Spent the afternoon attending a sight loss awareness workshop, which happened to be being held at a rather nice care home.
Who sent me home with a mini swag bag -- pen, pad, keyring, nail file(!) -- and leaflet explaining the home is part a charitable foundation. Which was presumably the point.
@sparrowsion Modern charities seem very good at working out when to send the collection plate around with just enough sensitivity that it's only borderline distasteful.
I suspect they're packed with utilitarians doing attitude spreadsheets these days.
Whatever an organisation tells you their mission is, it's almost always subservient to its continued existence!
I have that impression too; but his feels like a hard thing to assess given that we massively notice the fundraising efforts of the borderline-distasteful orgs, and the ones that are discreet about it we sometimes don't even know exist.
(and many of the ones that panhandle the least visibly don't get counted because they cease to exist — though of course there are some that are funded by one huge endowment or grants from bodies where we're not in the bureaucracy).
Sion [main]
kæt
Adam