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![]() FWIW: Red Cross spends 50% of donations on sustaining their charade! That is completely unacceptable!
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![]() yeah, i don't give to them either. my uncle (a d.c. firefighter for years) warned me off of them some time ago.
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![]() Years ago i usta contribute to the Disabled Vets program...Read an article in Readers Digest that said that 90% of every dollar goes to administration costs..almost zip to the Vets...
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![]() Many of the charities that poured money from donors into the bank accounts of for-profit solicitation companies have names that sound similar to respected national charities and typically have easy-to-support causes as part of their names, including "breast cancer," "firefighters" and "children's cancer."
Here are the 10 worst charities in America from the list compiled by the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Tampa Bay Times, along with the percentage of money raised that went to the supposed cause: 1.Kids Wish Network (2.5%) 2.Cancer Fund of America (0.9%) 3.Children's Wish Foundation International (10.8%) 4.American Breast Cancer Foundation (5.3%) 5.Firefighters Charitable Foundation (8.4%) 6.Breast Cancer Relief Foundation (2.2%) 7.International Union of Police Associations (0.5%) 8.National Veterans Service Fund (7.8%) 9.American Association of State Troopers (8.6%) 10.Children's Cancer Fund of America (5.3%) The charities were ranked based on how much money they spent on solicitors. Kids Wish Network paid about $110 million of $128 million raised to fundraisers, the report said. http://money.msn.com/saving-money-ti...orst-charities
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"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think" - Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (1857-1938) When you are right, no one remembers;when you are wrong, no one forgets. Thought for today.."No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong" - Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, French moralist (1613-1680) |
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![]() i read a few months back that many 'charities' hire telemarketers to do their fundraising, and the telemarketers get 50% of the take.
i know many years ago, i sent a donation to a charity that my mother had always supported. i got inundated with mailers after that, asking for more money. i'm sure the bulk of my donation went towards getting me pestered for more.
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![]() Quote:
Mailing lists are worth a lot. Ron Paul recently tried to get supporters who were running ronpaul.com to give him the domain name. They offered him ronpaul.org, I believe, but said they should be paid $250,000 for .com, as it came with a mailing list of 170,000 that they had compiled over the years. He didn't want to pay, and complained to the United Nations, which told him to get the f*ck out. I would have thought Ron Paul, of all people, would have respected the rules of the free market. But I guess the only part he really wanted was the "free" part. ![]() So yeah, mailing lists. Worth a lot. On the bright side, I went years without having to print my own return address labels, thanks to unsolicited requests from charities.
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