Shaking Head

[Craig]

Think twice before giving to or supporting these charities

http://www.tampabay.com/americas-worst-charities/?hpt=hp_c2

[Rhys 🕊]

Wow. Shocking stuff

You may as well just give your money to the solicitors

Rhys

[Patric]

this is why I mostly only give to homeless or friends or those I see in need directly. The corperate needs are buisness or worse like TV Evangelist imo

[se7en]

Wow.....

[gregorydc]

Unreal!  And you wonder why people don't want to give to charity when there are so many scam artists out there!

[Dave in Tenn]

I worked briefly for one such "charity" which raised money by selling tickets to some kind of dinner.  I didn't work in the boiler room, though I saw it and had a sense of what went on.  I worked delivering the tickets on a per-delivery basis.  I hung in there for about three days.  On the best day, I made 10.00 and spent about 8.00 on gas.  I didn't even bother to quit...just didn't show up any more after that.  Just the sales commissions and the measly bit I got for making the delivery were about 80% of the the money raised, not counting the cost of running the office.  Best I remember, it was the Sheriff's Deputies Association.  Barney Fife never saw a penny of that, I'm sure.

There are good charities, however.  A look along the left side of that page gives resources for sussing them out.