> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > > What many don't realize is that these street corner charity hustlers > are not employed by the charities they solicit funds for. The charities > "subcontract" the work out to professional fundraising companies. > > One can't imagine that much of the monies raised is left for actual > charitable work once these fundraising companies are done with it; then > there's the overhead and costs of the charities themselves. >
I work for one of the INGOs that hire these agencies. They're bringing in money that the charities wouldn't otherwise have received, so it's a net gain even though they have to pay the agencies. It would cost more for the charities to hire people to do the collecting, and there aren't enough volunteers. The collectors are usually young people who make the mistake of targetting other young people. But young people often don't have much money, so they tend to cancel their payments quite quickly after they've started. If they can sign up middle-aged people, who forget about the donations or are just too lazy to cancel them, then they get much more overall, and the cost of the agencies is amortized over a longer period. Older people are also more likely to increase their donations when they get the inevitable follow-up phone calls. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
