Kars for Kids is still annoyingly around...

[TreasonousBastard]

Most of the money seems to go to more ads, and they're losing money with those real estate donations. Might be the Trump school of real estate where you "lose" money to scam your donors. A children's charity has no tax reason to pull this, but may be it's not entirely the charity it claims to be.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kars4kids-charity-misleads-donors-report/

However, new revelations about the charity are no laughing matter. According to the Minnesota attorney general, between 2012 and 2014, Kars4Kids raised $3 million in the state through car donations. But less than $12,000, less than one percent of what was raised, went to Minnesota kids.

So where does the money go?

Oorah is where it goes.

From the website:

Oorah's Mission:

A One-of-a-kind Approach to Servicing Jewish Families

Our programs are varied and multifaceted but all share the common goal of opening doors for Jewish children and families. With our extensive network, we make connections and facilitate relationships, reaching out to Jewish families everywhere with opportunities to make their Judaic heritage more personal, relevant and meaningful.

Now, I have no problem with any religion or ethnicity making kids proud of who they are, but I do have a problem with any organization that pretty much hides its real purpose. Maybe Rabbi Mintz might argue that to talk about Jewish summer camps could encourage anti-Semitic attacks but something tells me that while that could be true, it's not the reason.

[MichMan]

1. Those radio commercials are so annoying

[Liberal In Texas]

8. I agree! As soon as I hear the first strains of that guitar I lunge for the radio

to either turn it off or change the station.

[NurseJackie]

14. Same here... goodbye WTOP and hello WAMU.

I mostly listen to WAMU anyway, but will occasionally switch over to check traffic reports while I'm driving (and then I'll forget and I'll just leave it on WTOP).

But as soon as I hear those annoying kids, I'll click the button on my steering wheel that changes the station.

Commercial radio stations "de-value" themselves when playing crap like that. I wouldn't want to be the advertiser whose commercial aired FOLLOWING that one.

[radius777]

2. Agree. Their lack of transparency

only helps to further anti-Semitic tropes about 'dissembling Jews', etc.

In their commercials they show kids of all races, yet the money is mainly going to a specific ethnic/religous group.

Which like you said is fine if they clearly state this.

It's just very weird.

[StarfishSaver]

4. The lack of transparency is a problem, but what furthers anti-semitic tropes is anti-semitism

not the behavior by any individual or group who happen to be Jewish.

[RockRaven]

3. I'm generally suspicious of the usefulness of donating to any charity which spends so much

money on ads -- their donation to useful action ratio is obviously non-optimal at first blush.

[Quackers]

5. Time for a Good Place reference?

[LeftInTX]

6. Kars for Tots-The 2nd Most Annoying Jingle Ever!

[edhopper]

7. Judaic heritage my ass

OORAH is an Ultra-Orthodox organization. These are religious extremists. Kars for brainwashing kids more like it.

[TreasonousBastard]

9. Well, yeah. I did get that impression, but didn't bother to look much further.

[edhopper]

10. Yeah

it's like saying the Oath Keepers are just a Christian organization.

[pecosbob]

11. NPR regularly solicits auto donations in my broadcast area

[TreasonousBastard]

12. Mine, too. But they don't hide were the money's going...

One of these days the IRS might try to dig into the deductions people are taking (just how much is a Lincoln with bad brakes really worth?)

[pecosbob]

13. Always good to choose carefully

So many seem to be simply lining people's pockets.