Posted on 06/17/2013 3:02:18 AM PDT by servo1969
No. Some of that money goes to the Obama campaign.
The United Way supports Planned Abortionhood.
That alone is sufficient reason to never donate to them.
I’m not sure UW belongs on your list (CEO makes >$1,000,000.00 per year) and they have a history of being a liberal cause support group. They stopped funding to the Boy Scouts because they didn’t allow gay leaders.
Try Troopsdirect.org
I am with you. I give to my local food bank where I know 100% of my donations go to food.
Never give to any outfit with “children’s” and “cancer” in the name. They use emotional bait-and-switch to make millions for themselves, and children with cancer get next to nothing.
Expanding the point, when a disaster strikes, give directly to a family or church affected by the disaster, if possible. Individuals get nothing from mass fund raisers; the vast bulk of the moneys from the Red Cross, FEMA etc. goes to agencies instead, where it disappears.
I have heard that the CEO of Wounded Warriors is paid a seven figure salary. That disturbs me deeply.
This report on Charities and how much of our donations actually goes to the needy makes me wonder about political donations. Are the solicitors for political donations volunteers who receive no pay for their services or are they paid solicitors like these charities use? How much of our donations actually go to the candidate/political party, and how much of it goes to paid solicitors.
The reason I wonder about this is because I made a donation to both a candidate and a political party last year and since then I’ve been inundated with phone calls and junk mail soliciting donations for everything imaginable. It’s to the point now that my wife and I won’t even answer the phone if it’s either from a blocked number or from out of the area. I’ve put my number on the Federal No Call List, and for some reason it doesn’t work with these people.
On one of the last calls from a blocked number I answered, after a brief pause a pleasant sounding young lady came on the line. (There’s always a pause on the line when you answer one of these calls, so if it’s a male voice that answers, they put on a female, and vice versa if a female answers the call) After she delivered her practiced dialogue on the political candidate, she asked for my credit card number. I then asked her, “Are there really people out there who’ll receive a phone call from a stranger in the middle of the night and they’ll then give that stranger their credit card number?” When she answered, “Yes,” I hung up.
Salvation Army only ,, Red cross never,know one of the regional directors he make over $170,000 a year.
When we give, we choose what we want done with the money. Just like when you give money in exchange for groceries. If you don’t get your groceries, what’s the problem? You’re still separated from your money. What have you lost?
“United Way”
The United Way in my community prohibits Salvation Army from having church services before meals.
Anti-traditional value stipulations appear to be attached to all their grants.
“United Way”
The first or at least one of the first to boycott the Boy Scouts aftet they won their SC case. I would never give them a dime and hope they RIH. Why dont you just send your donations to the DNC, ACLU and Planned Parenthood instead.
If they want to pass a law for everything in our lives, I would like to see one requiring all charities to disclose what percent of their donations actually go towards the purpose of their fund raising in their ads....
I've also heard that the National Human Society with all their bleeding heart ads doesn't support one shelter in our country but they have extravagant offices in NY or DC. Anyone else have any info on this?
They victimize the elderly, who can hardly afford to “give away” their wealth. My elderly mother is being targeted by such organizations. Her mailbox is overflowing with requests for charitable donations, and her phone is constantly ringing. Mail requests include an eye popping array of cheesy gold embossed “certificates of appreciation,” cheap pen/pencil sets, and little American flags. Many arrive by FedEx and registered mail. These vultures carefully study their demographics. Their targeting is relentless and rapacious. My elderly mother had been fully convinced that starving Cambodian orphans, and legless Army veterans were directly dependent upon her largess; that they had a personal connection with her. Holding out her arms overflowing with mail, she tearfully broke down one evening, as her phone rang in the background, “What am I going to do? I can’t help them all! Those poor people!”
I give to 2 charities:
My church
St. Jude Children's Hospital.
In the wake of the IRS scandals, one would think that the “red flags” would have been raised on these organizations when their papers were filed every year.
[Salvation Army only...]
Absolutely, the director receives a meager $13,000.
“Preying on widows and orphans” goes all the way back to the Bible. My mother, age 81, is also a victim of this. My nephew is living with her right now and he throws most of her mail away before she sees it. Nevertheless she has been victimized repeatedly before we could intervene. We had her phone number changed and that helped a lot.
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