People who run non profits generally only do so for the massive amount of profit that they take home at the end.

I volunteer in a non-rpofit... that has been around since the 1800s... that has programs for abused kids. (I'm a foster carer) But they are still running. I have seen again and again that the government doesn't want to fix the problem. We have had highly successful programs preventing kids coming into foster care and they always the first to get cut when we need to 'save money.' Despite the fact that those very programs save a lot more than they cost. Foster care is the clearest demonstration that we don't want to fix problems. When I worked in child protection I attended a meeting with a group of politicians as a union delegate. For some unspeakable reason there was a man from SERCO, the international criminal company... I mean... Umm... You know. They run the UKs nuclear weapons, Australian refugee torture services, cook food for Aussie soldiers... Those guys. Anyway, he ended up getting more talking time than anyone else. I tried to figure out why and all I could come up with is that 2 in 3 kids in juvenile detention come from foster care. A huge proportion of adult prisoners were in foster care.... SERCO runs many of Australia's prisons. The company the donates millions to politicians wants a seat at the table to make sure no-one does anything that would decrease their prisoner supply.

As an Australian survivor of child abuse, may they rot in the deepest most depraved pits of hell.

@@MrZoomah Why fix the problem when you can profit from it! Welcome to capitalism ...

​@@user-zw6is6ng4rSaying that only makes you look bad because your indulging in hate. Wanting them to truly suffer. Suffer in such a terrible place like hell. You seem to have some darkness in your heart. You should wish for people to change. Not wish them to suffer.

It's definitely a better use of your time.

exactly - at least there's a skill for at least having fun at these lavish conventions. Badminton is a wealthy person's sport.@@Haru-nee

How waa badminton?

Noice

@@justmika6964 Playing badminton messed up my Tennis game. It's a bizarre side effect I don't know how to correct.

Democrats need money for thier kids whiskey and cuban cigars!!! Think of THE CHILDREN!!!!!

Which, funnily enough is better than their actual cause, which does nothing. Because the problems are there, because other people can't get their shit together. Giving them money won't change that.

@@zarthemad8386and republicans are clean?

@@Jarod-te2bi Of course they're not all clean. But when republicans are caught the rest turn on him. Democrats schill for each other. Compare George Santos to Nancy Pelosi.

And the republicans need money for their rich friends to keep themselves in power and pay for all the lawsuits they are losing. THINK OF HOW THE RICH ARE SUFFERING!!!!!

Which were the four charities?

Correct the federal CFC plan does in depth research, checks 🔍. Some non profits are better run, more open than others. The CFC lists are often open source, available too: 📃

I went to school for social work. I didn't complete my education because I realized that it's all run by volunteers and unpaid interns. The program directors only make about 30k if they are lucky a year.

@torimareestokes I'm in South Africa, so probably not ones you're familiar with. One is called Funda Nenja - which trains kids on how to look after their dogs properly, plus do tricks etc, including vaccinating and spaying/neutering the dogs, they have a great Facebook page, really cool project. Two are branches of Community's Chest and the fourth one gives reusable sanitary pads to teenaged girls in rural schools, which is called Protect Dignity. All of them have low admin costs and high donation deployment rates.

It's a scam world that eats naive boys. I knew about the charities as scam, but I was much more optimistic about just basic appreciation of anything good. Started my company only to be ripped apart by abusive clients who will steal without thinking twice or having any regrets. What I learned is: Money first. No money, no honey. Cry all you want about charity, good cause, nice girls, they just do not exist in real life. It's all a merciless scam that chews everybody who believes in it, spits them out and gets new ones to chew on. I even complained to authorities about 1 charity that I suspect they finance ter-ism. I got called from them if I have any proof. I said, I don't, but they all look suspicious to me and should be checked. The b-tards wanted me to subscribe $35/m to charity. No interest if I can afford it, if I am struggling, nothing, just here is a stupid cause, sign up. Unbelievable. It's a very bad world that will rip you off and leave you dying alone without any merci.

Eh, depends on the problem. It's similar if not identical logic to "If firefighters are so effective, why do fires still happen?"

​@@closethockeyfan5284not really, firefighters do their job when fire already started

​@@closethockeyfan5284firefighters do stop fires. They can't prevent fires from happening cause it's not like they are doing research to stop it. Charities on the other hand gets funding for research but absolutely zero progress is getting done. So yea there's a difference

Has the government ever solved any problems?

