Comments on: 10 Reasons Why I would Never Donate to a Major Charity (or, How to be a Superhero, Part 2).

By: umblondie

umblondie — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 17:12:00 +0000

I didn’t know it had the name microcharity, bit its fun to give directly to someone who has a need. Also, I love to volunteer my time, and I always get back way more in joy than I ever give. :)

By: Charity

Charity — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 00:51:00 +0000

For years I gave to ‘large charities’ – but once they got my number (literally) they began to call in between campaigns asking if I wanted to make additional donations and (this get’s me) include them in my Will (seriously?). When someone form the American Cancer Society became annoyed and abruptly hung up on me (because I told them I had just donated at work for the same Breast Cancer Campaign – and it wasn’t chicken feed either), I started to take a deeper look and do some internet research. At the same time there were articles in my town newspaper about local families, neighbors, that were going through tough financial times. So I started to be a Microcharity (who knew?), and funnel my charitable dollars to a family who’s son had brain cancer, another one who came back from Afghanistan an amputee and finally I looked even closer and saw that a good friend of mine was struggling because her husband had cancer. I agree 100% with your comments, in fact if I was a writer, I could have written your article myself. We are really funding charities that say they are looking for a ‘cure’ but in reality, we are funding treatment for the disease which has become ‘big business’ and sometimes that treatment is so expensive those that truly need it can’t afford it – how ironic. When are we truly – as a society – going to start putting that same power behind really finding a cure and not the next pill to dispense after the fact.

By: Nadia Radzyminski

Nadia Radzyminski — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:28:00 +0000

Organizations such as The United Way, The Salvation Army, or even Goodwill have huge budgets that allocate millions of dollars of profit for the people that hold positions of Authority in many Charity Funded Organizations.
I do not Respect charity at all.

By: Nadia Radzyminski

Nadia Radzyminski — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:25:00 +0000

Anyone who is gullible enough to be convinced that giving money to Non-Profit Charity is simply a FOOL.

By: Nadia Radzyminski

Nadia Radzyminski — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:30:00 +0000

I do not believe in sad or happy social causes that steal money from people who are NAIVE.

Organizations such as “The Salvation Army” or Bob Geldof’s AIDS cause are a Scam.

Save your money and NEVER give it to a charity. EVER.

By: Nadia Radzyminski

Nadia Radzyminski — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:16:00 +0000

I DO NOT believe in the concept of CHARITY.

FUCK CHARITY.

In America, Wealthy People create non-profit organizations that DO NOT have to declare income above the minimum of 10% of all of the money that a charity has earned in a given TAX YEAR.

I DO NOT give money to ANY CHARITY.

By: Lentex

Lentex — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 00:39:00 +0000

Try donating to your (a) church. They support orphanages, hospitals for the poor, food banks and missionaries that provide fresh water, ways for indigent people to learn to support themselves with what they have; ie: weaving baskets to sell, packaging coffee, sewing small gifts etc. Churches also care for the poor in our comunities. If they need health aid (crutches, wheelchairs, braces etc.) the church will furnish them. The list goes on and on. The best thing you get out of that is GOD’s blessings.

By: fi

fi — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 04:49:00 +0000

All charities will have some overheads, not donating because of these is a cop out and uncaring. 70c out of a dollar could be the difference between life and death to a starving child. If the overheads go towards getting more people donating, then that has to be beneficial for the recipients. Wateraid is a good charity that gets 3rd world communities sustaining themselves improving water and sanitation so that they don’t have to continue relying on charity.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Dec 2014 18:40:00 +0000

Author has stayed away from far more controversial reasons to not contribute to charity – one of which is that certain mega charity organizations such as World Vision, have a budget more than the budget available with the governments of dozens of third world countries in Asia and Africa. Some of the popular charities here are accused of forcibly converting people’s faith in exchange for food and other necessities. While some Americans wont mind this, but it is unethical if the donor is not aware of the religious overtones of the charity, which otherwise appear secular in our own country.

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Sat, 13 Dec 2014 01:01:00 +0000

Yeah lots of fraud.