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Salvation Army or Goodwill?

Salvation Army. Goodwill here in Omaha got in hot water last year when it broke that seven executives in the Omaha Goodwill payroll were making $100,000 salaries while withholding funds from the disabled. Several of the executives were related and were basically just getting paid to breathe air. In all fairness, they have been trying to improve over the past year.
 
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CYdTracked said:
I'll throw another good place to donate to if you are in the Des Moines area and that is Hope Ministries: https://www.hopeiowa.org/ Some of the donations don't even get sold in their thrift store and instead are put to use right here in the community for use in shelters, recovery centers, and the homeless.
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I also linked to this above. Really a great organization
 
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Cyclones_R_GR8 said:
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$.99 stocking caps at Menards. Will need to keep watching to see if they mark ski gloves down to $1.99 before Christmas.
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While you're there, I know somebody that would really appreciate you donating a new table saw to their cause. Also, the air compressor I they inherited just went out.
 
Stormin said:
That is part of their scam. Goodwill pays executives exorbitant salaries and pays workers very little. Don’t fall for their scam.

Goodwill uses a loophole to pay those with disabilities LESS than minimum wage while paying executives exorbitant wages. Not my definition of charitable. Screwing over the disadvantaged.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-hrabe/the-worst-corporation-in-_b_1876905.html
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I'm leery of a lot of these non-profit organizations anymore and one I refuse to give to when they have their yearly campaign at work is the United Way. Research that organization and probably will find even more stories about high paid executives and questionable things surrounding how your donations are used. That thing is a racket and sadly a lot of companies will use pressure tactics to get their employees to contribute to their campaign so they can use it as a PR boost that Company XYZ raised X Millions of dollars this year for the United Way. One example of a crummy way to guilt employees are places where you can't usually wear jeans to work so they have an option that if you donate X amount you get to wear jeans for a month. Well it's pretty obvious who and who did not donate when jean month when not everyone is wearing jeans. Not sure how some places enforce it but I know of at least 1 company that you get stickers you have to wear so they know you actually donated. My wife was even at a town hall meeting where a few hundred people attended to hear one of the top execs in their department talk and he asked for a show of hands of who had donated to the United Way campaign which was yet another way of basically trying to publically shame people into giving because he followed that up with some kind of message for anyone who didn't raise their hands. That's a pretty crappy thing to do because you don't know if there are people in that room that are hard up for money that couldn't afford to donate even if they wanted to because of possibly challenges with their financial situations.

Not trying to rag on charitable organizations but there are some out there that really irk me the more I learn about them. If I can give directly to an organization that I feel is doing things right and doesn't have a bunch of wealthy execs with big salaries running it that's the route I prefer to go when I can.
 
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cyfan92 said:
I also linked to this above. Really a great organization
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Ah, missed that! Yeah that's my preferred place to donate items to over Goodwill or Salvation Army when I can. Our church is involved with Laurel Village and JOPPA here in the DM area too and sometimes we'll reach out to the congregational care pastor that works with some of those types of places and organizations and see if he knows of someone that could use certain items we want to donate as I'd rather know it is going to someone who is in need or could really use it then possibly put up for sale at a thrift store. Not saying those other 2 organizations don't give stuff to needy people as well but I just feel that smaller locally run organizations that do similar things put those items to better use right here in the community.
 
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I'll second Bidwell's for local.

Also DAV. They have a schedule for when their trucks are out in certain areas and they will pick up stuff and haul it off for you. Convenient if it lines up with your schedule.
 
Hospice of Central Iowa is a favorite of mine. One downside is they are a little pickier about donations.
 
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