((install)) - Gamla Np Religion

The gatekeeping. The unspoken rule that you had to be wealthy to intern. The slowness that sometimes became paralysis. The resistance to any data that made us uncomfortable.

There’s a quiet nostalgia creeping into conversations among long-time fundraisers, program directors, and NGO workers. We’re starting to whisper about what I’ve started calling the gamla np religion

Not entirely. But it’s in diaspora. You see fragments of it in community foundations, in small rural NGOs, in fundraisers who still insist on birthday cards to every monthly donor. The gatekeeping

So, what was the Old NP Religion?