Do You Donate To These Charities That Run Ads On TVs In The Evening Showing Suffering Children or Suffering Animals That Need Help?

Cause there is a very detailed article on a website called The Burning Platform about “Big Charity Scams” where that money goes. To executive salaries and huge amounts to employees. These charities are setting on billions of dollars of assets and still begging money off of kind-hearted people who are buying into it. It’s sickening and I already knew they were scams. When they use the word suffering they draw it out to get our sympathy.

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Prison1203 · 61-69, M

One of the biggest ripoffs is the Salvation Army and goodwill my mom won’t even donate her clothes to them because of the high prices they charge and the money spent that goes to the upper management

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Prison1203 They pay the disabled people working at Goodwill a small pittance, not even close to minimum wage. And I knew someone who was a bell-ringer for the Salvation Army. She got to calculating and totaling the cash bills that were going into the locked big red kettle and knew very close to what she had collected each time. But when the ones running the center added it up and wrote it down it was only a small fraction of what she had totaled up. She said it was a big scam and the husband and wife running the center were stealing much of those holiday donations.

PatKirby · M

@Prison1203

Don't forget the United Way. Stopped giving to that double scam of a flim-flam shim sham long ago.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@PatKirby Yeah the manager in my department at the university 50 years ago was pressuring us to donate to United Way. I was a new worker making the lowest wages in the department and told him that the money was not being used locally like they say it is but going to pay the big-wig salaries of the different charities that they were dividing the donations with instead. And told him my brother-in-law was active in the Boy Scouts and not a penny went to them locally. Then more than a decade later there was a scandal with United Way and the CEO got sent to federal prison for fraud and conspiracy.

PatKirby · M

@cherokeepatti

Nearly the exact thing happened to me back in 1987. The "manager in my department" where I worked "was pressuring us to donate to United Way. I was a new worker making the lowest wages in the department" and later found out it was not going to the needy. This made me real mad so I stopped giving to United Way. The next year it was on the news that the top dog's administrative assistant was making over $200,000 a year. That was a lot of money back then. Stopped giving to them.