Charity Fraud And Its Effect On Society

Emily Andrews argues in her essay “Why I Don’t Spare “Spare Change”” that it does more harm than good to give money to beggars on the street rather than giving to an organization such as United Way to help the needy, pointing out that “one cannot be certain that one is giving to a needy individual” and that by giving to a charitable organization “ones money is likely to be used wisely.”

St. Jude Children’s hospital was established in February of 1962 with the “sole purpose of conducting basic and clinical research and treatment into catastrophic childhood diseases” (StJude.org). They have raised survival of childhood cancer from 20% to 80% since their opening through their research (Cancer.org). Even with an average of 7,800 patients a year and a 1.8 million daily operating cost, parents never pay anything for their child’s stay (StJude.org). The survival rate has raised and children are able to stay at no cost due to donations. Most of these donations come from people around the world that see St. Jude’s effective and strong advertisements. I will be analyzing three rhetoric’s ethos, logos, and pathos the hospital used to raise funds and make it effective.

He illustrates, “Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity to-day, it is probable that $950 is unwisely spent; so spent, indeed, as to produce the very evils which it proposes to mitigate or cure” (494).

After paying off all of our necessities such as bills and food, all the funds we still have should go to charity because it is the morally right thing to do, save lives. As stated by Singer, “whatever money you’re spending on luxuries, not necessities, should be given away.”

When Christmas comes around, it’s time for all the different types of charities to come out. The Salvation Army is one of them; they are out everywhere looking for people to give money. When they are ringing the bell, people do not ask what does this support. They are instantly digging in their pockets, wallets, and purses to find loose change. When they find coins or dollar bills, they just put them in the red bucket and keep on walking. Why do people do this? People should research charities before giving because the money may not be spent on what the charity says, may not reach the people in need, or could just go to waste.

There are many charities all across the nation doing good and helping those less fortunate, but not all charities actually do what they say they do. Not all charities are bad, some just get some criticism and receive a bad reputation which will hurt the program extremely. If a charity gets bad rep, then people who are normally willing to donate is a little more hesitant since there has been reports of them going against their word. Soles4Souls is a non-profit organization that began in 2006, distributing over 26 million pairs of shoes in over 127 different countries (Home-Soles4Souls), but has received criticism of selling their shoes for profit instead of giving them to the more unfortunate people in the world. (Smietana). Although the general

They wonder why they should donate if they have never personally had any connection with the association. Donations to St. Jude Research Hospital are not only beneficial for the hospital and its patients, but also for the general feeling of doing something out of the heart. Despite the idea that when you donate to an organization there is always a catch or the place is asking for too much money, this happens to be untruthful. “It might seem that people would have to donate large amounts of money in order to pay for these extremely large expenses, but this is surprisingly not the case. St. Jude makes donating affordable because it employs a strategy where many people donate a small amount of money instead of fewer people donating a larger amount of money” (Donation Central). As this quote states, the amount of money isn’t enormous like people think so, it is very affordable and

In “The Gospel of Wealth”, Andrew Carnegie claims that wealth should be administered for the “common good” of a community, instead of merely distributed to the people within it. More specifically, he frowns upon the rich men who bequeath money to their heirs after their death, instead of donating to public institutions during their lifetime. The latter action will, according to Carnegie, “derive lasting advantage [from the masses of their fellows], and thus dignify their own lives.” (Carnegie, 13) He uses the creation of the Cooper Institute, a private humanities college, as well as Samuel Tilden’s posthumous funding of the New York Public Library as examples of publicly beneficial administrations of wealth.

One example, Children of Sto. Nino Foundation, the Tupas Chapter foundation, and other people from other countries donated money to give financial assistance to people in need.(Doc B) On December 26, 2013, the IFRC issued a revised emergency appeal seeking 8.5 million US dollars to enable the Philippine Red Cross to assist 20,000 families for 16 months. The response to the appeal has been slow, but they have still collected 2.3 million us dollars to assist 1,200 families.(Doc A) An organization from Cebu, named Bangon, donated tons and tons of pounds of food to people in the Philippines.(Doc B) The reason the organization knew to donate food because they heard about the earthquake, and people in the Philippines seeked help from other countries. It’s crazy how these people who are going through such a hard time are getting out and gathering so many supplies. There getting help from others and and then they’re putting those goods to good for

One of the points that was brought up was that donating may potentially cause suffering to one’s self as they work hard for their money. They work hard and strive for what they want (affluence). Working a full time job in order to be broke, unhappy, and struggling like those in Bengal, for example, would be a disgrace and disappointing. Not only that, but people will also bring up the fact that if not everyone in society or in the world donates and gets away with not feeling guilty, so why should they feel obligated to so and contribute their efforts towards something that doesn’t directly affect

From looking at this contextually, we are able to look at this charity in relation to the ideas of liberation theology. This concept became very popular throughout history, giving a main focus to the actions of Christians in a community to those who are treated wrongly, not however, by a fault of their own but the structural sin of where they

The Salvation Army has raised the third largest amount of money by a private charity, as of 2012 (Flandez). None of this could have been done without donations and volunteer work by regular citizens. The Salvation Army raised four million dollars in 2014 alone (The Salvation Army 2015 Annual Report). 82% of all donations are spent on aiding people in need, but 100%of donations go to aiding people during disaster relief efforts (Ellis). Donations made to the Salvation Army stay in the community that they were donated, this helps keep money in the local economy and helps ensure that donations are going to help people

Combating fraud in the private sector is a difficult task. Trying to combat fraud in the public sector is daunting. In 1999 15.7% of the American workforce were employed by a government entity (federal, state, and local).[1] Mirroring society, government will have its share of perpetrators. The difference from the private sector is in the scope of the fraud committed, the loss of the public trust, the blaring headlines from news media, and difficulty in making necessary changes to combat the problems.

He suggests that money given to a charity could morally bring about the same type of satisfaction, than if going on vacation or spending money on a video games (Singer 336.) Singer also suggests that often time’s society is afraid of where their money will end up or how it will be use when donated. Singer names four charities that are in existence which are single-handedly devoted to improving the lives of those less fortunate (Singer 337.)

Charity: “An organization set up to provide help and raise money for those in need”