Re: Last night was "surf and coop."

On Wed, 12 Mar 2025, Graham wrote:

On 2025-03-11 9:50 p.m., Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-03-11 11:03 p.m., Graham wrote:

On 2025-03-11 8:02 p.m., Dave Smith wrote:

Most donors will pay that minimum $10 because

anything less would look really cheap. If they think that is a little low they will go with  the $20. If the organization is really lucky they will give $50. It is a marketing trick, and now they are doing it with tips, but starting way more than what used to be the norm for good service.
 

A cancer charity that I used to support bills through a third party
billing company. They charged me $115 to make a $100 donation.

  I give quite generously to a Motorcycle Ride For Dads to raise money prostate cancer and education.

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I'm a prostate cancer "survivor" (I hate that term) so I used to give
generously to cancer charities. There was a big PC + Breast cancer
event and I gave them about $600 worth of art works. Not only did they
refuse a donation receipt, they didn't have the decency to thank me.
Another smaller cancer charity was the opposite with a receipt and TWO
thank you notes.
I checked the charities website to find that the head of the principal
cancer charity is paid over $300k/year. Nice work if you can get it!
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Revolting! Reminds me of a swedish politician who weaseled his way to become the chairman of Red cross sweden. For his 12 board meetings per year he got about 100k USD. On top of that he's on the old parliament system which gave him a lifetime pension after two terms which netted him another 50k USD per year after tax. I find it hilarious that politicians admit they are so worthless they need lifetime payments since no one rational would ever accept them in their companies.
Today I read in the newspaper the the government department for national resilience hired a politician as their CEO. The fun part was that the job ad expired 8 months ago, they hired no one, and didn't republish it. All of a sudden, the politician just popped up as CEO. She will get a sweet 180k USD per year for that job + a salary from her party and the same life time salary guarantee from the parliament.
Gotta love our dear politicians! =D