Veterans Charity Raises Millions to Help Those Who’ve Served. But Telemarketers Are Pocketing Most of It.
But there was a catch — a costly one. The fundraisers were keeping most of the contributions donors were giving to the charity. Almost all of the money left over paid for overhead costs, such as Hampton’s salary. Veterans themselves received scraps.
h/t karen.
I never have, and never will give to any cold call request to donate to a charity. I have about 5 or 6 organizations that I give to regularly. A talk show I heard many years ago had a guest who was employed as a caller for an organization that specialized in raising funds and he said the exact same thing, that most of the money went to the organization making the phone calls.
Registered charities originated with great intentions. Some long established are legit.
But for many years now, these non-profits have turned into a Make Work scheme for people to make big salaries, so long as the minimum is given to actual usage. It’s turned into a scam for most of these appeals for your money.
Walking out of my local superstore, there would be these fly by night charities begging for funds at the door, changing week to week, but never heard or seen these outfits before. Just a way to make extra cash.
Be careful, a lot of these outfits have familiar sounding names, but are slightly different than the well established, large, respectable ones.
There are charities that do good.
There is a crushing majority of charities that do very well for those that run it.
Too bad that people can’t resist the spiel.
It is better to go and buy a hamburger and coffee to a guy/woman on the street than give it to paper pushers.
Full honor to those that do good.
Greenpeace, rich tele-evangelists, Clinton foundation … no shortage of charlatans to prey on people’s kindness.
There’s a special place in HELL for those who seek to PROFIT from the suffering of others. Oh yeah … these cretins better hope they are RIGHT about their Atheism
After reading about the Red Cross, we no longer donate to charities. If even the best non-profits have such a high overhead relative to donations received, why give them money?
The Red Cross in Haiti is just one example. Over $400 million raised and 6 houses built.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/06/17/report-charges-red-cross-with-high-administrative-costs-in-haitian-relief-program/?utm_term=.1ba809bd0e3a
This is news? Poverty pimps are poverty pimps. Any adult should know that.
… and Obama nicked $1.6 TRILLION … yes … Trillion from the US Taxpayer (paid over the next thousand years) … and all we got for our “infrastructure” were a few new handicapped curb cuts (built to the newly revised standards) … and … lots of local governments propped up with salaries including raises and bonuses … during a virtual Depression.
In Beaumont, Texas, churches (or gangs pretending to be churches) send children into the streets to beg money “for our mission trip.” What kind of church endangers children?
Doesn’t have to be a cold call, can just be a bulk mailed letter o r card. Once they have you down as a senior citizen, they never stop. A program set up where anything you give is split among the three. I keep telling my wife this, but if I don’t check on the mail, she will give to all comers. It does no good to tell them to remove you from their lists. IL have found that you can carefully slit their envelope, stuff some filler junk in it, and write “Return to Sender” on it and they get hit for the return postage. As far as robo caller, my son makes it a game ae has made them waste up to two hours of their time, while never using the word “yes”.
And that is why I do charitable work and don’t donate cash to charities. When I care for a patient in a foreign land for free there are no ifs ands or buts about who is doing what for whom. There are no middlemen creaming anything off between me and that person and that’s the way I like it.
Follow the money. Does the charity’s board or executive have any direct or indirect ties to parties supplying administrative or consulting services. In most cases the answer is yes. There is a wealthy class of charlatans who do nothing but “fund raise.”
So, I’ve got my Oxford dictionary out….where do I look for sympathy?
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Give zero dollars to organized charities. They are mostly all scam… Charity begins at home. Take care of your own.
Our Socialist Government will take care of the ‘less-motivated’.
Cheers,
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Somewhere between $h!t and syphillis.
It’s like voting for Liberals and thinking they will run the government to solve all of society’s problems.
About 25 years ago there was a fundraising telemarketing company that had its own building in Edmonton. They skimmed enough profit that they would “donate” free office space to charities just tor the use of their name. I got sent an invoice once for tickets to a charity event that I told the guy I did not want. When I tried to report them to the police for fraud it turned out the police used them for fundraising also.
Since then, my standard response to any of these pond-scum is a firm “I do not donate to any organization that solicits by telephone. Please remove my number from your list and do not call again.”
Good for you, and thank you.
The Red Cross and United Way and many others, especially enviro fraudsters, get short shrift at our place. There are about half a dozen charities that we know the people involved personally, including the local Sally Ann, and concentrate on supporting them.
yep…just as bad as the “marketers” from all over North America that scour E-bay, Kijiji and other auction sites.
“Hi, is your (item), still for sale, call me at 720 – xxx-xxxx.
All they want is your money in exchange for them listing your item on some webpage…which the likely hood of them doing that is ZERO.
I just tell them, come on down..I’ll even give you a discount of 10%…after I put the price up 20%.
gotta keep vigilante…theres millions out there trying to sam your hard earned money, governments not withstanding.
For several years I would get a call every November from a well known organization that would put on a Christmas concert for supposedly disadvantaged children. They would ask me to sponsor a number of tickets @ $25.00 each, I would always agree to purchase $100.00 worth of tickets as I felt that I wanted to see these young people enjoy a Christmas concert that they may not otherwise be able to see.
I later found out from a very reliable source/friend that very few of the kids from the supposed disadvantaged target market ever got to attend the concerts.A few were there for the local media to interview and be photographed, but most of these kids had parents who could easily afford the admission prices.
After I had terminated this donation relationship with that particular “charitable organization” suddenly I was receiving calls from outfits I had never heard of soliciting my support for many different causes.I can only conclude that since I was no longer a source of monetary support from the original organization I was supporting that they had sold my contact info to the hihgest bidder or some other fund raising entity.
“Levite says he protested, but Hampton ignored him. … Meanwhile, Hampton’s reported compensation quadrupled — to $340,126”
Upton Sinclair:
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”