Why I Don't Donate To Charity
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Oh come on Jackson, it's not a pyramid scheme it's a multi level reverse funnel marketing opportunity!
Lmao
Reverse inverted cone job
A marketing strategy!
No it's actually a reverse chese topping pizza marketing investiment
@@maakitu3319 the Kevin Macalister special
I used to be a salesman for “non-profits”, this is pretty much spot on. What’s scary is the sales pitches that they teach you, “don’t say 20 dollars, say 20 bucks because it sounds more fun. Don’t say you’re collecting donations, say you’re collecting $20 GIFTS! It sounds more fun!” That kinda stuff
Bro what lmao,
@@PurplePhantom4 Its is persuation. There is 3 ways. Namely logos, pathos and ethos. Logos: appeal to logic, pathos: appeal to emotion(which is what they are using) and ethos: appeal to character(err something).
@@PurplePhantom4 You could say threatening is persuasion, but I think that is duress or coercion. Idk.
@@UC3rm0aNC4ysyZipDZotXnZAethos is like using famous characters to convince you that it’s a trusted product
That sounds stupid...
Step 1: donate 5$
Step 2: get letters
Step 3: sell envelopes
Step 4: profit
(If you get 4 envelopes a year it'll take you 10 years to recoup your losses)
now that's capitalism at its finest
Trust me, donate to a corporation like worldvision. You’ll recoup your losses in 3 months from selling the shredded paper alone.
Jokes aside it’s absolutely insane the amount that they have sent to my house lol
that's passive income baby
I was thinking just that lmao. You could in theory just donate a few dollars each to a crap ton of charities and then burn the stacked papers in the winter for one or two days of heat.
@@Ollybollyk :0
That's why I don't donate to charity. I DO charity. Ain't trusting those middlemen.
truly one of the "i'll do it myself" moments of all time
Like Thanos...
Waiit so people really donate to charities instead of giving out to the hardworking poor they see every day?
@@itismethatguy I do it because there aren't many people like that in my country. America is a terrible place full of over-worked people working shit jobs for little pay. I never see that shit here. Many countries are way too broken, with rich people doing whatever they want while others barely get food.
All of that needs to be fixed, but giving to charity is still a good thing to do.
That was always my family's way. So many times my step father or mother brought back someone honest who needed a place to for a little while so they could get back onto their feet. Nothing stolen from the house or broken, while "friends" sometimes wouldn't be so polite. They stayed a little bit and later went on their way.
Charities should have their entire economic yearly breakdown available on their home page honestly. They are obligated by law to keep track of their accounting to exist as an entity so why not just share that openly?
Some do and if they don't you can ask them. Turns out some actually explain things and answer you.
In some countries it is a requirement for companies to share their accounting to the public.
all company should do that
@@Ollybollyk makes sense. The tax value they deprive society of isn't entirely compensated with the full disclosure, but it's a start.
Actually most countries don't require publication of their finances.
I grew up in a group home. We were treated like products. We were literally referred to as "filled beds". The CEO of the company wrote a book on how to become a billionaire through non profit. Oprah Winfrey donated $100,000 dollars to the company. We saw none of it. However he bought his 4 kids ATVs, new TV's and training camps for the quads.
"How to become a billionaire through non profit". Non profit my ass
The company is non profit the problem is employees need paid and higher ups take advantage of that and decide their salary should be in the millions.
@@RobRuckus65 exactly
Whenever I get calls out of the blue asking to donate, I always just say “sorry mate I’m broke as hell” 😂
Same here cuz it's not like I'd be lying 🤷🏻
lol
Real
"hey mate you should be paying my broke ass instead" hits that uno reverse
I don't usually even answer the phone if I don't recognize the number.
I give to grassroots movements. Like, I just donate canned goods to food banks 'cause I know that's someone's meal. We def need foodbank donations right now. I donate to my local library. I've done community tree plantings for climate change. Sh*t like that is fine. Ideally, we need systems to create a world where charities aren't needed.
