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General Topics => Off Topic => Topic started by: SpeedTek on May 30, 2014, 06:14:56 PM

Title: Before you Donate to these causes......
Post by: SpeedTek on May 30, 2014, 06:14:56 PM

Think Twice!

Dammit I always gave all my old stuff to GOODWILL....Never Again

Title: Re: Before you Donate to these causes......
Post by: oldfart on May 30, 2014, 06:49:54 PM

Useful info...thanks

Title: Re: Before you Donate to these causes......
Post by: Jl808 on May 30, 2014, 07:25:16 PM

Info is outdated according to snopes. Take the snopes info with some reservations.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/charities.asp

Title: Re: Before you Donate to these causes......
Post by: SpeedTek on June 01, 2014, 06:41:58 PM

Snopes is a liberal website. Super Lib.  Supported by libs

Title: Re: Before you Donate to these causes......
Post by: BananaClip on June 02, 2014, 01:16:40 AM

Quote from: SpeedTek on June 01, 2014, 06:41:58 PM

Snopes is a liberal website. Super Lib.  Supported by libs

Super Lib :rofl:

Title: Re: Before you Donate to these causes......
Post by: BananaClip on June 02, 2014, 01:23:56 AM

I've learned over time to always give directly to the homeless and people in need.......

I never give donations to a middle man...doesn't make sense.....

Its easy to not give your undivided attention to someone versus taking time out of your daily schedule to hand over

food directly to someone in need.....

Title: Re: Before you Donate to these causes......
Post by: 230RN on June 02, 2014, 10:11:14 AM

I used to give money to my Church and direct the Dollar Deacon (Treasurer) to give it to the needy of my choice, whom or which I had checked out,  without getting my name involved. 

And I knew exactly what my Pastor made.  Sometimes I'd gift him, but it was hard to hide that fact.

In those inescapable United Way (UW) campaigns at work, I used to give a buck, just to avoid having my department show less than 100% participation.  Then I found out that one could donate specifically to the NRA through United Way by using the earmarking codes you could request from the UW volunteer*,

Knowing how much was skimmed by United Way "administrative costs," I still only gave a buck, but I felt like I was making a statement.

Terry

* This is a whole brochure containing all the organizations which receive contributions from UW along with the donation codes.  The UW volunteers will give one to you on request.

Title: Re: Before you Donate to these causes......
Post by: s197 on June 02, 2014, 10:55:46 AM

Charities need to disclose the percentage of your donation that will go towards administrative purposes (i.e. salaries amongst other things).  Generally this is a good rough estimator of how much value your contributions are getting.  However, non-profit does not mean no profit.  Case in point, the NFL is a non-profit.  So yeah, you gotta be a little careful.

Title: Re: Before you Donate to these causes......
Post by: Bota-CS1 on June 02, 2014, 11:36:31 AM

I usually do a quick run through for a charity on this site:

http://www.charitynavigator.org/ (http://www.charitynavigator.org/)