I always felt good about giving to the SA, especially the bell ringers at Christmas.
No more.
F 'em!
Same here. I always budgeted-in the SA donation every Christmas. Very sad to hear this; I always thought they were a decent outfit.
I won’t donate to either, haven’t in years. I found a local cooperative of churches which actually investigates the people who come looking for help to see if they are truly in need or the re-occuring mooches of society. I give to them and my local church.
A few years back the institution I work at was tasked with getting ALL of it’s employees to donate a portion of their paycheck to the United Way because the president of the system liked them. They actually had co-workers go to people who refused to donate and lean on them to cough up $$$ to make our president look good to the president of the system. I politely told the co-worker they sent to me both presidents could go pound sand since nobody had received a raise in the last two years and I-ME decided what charities I donated too and one president was making half a million a year with a $100K housing allowance while the other was pulling $150K and a $15K expense account. Needless to say they got many similar responses and the president didn’t get his 100% employee donation quota.