Non-Profit Organizations and Questionable Behavior

1. Our cause is noble and so efforts on behalf of the cause are noble.
2. We're not out to make a profit, so we can't be guilty of greed.
3. Our executives would make more if they were in the private sector and so we shouldn't have to justify our compensation practices.
4. We are competing with other nonprofits and if we don't engage in some aggressive fund-raising practices, they will.
5. If donations come from fortunes that we know were amassed in corrupt ways, we'll take them anyway and honor the givers because it is appropriate that the money be used for good purposes.