Andy Kao explains that Taiwan's NPOs have taken on a huge number of responsibilities, and many things that would normally be handled by the government have been handed over to them to take care of. For one, these organizations may not be competent enough to successfully handle them, and secondly, these extra burdens actually inflict greater losses on NPOs because the government will rarely pay the full cost of such activities.
喜馬拉雅研究基金會助理執行長高永興指出，台灣 NPO 承擔非常多責任，很多政府應該做的事都交給民間來做，一來民間組織不見得能夠勝任，二來，NPO 接辦政府委託案通常領不到全額費用，NPO 事實上是賠本在接案。