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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
That's one way to look at it, and a very fair one.
But of that 1M how much do you think those who 'donated' would have donated elsewhere if they didn't exist? If it's more than 100k (or equivalent) to the charities themselves, it's already a loss.
Then how many hours of unpaid volunteered work put in? A foundation like this could get suckers, for lack of better word, who will put in a ton of hours. At one point, the charity getting that 100k, might have been better off if all the volunteers working the event just took up a minimum wage second job for the same amount of time and pooled their money from their second jobs. Heck at $15 an hour it wouldn't even be hard! I kid, but 100K being donated from a million dollar fundraiser with volunteers is pretty pitiful. Especially if you told to some of the more standup players that if they realized that 13% of every dollar is actually going towards the charities, I imagine someone awesome like Giordano might instead just pay that 100K instead of sitting there with people being conned into believing their donations are doing a lot more than they thought.
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Yeah I think the one fair takeaway from this whole thing is that the Flame Foundation needs to rethink the emphasis on the poker tournament and the golf tournament. And at the least try to better manage the costs for these things (like you’d think there would be a golf course willing to subsidize the cost of tee times for the day).
The 50/50 work is good. And they do a lot of other great stuff with their partners in terms of community events and bringing Flames players out there to attend and help raise attention for specific causes for their parents but for the reasons stated above the big events just don’t appear to be working.