Certainly. The positives are the promise that it brings in new money. That is enticing to everyone, whether you are a government, a not-for-profit, or a community. Everyone wants to bring in new moneys, so I understand that. If that's possible, great. Wonderful.
However, not to be gloomy or anything of the sort, but I think we should look at the real way this affects organizations. You are basically moving to a model where you have non-profits that look a lot more like for-profit organizations than perhaps they should. When you do that, you lose a lot of the distinctive features of the not-for-profits, especially their less bureaucratic nature, which I think is really important. Organizations become a lot more bureaucratic and have to learn all of this stuff.
I talk to a lot of people in the field who are concerned about all of the training this involves. Who is paying for this training? How are your local communities supposed to get educated in this when governments are threatening to earmark certain moneys only if they are attached to outside money. When that kind of stuff happens, that's concerning.