costs. And by no means does a website and constant contact subscription, maybe some flyers, cost $3M a year. Sounds like profiteering to me.
@shekinahcancook Sadly, I am getting the idea that many nonprofits are profiteering nowadays (or, how to pay executive salaries), with some exceptions. I mean, look at the huge abuse of the system with OpenAI.
My friends, I have been doing home improvements for 40 years now, and there's not a snowball's chance in hell it costs $300 to make one of those. I could do it with scraps I have right now in my garage.
@shekinahcancook LOL, which is exactly what my library was (scavenged materials... except for the drip edge, I couldn't find any so bought a strip of it for $10)
@ai6yr What do you get for that? What do they spend the money on? $50 seems like a lot if all you get is a number and being findable on their web site.
@ai6yr That tiny little plaque isn't worth $50 in my opinion. I'd call it a "Small Free Library" and add it to Google Maps if I wanted it to be findable online.
2022 Form 990 for the group that runs the Little Free Library thing. $3.2M in revenues in 2021, $1.2M in profit. $2.9M in 2022, $525K in profits. Reasonable executive expenses, just one full time executive director paid a reasonable salary.
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