America's 50 worst charities

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R. Dupraz posted this 09 September 2014

Not gun stuff. But interesting non the less. My partner found this web site that lists the 50 worst charities  along with the dollars taken in and percentage disbursed  for their cause in the last ten years. The numbers were derived from the income tax declarations.   One thing that was interesting to me was the terminology that these organizations use to describe themselves. Kinda makes me wonder who really is behind them.   http://www.tampabay.com/americas-worst-charities/>http://www.tampabay.com/americas-worst-charities/

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Brodie posted this 09 September 2014

Thanks for the heads up R. D.  I knew about the police charities from comp friends of mine, but not most of the others.  I think that we all should be aware of this kind of legal scamming, and give accordingly.  \

I just wanted to get a reply in before some knot headed  clown pulls this public spirited message. Brodie

B.E.Brickey

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R. Dupraz posted this 09 September 2014

Thanks:

My thoughts exactly

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Michael K posted this 10 September 2014

When folks call asking for donations for a charity that I am not familiar with, I try to make it point to ask the caller for a break down of how the monies are distributed. Out of every dollar collected; How much to you, how much to the charity, and finally how much actually goes to the (so called) intended recipients?  No one has ever been able to give an answer aside from offering to have someone call me back.  Oddly enough, no one has ever has.  Hate to say it but children's, LE and FF charities over the years have exhibited a common tendency to get all riled up when asked.

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Ken Campbell Iowa posted this 10 September 2014

my wife y i donate to a local charity that we personally know passes on everything to needy folks.

if you are not sure, you can always walk into any hospital and chat with some patients ...

ken

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Millelacs posted this 17 September 2014

That's why I NEVER EVER donate to a charity that calls me on the phone.

I don't need to make some fundraising company rich while the kids, firefighters, etc get next to nothing.

Another way to get sick is to browse through the Federal Combined Federal Campaign catalog.  It also lists the percentages of your donation that go to overhead.  If I recall correctly overhead wasn't considered excessive unless it exceeded 25%.  There are also (or at least used to be) CFC charities for foreign recipients.  Why the US Government is collecting funds for charities in other countries is beyond me.  We have enough needy charities in the US.

I don't even donate to the NRA when their fundraisers call me.  Besides if my wife answers the phone they won't say what they want.

It is important enough for me to donate to a charity, I will mail them a check or call them myself.

At least that way I know that the charity / organization got all of the money.  From there, hopefully, they will use all of it wisely.

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Clod Hopper posted this 07 November 2014

WE are infested with telemarketers, we are going to have to change our phone number. Any charity that calls is a scam as far as I am concerned. Once you give to some one they will sell that to other charities and I even got a call from a company whose products I only Googled. Several friends have dropped their land lines too.

Dale M. Lock

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M. W. Curtess posted this 07 November 2014

It gets worse. Cellular isn't secure either, anymore. Marketers have digital equipment that is programmed to dial blocks of numbers in numerical order until one rings, putting it on a list of in-service numbers. Another device is programmed to dial those (from an “undisclosed” number), usually with a recorded message that runs long enough to connect to a “representative” there to come on line. If it hasn't happened to you yet - get ready. And there's no way to report it to complain (probably nobody to report it to, that will take any action to stop it. All that free money, and “money talks” in Congressional oversight and regulatory committees).

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Ken Campbell Iowa posted this 07 November 2014

thinking about cell phone ... usually you can set a ring tone for each person in your address file ... how about all your friends have the same custom ring tone ... then if you get a different tone, you don't answer it.

on our land line, we just have caller id ... even friends know they have to wait a minute before we call them back. we never answered one pollster the last 6 months.

ken

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M. W. Curtess posted this 19 January 2015

Pre-screened ring-tones? I like that idea! My cellphone has so many features that possibility is likely among them, but I'm not into programming digital devices very much Mine came only with instructions how to turn it on!, assuming that users would already be familiar with everything after that. and I am not. Most common: “Congratulations! I'm calling to tell you that you have won--” Thats when I switch off. (Last place on earth I would allow myself to be is in a cruise ship, so obviously I never entered a contest.):#:

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Millelacs posted this 16 March 2015

I finally found one of the articles I had squirreled away.

A 2002 article from the Jakarta Post titled “50% of donated medicines sold illegally".

Removes some of the desire to make donations.

Kind of like all the money that has been donated in the US for disaster victims.  One disaster, was it Hurricane Katrina (or maybe it was another one) where one of the major aid agencies (regretfully I forget which one it was) after collecting millions of dollars said it wasn't going to release any of the donations to the victims.  It was going to same the money for the next disaster.  Or the recent storm on the northeast coast.  It's a couple of years now, and many of the devastated areas are still as bad as in the days after the storm.

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