Private Charity Vs. Giving To Big Organizations

Canada
January 23, 2019 6:11am CST
I have decided to completely boycott large charities. As long as my friends and people I know need help, and even after, I’m not going to donate to some huge organization where decisions aren’t always made in the best interest of the people they claim to support. In the last few years I’ve sold books and used my royalties to help friends not be buried by ???? financial crap. I’ve used my abundance of grocery points to help local ???? friends make low incomes stretch to the end of the month. Donating to large organizations where the CEOs make good incomes reminds me too much of political situations, churches and sometimes families, who are RULED by the ones who hold all the money. In my marriage, I manage the money, because I’m better at it. This doesn’t mean I rule. It just means when one of us wants something, I can say in an instant, how long it’ll take us to be able to afford it. Now that I’ve streamlined a process in which we get handfuls if Amazon gift cards, that’s a heck of s lot easier. How do you prefer to help?
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@BarBaraPrz (47875)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
23 Jan 19
I prefer to help where it has a direct benefit, not, as you say, to pay an outrageous salary to bureaucrats.
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@marguicha (224110)
• Chile
23 Jan 19
I prefer private charity too.
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@Fleura (30597)
• United Kingdom
23 Jan 19
That's a difficult question, I've thought about that a lot. If I had a close friend who I knew needed help with essentials, then of course I would help them. However it isn't always that simple. If the friend needed help because they had already wasted a lot of money on unimportant things, then I wouldn't be quite so keen. And if they insisted, for example, that second hand furniture wasn't good enough for their family and they needed all new stuff, then again I wouldn't be quite so keen - the reason I have money is because we have all second-hand furniture. Then again, money often goes further in countries where some of the poorest people live, so you can make more of a difference. What would perhaps buy one person's groceries for a week here may pay for food for a poor family for a month in a place where they are desperately in need. Which is more worthwhile?
• New Delhi, India
23 Jan 19
I would go for private charity
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• Taiwan
31 Mar 19
I agree with you. I posted a fundraising on Twitter and prayed for a donation. I hope to get the source of the food, but no one wants to donate. I am so sad.