re: Who comes up with these lame challenges?

So, participate, dump the ice on your head and donate to the locate chapter. You won't be ridiculed if you participate. Nobody's going to complain if you donate to the local chapter vs the national one. The idea is to make a donation, and have a little fun in the process.

At my office, there were 25 emails about the ice bucket challenge before someone mentioned the actual cause. That tells me it is a band wagon thing.

But still a great way to raise money. I wish I'd thought of it.

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At my office, there were 25 emails about the ice bucket challenge before someone mentioned the actual cause. That tells me it is a band wagon thing.

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Maybe the people at your office just assumed that everyone knew it was for ALS?

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This one ice bucket challenge has been popping up on my fb. One of the ones everyone should actually watch if they really care about what the challenge is trying to accomplish.

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thank you so much for sharing

THAT is what this is all about

i cannot fathom his fear. "He" is who I want to help.

12 year olds

The Louisiana-Mississippi Chapter of the ALS association was extremely helpful to my aunt and uncle when he contracted the disease, and it gets funded by this (directly and through the national association), and this has obviously been a great year for them because of this trend. They provided equipment, support, access to other families suffering through it, so you can't just say money never gets there. Here's the local chapter's link for anyone interested or worried about a direct local effect. Gleason's is awesome, too. The ALS wing he built on a New Orleans hospital is just amazing

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here's team Gleason's
Gleason

As far as it being a fad, I said this in another thread, but yes it is just a fad. It will eventually pass, sadly, and people complaining to an Internet forum about it can find something else to be bothered by. But when it does pass, people with the disease and their families will be grateful this likely one off, momentary fad will have raised 30 million more dollars to fight that horrendous disease (even if every single video maker didn't make a cash donation). That's like 25 years or so of normal fundraising at zero cost to the ALSA, so anyone claiming this goofy fad has no effect is being obtuse. So the great struggle that the complainers had to endure to make it to the bottom of their Facebook feeds will not be for nothing.

eta Gleason's link, also.

Congrats. It doesn't usually work that way.

The ice bucket challenge is such a slap in the face to charity. You are openly advertising that you are choosing to dumb a bucket of ice water if your head than donate a single dollar to ALS. Sure, awareness is being somewhat raised. But 90% of the kids doing the challenge are not reading into ALS or donating money to ALS. They are just doing it to post of their social media site.

Even if it is only a $10 donation, it goes a lot longer way than dumping a bucket of ice on your head.

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You are openly advertising that you are choosing to dumb a bucket of ice water if your head than donate a single dollar to ALS

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Wrong. But thanks for playing.

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But 90% of the kids doing the challenge are not reading into ALS or donating money to ALS.

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Link to anything other than your uninformed opinion?

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Even if it is only a $10 donation, it goes a lot longer way than dumping a bucket of ice on your head.

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Which happens to be the usual amount of donation if you choose the ice bucket. Otherwise you donate $100. Try informing yourself just the smallest bit before going on a rant next time.

I'm not going to link these kids facebook's. It isn't an uninformed opinion if I am witnessing it.

None of these kids that are 16-25 making "hilarious" ice bucket videos are donating a cent. In fact, they are choosing to do something meaningless over donating a legitimate amount to a good cause.