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Originally Posted by morgin
This is where I’m at.
1) it’s unfortunate that the big gala and sporting charity events that raised 1.1 million cost $950k to run or whatever, but if people know the return is limited and realize they are mostly paying to rub shoulders in a fun environment, then so be it.
2) sports foundations are sort of known for the grand gesture giving as much as they are the day to day. The United way isn’t doing giant multi million dollar donations to fund hospital wings etc etc, but they keep the lights on at so many necessary small charities. The Flames Foundation does a lot of those small impact distributions, but they are also known for (and fundraise for) the grand gesture community distributions. I think anyone who donates to a sports charity should recognize it serves a different function from a United Way or a Salvation Army or whatever.
If they did the reporting on 10 year historicals, I wonder how much different it would look.
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Or even sat down with the people making decisions with this money. I'm sure the answers are there and I'm sure that CFF could talk to whatever whistleblower under an NDA to chat about it.
If they refused, or if that conversation led to the call for supervision - good. But all this does is rile up an angry mob without knowing the full story.