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<blockquote data-quote="tieguy" data-source="post: 760722" data-attributes="member: 1912">I&#039;ve always heard it takes money to make money, I can&#039;t imagine the science of fund raising being any different.&nbsp;Your favorite charity may do a terrific job of helping the homeless youth. But are they as good at fundraising? United way costs about 12 to 15 cents on the dollar. would your favorite charity be as efficent at fund raising if left to their own means? Would they have to go out and visit much more spending more money on materials and travel expenses if they had to solicit their own funds. Would they be as efficent collecting those funds if they did not have the resources of a united way soliciting and feeding that money to them? I think your favorite charity would get a fraction of the funds they get now if not for united way.&nbsp;on your second point. I know ups can be overzealous with fund raising and I don&#039;t approve of their tactics in all cases. My point to steve and tourist and others here is when you decide your going to be offended which of these two options will you choose:&nbsp;a) ups for being overzealous in helping the poor , afflicted , disease affected and otherwise needy members of our community &nbsp;b) the posters here who basically brag that they would let some kid starve on the streets in order to spite management.&nbsp;why is it that A posters here catch the grief while the B posters make their idiotic statements unscathed?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tieguy, post: 760722, member: 1912"] [COLOR=blue]I've always heard it takes money to make money, I can't imagine the science of fund raising being any different.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]Your favorite charity may do a terrific job of helping the homeless youth. But are they as good at fundraising? United way costs about 12 to 15 cents on the dollar. would your favorite charity be as efficent at fund raising if left to their own means? Would they have to go out and visit much more spending more money on materials and travel expenses if they had to solicit their own funds. Would they be as efficent collecting those funds if they did not have the resources of a united way soliciting and feeding that money to them? I think your favorite charity would get a fraction of the funds they get now if not for united way.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]on your second point. I know ups can be overzealous with fund raising and I don't approve of their tactics in all cases. My point to steve and tourist and others here is when you decide your going to be offended which of these two options will you choose:[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]a) ups for being overzealous in helping the poor , afflicted , disease affected and otherwise needy members of our community [/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]b) the posters here who basically brag that they would let some kid starve on the streets in order to spite management.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]why is it that A posters here catch the grief while the B posters make their idiotic statements unscathed?[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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