JoeWras
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Thank you Gumby! And if you are in a DAV, many provide even further information via Guidestar, which goes to the next level and allows you to examine more details.Just a reminder that you can scope out charities here https://www.charitynavigator.org/ to determine how much of your donated dollar actually goes to helping people and how much goes to overhead and fundraising costs.
This discussion has drifted here, and I guess that is OK. All charities are not equal. As I've shared here before, I'm doing volunteer disaster relief. After looking into the big non-profits, I decided they were not the ones for me. I've chosen to work with smaller agencies who have much lower overhead.
I agree many of these charities need to wake up and stop becoming their own monster. But I also hope people don't give up on all of them. Otherwise, it will just be more government departments doing this. Not sure that is good either.