Lots of nonprofit programs would benefit from an IRB-like process. But even the federal grant programs seem to lack appropriate guardrails.

One program that I got salty about recently (and posted my email response to their RFP publicly) had no business being funded by IMLS. It is actively doing harm. Yet the program continues working with vulnerable populations while claiming "social justice values."

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