Family makes good on dying family member’s last wish: Leave $500 tip

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Originally Posted by DaFace

Yup. If you want to make a donation that goes 100% to helping people, go give it to the drunk homeless guy on the street corner and see how much good that does the world.

If you want to really make a difference, donate to a group that provides treatment programs to alcoholics. They may have a bunch of "overhead" for the buildings and staff, but if you want a program to be well-run, you need people who know what they're doing. Staff in the nonprofit sector are people like anyone else, and they don't generally work for free (aside from volunteers, who are great, but can't put in 40 hours a week).

(And for the record, I don't work for a nonprofit, nor do I know anyone well who does. I just get sick of all the misconceptions that people have who have never seriously done their homework.)

Agreed. Thanks for the comments. The responses to this thread show how much misinformation is out there. And it's really sad that a large organization like the boys and girls club (that reports every single thing they do to its minute detail) gets more scrutiny than grassroots efforts.

People are free to spend on whatever they like. I would wish and hope that people at least cared a little bit about impact and would actually do the homework on what they are impacting. Like I said, for all we know, this family is pocketing some of this money. Or maybe one day tipping their friends.