No money, no honey

• Dr Who

  1 Apr 05, 14:59

  
  Money for charity is not distributed equally.
  
  Some organisations can monopolise the market by slick advertising.
  Old folks and housewives don't know what charities to give to so they give to those that advertise...........give until other charities got left with nothing.
  
  Govt must control such fund raising......any amount not spent within the financial year must be returned or given to Community Chest,,,,,
  
  People must tell their mothers not to believe advertisments......
• ShutterBug

  1 Apr 05, 19:47

  I NEVER believed in anything, that "glittered".
  
  
• sgboy2004

  1 Apr 05, 19:52

  either way, mi no $$$ to donate... mi o level nia
• commonsense

  2 Apr 05, 04:43

  get the top execs to declare and publish their salary. then all donors will WAKE UP!
• jaimeyeo

  2 Apr 05, 05:06

  Originally posted by commonsense:

  get the top execs to declare and publish their salary. then all donors will WAKE UP!

  fully agree with u. furthermore, is the public's money really spent on all those who are affected, cos it seems that they only take care the 'needy'. sad to say, most of us are in middle class. 'needy' only a very small percentage.
  
  when see nkf, always see tears on their eyes to ask for help. but there are many others who have more frustration when these money cannot be used to help them, cos they are not 'needy'.
  
  without a good account of the money spent, esp on extravagant building, its tough to convince me to donate. however, most see the tears, they will still call la. they just know how to play on our heart. those who mind over heart, are a bit more skeptical.
• timothytsgsg

  2 Apr 05, 09:32

  And for that, NKF doesn't deserve to be given any more money till they come clean on their accounts and their annual salaries to the executives and the board members.
• whack

  2 Apr 05, 10:49

  and talking abt charity, our tsunami relief donation to red cross now how ah? wahlan sikali next week we see winston choo buy $10 million bungalow in nassim hill then we know money go where liao.
  
  anybody think red cross will reveal status of the donation?
• commonsense

  2 Apr 05, 15:49

  Originally posted by whack:

  and talking abt charity, our tsunami relief donation to red cross now how ah? wahlan sikali next week we see winston choo buy $10 million bungalow in nassim hill then we know money go where liao.
  
  anybody think red cross will reveal status of the donation?

  $10million nia.. should make nkf declare first.. if i remember it correctly, they got about $189million reserves last i heard
• Tuatau

  4 Apr 05, 23:25

  "Charity degrades those who receive it
  And hardens those who dispense it."
  -- George Sand
  
  While I do not discourage others from donating to charity, I fear the constant exposure of glamourised charity campaigns on TV to the general public would eventually result in "charity fatigue". Incessantly flooding the senses with excessive tragic tales and stunt act appeals might just create a backlash -- soon people may just stay away from charity altogether when there is no more sympathy to be milked.
• SilentAssassin

  5 Apr 05, 15:23

  Charities are like investments, you must spend money to make money.
• Tuatau

  6 Apr 05, 09:30

  Originally posted by SilentAssassin:
  Charities are like investments, you must spend money to make money.

  Perhaps. Does charity include soliciting donations through lucky draws?
  Apparently not to IRAS.
• commonsense

  6 Apr 05, 21:23

  Originally posted by Tuatau:

  Perhaps. Does charity include soliciting donations through lucky draws?
  Apparently not to IRAS.

  and not mini lucky draws... but BIG DRAWS!! they could easily be investment company cloaked as 'Charity'.