Arman · 9 answers · 3y

When giving money to charities, do you sometimes suspect that they might be a front for some money-laundering scheme? How do you help the needy without being taken advantage of?

meh, I don't know about 'scheme' but 'administrative costs' do seem to eat up a lot of the budgets of some of these places and not so much the starving kids in Yemen or wherever

I have specific ones that I give to. If I don’t anything about it then it’s a pass for me.

What Commons said, plus i tend to give to grassroots orgs rather than big ones (which are more likely to spend the money in ways i don't approve of)

Yes, all the time, I usually tend to trust the ones you find outside, doing the act when they ask for the donation vs the mysterious flyers/webpages claiming to be for a good cause.

I don't know. I try to dO My OWn ReseARch when I can, but at the end of the day I hope it helps someone and I don't want to be overly cautious when I can afford to just give money. I feel like I give more money to individual people than to charities.

That is actually a problem. I prefer to donate to charities that I know and have a personal contact to.

That has been known to happen. In fact a lot of terrorist groups raised money that way, the "Islamic society of Boston" did this and got free land to build the largest mosque on the east coast from our idiot mayor.

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