Quote - Oh, don't get me wrong, the world needs charity. I get the impulse.  It's strong.

But while the organizations that are doing the actual feeding are non-profits, I've been told that the fundraising that is done for some of those organizations  may well be done by distinct, for-profit fundraising firms.  And so I recognize that fundraising is an integral part of all charity work, but the thought of a business doing it for profit still makes me feel a little ill.  I guess, it's the kind of thing that requires some research so that you have a better idea where the money is really going.  Even then, as someone else in this thread pointed out, corruption also abounds.

It might be more helpful if we expended our energies lobbying our politicians to pass laws restricting our domestic companies from raping the environment overseas and exploiting child workers, etc, etc.

As for animals, well, why donate under some "adoption" scheme?  Just send a check directly to the SPCA.

 

I think charities are in a bit of a Catch22... the old adage "you've got to spend money to make money" is true for them too.

But, it certainly jars with me when I see what is clearly a lot of money being spent on advertising and / or fundraising schemes, by charities...

...money that is almost certainly being shelled out to advertising executives and the "jobs for the boys/girls"executive and non-executive quangoids who so often appear to be lurking in charity management roles...

...maybe it's not as bad as that. But this is the picture that a lot of the current charity advertising / fundraising tactics generates in my mind.

So therefore I hesitate to donate, to a lot of things... and therefore these tactics are failing, relative to me... as a demographic sample.

Yes I could spare just $2.00...

...but if Ranji doesn't get the money to buy that new arm, leg, eye and bike, because it all gets blown on the video production, do I really want to hand it over?