Greta donates €1 million

[Esceptico]

Greta Thunberg has won a prize of €1 million and pledged to donate it all to charities supporting environmental causes. Personally can’t see anything bad in that but I know PH will prove me wrong!

[Evercross]

Esceptico said:

Greta Thunberg has won a prize of €1 million and pledged to donate it all to charities supporting environmental causes.

That's a pretty wide brief.

The devil will be in the detail, but at a superficial level this all sounds so nice.....

[Murph7355]

Esceptico said:

Greta Thunberg has won a prize of €1 million and pledged to donate it all to charities supporting environmental causes. Personally can’t see anything bad in that but I know PH will prove me wrong!

So bearing in mind your closing sentence, what was your motivation in posting the story? Presumably you were looking for erudite debate on the topic rather than prompting more pointless extremes banging heads with each other?

(Fair play to her. As it was set up purposefully for climate change activism/progress this year I guess it was the logical thing to do, especially if one is so inclined).

[dazwalsh]

Fair play, would be interesting to know what areas of "supporting environmental causes" that million goes Into, hopefully research rather than funding protests, but a nice gesture all the same.

[kayc]

Esceptico said:

Greta Thunberg has won a prize of €1 million and pledged to donate it all to charities supporting environmental causes. Personally can’t see anything bad in that but I know PH will prove me wrong!

What did she win a prize for?being the most deluded teenager ever?

[Oilchange]

Well thats 1million Euros largely pocketed by charity executives...

[s2kjock]

Oilchange said:

Well thats 1million Euros largely pocketed by charity executives...

What percentage of charitable donations normally go on CEO's pay?

[Murph7355]

kayc said:

Esceptico said:

Greta Thunberg has won a prize of €1 million and pledged to donate it all to charities supporting environmental causes. Personally can’t see anything bad in that but I know PH will prove me wrong!

What did she win a prize for?being the most deluded teenager ever?

First bite for Esceptico (ironic handle).

Don't feed it

[Oilchange]

s2kjock said:

Oilchange said:

Well thats 1million Euros largely pocketed by charity executives...

What percentage of charitable donations normally go on CEO's pay?

As mentioned, the devil is in the detail

[powerstroke]

s2kjock said:

Oilchange said:

Well thats 1million Euros largely pocketed by charity executives...

What percentage of charitable donations normally go on CEO's pay?

No idea but starting or working in some some pressure group or charity does seem to be a good career move !!!

[blueg33]

s2kjock said:

What percentage of charitable donations normally go on CEO's pay?

What would the answer to your question mean? Seems an odd question

CEO of WWF (highest paid climate related charity CEO) gets 0.31% of total amount raised by donations

CEO of Greenpeace is 0.08%

So now you have those figures, how do they impact your thinking?

[Supercilious Sid]

blueg33 said:

s2kjock said:

What percentage of charitable donations normally go on CEO's pay?

What would the answer to your question mean? Seems an odd question

CEO of WWF (highest paid climate related charity CEO) gets 0.31% of total amount raised by donations

CEO of Greenpeace is 0.08%

So now you have those figures, how do they impact your thinking?

Those two huge international organisations are hardly representative of all charities. The majority will be much smaller and the CEO will take a far greater %.

[anonymous-user]

powerstroke said:

s2kjock said:

Oilchange said:

Well thats 1million Euros largely pocketed by charity executives...

What percentage of charitable donations normally go on CEO's pay?

No idea but starting or working in some some pressure group or charity does seem to be a good career move !!!

The big charities spend as little as 25% of their income on their charitable activities.

Given that the majority of workers in those charities are volunteers, it seems the CEOs do quite well.

In 2019 fifteen of the top 100 charities paid their CEOs more than £300,000 a year. Forty-one charities in the top 100 paid more than £200,000.

[blueg33]

Genuine question though - how does a charity work if no one runs it?

There is stacks of admin in being a charity purely down to government rules. Those who run it either have to earn enough to live on or be rich philanthropists

[Jasandjules]

s2kjock said:

Oilchange said:

Well thats 1million Euros largely pocketed by charity executives...

What percentage of charitable donations normally go on CEO's pay?

What percentage of charitable donations normally go to the actual "good cause".......

[stitched]

blueg33 said:

s2kjock said:

What percentage of charitable donations normally go on CEO's pay?

What would the answer to your question mean? Seems an odd question

CEO of WWF (highest paid climate related charity CEO) gets 0.31% of total amount raised by donations

CEO of Greenpeace is 0.08%

So now you have those figures, how do they impact your thinking?

Perhaps you could quote an amount rather than a percentage,
Oh hang on, it would not look quite as charitable.

[Randy Winkman]

blueg33 said:

Genuine question though - how does a charity work if no one runs it?

There is stacks of admin in being a charity purely down to government rules. Those who run it either have to earn enough to live on or be rich philanthropists

Fair points I think. Each charity should be judged in it's own merits depending on what charitable service they provide. Some charities might just be people sitting in offices talking/thinking/typing whilst others might be people making things from materials they have to buy.

[anonymous-user]

The cleft palates charity was in the news recently for having ludicrous cash reserves whilst not actually spending on cleft palate surgery.
When quizzed they said a something about that affliction was virtually cured now. (Doesn’t stop them using the harrowing pictures and sorrowful voice overs as a method to convince the populace to part with cash though)

[blueg33]

stitched said:

blueg33 said:

s2kjock said:

What percentage of charitable donations normally go on CEO's pay?

What would the answer to your question mean? Seems an odd question

CEO of WWF (highest paid climate related charity CEO) gets 0.31% of total amount raised by donations

CEO of Greenpeace is 0.08%

So now you have those figures, how do they impact your thinking?

Perhaps you could quote an amount rather than a percentage,
Oh hang on, it would not look quite as charitable.

The question was percentage - what you are suggesting is that I should have answered a different question.

So I'll answer a question you didnt ask to make you happy - 42

Edited by blueg33 on Tuesday 21st July 10:27

[Supercilious Sid]

Jasandjules said:

s2kjock said:

Oilchange said:

Well thats 1million Euros largely pocketed by charity executives...

What percentage of charitable donations normally go on CEO's pay?

What percentage of charitable donations normally go to the actual "good cause".......

Even then some try and sneak admin into charitable works.
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