&gt; The material costs of feeding 100 people would probably equal the labor costs of one worker for one day. Nobody is going to make the labor compromise when the question is &quot;Do I feed 10 people or 100 people&quot;.<p>But that&#x27;s not the actual decision that needs to be made.  It&#x27;s more like do I feed <i>no</i> people because there&#x27;s nobody to distribute the food that will work for free, or do I pay some people some small amount and feed <i>some</i> people.  I guarantee decisions like that get made at all levels of nonprofits all the time, from entry level positions to directors. It <i>is</i> a market, and just because much of the time supply far outstrips demand, to the point that there is no monetary compensation (but there is theoretically other compensation), doesn&#x27;t mean that always hold true at all times and in all locations.