The professional fundraisers I know state their flat fee up front - no
percentage, no guaranteed results, no gimmicks. If your cause is
deemed worthy, the pros work very hard to raise funds. If not, the
true pros walk away. What frequently happens is that the legitimate
expenses for a fundraising campaign are more than an organization
realizes and the fundraising efforts don't return as much as desired
or needed. Not to say there are not enough charlatans & scam artists
to go around, some of whom will work for a % of the take. But most
organizations learn to recognize those fairly quickly.
On Jan 2, 2013, at 9:25 PM, Ray Harrell wrote:
Actually, if you were Beethoven today, you would have to have at
least $15,000 up front before they would even consider you trying to
fund the concert for the premiere of the 9th symphony. After that
they take a cut. I resent the comment about a story. In
print it seemed snide. Did you mean it that way?
REH
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So a professional fundraiser can approach anyone who has a good
story and put out the call for $ to help that person in his/her time
of need. Taking x% off the top. Something seems amiss. Or perhaps
not. Maybe everyone in this new world is a derivative of sorts and
has value which can be exploited for something by someone.
Arthur
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Welcome to my world. But what else is there under this system?
Creative begging?
REH
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The charitable industry complex…
Pennies for Charity aggregates information from fundraising reports
filed with the Attorney General’s Charities Bureau for telemarketing
campaigns conducted in 2011. Some of the significant findings
regarding the 602 fundraising campaigns covered in the Attorney
General’s report include:
In 467 of the 602 campaigns, the charities kept less than 50 percent
of the funds raised.
In 207 of the 602 campaigns, the charities retained less than 30
percent of the funds raised.
In 76 of the 602 campaigns, charities actually lost money.
In only 49 of the 602 campaigns did the charity retain at least 65
percent of the money raised, the amount deemed acceptable under the
Better Business Bureau’s standards for charitable organizations.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/12/the_charitable.php
http://www.empirestatenews.net/News/20121226-2.html
From: Keith Hudson [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 12:15 PM
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Hey, you gotta watch dem machines...
At 02:52 02/01/2013, AC wrote:
(AC) I agree. I often wonder how many of the charity drives
featuring starving children are cons of some sort or outright theft
or where the majority of the “take” goes for “administrative”
costs. There is theft and stealing.
(KH) I'm wary of charities which tout for money to save donkeys, or
pandas or some other "cuddley" type of animal. (On the other hand, I
know a donkey charity near here which saves badly-treated donkeys
and they do a wonderful job.) However, I've noticed over the years
that many adverts of these "cuddley" charities seem to appear only
once. I have the impression, therefore, that the Charities
Commission in the UK quietly investigate those which are indeed
contricks and make sure the police prosecute them.
On the other hand (I sound like Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof"!),
adverts for children's charities don't seem to last long in the UK
press unless they are genuine. We have two big, and altogether
splendid childrens' charities in the UK, Barnado's, and the RSPCC
(Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children), but we
also have a few very large charities which never seek money but are
able to function out of enormous invested funds, Amelia Peabody,
Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and there are also many scores of
smaller ones in smaller cities which never advertise but were
established in prosperous Victorian times. (One is usually totally
unaware of these until one has lived in a city for long enough. In
my home town of Coventry, where I lived for 47 years, I got to know
of three well-invested children's charities, and in Bath, where I
lived for over 20 years, I got to know of two. (The equivalent
American ones, established by highly successful family businesses of
the 1910s, 20s, 30s tend to devote their funds to medical objects
rather than specifically children (needs were different).
snip, snip
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