‘Huge Number Of Problems’: Charity Experts Sound Off On BLM Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors’ Potential Self-Dealing-Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation co-founder Patrisse Cullors was identified as the co-chair of an art company that received business from three activist groups under her control, a press release obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation shows.
-The art company, Trap Heals, was founded and led by the father of Cullors’ only child, the DCNF previously reported.
-“I feel personally and from an ethical perspective, there are a huge number of problems here,” longtime charity ethics expert Doug White told the DCNF.
lack Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors was identified in a press release as co-chair of an art company that has profited from several activist groups that call Cullors a co-founder and leader, which charity experts say amounts to self-dealing and raises ethical and legal questions.
Black Lives Matter (BLM) Global Network Foundation, BLM PAC and Reform LA Jails — three activist groups Cullors claims to have co-founded and led — have provided business to the art company, Trap Heals, the Daily Caller News Foundation previously reported. Trap Heals was founded and run by Damon Turner, the father of Cullors’ only child, the DCNF found.
“I feel personally and from an ethical perspective, there are a huge number of problems here,” longtime charity ethics expert Doug White told the DCNF.
“Self-dealing is when someone is in a position to direct money and who uses it on his or her own behalf,” said White, a former director of Columbia University’s Master of Science in Fundraising Management program. “That’s basically what it boils down to, and this fits that largely, that definition.”
Paul Kamenar, the counsel for the conservative watchdog group National Legal and Policy Center, said BLM Global Network’s dealings with Trap Heals raises questions given that the organization’s bylaws, which the group provided to the New Mexico office of the attorney general in March, state that only one person serves on its board of directors.
“Trap Heals’ contract with Black Lives Matter Global Network in 2018 raises troubling questions not only because of the personal and business relationship between Patrisse Cullors and Damon Turner, but also because it appears from BLM’s Bylaws that Cullors is the sole Director,” Kamenar said. “Most nonprofits have at least three Directors and many large ones have more than that so that there is accountability and oversight.”
Cullors was identified as the co-chair of Trap Heals in a January 2020 press release advertising an art project the company put together in South Central Los Angeles.
“TRAPS HEALS, founded by CEO and cultural architect Damon Turner and co-chaired by activist, artist, organizer, educator, and founder of both Black Lives Matter and Yes on R, Patrisse Cullors, is set to hold the first-ever public activation in South Central LA,” the press release from FYI Brand Group read.
The revelation that Cullors may be a co-chair of Trap Heals follows a DCNF report that Cullors had identified Turner as the father of her only child in a 2019 post on her verified Instagram page.
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