We've Got a Right to be MAD!
How much more scandalous can it get. Mothers Against Drunk Driving was a good idea, it fulfilled an important function, it had a good start, it was responsible in alerting the public to the great danger lurking on the roadways of the nation with drunk drivers behind the wheels of lethal weapons. MADD was instrumental in assisting governments to recognize their responsibility to enact tougher legislation in support of the fight against DWI.
How sad that they got lost somewhere along the way. The movement became a trusted vehicle for change. And then it changed into an industry. We don't need this kind of industry. One that exists for its own purpose, which is to perpetuate itself irrespective of what it represents. It has become, first and foremost, a fund-raising industry. That it also pays lip service to the original fire and function of MADD is a footnote.
When MADD was new and pulling itself into public view, raising funds through the efforts of committed volunteers I and a legion of other Canadians felt it necessary to support their good work. For they were performing work that benefited all of us, the entire country, the vulnerable, those whose lives were forever altered by the thoughtless misuse of vehicles while under the influence of alcohol.
Somehow over the years as MADD's influence became magnified along with its success in getting its message across, its fund-raising techniques changed. From a grass roots movement supported by honest and trustworthy individuals whose commitment to the simple concept of personal responsibility was paramount they became a money-grubbing industry.
The constant and ongoing telemarketing, the telephone hard-sell convinced me years ago that something was wrong, and I began to doubt the worthwhileness of supporting the group. They lost my financial support. I was happy to divert the funds normally allocated to them through the year to other fund-raising charities whose functionality I had no reason to doubt.
Now the public is learning just how corrupt this group has become. While the area chapters of MADD go about their earnest business of teaching the public at large, of urging municipal authorities to greater efforts, and giving moral and emotional support to victims of drunk driving, the head office continued to busy itself with a preoccupation toward fund raising.
A top-heavy and well-remunerated administration always needs more money, the better to assure their positions are safe, the better to perpetuate their little enterprise of representation and misrepresentation. So they could state that 85% of all charitable donations went directly to programmes, not administrative costs. So they could engage the services of professional telemarketers who regularly skim a whopping 75% of funds received, allocating a paltry 25% back to the charity.
Your charitable dollars generously funding the bottom line of telemarketers whose employees are paid a bare minimum salary. How effectively charitable.
How sad that they got lost somewhere along the way. The movement became a trusted vehicle for change. And then it changed into an industry. We don't need this kind of industry. One that exists for its own purpose, which is to perpetuate itself irrespective of what it represents. It has become, first and foremost, a fund-raising industry. That it also pays lip service to the original fire and function of MADD is a footnote.
When MADD was new and pulling itself into public view, raising funds through the efforts of committed volunteers I and a legion of other Canadians felt it necessary to support their good work. For they were performing work that benefited all of us, the entire country, the vulnerable, those whose lives were forever altered by the thoughtless misuse of vehicles while under the influence of alcohol.
Somehow over the years as MADD's influence became magnified along with its success in getting its message across, its fund-raising techniques changed. From a grass roots movement supported by honest and trustworthy individuals whose commitment to the simple concept of personal responsibility was paramount they became a money-grubbing industry.
The constant and ongoing telemarketing, the telephone hard-sell convinced me years ago that something was wrong, and I began to doubt the worthwhileness of supporting the group. They lost my financial support. I was happy to divert the funds normally allocated to them through the year to other fund-raising charities whose functionality I had no reason to doubt.
Now the public is learning just how corrupt this group has become. While the area chapters of MADD go about their earnest business of teaching the public at large, of urging municipal authorities to greater efforts, and giving moral and emotional support to victims of drunk driving, the head office continued to busy itself with a preoccupation toward fund raising.
A top-heavy and well-remunerated administration always needs more money, the better to assure their positions are safe, the better to perpetuate their little enterprise of representation and misrepresentation. So they could state that 85% of all charitable donations went directly to programmes, not administrative costs. So they could engage the services of professional telemarketers who regularly skim a whopping 75% of funds received, allocating a paltry 25% back to the charity.
Your charitable dollars generously funding the bottom line of telemarketers whose employees are paid a bare minimum salary. How effectively charitable.
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