I was planning to donate the couple bucks I had left over from the year to the charity called “San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance”, I was doing a background check on CharityNavigator and they gave the charity full ratings so it seemed good.

Then I stumbled upon the salary section. What the fuck? I earn <20k a year and was planning to contribute to someone’s million dollar salary? WHAT.

https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/951648219

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    This is why I always tell donation canvasers to shove it and make their rich ceo pay for it in full. Nothing worse then a billionaire CEO for loblaws underpaying someone to ask for handouts.

    I basically refuse to assist any and all charities at this point because of exactly what you have shown in your images. It’s disgusting.

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      Why do honest effective charities have to suffer because of some others who exploit the system?

      You could just pick some that arent greedy like this.

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          Which is simply wrong.

          Its pretty sad to turn your back on the whole system because there are a few exploiting it.

          This is basically far right politics. ‘Hey theres one foreigner raping an american woman, all foreigners are evil’

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            Its not a few. America is full of scams and exploits at literally every turn. Its in advertisements, news stories, popular TV and movies.

            The point I’m making is that people think at least charities will be the exception to that rule, but they aren’t. You’d be better off donating to a non-american organization IMO.