Need ideas/donations for my awesome charity
- By jeephawk
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If you boil it down, it sounds like he will provide the service but wants to be paid. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays my wife goes to the food bank, loads up her truck and distributions food to a number of families.
She doesn't ask to be paid. At the food bank they are all volunteers. Most of the food comes from Publix, Costco, Walmart and a few others. No one is getting paid. They do it because they want to.
Many years ago I got involved in a homeless feeding program. After a while I came to discover the money we were donating, I was giving $400.00 a month, was mostly being pocketed by the Priest who was running it. Food he said was being bought was actually donated.
Here's the thing, was he feeding people, yes. But he was also inriching himself.
One on one charity is a good way to help people. You can't help everyone but can make a small difference in the lives of a few. As far as the tattoo thing. It seems like the cost of a 2 inch cover up tattoo is not really that expensive.
Where is the money going that would be donated? It seems to the tattoo artist for his services. That's not charity, it's a revenue stream.
Volunteers all over this great land do all sorts of things, but it's also the case that many services that are needed are subsidized in some way by charitable contributions - it's not a homogeneous landscape.
You're still making assumptions about what it takes to do this work - you don't know, so why make criticisms out of ignorance of the facts?
It very well may be that the artist (or maybe others as well) would have some expenses defrayed by contributions - the point is filling the gap from what he or others may be willing to simply do as you put it "one on one" and what it takes to reach more affected individuals, which you minimized and frankly marginalized in your previous post. No doubt contributors may want information about how the money is spent - whomever is raising the money would certainly be up front about it, no reason to jump to conclusions because you had a bad experience - you can always find a tale about a charity that didn't do what it should have been doing.
His question is about how to raise money as I see it, not about having people pick apart what he's doing in terms of his motives - not really fair or relevant.