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Re:Don't donate canned goods to food banks (2017) by aeternus on Monday July 15, 2019 @04:35PM (#20444968)
Most of the larger charities simply spend more of their budget on marketing. Is that desirable, and should the charity leadership be compensated handsomly for that?

It's a tough question as they may just be redirecting money away from charities with less marketing spend.

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Re:Don't donate canned goods to food banks (2017) by ska on Monday July 15, 2019 @04:48PM (#20445105)
> Is that desirable, and should the charity leadership be compensated handsomly for that?

It depends on the overall efficiency, doesn't it?

I'm not saying this stuff is easy to evaluate. I'm saying there are vastly more important qualifications than "I care about this work", and if we have decided large charities are effective then clearly we want competent people running them.

I'm perfectly ok with the answer being: "no, the best bet is very small, very local, entirely volunteer organizations".

The worst case to me seems to be poorly managed large organizations, which will then just bleed resources at every level.

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