It's actually a pretty stupid line. Some battles (like crime, disease, etc.) can't be "won," but they can be mitigated.

Not true. The great cause of ending segregation in USA began as a movement and ended as a success. Same for the great global cause of women's voting rights. Also same (not in USA, yes, I know. The rest of the world exists) for the great cause of: - ending child labour, - universal reading and writing, - free healthcare, - free education, - worker safety...

@@weareallbornmad410 I'm gonna have to factcheck your factchecking. Let's see... We have more types of segregation now. We just call it safe spaces. Women can vote now, but everyone's votes are compromised due to the chaos and corruption of elections. No education is free. It's called tax dollars. And it has resulted in a population that is LESS and less literate as time goes on. Also there is no such thing as free healthcare. Again, taxes pay for it, but not until that money runs through the hands of every politician and corporate power that it can until there are so little funds and so few options available for decent care that a person may as well laugh about their insurance card. Worker safety?! Don't we just offshore Apple products to sweat shops overseas where people attempt suicide? Ending child labor. Boy, what a alternate universe people live in. We change the word "slave" to "migrant" or "labor trafficked" or even "homeless," and voila!--the insane volume of childhood slavery is invisible.

like Black Lives Matter

@@weareallbornmad410 All rubbish Socialist nonsense that carries a fancy banner, but is rotten to the core. - Children are now institutionalized into the public school system for over a decade of their lives. They learn nothing of value, absorb a great deal of absolute horseshit. All so the Corporate masters could destroy the family unit, making it so all women also need full-time employment, massively expanding the workforce, lowering wages, and increasing the consumer base. - Reading and writing was on the rise ever since the invention of the Printing Press. And then, to secure the ability for all to read and write, grammar schools were established. It does not take a decade to teach a child either of these things. - There is no such thing as free. Someone is paying for it. The healthcare system in Norway is entirely built around doctors and nurses working minimum 90- hour weeks for little to no overtime pay. And, with the Government budget dictating the entire health and hospital system, means that the hospitals get a sum of money to spend a year, and they are not allowed to go beyond their given budget. Meaning you will only get the level of care that the Government thinks you should get. - Again, no such thing as free. If we shut down the entire public school system of the entire Western world tomorrow, we would probably see an increase in reading and learning. The Public School systems do not exist for the sake of learning, but for mental and cultural conformity. And the majority of money that goes to higher education, is spent on ideological drivel and nonsense. Not the skills that it was established to teach. - Visible Worker Safety was solved by exporting all those jobs to the Third World, where such laws do not exist. We feel good about ourselves, because when the browns, the blacks, and yellow people suffer and die, we do not see it, we refuse to look, so we do not care. And to the first part of your post. Blacks in America had it better under Segregation. And Female Suffrage ensured that the Corporate Media would forever run and dominate every election from that point onwards. We were warned for 2500 years that broad Democracy is a horrid, if not the most horrid form for governmental organization. Which the Socialist movements took to heart, as a great tool to destroy everything that was good about the world. No other system has ever destroyed Culture, Morals, and Virtue, so utterly and so completely, as Universal Suffrage has done.

​​@@weareallbornmad410oh man, if only. Unfortunately before they you know completely wrapped up there were definitely rackets involved on most of these. A few of them actually still have rackets running currently for people who haven't exactly caught up with the fact that we've moved past. And quite a few of them actually haven't been finished yet at least not in the USA.

Politicians: Squander the required share and now need more. Rich people: Object to being an ATM to fund wars and other nonsense politicians concoct against their interests and income sources. They realise that there is no such thing as a _fair share,_ and what is being demanded as a _fair share_ will still not and never will be enough. *There are two sides to the story.*

“The rich should pay their fair share!” Politicians while stuffing their pockets with money and insider knowledge to invest said money: “Agree…to disagree” FTFY

Thats gonna militarize, isn't aren't they? Genius's ask more questions than find an answer.. must be that's why they all started out wearing black.

Yes because that'll solve all the worlds problems xD. Yea...it ends up in disaster and genocide every FUCKING time. Get over it. Some people just have more money than you.

