poverty pimp
n.— «Perez, the community activist, said a pejorative term—”poverty pimps”—has emerged in the nonprofit field to describe charitable service providers that do little or nothing to create lasting solutions, and simply sustain themselves with grants and donations.» —“Local nonprofits taken to task” by Suzanne Bohan Palo Alto Daily News (California) Mar. 5, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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