"Ophelia" > wrote:
> "graham" > wrote in message ...
>> On 12/02/2015 9:06 AM, Janet Wilder wrote:
>>> On 2/12/2015 12:33 AM, sf wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:45:41 -0500, Cheryl >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2/11/2015 10:35 PM, ImStillMags wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm a Prime member and I have been shopping at Amazon Smile for a
>>>>>> while now. I love that every purchase I make sends a bit of money to
>>>>>> the charity I have designated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Same here. My charity must get quite a bit from me, but I've never >>>> been
>>>>> able to find out what percentage of your purchase goes to them. My
>>>>> charity is a local cat rescue, they are also my charity of choice
>>>>> through payroll at work.
>>>>
>>>> If you read the link, it tells you:
>>>>
>>>> The AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price from
>>>> your eligible AmazonSmile purchases.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think my favorite charities do better with checks from me.
>>>
>> Agreed!
>> However, I'm re-evaluating which ones I favour. I am constantly
>> bombarded > with requests so that I am becoming "charitied-out".
>> Furthermore, some of > the major charities pay obscene salaries to their
>> CEOs and other senior > staff.
>> Being a "survivor" (Oh, how I hate that term) I give to the major cancer
>> > fund but I'm seriously questioning whether to this year. It's a bottomless > pit.
>
> I stopped giving to two charities in previous years because of the salaries of the staff!


I used to work for a universally recognized international charity, and it
totally disgusted me how much bloat there was at the top of even our little
locally run chapter with their outrageously inflated salaries. It made me
absolutely sick to see them driving Porsches to work, knowing that was
money we were not spending helping our community, just lining their
pocketbooks.
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