The Key to Making Your Donation Count
00:00:00.000 | - As people think about causes they wanna support,
00:00:03.160 | what advice do you have for people when they find a cause
00:00:05.920 | in actually finding the right organization?
00:00:07.900 | - It starts with finding causes
00:00:09.920 | that you're passionate about,
00:00:11.060 | learning about those causes, educating yourself,
00:00:13.360 | and then trying to research organizations
00:00:15.540 | that are well-run and are transparent.
00:00:17.520 | People just wanna know where their money's going.
00:00:20.040 | They want transparency in that.
00:00:22.240 | If I told your listeners today
00:00:23.920 | that the greatest need at Charity Water
00:00:27.040 | was a new expensive copy machine
00:00:30.000 | because we needed to print a bunch of paper copies
00:00:32.560 | and it was gonna be $3,000 or something,
00:00:34.880 | people would donate for a copy machine to meet a need,
00:00:37.360 | to meet a specific need
00:00:38.520 | if they knew how that would move the mission forward.
00:00:41.640 | It's the not knowing where the money goes.
00:00:43.880 | It's the fine print during many of the disasters
00:00:46.180 | where you find out actually $100 million that was given
00:00:48.600 | went into an endowment, which won't see the light of day
00:00:51.160 | because in that fine print, the organizations say,
00:00:54.320 | well, if we over-raise what we can spend,
00:00:57.000 | we can do anything with this money.