Giving to too many charities at once
Posted by: frilly
29th Jan 2010 02:28pm
They seem to want more and more each year they say their costs are going up but so are mine and we are on fixed incomes. I am disabled and we are on a pension.
This seems to have no affect when told to them perhaps I should jump on their list LOL. Certain charities help pay outstanding fines etc that people "find they are unable to pay" This is so wrong they should never be given money.
Vouchers or coupons. We see so many TV reports showing how young people and perhaps not so young blatantly tell their stories about how they can live up in Byron Bay on the "Dole"
How can they do this when we have to list every source of income we have and our pension goes up and down even weekly in tune with our assets. The fact that these assets we cannot cash in as the interest from them supply the remainder of our pension.
We thought we had totally covered ourselves for our retirement until the market crashed.
That was the biggest shock of all to find so much money had just disappeared. Now we have to keep Centrelink informed of every change in our financial situation. How do these others manage to get money so easily
One more thing, I said I was disable, it means lots of Drs and hospital visits. We can almost guarantee that after a hospital visit we will receive a request for a Charity at that hospital. Charities are exempt from the "Blocking of unwanted calls"
Lynsha
- 18th Feb 2010 01:56pm
Having worked for one of the world's largest "Not for Profit" organizations as a field officer I would always explain to groups/volunteers that at least 20% at that time would be going to adminstration. I can say that the general /field staff were not extremely well paid, but the top brass definately were. My policy was to be honest with people because they deserved to be told exactly were their donations would be spent. Nowdays it is apparently cheaper to use call centres where the staff really have no idea how the money is to be spent only a very generalised view of what happens. I agree that most charities have had to become very businesslike in their operations to survive. There are so many of them, some with multiple offshoots e.g. Cancer groups all requiring staff to run and operate them. It would be more cost efficient if all these different offshoots were under one umbrella and the donations apportioned equally, I still get calls from centres for my old organization but they can't explain what will happen to my donation. There should be a government review of all charities to stop certain exploitations of the general public.
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