Also donate hygiene products to shelters, they’re always in need of toothbrushes, pads, etc.
that's sadly impossible, our planet doesn't have enough food for everyone, if it did, food prices would be almost free. The people are living longer, born more, dying less. we would need to destroy every forest to make farmland for every one on earth to eat. Giving to food banks doesn't solve anything, it's just less food for you, more food for someone else. As food prices increase, that means even less food for you, less food for them.
It shouldn't be charities responsibility to help people, the literal entire point of a government is to help its citizens and keep them safe.
@@prebenkul Wow, do I have some awesome news for you! Contrary to what you've heard, we actually produce enough food to feed every single person on this planet, even based on a 2000 calorie diet. The UN (and other agencies) report that we've got plenty of food to sustain even the projected 10 billion people we will have by 2050. It's not about the lack of food, it's all about the logistics and accessibility.
But hey, even if we pretend for a second that we're running low on food, technology is here to save the day! There's the application of improved botany sciences with techniques like hydroponics, aeroponics, and purple lighting but there's also genetic engineering allowing plants to produce more food per plant with less water etc but that's a controversial solution since gmos are a complicated topic. These techniques are allowing us to grow way more food than ever before and we frankly have barely even started implementing them. If you don't believe me, check out Vertical Harvest in Wyoming who has been producing ten times the amount of food compared to traditional land usage of a farm since 2016 if you want a concrete example. It's also literally inside of a city using space that was already deforested. There are these gardens in New York City, built on entire skyscraper floors and honestly many other examples of basically futuristic farming happening.
So, the idea that we're running out of food or land to grow it on is just a myth. It's all about how we manage and distribute what we've got. The rising food prices and people not having enough to eat? That's more about the challenges of getting the food where it needs to go and making it accessible to everyone.
@@Mushroomcorvidwhat about water tho
I love how he pulls out the letters and puts them away from behind his back as if hes pulling them out his inventory
be wary of carrying too much lest youll be unabke to RUN
I donated to an animal shelter once and then they would ring me every single day asking if I wanted to donate more. So I ended up just blocking their number.
you should give dog food
I did that kiosk job before, and they often don’t work for the charity themselves. They are a third party company that various charities will hire. So for a few months those people will fundraise for one charity and then later those same people could come to your door or stand on the street corner fundraising for a completely different charity.
Dude I did this too, completely disillusioned me
Fundamentally it's like advertising, it's a leech that does a tiny bit of good but not inherently, all the good comes from the host it's leeching off of, everything it does without the context of the host is just awful.
Apparently here in the UK (I can't comment on any other country), on average, 60-70% of charity incomes go on to their charitable activities (i.e. the thing you're donating for) and over 90% of charities don't have an paid workers. But I can't find a legally required minimum amount for donating their profits, maybe there is one, it just isn't coming up in my searches. Back in 2016, a cancer charity only used 3% of their income on the activity which was £27,000. Whereas they spent 97% on fundraising and other expenses - over £800,000! How absurd...
Apparently your money goes further if you donate to smaller charities, just make sure you double check they're legit first
I remember in primary we used to always raise money for charity and one day I was talking to a teacher about it and she was saying which charities she like to donate to and I hadn't really heard of them that's when she told me she doesn't like donating to any big charities and that when she donates she dose the proper research to make sure that her money isn't going to pay some big CEO's wages and instead going to the actual cause.
This is why non-cash donations are the best. Food banks, Poptabs and toy banks tend to actually get to the proper recipients.
Most food donated to food banks wastes thousands of dollars and ends up in trash because people donate crap
@@crazydragy4233 wdym ppl donate crap so they throw it away??
like they donate canned broccoli so they dont eat it?
beggars cant be choosers
@@heyitseyevan People donate shitty "food", a lot of which is not fit for consumption by the time it'd reach those who need it, so more money is wasted throwing it away at the storage facility, but who cares! Your saint bought a can of sludge you'd never eat in your life for those beggars, what an angel you are!
Why would you actually donate with the intent to provide and help instead of just making yourself feel good without doing any work, am I right?
Bdw in America 1$ you use for canned soup could be spent on a full cart of vegetables a local farmer was gonna dump in a landfill for not looking perfect, but that doesn't feel as heroic I guess
@@crazydragy4233 Please enlighten me on where to find a "cart full of vegetables" that a local farmer is going to sell me instead of sending it to the dump instead. Shit's gonna get wasted, regardless of how "good" quality the food donated is.
