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This is provably false. I live in an area where a lot of people are struggling because of Covid-related lockdown, and there are a number of small charities coor
by TheOtherHobbes 6y ago
This is provably false. I live in an area where a lot of people are struggling because of Covid-related lockdown, and there are a number of small charities coordinating food and other donations.
None of them are publicity machines, except in a very minor informational sense, and all are effective locally.
That stops being true above a certain size - specifically when a charity adopts the tropes of corporate culture and starts spending more time on "messaging" and "engagement" than delivery.
Inexplicably this seems to coincide with a hugely overpaid CEO and managerial staff.
I'm sure someone like Bill Gates can afford to compile a global index of tiny all-volunteer charities and donate significant sums to them.
But that kind of help won't have his name on it. It's not obvious it even interests him and his fellow billionaires.
- protomyth 6y agoIf you are not a publicity machine then you are doing a disservice to the people you serve because you have no hope of spending the money as effectively. I work in non-profits and the worst thing is having no attention paid to you. You can help people still, but you are not getting as far. There is nothing more pure about charity that does not have publicity.