Would you donate to a major charity if their CEO makes almost a million dollars a year in salary?

[IrishStewed]

I was donating to some charities and then saw this. You wonder how much actually goes to the cause. Would you still donate, or just to charities whose CEO's are not making outrageous salaries?

[jennifer_bloom]

Red Cross Management might work 16-18 hour days so deserve the same pay as any McDonald’s or Starbucks CEO that works 16-18 hours a day. You can’t expect charity employees to be just as charitable as the people that donate money to them. Almost no one is willing to do volunteered low pay work for 16-18 hours a day, they need adequate compensation that matches their skill level.

[IrishStewed]

What skill does a CEO have? He just juggles numbers and delegates any real work to his lackeys. I can guarantee he doesn't work 16 hours a day.

[jennifer_bloom]

So I don’t have corporate executive experience either, but if you’ve ever managed a club society, a department store, a food booth at a carnival, or organized an artistic display for science class, you know that a lot of systematic and organizational labour is involved in taking an abstract idea and implementing it into the real world, and deep thinking can be just as tiring as a half hour uphill climb at the gym.

[IrishStewed]

That may be true, but you would not be making a million a year for that either. Not when you have thousands of people under you that you can assign that work to like some CEO has.

[Flatmanlewis]

I do, but only to smaller charities where I can find touch points to the leadership and their direct results. Also, I NEVER donate to those ‘round it up’ offers or “would you like to donate” additions at the cash register. I’m not helping some major multinational make a tax deductible donation in their name off my money. When I donate I donate my time and or money directly to the cause I care about.

[worldscolide]

I look at where the money goes. Where I'm from there is this chain of thrift stores called "good will". I don't shop with them because less than 15% of total money made goes to charity. On the other hand the salvation army is better with it being 75% going to charity.

Basically if money made is Below 50% going to charity I don't donate.

[IrishStewed]

But the workers at GoodWill, who are disadvantaged people, get a job from them when no one else will hire them. So they do good in that sense.

[worldscolide]

No disagreement, I still won't shop there

[IrishStewed]

I understand the prices there have gone up a lot too.

[worldscolide]

Its not just about prices here, Their stuff is just so bad here. granted i live in a poorer part of the country, so that explains a little of it.

[rosemilk]

no, i don't donate to charities for these specific reasons.

it's just like "oh we can't afford bonuses this year, sorry" yes you can, give some of your paycheck lmao

[NathanDavis]

nope, I would not...

but I donate to the local Red Cross... because I actually know people there and I know where those donations are actually going (=

[IrishStewed]

@NathanDavis They are at mostly all disaster sites and do help a lot. But still, can you imagine what the other officers make? How many people have to donate a buck to pay their salaries? And that money is not going towards helping anyone but the CEO. And what's worse, is that with the new Standard Deduction , you can't even get deductions for your giving anymore because you can't write off more than the Standard Deduction gives you..

[NathanDavis]

well yes, that's very unfortunate... and quite messed up but in many things like the Red Cross, there is no better choice at the moment

[NathanDavis]

and maybe that's why they do it and get away with it too

[exitseven]

I think tht most charities are scams and the Administrators get rich and the people it is supposed to help get squat. Just to be on the safe side I do not give to any of them

[IrishStewed]

I will still donate if the portion that goes to the cause is 70% or higher. If all the money goes to administration and fund raising, they are no longer getting a dime from me. Makes me wonder how many of these charities are scams that just make people rich while just giving 5% to the people it is supposed to be helping. 😠

[exitseven]

@irishstewed A few years back in a moment od weakness I donated to a local charity. Then a couple of weeks later I read that they hired a woman who worked in the mayors office to run the thing for a 6 figure salary.

[IrishStewed]

You have to check them out before you donate.
Some charity fraud involves faux fundraising for veterans and disaster relief. Scammers know how readily we open our hearts and wallets to those who served and those rebuilding their lives after hurricanes, earthquakes or wildfires. Charity scammers are especially active during the holidays, the biggest giving season of the year.

Some sham charities succeed by mimicking the real thing. Like genuine nonprofits, they reach you via telemarketing, direct mail, email and door-to-door solicitations. They might make appeals on social media and create well-designed websites with deceptive names. (Cybersecurity firm DomainTools noted a huge jump in website registrations with the words “Ukraine” and “Ukrainian” in the days after Russia’s invasion of that country, for example.)

Many operate fully outside the law; others are in fact registered nonprofits but devote little of the money they raise to the programs they promote. Some create massive fundraising networks, often in the form of political action committees (PACs) — entities that can solicit money on behalf of charities or political candidates/causes — that they use as cover while requesting donations purportedly for various causes. Then they keep the bulk of the cash themselves. Two men who created PACs (including one called Americans for the Cure of Breast Cancer), Richard Zeitlin and Robert Piaro, were recently arrested and indicted on charges of colluding in a multiyear scheme in which they allegedly stole millions of dollars from misled donors.

With a little research and a few precautions, you can help ensure your donations go to organizations that are genuinely serving others, not helping themselves.

[IrishStewed]

Wow, guess local charities are suspect too then.

[Ironic_Method]

I don't donate to charities because I don't know where the money goes. When I'm feeling charitable I will go do things myself - volunteer or do the Santa thing with poor kids around where I grew up.

[IrishStewed]

That is admirable. 😉

[HoraceB]

I sure wouldn't. There was a charity I used to donate to & then I found out that years ago they had spent something like 28$ million on their headquarters. I wish I could take back every penny I gave them.

[DryGermanGuy]

That sounds absolutely insane! What value is someone paid like that bringing into the nonprofit?

[Siri137]

Hell NO. All of that loot is basically stolen cash, it's theft. They're literally stealing from the poor.

[Fireguy17]

to me it depends on the overall percentage of what money actually goes to the charities vs the overall administration costs.

[OddBeMe]

I do agree with the text…”how” the charity helps and their ROI is a better analysis. Red Cross actually got in trouble recently after they discovered something like 70% of donations goes to “admin”.

[robhazelnut]

Potentially. They'd best be effective, e. g. the type to bring stupid ****ing rope at the right time.

[Wise4myage]

No, not before I did some research on the site.

[IslaTheWitch]

I rarely donate money and if, then only in the form of paying specific bills

[MikeFrench]

I donate directly. No scammers in the middle.

[jamesgoldman]

I don't donate to the big ones outside of using their charity shops to turn a profit

[Staximus]

No, that doesn't sound very "non-profit"

[Anonymous]

I don't donate to charities. I give personally or not at all.

[BourbonAndBacon]

I donate to smaller local charities.

[DextroShade]

Most charities are scams.

[Kelly6]

Never

[Kelly6]

@irishstewed
Over my dead body 🤣

[IrishStewed]

So your are donating your life insurance to them then? 🤔😏🤣

[Kelly6]

@irishstewed
🤣🤣 didn’t see it that way

[BrookeS]

Not at all

[dudeinohio]

Nope

[guyinterested]

no way