@@normified You're telling me no farmer would sell you food that gets thrown away bc nobody is buying it (because it looks too ugly)? Really? That's some bad math. Because if trucks worth of produce going to a landfill because transporting and selling it to supermarkets isn't worth it, is not burning money for farmers y'all must have some amd subsidies for creating methane.
Food forward is one organisation that works with recovering such food, but as I'm not american I don't have a lot of knowledge on local non profits
Apparently a charity only needs to donate 5% of their profits to still be considered a charity, which essentially defeats the whole purpose
Edit: this only applies in the US through the IRS according to section 4942 which is only applicable to private foundation, there are a lot of different regulations when it comes charities here in the US which makes it quite complicated, sorry for any confusion
That's despicable
Realy? This is so sad
Charities are a band aid solution, they aren’t made to be permanent it’s made to be a illusion that the world is getting better when in truth it doesn’t solve climate change, doesn’t do shit to stop homelessness, and doesn’t do anything permanent. Radical change is needed.
I think you need to check your facts and work out what you're actually trying to say.
I think you are getting charities mixed up with university endowments, which may need to donate 5% of their endowment each year (i.e. 5% of their total investments, not just the profits on their investments) to the institution they support.
Regarding profits, this is simply incorrect; 100% of a charity's profits have to go to charitable ends.
@@timothyhopper4956 Correct, but there's no restriction on your administrative overheads which is taken before profits.
Dude your description of kiosk people and everything is so fucking accurate. I get checkmated by that ish too.
Reminds me of konosuba
@@eee1200What is konosuba?
Being cautious and wary is a very good thing when it comes to charities.
The best charities can do a vast amount of good per dollar, the worst are basically wasting 95 cents of every dollar you donate.
Unfortunately it is very hard to tell who is really good. Some close-to-scam charities are fairly obvious; a few a genuinely convincing though.
Even the Effective Altruism community and associated charities and charity advice and rankings are tarnished these days.
How are they tarnished these days?
We get letters from some group, asking for donations for wounded vets
Our family always has a blast opening these up, because they include things like socks and pens. Those socks could've gone to the wounded vets! They also send several dollars worth of paper and postage and stuff, and we're laughing the whole time about how ridiculous it is
I also saw a picture of a charity sending someone a quarter in the mail and saying, "this one quarter can help our cause" lmao
Ironically I donated to greenpeace as my first charity back in 2010 as well and have been getting those letters too. It's insane.
@thechartech. Have you looked into contacting the fundraising preference service to stop the mail?
I worked for one of those kiosk type jobs for a little while and it was exactly as shady as you would expect. This guy came up to me, asked me if I worked for (guy I worked for), told me he used to work for (guy I worked for) and that I was making a mistake. That I had to quit ASAP, bc it was all a scam. I gtfo quick bc it was indeed shady af.
Dude that warned you is the real MVP
Great video Jackson you have opened my eyes to charity and how to handle people asking for money tell them to f*ck off lol💰
people use that enough that it became a hashtag
@@Newpant I hate it lol
Nooo, he felt guilty about telling the guy to duck off! Don't go around being a dick to people
Y'know, is a bloody shame. Cause I really wish more charities where more, for lack of a better word atm, "better". I was planning to donate once I got my first payment yet I was afraid of making a mistake and to my money ending in somewhere shady at best. So this advice is really helpful and wish more people talked about this.
Still donate if you want just make sure you do your research!
My grandparents were getting calls from a police station on the other side of the country, asking for donations. So, my grandpa and mother asked them all kinds of stupid questions but what broke the guy was what my grandfather said, "Well, do I get the money?". They black listed my grandparents. 😂😂😂😂😂
I hate it, how often "charities" just make a profit out of the people that need help.
That picture of Frank!! 🥺😍 the little snaggle tooth!
Also....you were just saying what we all want to say when we get approached by them 😂😂😂 💰
The thing with charities like that is even darker, its usually for tax writeoffs or tax evasion in some way. Or publicity. Its very, very rare that any charity is actually going to do any good.
Wow that's a hard statement.
