re: Name the best charities in Louisiana and the country--who does the most with the money

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If a great CEO can squeeze another $3MM in donations, is he or she not worth $1.6MM?

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Isn’t the point of a charity is to give without taking?

I totally forgot about Cigars for Warriors and Operation From the Heart, same m.o.

Local St. Vincent dePaul societies keep the charity "at home" so to say.

Second Harvest Food Bank SEEMS to be a solid option, as well.

St Vincent DePaul
Salvation Army
Baton Rouge Food Bank
New Orleans Mission

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St. Jude

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Former St. Jude (ALSAC) employee here. Can confirm. Just the greatest place hands down.

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and United Way

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An absolute dumpster of an organization. Let me tell you what they do (happened to me first hand). They will get themselves declared as the official charity in a large organization by working with their HR dept. It’s often an easy sell. “We’re your one stop shop. We’ll coordinate charitable giving campaigns (paycheck deductions) and on-site fundraisers throughout the year. You don’t have to do anything...except close the door in the face of every other charity. But that’s ok, because we’ll invite those charities to participate in your company’s charitable giving campaigns!”

So now, those local charitable organizations get a hard “no”, and their only shot is to set up a table at that company’s “Giving Fair” (It’s a giant United Way booth and 5-7 other small booths for whichever charities the company wanted to invite.). As an employee, you visit the different tables and, say, decide you want your paycheck deduction to go to St. Jude. Great!

After one year, you’re told there’s nothing you need to do if you’d like to continue giving x% from your check, so you let it ride. What the United Way doesn’t tell you, and what your company likely isn’t aware of, is after one year, all of those donations will automatically roll over to United Way moving forward.

I was the rep on-site for a campaign exactly like this at a large company in Memphis. A year later, I happened to notice the monthly donation from this company just disappeared from our funds. In Memphis, especially, it would be easy to overlook a $26k per month decline in fundraising, but I got lucky. I worked with the HR rep I knew at the company and we finally nailed United Way and got them to admit what they were doing.

In short, United Way can kiss my butt.

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Biden Cancer Foundation

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