http://tinyurl.com/d3jnmqt The above TED blog post has an interview with Dan Pallotta about entrepreneurial charitable organisations. The idea that instead of just giving almost all their money to the cause a charity can invest some in advertising and staff to get more donations for a bigger end result. http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/01/effective-altruism-peter-singer-at-ted2013/ The above TED blog post has an overview of Peter Singer's TED talk about effective altruism. Among other things he asks whether failing to donate to a charity to save a child's life is equivalent to walking past a child dying in the street and doing nothing. Of course a problem with that analogy is that many people will walk past someone dying in the street. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/
Russell Coker wrote:
.............snip Among other things he asks whether failing to donate to a charity to save a child's life is equivalent to walking past a child dying in the street and doing nothing. Of course the real life decision is made more complex because there is no legislative requirement for a charity to reveal how much of one's donation will actually go to the child and how much is retained for 'in-house expenditure'; I seem to recall an notorious case (something to do with guide-dogs?); where > 80% was retained by the organisation !
regards Rohan McLeod
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013, at 01:05 PM, Rohan McLeod wrote:
Russell Coker wrote:
.............snip Among other things he asks whether failing to donate to a charity to save a child's life is equivalent to walking past a child dying in the street and doing nothing. Of course the real life decision is made more complex because there is no legislative requirement for a charity to reveal how much of one's donation will actually go to the child and how much is retained for 'in-house expenditure'; I seem to recall an notorious case (something to do with guide-dogs?); where > 80% was retained by the organisation !
regards Rohan McLeod
No legislative requirement? Most Australian states do, including Victoria. Part 3 of the Fundraising Act 1998 is the applicable section (noting that IANAL). All registered fundraisers have to report this information annually with a range of penalties for not complying with the Act. - Graeme
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