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Originally Posted by Travis Munroe
Sorry if this was already discussed as per the flames responde to the article but...
It is amazing how many of you will buy 50/50 tickets without problem knowing very well that less than 50% goes to charity yet you will criticize a charity that has less than 50% from other fundraisers going to charity.
We will line up to participate in Charity golf tournaments or pokers tournaments yet less than 10% of the money raised reaches charity.
This is not the actual Charities problem.... they are doing what they can and if you scale back what these events offer then you scale back attendance and money spent.
Bean breaks down last years numbers which resulted in 88% going to charity or sitting in reserves and mentions he has no idea how the figures were reached by the "Watchdogs".
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For me its an easy thing - if I get a CRA tax receipt back, I expect the funds are going mostly to charitable purposes. I don't buy 50/50 with any expectation on how the 50% the FF gets to keep is used, aside from having some belief its used to help local underprivileged youth or kids or some other group in need. I trust the organization to figure that out, and in return I expect the organization to be fairly transparent about how they spend donated money regardless of source. Less weight on funds from stuff like 50/50, poker, etc because in my mind that's not really a direct charitable contribution from me.
Ultimately sounds like people with inflated expectations of how all of money is used and the extent the FF should be using certain things as PR, and FF having a poor understanding of the levels of transparency people require these days.
End of the day, it's kind of a non story though. FF is a great organization, and western canadians are #1 at 50/50.