On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 20:21:47 -0600, graham > wrote:

>On 16/06/2016 7:52 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2016-06-16 5:31 PM, graham wrote:
>>> On 16/06/2016 2:59 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> On a related note... I am getting tired of almost daily emails petitions
>>>> from change.org looking for my support for things. I think that every
>>>> one of those should include a pro and anti option. If they are looking
>>>> for my support to get something done I want the option to counter it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I avoid that site, life is complicated enough as it is and we are
>>> swamped with information at every turn! I get too many demands from
>>> charities such that I'm experiencing donor fatigue.
>>
>>
>> I am fed up with the business of find raising. It's not enough that you
>> give a donation. If you give enough for them to issue a tax receipt
>> they get your name and address and they won't leave you alone. They send
>> mail, email and telephone you regularly to ask for more. My wife once
>> sent a donation to hospice in Victoria BC in memory of an old school
>> friend who had died. They sent beg letters almost monthly for years and
>> years. For year I was getting beg letters for associations for cancer
>> of just about part of the body. It has dropped off over the last few
>> year. I guess their tracking system figured out they had got to the
>> point where it was costing them more for mailings than they had got from
>> me.
>>
>After contributing to the cancer fund for many years (I was diagnosed 18
>years ago) I got fed up with their constant demands. After making a
>significant donation mid-year, I received a request for more a few weeks
>later. Then in September I received a calendar with the request that I
>pay $200 for it. That was the last straw and I immediately told them to
>take me off the mailing list.
>The CEO of that charity makes $300k+ !!!!

Exactly. The real purpose of most charities these days is only about
giving the CEOs and administration a steady income. Australia has more
than 54000 registered charities. More than 10 new ones every day, the
industry has exploded in recent years and I'm sure it's the same or
worse over your way. it's an unfortunate situation, when most are
essentially scams with full legal protection, which of course harms
the genuine ones.