Ofcourse there are scams, but there are also official certificates for charities (at least were I live) and the bigger and more prominent ones also are pretty transparent in their finances and have constant updates on their work available.
Lumping in charities with scams is doing real harm to people working there, potential support and the people/animals suffering which would need that help.
Donating for "tax write-offs" is always hilarious to me. There are occasional tactics for it to get your income from X to Y so qualify for a government program or something. But no multi-millionaire qualifies anyways so the 20k they donate is because they want to. It provides insignificant benefit, it's just stupid not to claim a donation as you're then just donating extra money to the government unnecessarily. You can calculate it yourself, donations aren't a profit center unless you *create* a charity.
@@Trahloc They get a tax writeoff and good publicity, that makes it a very lucrative investment
@@thecuddlyaddict yes but people who don't understand tax think "write off" somehow makes people money. It's always frustrating hearing ignorant people say with confidence one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.
It's a strategy to pay less money to the government to have things you're doing regardless if you can do them in ways that they qualify as a tax write off, so you don't pay MORE unnecessarily. It is NOT something you throw money at to magically save you any money. Doing something just for the tax write off is setting money on fire except for low income people so they qualify for government programs (think donating 50 because you're 49 over the income threshold to qualify for welfare) that sort of government threshold number is the only time it makes sense to donate to "make money". Which is why I said multi-millionaires never qualify for that sort of thing.
@@Trahloc Yes, but they effectively van donate $5 million, recieve 4 million in twx deductiond and then get to decide what that money is used for AND get massive pr from it
I worked going door to door asking people to sign up to charities exactly like this. I remember being taught to explain that if they tried to do a one off payment through the website, their would be higher administrative fees and that a higher percentage of their money would go directly to helping people if they signed up through me. I remember other people I knew not explaining that it was monthly, and calling the business to do the signup over the phone and turning down the volume or pretending to drop the phone when it came time to explain that this wasn’t a one time payment. There was the same pyramid “do well and you’ll become a manager crazy fast!” incentive system. I quit in like a week, and I also will not be donating to any charities like that again.
I’m a nonprofit specialist CPA! Jackson this is awesome because a lot of smaller donors don’t look at the allocation of nonprofit expenses! In the USA always take a look at Statement of Functional Expense on their 990 which is public!
This is why community service is 100% better than this sort of thing. Although it takes physical time and effort out of your life, you get to see the effect it has on people, not to mention the friends you can make while doing so.
Aha, a direct approach, yes.
Also perhaps make systemic changes that cause such problems needing help. Ignoring the causes solves nothing. Constantly remedying an issue is like a bandaid on a profusely bleeding wound.
Those kiosk people outside Coles and shopping malls give me hella anxiety ngl, good to know what they might be up to!
Goodwill is considered a charity and the actively take advantage of the poor and disabled instead of helping. We need stricter charity laws in the United States to combat corporations masquerading as charity like goodwill.
How are they taking advantage of them?
Yeah how are they screwing people over?
@@therealevilmudbug They pay disabled people far less than minimum wage(using a minimum wage loop hole which a few years ago was well under half a dollar an hour.) and they have a disabled people work without pay or guaranteed employment for their "work training program" which is the main service that they "provide" which only benefits them. I'll drop links if I can. :)
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That's basically why I prefer doing voluntary work. It's fun, you help people, you actually see that it helps people and it's important too.
Also, if you can (physically, health wise) consider donating blood, stem cells bone marrow. They're always looking for donors.
Holy shit this literally just happened to me! I got stopped outside the grocery store to donate to lung cancer research, and she managed to convince me to sign up for the konly subscription by saying that I could change the amount online and that I have full control over my donation etc. After a couple months I was like, "yeah.. I think this is getting too expensive, maybe I'll just lower my amount to something more reasonable”.
I must have searched around that site for like 2 hours. First figuring out how to sign up and link my account to my donation and everything, and then following faq links and searches looking for a way to change my donation amount. Never fucking found it.
I emailed them right there and told them that I had wanted to change my monthly amount but now that I found out they lied to people to keep them trapped in a donation as long as possible they needed to cancel my subscription immediately and that im never donating to them again.
