It all moves in a circle

I think I see the problem here.

NOJO Chairman Ron Forman, the broadly respected head of the Audubon Institute, told WWL-TV on May 12 that the NOJO board had agreed to pay all of the Library Foundation money back, as soon as they can raise the money from private donors.

Brown said none of that money has arrived yet, but he is working to craft a written agreement with Forman and NOJO as soon as possible to memorialize the Jazz Orchestra's commitment to pay back the money and so the Library Foundation can budget for a specific amount.

Just a stab in the dark here but it seems like if NOJO could raise the money through only its own donors, they never would have had to raid the library foundation in the first place. Also, there is the problem of this being a small town where the pool of possible donors to any of these non-profits is pretty tight.  Odds are if you're giving to one, you are at least getting pitched to by all of the others.

Sometimes you end up in one of these funny situations where the organization you are donating to this year needs your money to pay back what it stole from the one you gave to last year.  And the odds are Ron Forman is on both boards anyway so that saves a lot of work. It's very convenient.