Last Monday was the first time in my life I passed by a bell ringer.
Salvation Army chapters across the country are reporting massive shortages in volunteer hours and toy donations just weeks after the charity distributed (and then pulled) a controversial guide calling on white people to confront their “racist attitudes.”
Some 20,000 volunteer hours have gone unfilled for the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle campaign this year, which historically represents about 33% of the charity’s total yearly donations. The charity has also reported substantial shortages of toy and gift donations in some parts of the country, such as New Jersey, where donations are down 30% across the state.
Unfortunately, those who need the help will suffer. Maybe they should have thought of that. I’m giving money to the Tornado relief fund.
They don’t want my money. I’m a white male.
Same here, my money is too racist for them.
I emailed them and suggested that they concentrate on getting their woke comrades to donate.
Some handy ‘White Apology’ cards for their kettles.
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIF.2Fc7afw2X6sRVPruvJRHnw%26pid%3DApi&f=1
Enough said.
I won’t give money to anywhere but the church I attend. If you attend church and don’t trust them with your tithe you should attend somewhere else.
poetic justice well deserved
My wife sends money to the Salvation Army at the end of every year. She recently phoned to see if they were discriminating against
white donors by calling them racists. The lady on the phone said that was against everything that the Salvation Army stood for and offered to send her an apology by the head of the organization.
My wife mailed a cheque believing that the lady was telling her the truth.
Your wife should have waited for the apology letter.
The lessen from the Word is to repent; turn around and walk in the opposite direction from where you were heading. Most of the people within the SA don’t believe what the leadership said about this issue.
But Ananias and Sapphira had to learn not to deceive Holy Spirit:
On the other hand, a man named Ananias together with his wife, Sapphira, sold a property. He kept back some of the proceeds, with his wife’s full knowledge, and brought part of it and set it at the feet of the emissaries. But Peter said, “Ananias, why has satan filled your heart to lie to the Ruach ha-Kodesh and keep back part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, it was your own, wasn’t it? And after it was sold, wasn’t it at your disposal? How did this deed get into your heart? You haven’t lied to men but to God.” As soon as he heard these words, Ananias fell down and died. Great fear came upon all who heard about it. After an interval of about three hours, his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. Peter responded to her, “Tell me if you sold the land for this much.” She said, “Yes, for that much.” Then Peter said to her, “How did you agree to test the Ruach Adonai? Look, the feet of those who buried your husband are at the door—they will carry you out, too!” Immediately she fell down at his feet and died. When the young men came back in, they found her dead and carried her out and buried her beside her husband.
Acts 5:1-5, 7-10 TLV
https://bible.com/bible/314/act.5.1-10.TLV
That would make the words of dear leaders be fewer and with more consideration.
I have not seen any people collecting this year. I have seen a stand (minus the kettle) with a setup to donate electronically. Never seen that before. No one was using it.
An unmanned, electronic donation stand…
Everything about that just screams ‘fraud’ and ‘credit card skimming’.
Gee, you don’t suppose that in the past the volunteers were overwhelmingly white do you.?
Yes, and apparently not only are donations to SA down by over 30% but volunteer hours also are taking a huge hit.
‘As ye sow so shall ye reap’ or words to that effect.
They may have a few misguided people at the top, but I still think what they do is admirable and that many of the people in that organization are true good Samaritans. I will stick with them for this year.
Misguided people at the top of good organizations is what happens BEFORE the Left completely guts them. Withholding donations is an attempt to save the Salvation Army, not punish it.
That’s what is so sad about this. They’re a fundamentally good organization. But how could some of the people at the top be so easily led asray? What’s also disturbing is their failure to truly correct the situation and wholly admit they were wrong.
A fish rots from the head. Perhaps withheld donations will inspire the “top’s” removal. If not, then they deserve every abuse heaped upon them. I’ll be passing the kettles by.
As soon as the Salvation Army asks BIPOC’s to confront their racist attitudes … I will consider contributing. No. I don’t want an apology. It’s too late for that. What I want is the TRUTH. And the TRUTH is … BIPOC’s are FAR more racist than white people. It’s not even close.
