Spending a couple of days with Dina Sherif and Ziad Haddara is very enlightening, especially if the conversation goes in the direction of the core of what we do. The dilemma of non-profits vs. generating revenues and overhead, and how the majority of people from different backgrounds consider it a sin, was one of those interesting conversations we had.
In my case, I have founded Nakhweh and registered it as a non-profit a few years ago. In general, I’m a very bad fundraiser and always look within my very closed circle of people to sustain my work; this definitely leads to limiting my scope of work, however, I’m better when it comes to closing business deals. I have asked a few friends around about the impact of turning my non-profit into a profit making company to avoid this conflict, the majority disagreed with that option and thought that it will leave a negative impact on most of the stakeholders.
