Charity Begins At Home

[poliphilo]

The RSPB sicced a very slick professional fundraiser onto me last night and I'm still fuming. I hate it that the charities have turned into corporate Goliaths- with swanky London HQs and highly rewarded CEOs. I can see why they've done it but I very much preferred them when they were Davids.

I was spinning off into a fantasy about how we could make money by turning the farm into a wildlife sanctuary and soliciting charitable donations and it was all coming along very nicely when Ailz shut me down because my mother was taking me seriously and getting agitated.

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[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

And most of those doing it are students up to the ears in loan debt who you can't blame for trying to earn a bob or two, which makes it feel even worse when you say no! The entire things is premised upon using a guilt trip.

There needs to be an investigation of the whole sordid charity industry- for such it has become.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I feel the same about call centres. Love the sinner, hate the sin, if you see what I mean.