It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When it comes to charities, there's a lot of fraud.
This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus on the job that they were elected to do. The collective concentration of the institution is being undermined every day by the need to fund-raise.
In the charitable world as in the business world, opportunities should drive budgets, not the other way around.
Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs.
Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.