I personally like the Ronald McDonald house. When I was in Girl Scouts we went to the local Ronald McDonald house and they showed us why they are so important. We met a woman who was there from Kansas and she was there because our hospital was good with kids it was in Texas. Because she lived out of state she had no place to go to stay with him. Her husband was at home going to work while the woman's mom took care of their other kids all so she can be 1 mile away from her son instead of tons of miles away.
I had to unfortunately stay at the one in OKC a couple of times. My baby was born very early. We live a long ways away and it was my home away from home. They helped us in so many ways. They will always have a special place in my heart.
Thanks for the first hand experience. I've really been turned off by United Way and Susan Kommen the last several years. Not that I have millions to give, but I want what I do give to mean something.
In my town, the local Rescue Mission is also a god choice. I don't think anybody even gets a full time salary there.
There's a TED talk that pokes some pretty big holes in this black and white way of deciding which charities are worth donating to.
Just as an example, if you donate a million dollars to charity A and they pass on 75% to recipients, then you really just donated .75mill. If charity B takes that she million and spends 100% on marketing and advertising, then they pass a big fat zero to people in need. BUT, next year they get 2 million bucks. They pass 50% (which looks like less than charity A, although it's the same amount), and they invest the other million in ads again to increase their revenue.
They'll keep spending a lower percentage on the needy than charity A, but they'll actually give a greater net amount to the poor.
I'll try to find the link.
He didn't (it is now General Andre Cox and Commissioner Silvia Cox were appointed in 2013, replacing Basset and his wife). Long term, high position, army receive a *very* generous pension and health care (military dot com /benefits/military-pay/the-military-retirement-system.html). But when he was he got 13k, his wife was compensated, and they were provided housing and car use, in 2011 that total compensation was valued at almost $80, $53k of that as benefits. So they were by no imaginable means living on 13k, that probably wasn't even close to the taxes they paid.
It's just annoying how they pick the "good" stuff out and sell it auction style on their website. "Oh hey, your kid is just getting into Legos...holy goodness Lego cost how much...maybe Goodwill- OMG that's almost retail price!"
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Having worked behind the scenes at a used book store, online sales are what keep some storefronts alive.
Goodwill can probably afford to sell necessities like shoes, pants, winter clothing for dirt cheap by subsidizing their minor net losses in-store with major net gains online.
I needed a bunch of suit jackets and slacks.... Goodwill FTW. $9 for a legit suit jacket, $6 for slacks. Name brand. The only issue was finding the right fit, but for $9 I'll try on every damn one until I find one that fits and I like.
Goodwill also offers jobs to high school dropouts, recovering drug users and alcoholics, parolees, the handicapped, etc that is the point of their charity. When you give to goodwill you give jobs.
Yeah, I give a lot of stuff to Goodwill as well, in fact there is an old dresser I have no need for anymore sitting in my garage that they were supposed to pick up yesterday, but then the sewer line broke and the downstairs flooded so that is the no.1 priority for now. They can get the desk next week lol
Don't donate to world vision, if you're going sponsor a child please do it through Compassion. I sponsored a child through world vision for 2 years only to find out that the child had passed 3 years before I started the sponsorship. I received fake written letters from the child as well... The lengths someone will go through to make a dollar makes me sick.
#fuckworldvision
#sponsorthroughCOMPASSION
I'm a Lions member and they are a fantastic community organization and a great international organization. I'm from a small town so we do a lot more local stuff, it is centered around community service.
In my town, the local Rescue Mission is also a god choice. I don't think anybody even gets a full time salary there.
Just as an example, if you donate a million dollars to charity A and they pass on 75% to recipients, then you really just donated .75mill. If charity B takes that she million and spends 100% on marketing and advertising, then they pass a big fat zero to people in need. BUT, next year they get 2 million bucks. They pass 50% (which looks like less than charity A, although it's the same amount), and they invest the other million in ads again to increase their revenue.
They'll keep spending a lower percentage on the needy than charity A, but they'll actually give a greater net amount to the poor.
I'll try to find the link.
https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong/transcript
Goodwill can probably afford to sell necessities like shoes, pants, winter clothing for dirt cheap by subsidizing their minor net losses in-store with major net gains online.
#fuckworldvision
#sponsorthroughCOMPASSION