Remember that thing about accusing others of what you’re guilty of yourself. Take the board out of your eyes Salvation Army …
I did the same Kate, with a heavy heart, knowing it will hurt the needy most. I also wrote them a letter and attached it to the usual donation card I received in the mail, telling them I do not support the vaccine mandates they have imposed on all their staff and volunteers and will no longer be able to make donations. My family has been a long time supporter of the Sally Ann but I will now support the needy in other ways. God knows there are many families now who are struggling to make ends meet after losing jobs due to the vaccine mandates, or other Covid restrictions.
Or it could be this….
https://tnc.news/2021/12/01/salvation-army-christmas-kettle-volunteers-must-be-fully-vaccinated/
Or this:
https://www.rebelnews.com/cease_and_desist_letter_sent_to_challenge_salvation_army_vaccine_policy
“Dear Salvation Army…” Grouchy Old Cripple lambastes them in a steaming letter. The comments to his tirade are good too. Check it out.
http://grouchyoldcripple.com/
Checked it out – very good, then I wandered about his web site and found this (NSFW):
http://grouchyoldcripple.com/saturday-boobage-1-25-2014/
Brightened my day.
I found this in the comments (NSFW):
https://www.redgifs.com/watch/zestyimportantbluefish
Talk about physics that people can understand…..
Remember the people who made this decision at the top are not volunteers. They are fully paid staff. For every dollar they get in donations, they take the lions share for themselves. The vast majority of charities only ever spend 15% or probably less on the cause. The rest pays for the business of being a “charity”. And at any rate almost everyone already give huge amounts to charities in the form of government money originally taken as taxes. No need to contribute at the door or in the kettle. You already give enough.
That’s not close to being true. Do your research a tad better. My charity spends less than 1% on admin.
I am sure they do, but who is “your” charity?
“The vast majority of charities only ever spend 15% or probably less on the cause.” That is a gross generalization. You can look up such numbers for charities. The best ones use the vast majority of donations for programs. One of the best Christian charities, in my view, is Samaritan’s Purse.
I was born in 1960 at what was called “Mercy Hospital” in Regina on Dewdney Avenue.
It was run by the Salvation Army, for women who were having babies while they were still quite young.
I’m surprised that they didn’t want money from me this year.
Also, my money isn’t at all vaccinated.
*I think the Sally Ann is still involved with many good projects, and they aren’t one of the top heavy charities which pay the top executives millions.
I do hope they’ve learned the woke lesson here…
I, too, have walked past the red kettle this year.
Normally, I would donate at Christmas, and also bring goods for the SA thrift store.
I know this will cumulatively hurt those in need, but there are other ways and places to donate to.
That said, with the inflation and rising cost of living, it is getting less viable to give to charities if one is on a fixed income.
I am saddened that the Sally Ann has done what they did.
Trudeau took mine to give this year, I simply tell them and all other requests they will need to ask Trudeau for it back………
Fine but only liberals expect the government to do what individuals can and should. This is nothing new.
Liberals voted for Trudeau, he promised his herd to take more money from people like me so that he could pass it out to “the poor of the world”. He upped the taxes and took my money – I guess he passed it on to everyone else unless he’s a liar. Regardless my charitable share is now gone. They need to now collect on him if they aren’t getting the share they voted for and were promised, simple…………
Sally Ann.
This really fascinates me because it was so highly respected for sporting the lowest overhead figures among charities.
AND GET THIS. A few years ago I was executor for a woman with a $1 million estate. Nearly all went 50-50 to UBC and Sally Ann. I got a call from a woman at Sally Ann aggresively challenging the executor and legal fees which were well within the standard range. As you can imagine it left such a bitter taste that personally I wouldn’t give them a plug nickel.
During my work on settling my father’s estate, I dealt with a certain religiously-based thrift shop. One day, the staff were quite rude to me about the stuff I tried to donate, claiming that they didn’t want it because it wasn’t “current”. (Hey, I’m donating it. You didn’t pay a single cent for any of it, and you’re complaining about what I’m giving you?)
I never darkened their door after that. I’d sooner bring stuff to the dump than to give it to them.
