----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Miller" <[log in to unmask]> > My take is that there are some perceptions on the parts of governing boards which have produced inflated budgets and have forced some organizations in the non-profit world, to lose site of the reason they were established. For me, it has created some "business" models in the non-profit world that I find to be outrageous. > One possibility is that the world of "high culture" (i.e. symphonies, art galleries, museums and the like, as opposed to TV programs, NASCAR races and "wrestling"...) the participants are most likely to be from the upper financial as well as social class...and these are the people whose lives are based on profit and "business models!" If one spends all day planning high-profit mergers and acquisitions, one doesn't suddenly turn off that thinking after work... Steven C. Barr