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Gibberings CLXXVI - We might have hit 100 before one of these dopey fuckers noticed

27% is not high.

90% is a good amount. and totally possible if the 'charity' is not really a bussiness.
 
Pisses me off - Worst charities US

Red cross UK CEO 2012 - £184,000 salary (Sir Nick Young)

Kids wish US

The Kids Wish Network, tied for lowest-rated on the Times and CIR’s list, has paid nearly $110 million to corporate solicitors and another $4.8 million to its founder and his own consulting firms. Only about $3.2 million of the total $127.8 billion raised by the charity has gone toward helping the dying children for whom it supposedly exist
 
pisses me off too...

however i bet theres more to running a charity than it seems at first...

i always wondered how come there are so many and diverse charities? Surely you would only need one/social issue/country at most?
why cant charities with the same goal join up in the name of all thats good and economic?
 
Because they're all separate businesses, in an ideal world perhaps they would
 
kingme said:
pisses me off too...

however i bet theres more to running a charity than it seems at first...
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no there's not. some are a bussiness. can't really blame them.

savethechildren is a good charity. the work they do in Africa. The least amount of money needed and saves the most lifes with simple stuff.
 
I dont know what i would prefer more: charity as a part of a business, or charity as part of religion
 
zzz101 said:
27% is not high.

90% is a good amount. and totally possible if the 'charity' is not really a bussiness.
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The assumption that the best way to measure impact is how much money is spent on programmes is a bit specious really. A charity could the spending 90% on it's income on programme work but if they're badly run and implemented or not the right solution for the community it's not going to have the biggest possible impact and it's going to waste money. I'd be curious to know where you have pulled that 90% figure from, thin air I expect.

Running charitable programmes is complicated and investing in high quality competent staff is necessary. This TED talk by Dan Pallotta talks about these kind of issues and is worth a watch: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong?language=en
 
i will PM you. not from thin air.

it is funny because there are ppl that still complain that only 90% of the money gets to where it is needed. 90% is hudge and doable.
 
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Those kind of breakdowns can be quite opaque because charities can account for things in different ways to improve their "xxp in every £1 you give goes towards charitable activities". I don't blame them for doing this when it has been accepted blindly as the best way to measure how good a charity is.

I'm really not into Save as an organisation, although I'm sure they do plenty of good work. Don't like their fundraising and never sounds like a nice place to work really (in the UK anyway).
 
I must say that graphic is misleading. Just because a disease doesnt kill does not mean it doesnt have a great social impact. Cancer in general can have lasting consequences even for its survivors. Breast cancer screening, and to a lesser extent, prostate cancer screening, has reduced the number od deaths from the diseases
 
swampdragon said:
I've only actually seen one person on Facebook do the challenge, and she's only a friend-of-a-friend that I added as I was having a poke war with her. The rest of my friends list is pretty bantz-free thankfully.
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It hadn't appeared on my FB til the other day, then suddenly it was everywhere. Missus got nominated over the weekend, I did the other day so I'm doing the noble thing and ignoring it entirely, even though I'm fairly certain that at some point this week I'll get a bucket of ice water upended over my head by her anyway. Would rather just donate and save myself a set of soaking through clothes.
 
I saw a video on Facebook today of someone who had nominated a slug to do the ice bucket challenge and they just poured a glass of water on the poor little slug. Don't know who the slug has nominated to do the challenge. Probably the snail with his fancy mobile home like shell
 
Movin home to my 'hometown' in a month, where I have lot of my friends & sum family. This place have not & will never do what needed for me. I have been
optimistic but it just aint going to cut it here. I don't want to pay so much to live here & only gettin half the treatment I need.

But all in all I feel a lot better than when I lived alone in my crib in a city I did not know anybody. I can fight for the good livin' now on my own. Or aint on my own, going to live with my gf's mom, so got my gf + her mom support 24/7 so to say. I think it all will be great sum day for me. :)

All the best to ya all <3
 
Nick, you tried. Well done, man. :) <3

And yes, isolation can be a big part of the problem. So it's great to know you'll be back among loved ones. I'm so happy to read that!
 
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