I think this was right after the second month so now im just wondering if they hide the link long enough to get a certain amount or something haha. I think I’m glad she didn’t get my commission though, hopefully she finds a real job soon.
Got here from your skit stuff and I am loving this, great vid and ive always had the same feelings about charity and people always get mad at me for it cause I have never been able to verbalise why I am not a big fan of them.
Thanks for making this video Jackson. It is very important for people to be aware of the bullshit that some of these organizations/companies pull, so that people know to be cautious with where their money goes. Just a tip for anyone wanting to make a difference in their community: look into mutual aid! And make sure to stay informed on what's going on not just in your country as a whole, but in your local area as well. Vote in the small elections. Those votes are often much closer to causing change that is more tangible.
Dude this actually makes soo much sense, thanks for informing me!!
SAME! I don't like to get the junk mail! That's all. Plus my parents get harassment calls do donate. NO THANKS!
I thought I just going to get a chuckle from this video but I got a chuckle AND I learned something.
I had someone come to the door yesterday… fundraising for special Olympics which I would donate to, only like you said I couldn’t and had to sign up for a subscription and now I know why. As soon as I said I’ll check out the website he was very defensive on that I needed to go through him, I didn’t even think that a “volunteer” would get paid… with my money, no thanks.
Taking advantage of disabled people… that’s pretty low. Thanks for the information; I’m glad I saw this today as I’m supposed to be getting a callback today.
same jack. I don't trust big charity group anymore. I rather buy something from anyone who needs money rather giving it for free
That's lumping in everything instead of doing some minimal research.
Where I live there are official certificates for real charities and many people/animals need help for which u cannot just buy a product or it would be unnecessary to get something that diminishes the help that money could have been.
@@xraselver7634 doesn't matter if a charity group become big and successful mean there's some money corruption in it. small group or temporary charity for 1 purpose is usually safer to donate
@@irwanimationtad Depends on how "one purpose" is really defined, but I agree.
But there are obviously also good charities that are big, so I think we shouldn't just assume that it's bad when they actually help so much.
I like how honest he is, its nice
Those kiosk people make me feel so bad when I just ignore them but if you don’t you have to tell them that you don’t want to donate to charity💰
Your channel is growing quite nicely! Congratulations!
this is such a great video, thank you so much fro making it!
I was one of those kiosk people right at Oasis at Broadbeach, and I did not last long. It's a tedious job having to smile all day, and I felt bad kinda lying to people. The money you contribute doesn't start working for the charity until you donate for at least 2 years. In the meantime, the money goes to the people raising the money. However, do be kind to the kiosk people, just trying to make a living, albeit the wrong way. I was a fresh international student, needing a job badly.
I really dislike charity phone calls. They ask for a credit card number and it’s just like, how do I know you’re not just some scammer trying to steal my credit card info? So I tell them that if I donate, I’ll do it on their charity’s website, after I confirm it’s legit and see if that charity actually gets its money to the cause.
I remember being kind of annoyed when some charity guy stopped me when I was buying groceries to explain to me about his charity.
He wanted my address, he wanted my name, my birthdate, he even needed me to give legal permission for him to "use my information", and on top of all that he said if I wanted to give an one time donation I had to figure it out myself and not bother him for it because he "wasn't allowed to do that".
The charity had something to do with stopping children marriage, and while it was entirely legit, I honestly can't say the experience made me appreciate it more.
This video was actually really informative💰 cheers mate
Non for profit is Knox school for boys and that school is the most prestigious most expensive school I have ever come across. 13k up for each student. Each year/Semester. One time the school brought fireworks to celebrate a new building opening up. Plus the parents donated more money for the building.
I agree with you on this one. Rather than donating, I do community work such as working at my local food pantry.
This should be a podcast
Tips I ise to avoid the kiosk people:
- If you talk another language, use that at your advantage. They can't get the bank info of a tourist
- Fake phone call
- the old classic "sorry I dont have the time", works best at train stations
- and my favourite one: "I'm already subscribed at your charity". The kiosk person has no incentive to talk to you, you stay polite and everyone leaves happy.
Also, donate food to your local foodbank/shelter or do some volunteer work.
