The exact reason while I’m incredibly selective as to who I’ll donate anything to.
Maybe I’m a dick but I only donate to local charities where I can see where the money goes and how it’s used.
I tend to volunteer my time, at least that way I can see what any contribution I give goes, be it monetary or labour.
There are VERY few charities I would donate money to. Usually only ones I know very well and know that my money will actually be put to good use
I stopped donating to St Vincent de Paul after it and out that they pay court fees for travellers or at least help with them. I would have been a big advocate for them before that. I do donate to some of the food banks and any charity in my local area.
We shouldn’t need charities. Government has spent decades offloading responsibility to charities and we act like it’s a great thing.
“Let’s all do charity events for the Orphan Crushing Machine so we have selfies to share on the socials! Yay!”.
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How many daffodils have to be sold in order for the CEO’s salary to be be paid?..I only give locally now.sick at how much these people are being paid.
My issue with a lot of charities is how they get creative with describing how they help people.
Someone on here mentioned a year or two ago that Jigsaw would count every single incoming phone call to their helpline as them helping someone. Even though for many of those calls they didn’t offer any practical help and instead referred to caller back to their GP.
I’ve seen it myself when I helped out at the now definct Irish Autism Action charity. New management came in and were obsessed with increasing the numbers of people they claimed to help. So they started canceling one on one sessions in favor of group sessions, and then increasing the numbers of people in the groups. They then used these falsely inflated numbers to justify their fundraising efforts, get corporate sponsorship (O2 donated a lot) and help when applying for HSE contracts and funding. One of the craziest things that happened was they had a black tie Valentine’s Day ball at a fancy hotel. Officially it was for fundraising, but no one paid for admission and there was no obvious fundraising efforts occurring on the night. It was basically a big jolly. I genuinely felt bad for how they treated Keith Duffy, he worked his arse off for them and even came in to do painting and decorating at their therapy center up past Clontarf. They totally took advantage of him.
How to fix all this? Well, I think it’s crazy that the HSE relies on so many charities to provide services that they should be providing. The HSE should be doing most of that stuff in house, thus taking taking away the desire for charities to effectively become professional services organizations. This I feel forces charities to act more like commercial operations, and that then encourages the management to start rewarding themselves in the way that commercial operations do.
The only charities that should exist should be ones providing services that the government cannot or traditionally should not do.
I’m concerned by the existence of most charities in the first place. It’s like we pay taxes for nothing.
The government relies highly on charities for service provision. Homeless charities,for example,work closely together to ensure each covers specific areas or coordinates together.There are many charities that are the sole voices holding the Government accountable for their legislation and policy development.This is in the face of corporate lobbying,which does not give a damn about the social fabric of your community,decent working conditions or decent pay .There are some people on huge pay but many many more who barely have a pension if any or full time hours working in the charitable sector. I work in the private sector now but spent many years in the community and voluntary sector and every penny was accounted for and i received a pay rise zero times.I left when my hours,along with others, were cut (again). The same crowd whinging about charities were out taking selfies at Darkness into Light.Hold the government to account about our public services if you hate the community sector so much.Poverty in Ireland is rampant but often hidden. I’d love if the government took on more responsibility for direct service provision.
Very hard to decide what charities to give your money to nowadays. A real shame that so many scandals has cast so much suspicion on them.
I working in helping Non-profits and charities to implement systems into their organisations. A lot of them are very unorganised and inefficient. I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing to have a CEO earning 6 figures if it means that the non-profit is ran properly and able to do a better job achieving there mission. If a non-profit spends 30,000 EUR on a database it makes it much easier to manage it’s operations and have a much higher impact on it’s constituents but donors don’t like to think that their donation isn’t going directly to helping someone.
There are a lot of issues with staff being vastly underpaid and overworked which inevitably leads to burnout and high staff turnover.
There is a great Ted Talk from Dan Pallotta which covers some of this. In his TED talk, **Dan Pallotta** challenges the way we think about charity and nonprofit organizations. He argues that we have a double standard that limits the potential of charities to achieve their goals and solve social problems. He points out that we judge charities by how little they spend on overhead, such as administration, marketing, and salaries, rather than by how much impact they have. He claims that this discourages charities from investing in growth, innovation, risk-taking, and long-term vision. He compares charities to for-profit businesses, which are allowed to spend more on these areas and attract more talent and capital. He suggests that we need to change our mindset and allow charities to use the same tools and incentives as businesses to scale up their solutions and create social change. He concludes by calling for a new social movement that celebrates and rewards charities for their achievements and aspirations, not for their frugality.
