Friday, June 7, 2013

"Giving to Charity" is giving into fraud

The Tampa Bay Times has a series of stories out this week about the 50 worst charities and it is absolutely no surprises to me than many of them claim to help children.Having worked with many so called charitable organizations I have often found myself frustrated by the lack of work these people actually get done. Even the more honest one are more about their own existence and less about helping people. Its not just rich people stealing from the top - its middle and lower level employees taking grants to help people and doing the absolute minimum required of them.
What I hear a lot of is people saying "I give back by giving to charitable organizations". NO. At best you are passing on your responsibility to someone else who you likely wont check up on in any meanful way to be sure that money goes to something useful. The ONLY way to actually do your part, fulfill your responsibility to society is through you own time with your own hand, blood tears and sweat. Giving money to fraudsters like Juvinal Diabetes Foundation or Jewish family services only creates random middle level jobs that may or may not actually do anything. 

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Most charities actually do the work. You are mieling many charities that actually do the job.

Florida is a different world from Washington State. I have worked closely with both charities you talked about and I have seen the work done. Be very careful with your grandious statements.

JB said...

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Anonymous said...

I have worked with both the organization you mentioned, in Seattle they do walk there talk.
They are manage well and use there money wisely. Florida is a very strange state and must have poor money managers. Be careful not to generalize.

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