@@RamrodAI numerologist.? They had their little books [of talismanic magic] opened to the throne of the lamb [/to receive his seal stamp] (and be saved from the Dragons numerology) Even Buddha came to tell us of the apocalypse, so duck you posturing politician, your not man enough for the internet military!

Andrew Ryan's speech on altruism in Bioshock popped in my head IMMEDIATELY after hearing that line.

billionaires*

​@@3nertiaAt 58 seconds into this video Roger clearly says "...millionaire..." not "billionaires" as you seem to be claiming. Are you a millionaire?

@@davea6314 I was pointing out the irony of considering millionaires "rich" when there are over 2000 billionaires on this planet ROFLMEYERWIENER

​@@3nertiaSounds like you're a millionaire.

Bingo

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Don't feel bad. The truth isn't your fault, and sharing it is a moral thing to do.

This is not true. If you’re donating cash to the business then the business legally gets no benefit, it can only act as a collector of the funds. In fact, you can claim that donation on your taxes.

@@JohnSmith-op7ls You are partially correct. If it were a pure cash transaction, you would be correct. In this case, they are trading their own assets as the "donation", rather than cash, while reaping the cash of the donor. Plenty of wiggle room to sneak in a nice juicy profit there.

In a funny but not in a Ha Ha way they aren’t asking you to solve anything except their tax write off and good PR.

Fuck Safeway, their prices are out of control. They can donate to charity themselves.

Donate money to the charities, instead of the homeless people outside! There are literally signs at some checkouts that say "don't give money to the homeless!" I mean, how cold and ruthless can they get?

@@juliana.x0x0 I think it's well established that , with a very few exceptions of a couple of blood relatives & close friends, people literally don't care if each other live through the day.

@@mallninja9805I would say speak for yourself, and I would hope you would never be in a situation like that where people pass you by and don't care if you live or die. Humans can't live without each other and a little kindness can go a long way. That has not been my experience, as I have been kept alive by the kindness of strangers many times over, and I absolutely care if people live or die, regardless of their situation. I care about people and their quality of life, and it hurts my heart to see people suffering. Although there are a lot of people, especially in the upper echelons of society who have a lot of money, that don't care about quality of life for people other than themselves and their families, there are MANY, MANY people who advocate for and try to help others who are less fortunate than themselves. Organizations, volunteers, social workers, and just regular people. I don't think you really have the authority to say what most people think or feel.

it happens ALOT

everyone thinks the nonprofit they work at is the only good one

The nonprofit theater I work with has three underpaid part-time employees and the rest are volunteers.

Guess What???? People don’t need middlemen to help other people! It’s people like you who STOP people from helping other people by saying YOU are the only ones who do it the RIGHT ( and legal) way!

@@arothmanmusicto be fair, most theaters are not profitable.

I totally agree, It often feels like they're not entirely upfront about their expenses.

It's unfortunate, but not all non-profits are as honest as we'd like them to be.

I've been working with an advisor myself, CHRIS RYAN STEWART and it's been eye-opening.

Non-profits and even people should be held to a high standard of transparency and accountability, much like financial advisors.

@@Muriel-1112i just check the name

Eg: Wikipedia (Or specifically - The Wikimedia foundation - CEO's that make millions with a flood of unpaid editors)

Excellent comment

How do you do this? I am curious.

Following, I literally have a beekeeping business.

@@weirdsweetcoolplants LLC is just a legal tax structure and bees make honey and can make various products from wax. so sales go into LLC and then we pull an amazon and buy a ton of equipment to expand and compound the returns. eventually it will blow up with cash flow hopefully then take dividends to buy land or fund your retirement via sep IRA.

The tax breaks were put in place by you (by voting in the politicians or directly) because you wanted jobs. Otherwise the jobs would have gone elsewhere, leaving you with only poverty.

It's not that different in other countries, it just takes a few extra steps. And the reason is that no matter where you go, those who understand the taxes are generally the wealthy ones, while everyone else seems to think that "anyone wealthier than me should pay a ton of taxes".

Most systems work well for the insanely rich. Power and influence are for sale everywhere.

