If I dare express an honest opinion these days, it’s met with confrontation and rage that I don’t support every fucking lame-duck cause there is. Like most charities with top heavy administrations where the actual research gets about 5% or less. I’m sick & tired of public opinion, so tired of the self-righteous zeal & ‘shove it down your throat because it’s politically correct’ sensibilities.
So, in future, don’t fucking ask me about anything ’cause I’m just going to smile and nod. I will lie to you because that is what you want to hear or will avoid you totally. I will not engage with rage. —Sick of Big Flapping Mouths Who Say Zip/Zilch/Nada
This article appears in Sep 15-21, 2016.
Repeat after me “Suck me arse; Both fuckin’ cheeks”
This is a multi-purpose response to any and all flapping jamrags that get on your tits.
And, unlike this august stalwart of “independent journalism”, in real life there is no prudish moderator to censor your comments.
Sweet Deal, Huh?
Next time someone tries to hit you up for a donation, just say: ‘Charity begins at home. I’ll let you know if that changes.’
Not every charity conducts research; some are service-based. And you can determine where your money is spent by looking them up on Canada Revenue Agency’s Charities Directorate website.
There are some good articles out there about the perception of top heavy charities. Essentially, they can take donations and increase them through additional fund raising investment. Obviously this still requires an ethical organization to work.
It helps if you think of each charity as being the equivalent of a “government” or public program and your charitable giving as a voluntary tax that you get to direct to a specific program(s).
But, there are over 80,000 registered charities so I suspect that there are far too many chasing the finite amount of available donations and there is also a lot of overlap. Just like other regular government programs, some of them could be amalgamated or dispensed with and more money would go to the ones that have the greatest impact. That, however, is unlikely to happen because the administrators who make their living running them aren’t going to voluntarily surrender their employment.
Some facts:
– There are over 170,000 charitable and nonprofit organizations in Canada.
– 85,000 of these are registered charities (recognized by the Canada Revenue Agency).
– The charitable and nonprofit sector contributes an average of 8.1% of total Canadian GDP, more than the retail trade industry and close to the value of the mining, oil and gas extraction industry 2
– Two million Canadians are employed in the charitable and nonprofit sector.
http://sectorsource.ca/research-and-impact…