Yo randome as comment but, I only knew you from your shorts quite funny but damn, you are so much more interesting with these longer Form Videos.
God Bless man.
Amazing Jackson. Every time I look you’ve grown by a few thousand
The Arbor Day foundation (that’s it right?) is pretty good too, they just make sure trees are planted, I’m gonna research more into them now but from what I remember I do believe they actually do plant trees
I also signed up for MONTHLY donations to Greenpeace when I was fresh out of high school and has my first job. I never got feedback as to how donated money helped - but my dumb young self stayed subscribed for 2 years. Another charity I only signed a petition for, and now for the rest of my life I’ll get 8am phone calls from them asking me to donate.
Your heartless! How could you do this?!
I actually agree with you, you have to be careful with charities, instead of helping people and the world, people just want to deepen their pockets.
Half of every so called good thing somebody dose is either for themselves in some way or they actually are doing things out of the goodness of their heart but that’s rare
4:06 what I get from that answer is that they aren’t investing the money into the solution but into exposure of the problem and their organization
non profit seems to just means you don't have to produce actual results.
but thank you for doing this video, too few people have any idea how screwed up some of those holier than thou organisations
I litrally had it in front of my supermarket where they were trying to get me to sing up to a subscription to charity.
I was a okay to give them one off payment but they tried so hard to get me to pay monthly so i decided to walk away instead.
This one is spot on 💰
As a person who used to work at Red Cross, I will never ever in my life give even a cent of my money to that organization. Never have I seen such a degree of money mismanagement, underpayed workers at the bottom with awful work conditions (what do you expect, it's a charity) but then higher-ups with made-up positions and donations disappearing dod knows where. Not to mention how most there actually saw people who they were supposed to help as inferior to themselves. It's just sad. Super disillusioning experience.
Please, please only donate to organizations that actually do something.
I've been stuck in the same trap of "donating" to red cross Australia. I signed up to donate a bit here and there. They never took any of my money but they sent me an email and letter every month despite me never signing up for that. Nowhere do I see an option to get out. Such a waste of paper
Completely unrelated to the rest of this awesome video, but I'm also Australian, and why do we all say bye like that on phone calls? We all go "byeëë" 😭
You should have put a fundraiser tag on the video. It would’ve been pushed out more by UA-cam an therefore more money to save the children🙂
a good place to check is the better business bureau, you can find full reports and break downs of how much charities make and how much money goes where
Once they get you, they will keep coming for more. I used to get letter from St. JUDGE or whatever that hospital call, only did it once long long time ago. They finally stopped now after I moved a few time. Also I donated blood and they started to follow me everywhere.
Thankyou for another good video Jackson 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰
I don't donate to charities because I'm so poor I could almost be considered a charity case myself. I do participate in my local 'give what you can, take what you need' box, however. I'd much rather directly support my community than a faceless company.
I was one of those kiosk people. What you heard, is luckily not how it works where I worked. We just had a manager who was paid more per hour. We got a commission based on the amount of donations (they were indeed always subscriptions), but it was like 2 euros for every 20 euro subscription.
This is why my family only gives to charity's that allow one-off payments at the kiosk and for those collecting donations for RSL (Returned Services League) or those associated such as war widows foundation and flying doctor's service (which does allow one-off payments, at least where I live)
This is my generic comment that will include many keywords in order to boost your video in the algorithm, because I want this video to make money for SaveTheChildren, as it is a good charity that helps people and is honest and provides a spendings breakdown
damn, earliest video i've ever been recommanded
I used to work in a kiosk pre- Covid and I remember one of my coworkers tell me that when she tried to get some guy to sign for the subscription thingy he was like “no I can’t unfortunately, I’m going to prison tomorrow”.
One time one of those kiosk people tried to get me to give money for a suicide prevention charity, when at that time of my life I was severely depressed and considering unaliving myself
I wasn't aware of it for pretty much any charity but I had made that connection with FairTrade since they give you the numbers.
They sold chocolate bars for 2€ while a similar bar would be 1€ and they advertise that the coco farmer gets double the money from that bar compared to regular companies which bioled down to 18 cents per bar. That still leaves 82 cents the "charity" makes more than the "evil" companies, where does that go?
