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The Key to Making Your Donation Count


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- As people think about causes they wanna support, what advice do you have for people when they find a cause in actually finding the right organization? - It starts with finding causes that you're passionate about, learning about those causes, educating yourself, and then trying to research organizations that are well-run and are transparent.

People just wanna know where their money's going. They want transparency in that. If I told your listeners today that the greatest need at Charity Water was a new expensive copy machine because we needed to print a bunch of paper copies and it was gonna be $3,000 or something, people would donate for a copy machine to meet a need, to meet a specific need if they knew how that would move the mission forward.

It's the not knowing where the money goes. It's the fine print during many of the disasters where you find out actually $100 million that was given went into an endowment, which won't see the light of day because in that fine print, the organizations say, well, if we over-raise what we can spend, we can do anything with this money.