I stumbled across your Substack from a recommendation.
I don’t know your work, but I can tell you a couple of years ago I became VERY disillusioned by ALL NGOs. It’s ALL a scam. ALL OF IT!! EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM!! There is no such thing as a non- profit. They don’t pay taxes, they may not make a profit but you better damn well know …
I stumbled across your Substack from a recommendation.
I don’t know your work, but I can tell you a couple of years ago I became VERY disillusioned by ALL NGOs. It’s ALL a scam. ALL OF IT!! EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM!! There is no such thing as a non- profit. They don’t pay taxes, they may not make a profit but you better damn well know THEY ARE ENRICHING THEMSELVES. It’s all a grift. The sooner you understand that the better mentally you will feel. They play on good, kind, and generous people because they know we’re suckers. I’m not being mean. I’m being directly honest.
I have worked for many charities to raise money - always for a worthy cause or so I thought. I was SO VERY WRONG. One of the charities invited me and my husband to a VERY swanky 4 day ‘retreat’ to be with ‘like minded people’. I was so very naive. Against my husband’s better judgement, we went. What a mistake, but it opened my eyes to so many things.
The entire 4 days I felt like the other shoe was about to drop. On the last night, it did. We were asked for a 2-year commitment for money. I was told - look at the 990s. Those are tax returns for ‘non-profits’. HOLY SHIT, I could not believe what I was seeing. The CEO was pulling in $250,000 a year + expenses, a car, travel, etc. the event we were at cost $750,000 the previous year!! And just to REALLY depress myself, while I was looking into the 990s, I looked up the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. If you ever really want to make yourself sick to your stomach, look it up. My husband told me my face turned white when I saw their 990.
When I asked the CEO of the organization that invited me to the retreat “how do you define success” she could not answer me. This NGO was about child sex trafficking and the like minded people were all Christian charities. I felt surrounded and very pressured to give money. Mind you, I helped raise $20,000 for them and thought the retreat was a sort of ‘thank you’. It was the furthest thing from the truth.
I never gave a dime to them. I never contacted them again.
All this to say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Let’s be honest - with the billions of dollars spent over so many years - WHY DOESN’T AFRICA HAVE CLEAN WATER, FOOD, PAVED ROADS OR GOOD INFRASTRUCTURE? WHY? Because they don’t want them to. If we did that then how could you continue a charity if you complete your mission? And the HIV/AIDS stuff, well Bill & Melinda spread it to Africa to do experiments and then to raise money for the poor Africans with HIV. It’s all bullshit.
USAID will never be reconstituted. It should never have been stood up the way it was. Money never reached the people it was supposed to help. Once you understand the game you know we can never allow that to happen again. It’s all virtue signaling. Remember the UNITED WAY? 35 years ago EVERY SINGLE INSURANCE COMPANY had literally every single employee give a donation. They didn’t outright threaten us, but tremendous pressure was put on us. And the company matched the donation. Aetna, CNA, Chubb, Travelers, etc did this. And then years later it was reported that only 10% of all donations went to any recipient; 90% went to administration!! It was all and still is a grift.
After the retreat I stopped giving to charities. I wanted to help others and gave directly to people in need, but you know what? They NEVER TRULY APPRECIATED IT. I was very sad for a while. And then I thought - charity begins at home. I stopped worrying about others and worry about myself and my family because no one else cares about them.
WHEN will we learn that there are evil people running nicely named organizations that only enrich themselves? MY WISH is to see dozens of congressmen step down and resign in disgrace, but I doubt it will happen.
Hi,
I stumbled across your Substack from a recommendation.
I don’t know your work, but I can tell you a couple of years ago I became VERY disillusioned by ALL NGOs. It’s ALL a scam. ALL OF IT!! EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM!! There is no such thing as a non- profit. They don’t pay taxes, they may not make a profit but you better damn well know THEY ARE ENRICHING THEMSELVES. It’s all a grift. The sooner you understand that the better mentally you will feel. They play on good, kind, and generous people because they know we’re suckers. I’m not being mean. I’m being directly honest.
I have worked for many charities to raise money - always for a worthy cause or so I thought. I was SO VERY WRONG. One of the charities invited me and my husband to a VERY swanky 4 day ‘retreat’ to be with ‘like minded people’. I was so very naive. Against my husband’s better judgement, we went. What a mistake, but it opened my eyes to so many things.
The entire 4 days I felt like the other shoe was about to drop. On the last night, it did. We were asked for a 2-year commitment for money. I was told - look at the 990s. Those are tax returns for ‘non-profits’. HOLY SHIT, I could not believe what I was seeing. The CEO was pulling in $250,000 a year + expenses, a car, travel, etc. the event we were at cost $750,000 the previous year!! And just to REALLY depress myself, while I was looking into the 990s, I looked up the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. If you ever really want to make yourself sick to your stomach, look it up. My husband told me my face turned white when I saw their 990.
When I asked the CEO of the organization that invited me to the retreat “how do you define success” she could not answer me. This NGO was about child sex trafficking and the like minded people were all Christian charities. I felt surrounded and very pressured to give money. Mind you, I helped raise $20,000 for them and thought the retreat was a sort of ‘thank you’. It was the furthest thing from the truth.
I never gave a dime to them. I never contacted them again.
All this to say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Let’s be honest - with the billions of dollars spent over so many years - WHY DOESN’T AFRICA HAVE CLEAN WATER, FOOD, PAVED ROADS OR GOOD INFRASTRUCTURE? WHY? Because they don’t want them to. If we did that then how could you continue a charity if you complete your mission? And the HIV/AIDS stuff, well Bill & Melinda spread it to Africa to do experiments and then to raise money for the poor Africans with HIV. It’s all bullshit.
USAID will never be reconstituted. It should never have been stood up the way it was. Money never reached the people it was supposed to help. Once you understand the game you know we can never allow that to happen again. It’s all virtue signaling. Remember the UNITED WAY? 35 years ago EVERY SINGLE INSURANCE COMPANY had literally every single employee give a donation. They didn’t outright threaten us, but tremendous pressure was put on us. And the company matched the donation. Aetna, CNA, Chubb, Travelers, etc did this. And then years later it was reported that only 10% of all donations went to any recipient; 90% went to administration!! It was all and still is a grift.
After the retreat I stopped giving to charities. I wanted to help others and gave directly to people in need, but you know what? They NEVER TRULY APPRECIATED IT. I was very sad for a while. And then I thought - charity begins at home. I stopped worrying about others and worry about myself and my family because no one else cares about them.
WHEN will we learn that there are evil people running nicely named organizations that only enrich themselves? MY WISH is to see dozens of congressmen step down and resign in disgrace, but I doubt it will happen.