cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/inforeport/p/1268639/ben-jerrys-foundation-says-it-will-shut-down-amid-legal-dispute-with-parent-company
The move puts at risk $600,000 in philanthropic support to Vermont organizations in an ongoing fight over the ice cream company’s social mission.
If some big evil company said, “I’ll give you a quarter century of money to fund bunch of big causes you care about, and you’ll change a lot of lives. But a few years before you die, I’m going to take your ice cream brand.”
I’d take the quarter century of money then try to stand something else up before I kicked the bucket.
Ben and Jerry are legends. Most people that sell out don’t actually use that sale to do something good. They took ice cream and made 25 years of sizable grants with the profits.
Exactly. Any of us could say we’d never sell out, but how many of us end up in that situation to really test it?
They ran a successful business, cashed out, and instead of doing miserly things and vanishing to obscurity they’re funding lefty stuff and shaking up the status quo.
Right from the article:
They were using Unilever’s money to basically fight Unilever to the benefit their former employees! How much more do you want from them? 😄