Corporate sponsorship of moral causes predates modern NGOs in Gandhi’s India

Evidence

So the Mahatma who promoted homespun khadi and the wooden charkha was sponsored by a mill-owner. The man who raged against the machine was kept afloat by industrialists. This arrangement was the precursor to the phenomenon of the corporate-sponsored NGO. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 271

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: NGOs function as corporate-funded missionaries serving imperial warfare; Humanitarians served as moral shield for the free-enterprise counter-attack on redistributive demands — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 438; Corporate sponsorship frames capital as a precondition for culture itself — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1616 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: NGOs function as corporate-funded missionaries serving imperial warfare; Humanitarians served as moral shield for the free-enterprise counter-attack on redistributive demands — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 438; Corporate sponsorship frames capital as a precondition for culture itself — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1616 (+1 more)