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Originally Posted by meanmachine13
At the end of the day, I am not surprised by this. It takes a lot of money to get the word out and to try to get donations from people. I am sure if a lot of charities spent half the money they did on soliciting, they would lose more than half the money they bring in.
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But is this a good use of the total charitable dollars that are available. Does the extra marketing dollars spent just shift dollars from one charity to antoher or does it increase the total charitable dollars spend by all Canadians?
Are we better off with a lot of non-professional volunteer charities with low overhead or large fundraising organizations that cost a lot of money. At some point a dollar spend on overhead to raise 1.10 of charity dollars isn't worth it.
A good example is all of runs in exotic locals that people have to raise 10k to go on. What you don't here is that they get a 3k paid for trip to the raise they are going to. Sure they raised a net of 7k but they got a free trip out of it.