That video looks different, huh. Great one as usual
love the chill vibe of this video jackson.💸💸💸💸
More people need to see this! 💰💸
I donate my time not cash. I’m broke but I can help feed my community, plant trees in local parks, pick up trash from the beach and litter on daily walks. You don’t know where you’re cash goes when you donate but at least when I volunteer at the food bank I can physically see the person I’m helping.
my family have worked in charity, moved 80 million pounds of food to the needy, we dont anymore because it was forcefully taken over by bankers, so unfortunately even of it starts as a good charity it can go down hill.
also a side note the charity meetings in las vegas are sort of comical. so unfortunately in general giving money to people or charities you have to be mindful, and make giving a enough of a priority to check. which is a habit I try to get better at.
I used to work in IT that serviced several clients, including non-profits. I can say for certain that a lot of the money that people donate often gets "lost in administration". You may want to take a good look on how well off the people on top of those charities, and then the people who work there before you donate to them.
Yeah, this is why I never donate to any charities, trust is fragile.
Yo if this is the takeaway then it is pretty harmful.
You can do research, look for official certificates and read criticisms.
That's not more blind trust then everywhere else in life with friends, family, work and especially consumption.
We do trust there, but have a double standard elsewhere?
I hate when charities become an investment bank, using 5% for actually charity and the rest for investment growth.
I have had the same experience with charities. I would be happy to donate, but they make it such a pain. These days they dont even allow you to donate once, you have to subscribe. And they lie to you by saying its easy to unsubsribe, it is not! I just blocked the charity in my bank app.
The funny thing is with charities when they have like a celebrity for a charity event or whatever normally they pay the celebrity and pay for the hotel for the celebrity and things, it's honestly crazy.
Your story about the "fuck no" situation was horribly hilarious 💰
animal supporters and sanctuarys are always a good way
Another thing charities like to do is to donate a portion to other charities, which kind of launders the money around a few of them.
When I read the title I was like "welp this guy isn't an idiot I kinda have to watch"
theres a charity called mossy earth that does rewilding projects all across europe but it starts as a monthly subscription that starts from 6 dollars and 75 cents. the reason they have a monthly subscription is because their charity works like a patreon where you subscribe and get all of the info on where youre money is going down to the cent. their entire website focuses on giving you the info about their projects. if you have to give a monthly subscription to a charity then mossy earth would be that charity.
Greed spreads like poison in a barrel. To cure this, we must fight it at the root.
To get around this, you can give to local homeless
sometimes people who don't pay directly are the most generous people because they have plan to help needy indirectly but with much more value then direct help
I work to better myself... 100% of the profit goes to me, minus whatever government takes. I sleep peacefully at night knowing someone I know is fully rewarded and supported that day and I appreciate very much what I did for myself.
I work for a 501c3 not for profit (large church). The pastors all drive audies and im just hoping my car holds up because its making expensive noises.
My favorite charity is Compassion International. It is monthly but they're transparent about it. And I can give one-offs on the side.
Bang on I worked for a company who collected cash from folk-door to door and they're so sufficient I cldve had my own business in 3 yrs.. but not just that the conference they were holding had all the big bosses there and believe me the place was booming with cash..
So yes your cash doesn't go directly to charity or be careful how you give cash to charity as it's not how it seems.
Oh a hard job 17 hrs a day but I left..now I wish I hadn't left.
I would always acknowledge kiosk people and say hello back as if I am passing by a neighbour. I don't stop or slow down, but I do stay polite.
They are trying to make a living, that's it.
Top tip! I like to give to charities, but hate the spam letters I get. I just get a sharpie and write "RTS undeliverable" and after a few of those they get the memo lol
Ngl tho, as someone who does a lot of volunteering for small charities, we do really love people who give each month, coz it means we have a reliable income-stream, but it's much better to only support a few small charities you trust rather than whatever charities try to talk to you as you get groceries. Giving $5 per month for 10 years is far preferred to giving $50 once and not knowing what's gonna actually be done with it
So basically if the kiosk people tell you to do a subscription instead of a one off donation and they don’t tell you where the money goes then it means the money is going to the CEO’s brand new ford mustang