@@RS-ls7mm Yeah, that's what they want you to believe. It's all the voters fault for not picking better candidates. Never mind that they spend billions of dollars ensuring that no better candidates can stand a chance. But hey, blame the guy who only gets to choose between "Republican" and "Democrat" every election

SAme in every country. and all the countries that try to do better. usa invades them.

3 more years and you can get your school loans forgiven

I hated it when my overpaid boss pushed us to contribute to United Way. I felt it might affect my future at my job whether I gave money to a collective of unpopular charities that group under a generic name.

Same here. Know employees who had to "donate" to the United Way by way of payroll deduction. Couldn't get a straight answer where the money was going to. Have yet to meet a single person who has received assistance from them.

Only 1 million, what a sap!

Soviets can give 36m² home free . And they are poorer than many western countries. with today's technology the cost of building a house should be cheaper than 100 years ago. if the development doesn't want to build small houses because they don't use them. then state enterprises have to come in and build small houses for poor people while making little profit

​@@carkawalakhatulistiwaThere's too many government regulations now. The home has to have highly energy efficient windows big enough to escape a fire, electrical outlets on every wall. A 200 amp electrical service, running water, sewer connection, ADA accessibility, energy efficient insulation, it also has to be over 50 square ft to be considered a bedroom, have a ceiling height over 7 ft, have electric lighting, a 50 amp stove range circuit, and a 30 amp hot water heater. It has to be secured to a concrete foundation too. Depending on the location, it will need to be rated to withstand natural disasters like earthquakes, flooding, and high winds. Usually, connecting to utilities is extremely expensive, just a water connection might cost $20k, sewer $15k, and electric over $10k. Labor laws require the government to pay prevailing wages to construction workers. So for every home built the construction wage costs increases significantly. Non-profits are working on requiring built-in central air conditioning as a requirement because only windows and fans are cruel. Just to build a tiny home, you're looking at at least $100k. That's not even counting the land value.

I guess the CEO's children are saved...

The problem was march of dimes accidentally helped cure the problem. Then they had to find something else to fund their lifestyles

what non profit organization do you run

Your everywhere

A dude reply to you and said he was up till 2-1am watching your comment and thought he had a hair on his phone

In short you enable the bad to do bad and one day you're going to either give up and quit or be just like them

Like he said ! “It non profits worked, there’d be no non profits “

Omg. There needs to be rules and someone to hold nonprofits accountable.

I had a gentleman who was my lift driver pay for my lunch before I could pull out my debit card to pay for his. I will never forget that man's kindness. Thank you for what you do in your community to reach the downtrodden among you.

Pet food for the Homeless? Sure, at least it is food.

@@wavemasterxyra1630 When looking at how people treat their pets compared to other people (when it comes to health), I would say that pet food is probably of better quality than some of the stuff they would give to other (poor) people. Pet food has to be of good quality, otherwise some pets will get ill, and the pet owners will sue the pet food companies to hell and back for hurting their beloved puppies!

giving money to the church is the biggest joke of all dude . a group with a touching little boys habbit who are damm rich and literally forced money out of people as taxes for thousand of years. one of the most corrupt things in the world, a thing solely created for power money and to controll people. you might as well give it to the government simply directly . if you would actually help give your money directly to poor people that helps more than any bulshit charity. give to people with debt or who would need money >.> but charity is the biggest hypocrit bulshit there is anyways and rich people only use it to evade taxes

Yes! As a former homeless person, YOU are the type of person that literally helped me live through tough patches...until I was able to get myself to a point where now I am able to take care of myself and creating good, productive human. Thank you for being who you are.

If the entire universe was honest...

I love that he named his son Morton Horton

and its forced upon the users in many states.

Saw the same type of pressure for United Way donation campaigns. The company itself could have cared less about helping people; it was all public relations/bragging rights about how much employees donated.

His brother Tim got the bad end of the deal

He secretly wears his cross upside down, like many of them I’ve known.

I had a similar experience with a so-called church. It was very discouraging.

The career of scientists/researchers is pretty much like that. No wonder we cannot get advances in knowledge, technology and health care as quickly as our society could afford. So much for the level of our "civilization". 😏

A special place in paradise should be reserved for non-profit grant writers. One of the hardest, least appreciated jobs I've ever seen.

you sound weak and likely make poor decisions

I worked for 7 years at a nonprofit we will call “Badwon’t” and it also destroyed my soul. The “senior leadership” were all making 6 figures while at the same time having a continuously running in-house food drive where the underpaid staff would donate food to each other….. On top of that they call themselves “a great place to work”. Don’t get me wrong, there are good people working there who really care and want to make a difference. However, in a short time they are discouraged. I stuck for 7 years trying to make they change. It didn’t work. That’s 7 years I will never get back.

