Giving to Charities (page 2)

VoidEater

Growing up I was told, If you can give money to a charity, why wouldn't you instead give it to the Society?

betterdaze

Start giving on a local level.

designs, I totally agree. It's the only way you know donations aren't squandered or swallowed up for bogus means. I've seen some 501(c)(3)'s set up solely to enrich halo-wearing thieves.

So, they give a pittance to their cause. So what? Most of it is is pocketed for "administration costs." Fancy meals and travel galore. Shame on them.

One guy, kept urging a local volunteer group I was part of to use his business equipment... that we had no need of at all... so he could write it off his taxes as a donation. Never time or money or public advocacy, just "Take my crap when I don't need it, so I can say to the IRS, I gave something." But the minute he needed it for a job, he'd demand it back! Jerk. So it runs both ways.

I'd like to have faith that most charities are run legitimately. But it's ones like these that make the Watchtower Swiss Bank Slush Fund appear trustworthy. I gave a little at the KH for Katrina. When I found out later that victims signed over their insurance policies to the WT, I knew I had been exploited. Never again, and I'll do everything I can to keep even a penny out of their offshore coffers.

~Sue

printedtruth

I have heard that after the JWs helped huricane victims in FL, the watctower society wrote to those who received aid and ask them to donate their insurance money to the WT. Can anyone tell me if this is true? Also are there any copies of such a letter?

ziddina

Bumping this year-old thread because I just received this GREAT video thru my YouTube subscription to "Recovering Zombie"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPBOO9ur_pE

I found it fascinating and VERY revealing!!

Zid

ziddina

Here's a link to "Charity Intelligence Canada" - the page with the Watch Tower Society link...

http://www.charityintelligence.ca/index.php?k=Watch+Tower+Bible+and+Tract&task=search&option=com_charities&Itemid=192

And here's a link to the newspaper article exposing the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Canada's resistance to allowing external review of their finances and so-called "charitable" actions...

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1087637--audit-of-charities-encounters-resistance

Zid

I gotta check out the video later Zid. Dad's sitting here sleeping right now.

Heaven

Holy Cow, Zid! That's a ton of money for a group that does no real charity work. How the beep do they get away with that?!

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