By the way, as the executor of my father’s estate, I’m familiar with your reference to fees, though, since I’m also the trustee and sole beneficiary, they don’t apply to me.
I seem to recall a website? a few years back that aggregated various charities numbers (Canada), and I was surprised that
a number of well known ones chew up the money big time for expenses and overhead (fund raising costs). Some are clearly political these days, so should have their charitable status revoked. There are way too many ‘charities’ in my mind. There are also an unbelievable number of what I will call ‘lobby groups in disguise’ that suck at the government tit big time. We are so screwed!
If the SA is not to be trusted for doing what they did you’d have to scratch every Christian church off your Christmas list for similar decisions.
I support the SA at this time of year for simply doing what they do. They are hands on, not from the government.
When you need a bowl of soup or a bed – you get it. You are not asked to recite the 10 commandments.
So, in spite of what they did, and in the spirit of the season I willingly donate. It sounds like they might learn from their errors.
Merry Christmas
I used to always – ALWAYS – drop money in the kettle. No longer. Take the money you used to drop in the kettle and send to the Gary Sinise Foundation instead:
https://www.garysinisefoundation.org/
Heres the thing: statistics show that people on the right give far more to charity than people on the left.
When you adopt left wing ideology, you alienate the biggest givers.
Now I still believe in the salvation Army. In the 90s I visited a number of rehabilitation centers across the US and saw the good work they fo and the difference they make in peoples lives. They are perhaps the most effective charity for fighting homelessness and addiction in our cities.
Put the SA in the penalty box for one year.
If they repent/relent then you can give to them next year.
There are many other people and organizations doing good work for you to choose from.
Every kettle I’ve seen has no one manning them, I guess the mandatory vaccine policy is helping destroy their volunteer base? I won’t give them a plug nickle, not one red cent. My sister volunteers at a male only homeless shelter, the SA doesn’t give out Christmas food hampers anymore they give grocery store gift cards. That tells me how far they’ve gone down the marxist rat hole.
Every Xmas period I would put a five dollar bill in a number of kettles. This year, I did one, before I read of the white privilege diatribe. Sadly I have not, and will not donate to the SA further until they apologize and change that attitude. They always did good work, but they need to dispose of the head office execs that cooked this up. Until then, I’ll find other ways of giving at this time of year. I do try to keep my donations local, but the tornado fund sounds like a good idea.
No more donations to the Sally-Ann for me when they halted the bell ringing to appease some offended snowflake. Not only have they now gone full woke with the White foolishness, but anyone who worked or volunteered for them was out of a job effective November 15 if they were not fully vaxxed.
The bell ringing didn’t stop to appease snowflakes, they were told to get rid of the bells or be banned from the businesses by the businesses.
Don’t buy anything from those businesses.
A big hole in the revenue account does wonders to sharpen the focus of any wayward charity or business.
BLM isn’t going to like missing their cut. Literature and training sessions don’t grow on trees. Riots aren’t free.
Gave SA a sizeable donation last year. Not this year. I increased my donation to our local animal shelter instead with that portion. As well a sizeable donation to our local food bank. They are close to my post office and today there was a line to the end of the building, in snow and stiff breezes, showing their is a definite need. That’s all I got to say about that.
Kate all the best to you and the pups for the new year.
bverwey
No volunteers at kettles mostly have to do with covid restrictions and lack of volunteers.
Kettles missing from businesses are from the S.A. being “to Christian” for the upper management in the businesses, while the other non Christian patrons of the business usually have no problem with the S.A. and are many times quite willing to give.
I answer every 1 800 call.
“Calling from xxx charity can we count on you to support us with a donation?”
“Sorry can’t, I have no spare disposable cash due to the increase in everything because of the carbon tax ”
Responses
1 “ok have a good day”
2 ” can you spare a small amount?” “No! I have no spare income, I’m paying a carbon tax that will do absolutely nothing except destroy our economy, Silence
have a good day” Silence… have a good day I hang up.
As a side note, it seems that I’m not receiving as many 1 800 numbers as I have in the past.
When Salvation Army decides to infer white people are racists with a statement like that they can expect us to ignore their bells.
They shot themselves in the foot…what can I say!