Woodruff wrote:Night Strike wrote:You don't get it. The individual payments would NOT be administered! The whole point is removing the administration and letting people help people. If I see a person in need, I donate either to that person or to a non-profit organization that directly helps that person. These organizations almost always use their money to get the most bang for their buck; to help the most people with as few dollars as possible.
Do some research into charities...you'll be surprised. During my time in the military, there was an annual campaign that happened where a boatload of charities came to the military (and probably others, for all I know) asking for donations. You'd get a booklet of all the charities, and it included all of the percentages of where the money went. Most did fairly poorly with the money, and some were truly miserable (as in less than 50% actually being put to use toward the charitized individuals/research).
There are a few that do really well. But they are very few.
Probably the same as the one for other federal employees. I remember some had as much as 80% going toward administration. Then there were the outright frauds, often name very similar to real programs. And those approved for the federal employee list were supposed to be somewhat "vetted" (for veracity, not the cause).
A "good" charity is one that keeps its administration to under 25%. However, you also have groups like Oxfam that show a high adminstration cost because their whole purpose is education and essentially administration of other programs, not passing out dollars. So.. you have to do some checking, always.
