Waaaaaay too many people got brainwashed during the Susan G Kommen walks and now think “raising awareness” matters more than actually helping…
The vast majority of the time it’s a grift
Fuck Komen, but awareness does matter. When you aren’t close to a cure, working towards the cure is important, but prevention and early detection are the most effective tools to fight cancer, and those require awareness.
I had one of those groups come though my town this year. Wasn’t Kommen, but a different one. They were stopped in parking lot at a grocery store. I went up to chit-chat with them a little. One of them said they were doing a march to the capitol to raise awareness of child abuse.
Anyway, I got a good look at their vehicles and they had two giant buses with custom wraps. They also had two brand new identical BMW’s with custom wraps. I was just thinking to myself, that’s a lot of money. Money that could have been used to help victims instead of a dozen or so people’s jaunt. I found the whole thing super sus.
Can you elaborate? Was there some sort of scandal?
Who tf keeps Mars Bars in a fucking fridge?
You should really start, cold chocolate and chewier taffy really is pretty awesome.
You should be commited.
They’re quite commited to cold chocolate! 😁
Have you tried it yet? Or does the concept of cold chocolate scare you?
Cold chocolate is fine. Cold Mars Bars are not.
You’ll really hate me then; I like to put my Reese’s cups in the freezer.
Have you tried one yet?
No. And I will not.
Unfortunate for you.
I used to freeze Snickers bars. It was a nice sensation chewing through them and frozen they were less overly sweet.
I just put a milky way in the freezer at work really looking forward to it
i put Oreos in my freezer
Thanks, I hate it.
Heaven forbid that someone with a large influence use it raise money for sick kids instead of a beer company.
The money they collect: goes to friends who manage the gala.
The celeb can’t ask other people for money while having lots of money ready to donate themselves.
Can you actually name a celebrity who did a promotion deal for a charity and didn’t donate any of their own money? Or is this just a hypothetical villain?
I don’t follow the celebrity world so I couldn’t say
Generally these celebrities will promise to match fan donations. Either on a 1:1 basis, or some other ratio “for every dollar you donate, I’ll donate two” or “I’ll pledge ten dollars for every 20 we raise…”.
Sure some shitty Celebs don’t donate at all and expect their fans to cough up, but any decent celeb knows that their influence can be used for the common good, and their own donation can be doubled or tripled or more, just by making their pledge public.
It’s shallow and cynical to assume that every celebrity-endorsed charity is a scam. Sure many bad eggs exist (cough trump foundation cough), but many more are legit. There are services who rate charities for their legitimacy.
Do you have any examples? Just curious
Heaven forbid they use their own money.
No one has to do anything. Anyone donating their time and/or money to a worthwhile cause and charity is a champion in my book.
Some international celebs are really rich, but most celebrities in my home country have an income around the median income or up to 10x the median income. Nowhere near the 1000x income of a regular person.
Billionaires on the other hand…