Me too! Done with their abuse.

I got tough on this. I felt I should donate yet did not want to but did anyway. Then in the beginning when I started to wise up I would just say "no thank you", now it's "NO". Once it was for Children's Hospital, the cashier thought I was a monster for not donating until I pointed out that we pay taxes for medical services so hospital admin and medical professionals can go talk to the government instead of striking for higher wages or begging from us who already are paying.

He have another son in the streaming ad video, tho

I don't think it's a good idea to base your charity near-exclusively on volunteers. Putting aside the obvious ethical problems of my-staff-doesn't-get-paid -- those projects are fickle. People have lives to live; volunteers are here today and gone tomorrow. Not to mention they need to eat, and need to have a job. How many hours a day can you volunteer? How many days a week? Just like doctors in hospitals - we do-gooders in NGOs need to be paid for our work too.

It is on a very big to sort out list.

I understand that. But working for a corporation only takes that out of your sight, not out of your life. It's a false comfort. And you're still lining the pockets of the same billionaire.

Smart Guy. Wish I would have known what I know now before, I took my last job (non-profit).

Animal shelters seem to be quite different from other charities, they believe in the value of what they do and tend to be quite transparent. I do donate to them.

The ceo of the spca makes almost a million a year,how many animals would that save.

Thank you. I have similar experiences over 15 years, but on child abuse prevention and treatment (primarily, among related missions). Like, sure, there's corruption and malfeasance in some big names and other random organizations, but many direct service orgs with ED and other staff making well under six figures, and if they went under tomorrow, people simply don't get services and bad problems are measurably worse (e.g., hospitalizations, even fatalities). I feel like some cynics buy into the Nirvana Fallacy, as seemingly argued in this video; i.e., if it doesn't *solve* the problem, then it doesn't matter. Even if it measurably reduces the problem (e.g., seat belt laws lowering but obviously not eliminating accident fatalities, as measured by interrupted time series analysis and controlling for related variables). And, of course, the Anecdotal Fallacy, e.g. "I know this one organization made millions and barely did anything!" I'm the first to call out waste, fraud, and abuse (I blew the whistle on a minor example early in my career), but people should really do the work of studying an issue (maybe start with Charity Navigator and Guidestar), do the policy analysis, check a program against alternatives and if it didn't exist at all, etc.

never happen. increase the ceo salary

It always was. They just toned down the sarcasm since idiots couldn't get it.

@@Metalbringer92 no they weren't, watch em, they're simulacra of advertising, fantasy campaigns for fantasy products, the channel is kinda detaching itself from that to be openly about education, the facts and research used to build a joke, now they're to build plain knowledge

Not to forget they can publicize how much they donated even though customers provided all the money.

Where is your NP located?

the key is ''proceeds'' in legal terms, the profit - so once they take their wages, pay for their ''expensive'' etc, pay for the travel, offices, accommodation etc, what is left goes to the charity. The entire thing is one huge scam - as much as this video shreds light on the issue - it doesn't even show 1% of the real crap that goes on. STOP GIVING TO CHARITIES PERIOD.

In many cases, their general aim is to take in all the donations, deduct wages, marketing costs, and whatever they consider operating costs, and whatever is left over are "proceeds." A better way of saying the same thing is all "profits go to..." Profits are defined as stated above. Anything more than what the business needs to run. The key thing is to (and most of us lack the time) check publicly available information on the business to know what they are claiming are costs including CEO salary.

Lies, they are clearly in his crypts

$99.90 of that was used in "Administration fees". The other $0.10? Well, they make so much money that that was lost in a rounding error.

And look how much the CEO makes - to do what exactly?

Government is not the solution to our problems, government IS the problem!

