As you open your pockets for the next natural disaster, please keep these facts in mind:
The American Red Cross President and CEO, Marsha J. Evans salary for the year was £394,825.16 plus expenses.
The United Way President Brian Gallagher receives a £227,100.00 base salary along with numerous expense benefits.
UNICEF CEO Caryl M. Stern receives £726,600.00 per year (£60,550 per month) plus all expenses including a ROLLS ROYCE. Less than 5 pence of your
donated pound goes to the cause.
The Salvation Army's Commissioner Todd Bassett receives a salary of only £7,871.50 per year (plus housing) for managing this £120+ billion dollar
organization. 96 percent of donated money goes to the cause.
No further comment is necessary. Please share this with everyone you can.
I have felt for a long time that ALL charities should have to show on any advertising, collection boxes etc. just how much of your £1 gets to
it's real destination - the whole thing makes me fume It is totally corrupt, but Joe Public appears blissfully unaware.
The leukaemia charity which I strongly support gets by on around 12 - 15% expenses I believe; for a large organisation I feel that sort of amount is
acceptable - 95% most definitely is NOT
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Originally posted by russbost
I have felt for a long time that ALL charities should have to show on any advertising, collection boxes etc. just how much of your £1 gets to it's real destination - the whole thing makes me fume It is totally corrupt, but Joe Public appears blissfully unaware.
The leukaemia charity which I strongly support gets by on around 12 - 15% expenses I believe; for a large organisation I feel that sort of amount is acceptable - 95% most definitely is NOT
Absolutely disgusting and I will certainly give it more thought who I donate to in the future.
so you're saying i should start up my own charity...?
no, you're right, its a disgrace. people who work for charities shouldn't be paid salaries, should be voluntary. of course they need paid
jobs, hard to say what a reasonable salary should be. definietly no more than say, £100,000 (which for a CEO of a huge organisation, is very low)
It's for the above reasons i very rarely donate to charities, Last week while wondering round Whitby, i emptied my pocket of loose change for the RNLI, I've no idea how much of that goes to where i'd like, but they seem a worth while cause, if i was to find out they ran at 50% then it's very likely i'd never do the same again.
UNICEF state on their website that it costs them 22 p to raise £1. This involves salaries, media and fundraising costs so not quite 95p as the OP
stated.
Ps the charites stated are large organisations therefore to attract suitables CEO,s will need to offer an attractive salary.
IMHO, you cannot make a post like this without evidence. The comment at the bottom makes it look like its from a chain email, and we all know that the
contents of them is usually bollox.
If UNICEF were really running at 95% expenses, it would be an international news story.
So, lets see some sources.
a quick google:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_charities_salaries.htm
and it would seem to be bollox. UNICEF boss gets about £140k.
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Originally posted by chris mason
It's for the above reasons i very rarely donate to charities, Last week while wondering round Whitby, i emptied my pocket of loose change for the RNLI, I've no idea how much of that goes to where i'd like, but they seem a worth while cause, if i was to find out they ran at 50% then it's very likely i'd never do the same again.
Wherever the OP's information comes from, mine is from totally different sources & a number of them. My Cousin heads up a Trade Union
organisation (probably the less said about his salary the better, it is a constant bone of contention between our differing political viewpoints), but
he has many contacts in the political & charity world, some of what he has told me (& showed me evidence of) I could not put on a public
forum, but he tells me that there is a VERY large childrens charity (I'm not going to give the name out as I can't personally verify the
info) that does not contribute one single penny of it's income to children!!! It is there purely to "raise awareness" & therefore
does not actually have to do anything for children at all, it does however spend Millions on advertising, & a whole bunch more on large
salaries.
I'm quite sure much of this could be quantified fairly easily, & one thing you can easily check is a charities address - & I'm
telling you that you won't find many under railway arches, but you will find plenty in flashy chrome & glass offices in the most expensive
bits of London!
charity begins at home, RNLI, PDSA, Marie Curie, Hospice etc all worthy of our donations. This countries government gets ripped of enough/forced into donating to other countries.
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Originally posted by russbost
but he tells me that there is a VERY large childrens charity (I'm not going to give the name out as I can't personally verify the info) that does not contribute one single penny of it's income to children!!! It is there purely to "raise awareness" & therefore does not actually have to do anything for children at all, it does however spend Millions on advertising, & a whole bunch more on large salaries.
I'm quite sure much of this could be quantified fairly easily, & one thing you can easily check is a charities address - & I'm telling you that you won't find many under railway arches, but you will find plenty in flashy chrome & glass offices in the most expensive bits of London!
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Ps the charites stated are large organisations therefore to attract suitables CEO,s will need to offer an attractive salary.
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Originally posted by russbost
Wherever the OP's information comes from, mine is from totally different sources & a number of them. My Cousin heads up a Trade Union organisation (probably the less said about his salary the better, it is a constant bone of contention between our differing political viewpoints), but he has many contacts in the political & charity world, some of what he has told me (& showed me evidence of) I could not put on a public forum, but he tells me that there is a VERY large childrens charity (I'm not going to give the name out as I can't personally verify the info) that does not contribute one single penny of it's income to children!!! It is there purely to "raise awareness" & therefore does not actually have to do anything for children at all, it does however spend Millions on advertising, & a whole bunch more on large salaries.
I'm quite sure much of this could be quantified fairly easily, & one thing you can easily check is a charities address - & I'm telling you that you won't find many under railway arches, but you will find plenty in flashy chrome & glass offices in the most expensive bits of London!
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/charities.asp
Does anyone know the figures for the NSPCC?
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Originally posted by omega 24 v6
But it's "for charity" so they should be charitable and do it for a menial realistic sum.
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LOL - just because an organisation is a charity, all members of staff must be 'charitable' and accept peanuts for a salary? Seriously? Back in reality, if a large charity wants to attract decent management/executive/financial etc staff, they will have to be prepared to pay for it, like any other organisation.
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Originally posted by Liam
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Originally posted by omega 24 v6
But it's "for charity" so they should be charitable and do it for a menial realistic sum.
LOL - just because an organisation is a charity, all members of staff must be 'charitable' and accept peanuts for a salary?
A few points I would like to add.
OP is a pretty active member on here (and he will vouch that I do NOT know him!), lets not shoot a messenger with a message!
Has anybody else seen the Salvation Army Head Quarters near the St Paul's Cathedral? That place is a seriously expensive building, and I see
little activity from the salvation army other than more collections in my area.
I don't give to charities, I am a private contractor offering a very good service to the NHS in wheelchair services and special seating services.
I see a lot of money wasted just in the small world that I deal with and if the NHS was private it WOULD be more efficient. If charities had to
release profit figures like a limited company there would be some serious back lash and problems justifying there overheads. This does not apply to
all companies, some are extremely efficient at turning donations into real pennies for people in need.
Large charities need to be very organised to maximise 'profit' to give to the people in need. These large organisations demand experienced
people to make sure the ship sales true and efficiently.
Interesting how people are posting on this,
Regards
Biz
I prefer to give donations to local support groups, like cancer support etc as it tends to be used more effectively and their members are usually
volunteers.
For our wedding we have asked a donation be made to one of the local cancer support groups who helped missy’s family through her mum’s cancer rather
than give us pointless wedding gifts like toasters...
There are many local care in the community schemes when you look and they need support just as much as any of the bigger well known charities.
Oh and her mums fully recovered now