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The Great British rake-off...what really happens to the billions YOU donate to charity
The Daily Mail ^ | 16 November 2014 | David Craig

Posted on 11/16/2014 2:17:25 AM PST by Fenhalls555

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I expect it's the same in the US.
1 posted on 11/16/2014 2:17:25 AM PST by Fenhalls555
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The thing that really gets me is the salaries for some of the top officers in these charities. $500K/year seems to be the norm with many going upwards of double that.

This doesn’t seem to be isolated in charities, either. There are quite a few PACs out there where the principals take this much, PLUS consulting fees, elaborate travel pay, etc.


2 posted on 11/16/2014 2:29:48 AM PST by Gaffer
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That’s why I carefully select my charities like the Rainbow Coalition.


3 posted on 11/16/2014 2:43:13 AM PST by MNDude
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The Rainbow Coalition? LOL!


4 posted on 11/16/2014 2:48:51 AM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: MNDude

That, of course, as well as The Barack Obama Presidential Library and Museum.

Heh.


5 posted on 11/16/2014 3:04:52 AM PST by Fenhalls555
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One of the biggest rip offs here in the US is United Way. Of every dollar they take in nearly .90 cents goes towards self perpetuation.


6 posted on 11/16/2014 3:07:25 AM PST by BluH2o
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To: Gaffer

I remember, when I volunteered for Help the Aged in the UK, just after leaving school, being shocked to discover that the manager was a paid employee, rather than a volunteer. Surely there are people out there, retired former managers, who could this on a rotational basis?


7 posted on 11/16/2014 3:07:36 AM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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Yeah, but there’s a big difference between a PAC and a charity.

And let me ask my question again, this “Are You Ready for Hillary” thing-y, who’s running it? What happens to the money they’ve collected if she doesn’t run?

Money in politics....equiring minds....just askin’!


8 posted on 11/16/2014 3:07:54 AM PST by jocon307
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To my mind, a PAC and a charity are functionally the same thing. Both beg for money, whether for a political ideology or spiritual, social and the like.

Both profess the things each is striving for and prepared to do (if you contribute). Much of that given is siphoned off for salaries, overhead, consulting and a host of other things not specifically contributory to the end goal.


9 posted on 11/16/2014 3:11:25 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

The only true charity I’ve found so far is the Salvation Army. Even though their officers, etc. a paid, it is not extravagant.


10 posted on 11/16/2014 3:12:42 AM PST by Gaffer
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Suppose everyone has goto earn a living. It isn’t like doctors and nurses do good work and earn money from it.


11 posted on 11/16/2014 3:15:10 AM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: Gaffer

Well, I agree with you that they are functionally the same. If we give money to the Red Cross we expect they’ll help people in disasters, if we give money to the R party or the D party we expect they’ll try and elect Rs and Ds.

But one does think that those running a charity are do-gooders while we know those who run PACs are just power hungry whores.

That’s what I see as the difference, but of course they are pretty much all power hungry whores.

Story of my life: I should have been a power hungry whore, but instead I became a chump.


12 posted on 11/16/2014 3:16:25 AM PST by jocon307
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Most “do-gooders” want somebody else’s money with which to “do good.”


13 posted on 11/16/2014 3:19:27 AM PST by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: Gaffer

“The thing that really gets me is the salaries for some of the top officers in these charities. $500K/year seems to be the norm with many going upwards of double that.”

I recall a story a few years ago in the ny post that revealed a new york charity that was raking in 30 million a year, its CEO was being paid a salary of 900 thousand a year.


14 posted on 11/16/2014 3:35:22 AM PST by lowbridge
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Last year, a lot of money was given to the United Way for the victims of an OH school shooting. It was on the news awhile back that the victims had to get a lawyer to get the money. The United Way was doling it out as they saw fit, and using it for stuff like counseling.

The other thing is clothes drives for the needy. Most organizations don't give the clothes you donate to the needy. They either bundle them and sell them for pennies per bundle or sell them at thrift shops. Then they pay everyone who runs the scam. Then they dole out the little bit that's left to the charity.

Moral of the story...if you want to give money to victims, give the money directly to the victims. If I have clothes to donate, I'd rather leave them at a bus stop with directions to whomever finds them to give them to friends who could use them. If they sell them, so what? It's better a poor person gains from my donation than some over paid CEO

15 posted on 11/16/2014 3:56:19 AM PST by grania
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re: The Salvation Army. I was surprised to find out that they don’t always give clothes donations directly to the poor. They sell them at thrift stores, and not necessarily at prices or in locations the truly poor can afford. And the people running the stores are paid employees. And they pay rent on the stores etc. etc.


16 posted on 11/16/2014 3:59:51 AM PST by grania
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“...Moral of the story...if you want to give money to victims, give the money directly to the victims. If I have clothes to donate, I’d rather leave them at a bus stop with directions to whomever finds them to give them to friends who could use them. If they sell them, so what? It’s better a poor person gains from my donation than some over paid CEO”
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Nice summary ... and spot on.


17 posted on 11/16/2014 4:00:02 AM PST by House Atreides (QUESTION: Does the President need to sign off on)
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So I googled CharityWatch and found that it is just more of the same leftist drivel all presenting awards to each other.

The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation get an A+, while the National 4H Foundation and the PetSmart Foundation get an A. And so on.

Charities are a big business, and many colleges will provide degrees in “nonprofit” management.

18 posted on 11/16/2014 4:05:56 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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I agree that the Salvation Army is a good charity worthy of our donations. But we also donate to several smaller, mostly local, and mostly all-volunteer organizations. I’m permanently sour by the large “bundler” organizations such as United Way, Red Cross and the like. I’m even skeptical about the large medical funds. So much of people’s hard-earned money goes not to the cause, but to overhead.

TC


19 posted on 11/16/2014 4:11:03 AM PST by Pentagon Leatherneck
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Any idea how Wounded Worrier’s manages it’s money?


20 posted on 11/16/2014 4:18:45 AM PST by Trteamer ( (Eat Meat, Wear Fur, Own Guns, FReep Leftists, Drive an SUV, Drill A.N.W.R., Drill the Gulf, Vote)
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