When donating your hard earned money you really should do at least a tiny little bit of due diligence.
Many charities are not at all charitable and some charities are just poorly run. If you don’t want to spend 5 minutes on the internet you can just listen to the news. United Way is one that seems to be in a constant scandal. Make a Wish has no means testing. Wounded Warriors has outrageous overhead. I can go on and on.
However, there are charities where 100% goes to the end recipient. The overhead expense is bore by the parent organization.
There really are some great people out there that would do a lot of good with your donation. There are more people out there that would love to party with your money.
As they say in Latin, donator cave.
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