This stuff is absolutely parasitic! I wouldn't give to anybody who delivered less than 95% to the base charity. Worthy charities have plenty of volunteers. Regards, Bob S.
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. -- 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.
