What charities do you dislike and why?

[Warpy]

61. United Way, hands down

because of the heavy handed way they try to extort donations from employees in workplaces by dangling awards to bosses for 100% donation records. Fuck them with a chainsaw, sideways.

Second would be the National Red Cross because of their consistent misallocation of money they raise, sitting on it instead of getting it to people in desperate need. Local Red Cross groups are better.

Others I won't donate to because of their constant mailings, showing me that a lot of my donation would go toward printing glossy come-ons rather than going to people in need. Unfortunately, Heifer International has become such an organization in recent years.

I deplore Aunt Sally's morbid fear and loathing of LGBT people, but their head doesn't live like a potentate and their donations do go to people in need, like a friend they pulled out of a migrant worker camp and supported through school. Also, I've never seen them ask what anyone's sexuality was when they've set up coffee and donuts at an evacuation center.

The local food bank is going to be the big winner in my end of year giving this year. They only mail stuff once a year, at Thanksgiving, and they distribute a tremendous amount of food to people in a poor state who desperately need it.