Lame Conspiracy: Major Charities Are Just Stealing Donations

[LostInSauce]

Friends, consider the following...
1. Have you, or anyone you know, received a cent from a major charity?
2. Do you know someone who knows someone who's seen any of this money? Keep in mind, we're talking millions and millions of dollars in these organizations.
3. Supposedly, many of these charities like...build wells, or schools, or god knows what else in Africa. Yet, when you see the schools for example, it's some cinder block construction, with a corrugated roof, and a few laptops from at latest the early 2000s. The point is that this doesn't account for millions of dollars.
4. It's common knowledge that a significant portion of the money is very openly just pocketed by the heads of these charities. This part is not conspiracy.
5. The donations are tax deductible, so were you to pocket the money, you'd reap double the reward. This is also not conspiracy.
6. Ultimately, if the money does go to Africa or wherever, then that would be a fantastic place to launder the money and make it vanish.
I think this theory came to me when I was sitting around thinking about charities "seeking a cure for cancer" that seemingly never get any results, but continue to take money. Hell, it's not even profitable for those charities to get results. If they got results, they'd have to shut down the operation.

 

[MODAT7]

The Red Cross does hand out some money, but like 80% gets "lost". If you really want to donate and make a difference, find a local charity that's been around for awhile and isn't a scam.

Local food banks are usually better run, but there have been a few scandals.

some cinder block construction, with a corrugated roof

Africa has bad termite problems and poor manufacturing facilities, so this isn't that surprising. Several thousand dollars given to a poor village could create a single story university campus, though. The crap laptops are a scam.

Ultimately, if the money does go to Africa or wherever, then that would be a fantastic place to launder the money and make it vanish.

There is this Nigerian prince I keep hearing about...

"seeking a cure for cancer"

A few years ago, covid put me in the hospital at $2k/night. These cancer "research" hospitals charge even more to go into. These hospitals and big research agencies don't need our donations. They're already getting paid a lot. That's the major scam. They also get a lot of government grants. And like you said, no efforts to get results as that would close them down. Then they shove it back in your face: "Don't you love these cancer children???" And I respond with, "Yes, they're quite tasty."

 

[LostInSauce]

The Red Cross does hand out some money, but like 80% gets "lost". If you really want to donate and make a difference, find a local charity that's been around for awhile and isn't a scam.

Local food banks are usually better run, but there have been a few scandals.


Africa has bad termite problems and poor manufacturing facilities, so this isn't that surprising. Several thousand dollars given to a poor village could create a single story university campus, though. The crap laptops are a scam.


There is this Nigerian prince I keep hearing about...


A few years ago, covid put me in the hospital at $2k/night. These cancer "research" hospitals charge even more to go into. These hospitals and big research agencies don't need our donations. They're already getting paid a lot. That's the major scam. They also get a lot of government grants. And like you said, no efforts to get results as that would close them down. Then they shove it back in your face: "Don't you love these cancer children???" And I respond with, "Yes, they're quite tasty."

Haha, good one about the kids. I can't imagine what kind of scandal could take place at a food bank.

 

[PaulaJedi]

I help people directly. I've given money to hurricane victims, not big organizations.
I help the homeless man on the street. That way, I know it's not going to help the CEO pay for his mansion.

 

[TimeWizardCosmo]

I still think of this video:

NGOs at scale are often terrible, dishonest and use their perceived good will to work against those they claim to be helping.

 

[Beholder]

The larger an organization becomes, the more people you need just to keep track of everyone.

 

[LostInSauce]

I still think of this video:

NGOs at scale are often terrible, dishonest and use their perceived good will to work against those they claim to be helping.

I'd also add that in this day and age, they're seldom ever actually non-governmental. They're just organizations with plausible deniability. Very interesting videos. Thanks for sharing!

I help people directly. I've given money to hurricane victims, not big organizations.
I help the homeless man on the street. That way, I know it's not going to help the CEO pay for his mansion.

This is the best way, in my opinion. It always bewilders me when you tell people about this and they give you some canned line about how apparently "organized charities are a better way to help those in need." They of course never go into any detail or substantiate that claim but...whatever.

The larger an organization becomes, the more people you need just to keep track of everyone.

And the more people you need to compen$ate.

 

[Wind7]

I had a friend (RIP) whom lit into me for giving to The United Way.

It was just a part of The U.W. drive that my employer does every year but,
she told me she was denied any help by them when she was forced to stay at home to be in attendance
of her husband whom was slowly dying of cancer due to exposure to agent orange.

He died 1 month from her to be able to receive lifetime benefits from the VA .

The VA themselves denied him benefits and went so far as to video him riding his lawnmower
saying "if you can mow your lawn...You are obviously lying about your cancer." (!!!)

I helped her out the best I could for literally years.

 

[Num7]

Charities stealing money is clearly a conspiracy. It's so common that we almost never think about it that way, or at all. I mean, we even hear about it on the news, so it must be pretty commonplace and almost normalized.

Still, it's hypocrisy of the highest order. These people have no shame. Instead of stealing directly from the poor, let's steal from the generous people who are trying to help their fellow man.

As far as I know, the safest way to help the poor through charities would be with a small local organization that you know will distribute the help on a very local scale.

Other than that, I have serious trust issues. Think about the Red Cross during the Haiti earthquake a few years ago. We kept hearing that the millions of dollars the Red Cross was sending were going to unknown places, or to some rich guys in Haiti. What the hell?

 

[Wind7]

Charities stealing money is clearly a conspiracy. It's so common that we almost never think about it that way, or at all. I mean, we even hear about it on the news, so it must be pretty commonplace and almost normalized.

Still, it's hypocrisy of the highest order. These people have no shame. Instead of stealing directly from the poor, let's steal from the generous people who are trying to help their fellow man.

As far as I know, the safest way to help the poor through charities would be with a small local organization that you know will distribute the help on a very local scale.

Other than that, I have serious trust issues. Think about the Red Cross during the Haiti earthquake a few years ago. We kept hearing that the millions of dollars the Red Cross was sending were going to unknown places, or to some rich guys in Haiti. What the hell?

It's saddening but, true.

In my lifetime, I have given loads to charities... Especially for cancer as it's all around my family IRL.

I'm a single male these days and....Because of that, I cannot get help of my own to save my home.

I have no dependents....Not widowed.....No child support.... So, I am not allowed to receive help from the same
places I have given $$ to...To help others in need...?

I know first hand just how crooked they are ...Or can be.

My family landed on the wrong piece of Earth when we moved here (1967) Sherburne County are ruthless
and call themselves self supportive (??) with no needs to be part of ALICE.

They're their OWN charity.....And it's exceptionally unfair.

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