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There are lots of apps to plan and track one's investments. Maybe there should be an app to track one's donations too. If I could see a history of what was the ROI (in terms of money spent on actual programs) of my monthly donations, and also easily reallocate those donations to other charities, I'd certainly check up on that app every once in a while.
Can this be improved? Yes, this was going to be improved but the politicians were invited to a fundraiser where they got good food and some freebies. And then it stopped. Or something like that...
For example, one charity I like [0] runs a school and the administrators don't take any income from it.
There are lots of apps to plan and track one's investments. Maybe there should be an app to track one's donations too. If I could see a history of what was the ROI (in terms of money spent on actual programs) of my monthly donations, and also easily reallocate those donations to other charities, I'd certainly check up on that app every once in a while.
"charity spent millions to raise thousands" is a very usual way of tax evasion. The charity owner has parties with friends and family as guests. This is taxes as "charitable work". Can this be improved? Yes, this was going to be improved but the politicians were invited to a fundraiser where they got good food and some freebies. And then it stopped. Or something like that...
A lot of for-profit businesses also take a lot of investments and fail to make much money.
I did a sponsored walk as a kid, I don't think I even raised enough to cover the cost of the petrol to get to the place it was at.
And I hear hospitals have to ask people to not do sponsored skydives to raise money for them, owing to the mean amount raised being lower than the mean cost of the healthcare they need to provide due to skydiving accidents.
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I stopped donating to a very well known charity organization when I found that 85% of the annual costs were administrative, 10% we're property costs, and only 5% went to actual programs. This may be just the way the local chapter is set up, but it's fucking greasy.
Why do people post comments like this and not name the offenders?
"charity spent millions to raise thousands" is a very usual way of tax evasion. The charity owner has parties with friends and family as guests. This is taxes as "charitable work". Can this be improved? Yes, this was going to be improved but the politicians were invited to a fundraiser where they got good food and some freebies. And then it stopped. Or something like that...
It doesn't even need malice or selfishness, this kind of thing can also be lack of skill. A lot of for-profit businesses also take a lot of investments and fail to make much money. I did a sponsored walk as a kid, I don't think I even raised enough to cover the cost of the petrol to get to the place it was at. And I hear hospitals have to ask people to not do sponsored skydives to raise money for them, owing to the m…
(side note: Living in Europe, I never heard of skydiving as a popular way to do fundraisers – interesting!)
Go to Northern VA. There are a lot of mansions owned by non profit higher ups.
There are lots of apps to plan and track one's investments. Maybe there should be an app to track one's donations too. If I could see a history of what was the ROI (in terms of money spent on actual programs) of my monthly donations, and also easily reallocate those donations to other charities, I'd certainly check up on that app every once in a while.