What does you think about workplace giving aka forced philanthropy?

I'm not a charity supporter generally as most charities are commercial scams.

A former workplace has a bee in its corporate bonnet about workplace giving aka forced (almost) philanthropy where staff are pushed to donate to supposedly charitable entities.

Churches are the worst with this but plenty of non churches fleece people for donations through corporate support programs and the like

How do you feel about this?

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sstronaut

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.