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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I think people need to draw a line between the Flames organization and it's ownership, and the Flames Foundation and it's role.
Flames Foundation is a pretty small group of workers that likely has 3 main objectives: Manage 50/50 and coordinate donations for that, Run the two main events the foundation hosts each year (Poker Tournament & Golf Tournament), and manage the relationship with the partners/charities.
To completely remove 65% of the revenue that team gets, and then call that group inefficient is likely unfair. Sure the two big events are probably inefficient but that ignores the fact that those are more PR events than anything, and also ignores the good that comes out of 50/50.
Based on the salary numbers in those tax returns their are likely 2-3 people on that staff who likely feel like #### today as they see the organization they manage got dragged through the mud because the article decided to only tell half the story.
I have actually never met Candice Goudie or any employees from the Flame foundation but others in my company have dealt with them and have said nothing but great things about them. Sure it's easy to rake the Flames owners through the coals but I can guarantee you that the people actually impacted by this fire today have nothing to do with that and feel like crap from this whole thing.
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That's fair enough. I don't think the people who are employed by the Flames Charitable Foundation have an ulterior motive or are necessarily doing their work poorly, and obviously the 50/50 draw funds are not a matter of criticism because those funds are outside the scope of the report.
I do think that the motivation for the Flames organization and the corresponding benefit to the community should come under closer scrutiny.
I think the people who work for the charitable foundation hope to be doing good work as do the people who donate to it. This report shows that the way they're going about it is not working as well as it should. People should know that before they donate their money to this charity rather than others, and the Flames charitable foundation should probably come up with ideas on how to ensure more of the money they raises actually goes to worthwhile causes.