Re:Don't donate canned goods to food banks (2017)
by coryrc on Monday July 15, 2019 @05:27PM
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Depends, are they just shifting donations from other non-profits doing work without paid overhead?
Re:Don't donate canned goods to food banks (2017)
by ddingus on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:32PM
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At that scale, aren't we talking more about systemic problems?
The charity is about need. If it is also about that kind of growth, there is serious need.
We may be better served by a policy change so that charity remains at a lean scale.
Re:Don't donate canned goods to food banks (2017)
by lazyasciiart on Monday July 15, 2019 @04:38PM
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Yes, there are massive systemic problems everywhere. Feel free to go ahead and policy change away the war, disease, hunger, homelessness and so on if you can do that?
Re:Don't donate canned goods to food banks (2017)
by ddingus on Monday July 15, 2019 @07:08PM
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That's exactly the progressives plan. We can't get at all of that, and for sure, not at once.
But, there can be much better basics in place for people, and with those, a reduced need for charity to somehow perform at very large scale.
It can target, operate locally more, all good.
Disease, hunger, homelessness are all massive artifacts of long overdue policy reforms in the US.
Imagine a charity could hire someone that would 100x the amount of donations, whether that’s through more effective marketing, connections, etc. how much should a charity be willing to pay for that?