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> Uses the money you donate towards helping people, not salaries and marketing. How exactly do you intend to spend money helping people if not paying salaries?
by Alex3917 10y ago
> Uses the money you donate towards helping people, not salaries and marketing.
How exactly do you intend to spend money helping people if not paying salaries? Any time you spend money you're paying for either a product or service, and either way that money goes for paying people's salaries. (Unless you just want to give money to people directly as basic income or whatever.)
- mtmail 10y agoThere are charities that get their base costs covered by yet other investors and can claim 100% of donations go to the cause. https://www.charitywater.org/100percent/ https://www.charitywater.org/100percent/ for example has fancy New York offices they can use for free.
- Alex3917 10y agoDon't they pay people to dig wells and/or buy folks the tools to do so?
- TravelTechGuy 10y agoThanks mtmail! I spent the last 20 minutes reading their material, disclosures, and the Charity Navigator review (https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=12548 https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summar...) - and decided to donate to them. You made my day!
- cuchoi 10y agoThis is a good read about the topic: http://overheadmyth.com/ http://overheadmyth.com/ "In 2013, GuideStar, BBB Wise Giving Alliance, and Charity Navigator wrote an open letter to the donors of America in a campaign to end the Overhead Myth—the false conception that financial ratios are the sole indicator of nonprofit performance. For our second letter, released in October 2014, we invite the nonprofits of America to do their part to focus donors’ attention on what really matters: your organization’s efforts to make the world a better place. We ask nonprofits and the social sector at large to join us as we move toward an Overhead Solution."