Midland Money Shuffle is an independent community transparency project focused on the MYPros Community Crowdfund — an annual program run by the Midland Business Alliance's MYPros (Midland Young Professionals) program and matched by the Midland Area Community Foundation.
We think the program is a genuinely good idea. Community investment in local businesses is something worth celebrating. We just think good ideas deserve good governance — and we noticed some things worth asking about.
This site is run anonymously by a concerned Midland community member. We're keeping it that way — not because we have anything to hide, but because the goal here is to focus attention on the facts and the questions, not on us.
Everything on this site is sourced from publicly available information. We haven't hacked anything, accessed private records, or spoken to anyone off the record. Everything we know, you can verify yourself by clicking the links we provide.
We want to be precise about this, because precision matters.
We are not claiming anyone broke the law. We are not claiming anyone acted with malicious intent. We are not claiming the businesses that received crowdfund money were undeserving.
We are documenting a pattern — visible in public records — where the people running the crowdfund selection process and the people benefiting from it overlap in ways that most well-governed nonprofits would flag as conflicts of interest. We are asking whether adequate policies exist to manage those conflicts. And we are noting that no such policies have been publicly disclosed.
When community members donate to these crowdfunds, they are doing something meaningful — they are triggering real institutional money from a community foundation. That foundation's assets belong, in a meaningful sense, to the whole community. The process by which those assets are directed to specific businesses should be beyond reproach.
If it is beyond reproach — great. Show us the conflict of interest policy. Explain the screening process. Publish the selection criteria. These are things any well-run charitable program can do easily.
If the answers are harder than that, the community deserves to know.
Everything on this site is drawn from:
We're not here to tear anything down. We'd genuinely love to see the Midland Business Alliance and the Midland Area Community Foundation respond to the questions on this site with clear, public answers. A published conflict of interest policy. A transparent selection process. Disclosure of whether MYPros members are eligible to apply.
If those things exist and we missed them, we'll say so publicly and update this site accordingly.
That's the deal. We ask questions. They answer them. The community gets the transparency it deserves. Everyone moves on.