Nonprofits
Charity Reserves and Why a Nonprofit Holds Back Cash
You open a charity's accounts, see £400,000 sitting in the bank, and wonder why they are still asking you for £10 a month.
Every November the appeals arrive: an older man wearing his coat indoors, a family huddled around a single heater, a request for 25 pounds to "keep someone warm this winter." You want to help, but you are not sure what fuel poverty...
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You open a charity's accounts, see £400,000 sitting in the bank, and wonder why they are still asking you for £10 a month.
Community
Most people have a wardrobe full of clothes they no longer wear and a vague guilt about sending them to landfill.
Causes
You see a collection box for pads and tampons at the supermarket exit and wonder whether it does any good, or whether the...
Giving
You give £20 to a hospice appeal online, and a small box asks whether you are a UK taxpayer who wants to add Gift Aid.
Volunteering
You offer to help at a Saturday youth football club, and the coordinator emails back a form with your passport number on it.
Nonprofits
A donor once told me she had dropped a youth mentoring charity because its accounts showed 27 pence of every pound going on...
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