Lol I love the fact of how stupid you are that's why we have the government

@@gregb6469Sigh...and all business people are honest, and just want to help, right? /s

You didn’t closely to the part he said after that… The government is owned by these billionaires. And that will never change

@@gregb6469 you're delusional if you think that with the government gone the world will become any better that tiny amount of leverage you have over the capitalist class and politicians in the form of your vote is the only thing keeping society from collapsing into neo-feudalism with the same old men at the top and you and me at the bottom fighting for water

I’m shocked at how many comments there are here saying employees are coerced to donating by their employer. Pretty sad. I sold a house to a director of United Way brought in from another state. They certainly weren’t suffering for funds.

I don't think you can put your name on a hospital wing outside of USA. Doesn't happen on theaters either where I live. USA is its own little universe. Don't judge the rest of us by your mark.

Also, the pantry has a board of directors from the community, not a corporation.

see if you can give that food to a local garden for composting, it might make you feel better about tossing it.

@@appalachiabrauchfrausometimes people come and ask for stuff for their pigs or chickens!

Thank you for all your work. Food banks are my charity of choice.

I take plastic grocery bags from the "recycling" bins at the entrances to supermarkets. They never complain, it might mean fewer bags for them to throw away. If in doubt, ask the store manager if it is okay to take used bags. They always say yes when I ask. You'll have to throw away some gross ones, they were trash anyway.

She can write off what gets given away. Often, the items (or cars) in question were donated to her.

@@DemonicAdj Talking about the Maui situation where she made a scam non-profit

Roger has incorporated and has hired his family and their dog as employees. ( The dog is on the security staff. ) All meals are now a write off. Housing, electricity, gas, water, cable, cell phones... all write offs. When they go out to dinner, it's a write off too if they discuss the family business. The cars... write offs. Get the idea? Businesses pay their taxes net of expenses. If expenses = income, you pay nothing. If you are a really big corporation, you can even ask the government for a bail-out when the economy is bad. It's all one big grift. The solution is a flat tax on all corporations doing business in the US. The "Pay here to play here tax" could end the grifting of the tax system overnight.

There's a "Roman craze"? Cool! (or do you just mean video games and clueless youtubers).

Most people wouldn't even donate without the tax break.

@@TheAeris07 Good. They would pay more taxes and the government would do its job better. There's too much fraud, including art valuations and salaries paid to do gooders. They also get to choose their priorities with their money and how those charities are run instead of the majority of people via democratic systems.

​@TheSimArchitect lol "do its job better", you mean lobby more.

The government needs to tax religious entities as well.

@@we8608 Amen

Still better than the "smart" communism, which killed hundreds of millions of people. Even flawed versions of Capitalism raised millions out of poverty.

What's the alternative? He insults capitalism (even though we are not a capitalist country) and then goes on to talk about government corruption. Don't forget that corporations exist because of the government, and many politicians are paid off by corporations. Under actual capitalism, such powerful corporations would not exist. So then how can someone make an argument for socialism? Who do you think is going to run a socialist economy?

@@mstrainjr Fine. Tell us what is "real" or "proper" Capitalism then.

@@AdmiralBison America currently has a mixed economy run by cronyism. Nearly every problem the left seems to have with our economy is because of the cronyism. Fortunately for us, both major parties support and benefit from this system. Voting Republican or Democrat will change nothing. Here's a short video that briefly describes capitalism vs cronyism: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aJtphN2X2r_Imas.htmlsi=LUsRzYnhI7o7KcU-

@mstrainjr America has always had an economy based on croynism, as has every other Capitalist country. When has an Capitalist economy not been based on cronyism? If anything our economy was far MORE cronyist is the 18th and 19th centuries.

That's false it takes the people not the government why would you expect the people who are causing the problem to fix it?

It was a funny joke, I'll give them that.

@@ebtv7663 I guess you don't live in a democracy?

​@@ebtv7663this whole video was about businesses causing problems but ok.

I refuse to give money to Red Cross. They get in the way of help.

@@richardarriaga6271 I used to volunteer for the Red Cross, and you're right. The giveaway of locals helping, accepting those occasions in which they are allowed to work side-by-side with the community. The federally, the federal government only wants to use the Red Cross and FEMA. Don't take the stuff you donate, but they're not going to let you to help usually, always

Red Cross is a PR firm in the business of giving away coffee and blankets worth their logo boldly printed all over it so when the news shows up to film disaster victims, they’re literally human billboards.