Sunday, September 14, 2008
Charity Con.
I figured I would help out missing kids by donating $20 to the cause. Problem is, the women that were running the booth turn out to be working for a non charity company selling items that only result in 5% of sales going to the charity. I did not buy anything I just gave a flat $20 donation so it better had went straight to the kids. They were selling things while saying it was "non profit" but the receipts fine print in the back say otherwise which lead me to write this post. The receipt does not give the name of the corporation selling the merchandise on the front like the fine print states. So instead of buying crap through people "selling for a cause" just make a straight donation to the charity itself and do not get ripped off.
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Stumbled upon your blog. Keep it up! Thanks for the info on this "charity con".
I used to work for something like this. We went door to door usually advocating health care reform or consumer rights of some kind--whatever we collected from the mark, we got 50%, and the rest went to the organization--which basically paid one lobbyist to hang out in the RI state house. This couldn't have costed more than 15-20k per year because I don't think she was even a professional lobbyist and she was part time. Aside from that, the canvas didn't do anything to benefit the community. I snuck a peek at some of my superiors paychecks and they were making some serious dough-too much for middle managers at a small activist group.
This sucks because even though I believe in most of these causes I have a deep seated mistrust for almost all non profit orgs.
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