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Does charity just take your money, and then do what it likes?

Collection for firemen down our way. Did not know these to be a charitable case!" They could just swap tin labels after and give it to another cause. Encourages research, and gives wee kiddies nightmarish pictures. Just a play on sympathies - cruel to you to be kind to another!! Just like indian market sellers are getting, by making you feel sorry for them and their status and buy off them. Never see them sell to their own though. handing over money should be illegal. Could not find a section for charity, so stuck it here. we used to ship stuff out to Kosova. the charity did not account for the monies it recieved.

Public Comments

1. Charity questions are under community service. You are very cynical arn't you? Support for the emergency services (and indeed the army, etc) are charitable in law. Giving to charity is entirely voluntary, so if you feel you are being ripped off, you have the right to decline to give - no one forces you.
2. Charities have to be registered and have to account for the money they receive. That's the case in the UK.
3. Once you donate it, the charity can do what it likes with your funds. That makes it imperative to research a charity before you donate to it. I have no problem donating to the local fire fund but when I get random calls from charities I've never heard of, I make them send me printed information before I'll even consider giving them a dime. What you really want to look out for is the percentage of contributions spent on overhead and the amount that actually makes it to the people the charity allegedly helps. When you start seeing a sizeable amount of the contributions going to pay for salaries, office expenses, advertising, and the like, it's not a good charity. I've seen a few where over 50% of every dollar donated is used to pay the charity's expenses and very little is actually used to help people.