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LPT: Don't outsource your charity to an organisation. I find charity is most satisfying if you can see with your own eyes the good it's doing.

I see organised charities as paying someone to do your good work (or arrange for some other person to volunteer to do it). I don't think it is possible to run a charity and have 100% of donations going to the specified cause.

pitenius

Best advice on the thread. I'm generous. I paid for someone's mom's funeral after Hurricane Katrina. I adopt OLD shelter pets. I'm honest in my purchases and share food with methheads. But I won't give a dime to organized charities. The downside is that you will meet a lot of users and losers this way. You will cut people off. You will tell them to fuck off. That's okay.

Mr_Wizard

Wasn't that Fugeeee guy involved in that scam as well?

josemon

Anyone that know anything about Haiti knows that the money would have never reached the people in need. This is just American crooks stealing from Hatian crooks.

carbanara

it was used as a way of creating More evil. That was the purpose. To do more harm.

All the people involved knew it, including Wyclef Jean who is the son of a preacher from Haiti, he took a Lot in donations and took something like 98% as administration fees.

peacegnome

if the money went into a sterilization program it might help.

SaveTheChildren

For some reason the thumbnail looked like skittles to me at first

SirDigbyChikenCaesar

I thought it was a bag of Doritos.

SaveTheChildren

Are you also high? Maybe that's it.

SirDigbyChikenCaesar

Nope, drugs are for thugs.

HashTagFU

This is why I don't give to charities until I review them online and validate what percentage of donations go towards their purported charter as opposed to "administrative overhead".

Owlchemy

I've come to the conclusion, I think rightly, that almost all charities have been corrupted so badly, they no longer have a mission other than to make money for their corporate boards, executives, and staff. The salaries they pay themselves are ridiculous ... they do almost no charity work ... and exist simply to take advantage of tax codes which give them profit, without accountability.

Diogenes_The_Cynic

Nah, I know of plenty of good charities, and even volunteered for a few. There are a ton of good, moral, idealistic people out there.

But charities making millions and millions of dollars? Those are corruptible.

As to stealing money from Haitians, you have to be a very low person to do that. Those people have starved to death even recently.

Owlchemy

Yes, i likely painted with too broad a brush. I should amend to say that those who volunteer and work at lower levels are generally speaking, fantastic folks who just wish to help. Unfortunately, there are many in the upper tiers of even good charities, and more disreputable ones, who are merely in it as a career path that will earn them a fat pay check. But again, I can't disagree with you ... many fantastic people work in even bad charities and are commendable.

SaneGoatiSwear

fact: poverty is man-made. the entire notion of charity is to be a succubus profit-maker upon the artificial suffering of the lottery of birth loosers. the entire purpose of the charity industry is to sustain objective poverty for a few hundred more years (recently amended to be shifted into a low subjective-poverty class, by the u.n.)

VicariousJambi

I always think of it like, I'f you've heard of that charity before then it's corrupt.

Owlchemy

Probably not a bad way to go.

GizaDog

Winner!