What does you think about workplace giving aka forced philanthropy?

I like the concept of helping others, but the more I have learned about organizations... the more I have truly believed that absolutely no one should trust most of them... as too much of the money either goes into someone's picked (either theft, misuse or paying an employee 1,000% more than they should be earning).

Look at Red Cross for example, they do a ton of gold things... BUT their biggest success is getting people to volunteer for free, while they make huge profits, and their top people are getting absolutely filthy rich off you, as they aren't volunteering nothing!

And based on people that I have known that have volunteered, they had policies basic for good PR first, but when you got to the more detailed stuff, they were extremely biased in who they would help and how much help they would give certain people.

Basically picking winners and losers in who they helped and how much they helped, and that absolutely pissed off the people that I have known that have volunteered with the Red Cross.


Again, Red Cross does a lot of great things... but at the end of the day, they're taking your blood for free, and reselling it at a MAJOR resell price...

Where I truly believe it would be better if the person volunteering that blood for the huge resell price instead... or the money went to people that actually need it, vs the basics for profit business, and even if it's not for the profit business, it's still for profit of the high level employees more than three times as much and aren't giving that back.

I just don't trust organizations any more.

I have been very careful about donating money this year to the point where I have made one donation; it was after a news report about a small dog rescue organization having their (one) vehicle stolen stripped for parts and vandalised. The couple who ran the charity looked destroyed and I could barely think before I'd sent the money.
1. I prefer to donate to small charities as I feel my donation makes more of a difference.
2. It helps if I can see where my donation will go, in this case to help fund a new vehicle.
3. I do a little background (online) checking; just something like a video of what the charity does is enough.

I really do not like any sort of coercion such as when I was in the military being expected to donate to military charities.

We do various things at our local school - I'm the head teacher - for local organisations and the community. It is encouraged but not enforced.

I just think it's nice to support and help others.

My money, I'll do with it what I feel appropriate. It's been awhile since I've given any to Charity, also been a long time since I've been in a strip club where a girl named charity worked

I get taken every month for something at work it feels like.

I think that headline makes the Baby Jesus weep.