A group called Fund for Public Interest Research has been soliciting donations on the streets of Manhattan for groups such as Greenpeace, Sierra Club and Save the Children. An amNewYork article has described them as cult-like in how they treat their workers:

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Employees: Green contractor cult-like
BY CHUCK BENNETT
amNewYork Staff Writer

An organization that raises money for Greenpeace and other groups around the city has a cult-like atmosphere and is more obsessed with
cash than the non-profits it represents, according to cur-
rent and past employees.

The Fund for Public Interest Research, a Boston-based nonprofit with offices in 68 cities, hires idealistic young men and women to solicit donations for a slew of left-leaning advocacy groups such as Greenpeace, the Sierra Club and Save the Children. But the aim of the $25 million organization is solely about money and obedience, workers told
amNewYork.

"I started seeing it wasn't necessarily about the cause. The focus was the
quota, former employee Christopher Ravel, 23, said.

"It didn't matter how you brought them in, as long as you brought them in."

Lewis Fein, a spokesman for Public Interest Watch, an organization critical of Greenpeace, said of the fund, "They are doing what cults do. They don't pay you, work you to death, you are sleep-deprived, then you burn out and they replace you."