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The exact reason while I’m incredibly selective as to who I’ll donate anything to.
Maybe I’m a dick but I only donate to local charities where I can see where the money goes and how it’s used.
I tend to volunteer my time, at least that way I can see what any contribution I give goes, be it monetary or labour.
There are VERY few charities I would donate money to. Usually only ones I know very well and know that my money will actually be put to good use
I stopped donating to St Vincent de Paul after it and out that they pay court fees for travellers or at least help with them. I would have been a big advocate for them before that. I do donate to some of the food banks and any charity in my local area.
We shouldn’t need charities. Government has spent decades offloading responsibility to charities and we act like it’s a great thing.
“Let’s all do charity events for the Orphan Crushing Machine so we have selfies to share on the socials! Yay!”.
[deleted]
How many daffodils have to be sold in order for the CEO’s salary to be be paid?..I only give locally now.sick at how much these people are being paid.
My issue with a lot of charities is how they get creative with describing how they help people.
Someone on here mentioned a year or two ago that Jigsaw would count every single incoming phone call to their helpline as them helping someone. Even though for many of those calls they didn’t offer any practical help and instead referred to caller back to their GP.
I’ve seen it myself when I helped out at the now definct Irish Autism Action charity. New management came in and were obsessed with increasing the numbers of people they claimed to help. So they started canceling one on one sessions in favor of group sessions, and then increasing the numbers of people in the groups. They then used these falsely inflated numbers to justify their fundraising efforts, get corporate sponsorship (O2 donated a lot) and help when applying for HSE contracts and funding. One of the craziest things that happened was they had a black tie Valentine’s Day ball at a fancy hotel. Officially it was for fundraising, but no one paid for admission and there was no obvious fundraising efforts occurring on the night. It was basically a big jolly. I genuinely felt bad for how they treated Keith Duffy, he worked his arse off for them and even came in to do painting and decorating at their therapy center up past Clontarf. They totally took advantage of him.
How to fix all this? Well, I think it’s crazy that the HSE relies on so many charities to provide services that they should be providing. The HSE should be doing most of that stuff in house, thus taking taking away the desire for charities to effectively become professional services organizations. This I feel forces charities to act more like commercial operations, and that then encourages the management to start rewarding themselves in the way that commercial operations do.
The only charities that should exist should be ones providing services that the government cannot or traditionally should not do.
I’m concerned by the existence of most charities in the first place. It’s like we pay taxes for nothing.
The government relies highly on charities for service provision. Homeless charities,for example,work closely together to ensure each covers specific areas or coordinates together.There are many charities that are the sole voices holding the Government accountable for their legislation and policy development.This is in the face of corporate lobbying,which does not give a damn about the social fabric of your community,decent working conditions or decent pay .There are some people on huge pay but many many more who barely have a pension if any or full time hours working in the charitable sector. I work in the private sector now but spent many years in the community and voluntary sector and every penny was accounted for and i received a pay rise zero times.I left when my hours,along with others, were cut (again). The same crowd whinging about charities were out taking selfies at Darkness into Light.Hold the government to account about our public services if you hate the community sector so much.Poverty in Ireland is rampant but often hidden. I’d love if the government took on more responsibility for direct service provision.
Very hard to decide what charities to give your money to nowadays. A real shame that so many scandals has cast so much suspicion on them.
I working in helping Non-profits and charities to implement systems into their organisations. A lot of them are very unorganised and inefficient. I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing to have a CEO earning 6 figures if it means that the non-profit is ran properly and able to do a better job achieving there mission. If a non-profit spends 30,000 EUR on a database it makes it much easier to manage it’s operations and have a much higher impact on it’s constituents but donors don’t like to think that their donation isn’t going directly to helping someone.
There are a lot of issues with staff being vastly underpaid and overworked which inevitably leads to burnout and high staff turnover.
There is a great Ted Talk from Dan Pallotta which covers some of this. In his TED talk, **Dan Pallotta** challenges the way we think about charity and nonprofit organizations. He argues that we have a double standard that limits the potential of charities to achieve their goals and solve social problems. He points out that we judge charities by how little they spend on overhead, such as administration, marketing, and salaries, rather than by how much impact they have. He claims that this discourages charities from investing in growth, innovation, risk-taking, and long-term vision. He compares charities to for-profit businesses, which are allowed to spend more on these areas and attract more talent and capital. He suggests that we need to change our mindset and allow charities to use the same tools and incentives as businesses to scale up their solutions and create social change. He concludes by calling for a new social movement that celebrates and rewards charities for their achievements and aspirations, not for their frugality.
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Here’s a [link](https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong) to the video.