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Post by guillaume on Jan 26, 2009 21:30:46 GMT
"Face to Face" is an organisation who manages street fundraisers. You certainly meet them in the streets of Dublin or Cork and many towns around the country. They work on behalf of charities, such as Bernados or Concern. There job is for you to sign a Direct Debit or Standing order of a certain amount of money regularly for the charity. While working on behalf of charities to reach money is - of course - a good thing, i am not too sure the way they work is acceptable. They usually present themselves like "hippies" or neo "cool", or even "anarchists". No ties, not nice look. For which i am not sure that would help people to trust them. They are well paid to do this: around 10 to 11 euros an hour. So, means, that your money will go FIRST to pay them and the organisation THEN the charity. They are recruiting ALL THE TIME, and there adds is all over jobs.ie and over. Some say they do not have a clue about the charity they are "working" for, and there only motivation is the money and the "target". So what do you think ? Perso, no way I will give a cent to charity via those people.
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Post by Hemingway on Jan 27, 2009 9:14:12 GMT
When I see people on the street with ties and suits and a clip board I automatically think "Jehovah Witness"!!!
However I do contribute some money to Gorta, Concern and St John of Gods every month from a direct debit account. I didn’t meet the people who asked me to sign up to these charities on the street. They actually called to my door and talked me through the work their particular charity carries out.
I read their literature and decided to make regular contributions.
I think this is a more civilised (if that the correct term) and sensible method of persuading a member of the public to give to your charity.
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Post by Beinidict Ó Niaidh on Jan 27, 2009 14:40:59 GMT
I am in broad agreement with what Hemmingway is saying.
When I was just out of college, I took a job as a fundraiser for a charity and went from door to door giving a spiel about how the charity worked. I got a cut of the money collected, including unsolicited donations (our licence was to sell products on behalf on the charity, eg Christmas cards or calendars - I did this in the Autumn months). The admin team got more and the monies funded cars used for the purpose of getting the various teams from A to B. The charity seems to have got very little, but it believed that it got more money through professional fund raising than in amateur efforts. Maybe that's the case, but I was not happy with misrepresenting either myself or the charity to generous people at their doors. So I moved on.
Maybe 'Face to Face' achieve more for its client organisations than they can do on their own, but it is not something I would be happy working at, and I think Hemmingway's ideas regarding giving are better.
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