peace-direct!! What do you know about them???
Colin Revell | 14.03.2006 18:25 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Sheffield
I want feedback from others what they think about this 'new' charity called 'peace-direct'!
I also want feedback from others what they think about Charities sending people on the streets with their 'clipboards' to gather up membership and donations in every town and City in UK !! Is it happening also in USA and across the globe??
I also want feedback from others what they think about Charities sending people on the streets with their 'clipboards' to gather up membership and donations in every town and City in UK !! Is it happening also in USA and across the globe??
What do others know about this group? They was in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, out with the 'clipboards' trying to recruit members and asking for donations. These different Charities seem to have people with these 'clipboards' out everyway now-a-days in every town and city in the UK.
You can't afford to give to everyone, especially if you are on a 'low-income/welfare benefits'.
Is this happening in the USA and other Countries acrosss the globe too?
As I said you can't give your money to every Charity!! How do we decide which ones are moral and ethical and are going to give the poor underclass disabled people 'real-voices'?
See link;-
http://www.peacedirect.org/
Yours
Colin R
You can't afford to give to everyone, especially if you are on a 'low-income/welfare benefits'.
Is this happening in the USA and other Countries acrosss the globe too?
As I said you can't give your money to every Charity!! How do we decide which ones are moral and ethical and are going to give the poor underclass disabled people 'real-voices'?
See link;-
http://www.peacedirect.org/ Yours
Colin R
Colin Revell
e-mail:
colrevs@hotmail.co.uk
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not news - you are on the wrong website
14.03.2006 23:42
But to answer your question to some degree, the people with clip boards are generally not employed directly by charities. They are employees of fundraising companies which work for many different charities at the same time. The person in the streets gets about seven pounds an hour to stop and ask people if they know about this or that issues (often in the guise of market research so you don't instantly run away) and then try to get you to become a supporting member (ie. hand over your bank details so that they can take money direct from you account every month).
The company takes it's cut (I have no idea what percentage) and then the rest goes to the actually charities. Most charities (or at least the ones big enough to be able to afford these fundraising programs) will then use most of that money on admin, rent, computer upgrades, software, and staff wages etc etc and then finally a small percentage of the money that was originally donated might actually end up buying a water filter or and bag of seed and tools etc for somebody in need.
Charities are mostly a business. They sell relieve from feeling you are doing nothing to put the world to rights and they market their product by capitaliaing off the real or exaggerated suffering of others.
Charities also serve as a means to privatise functions of the welfare states and act as a form of hidden taxation on the compassionate.
There are obviously exceptions to my generalisations but you get the idea.
eh?
a minidiscussion on these poor people
15.03.2006 15:07
Harriass Porterlier