Our family always did a lot with the American Cancer Society, until we really got to spend some quality time getting to know some members of the board well. Turns out, big surprise, there's about, oh, ZERO interest in pursuing an actual cure, unless the cure somehow, inconceivably, becomes as profitable as the treatment. Then, the behemoth Livestrong turned out to be a racket too, with the lucrative charity spending NO money on cancer research, but on "PR" and "awareness" instead. ...pretty sure everyone's aware of cancer by now, thanks. How much is Lance getting paid for those appearances? $400,000... Nice priorities ya got there.
It's almost as bad as the faith-based charities we used to donate millions to. By the time my generation went over and worked a few missions, we found workers only administering treatment to those who'd convert to christianity, or attend mass, stop speaking their native languages and only speak english, or even adopt laws laid down by US evangelical churches, village-wide. Laws prohibiting condoms in HIV stricken communities, real ACTUAL witch hunts, unnecessary female circumcisions, death penalty for homosexuals, etc etc etc. As if what the humanitarian crisis really needed was a solid dose of the dark ages. Every time you think you have an idea of how bad it can get, it gets worse.
So now we're down to donating to UW-Madison, Scripps, Docs w/o Borders, Engineers w/o borders, & the Red Cross. They earn every penny of support they get the hard way. I'm glad to see Apple making some (any) gesture of goodwill. It all adds up.
It's almost as bad as the faith-based charities we used to donate millions to. By the time my generation went over and worked a few missions, we found workers only administering treatment to those who'd convert to christianity, or attend mass, stop speaking their native languages and only speak english, or even adopt laws laid down by US evangelical churches, village-wide. Laws prohibiting condoms in HIV stricken communities, real ACTUAL witch hunts, unnecessary female circumcisions, death penalty for homosexuals, etc etc etc. As if what the humanitarian crisis really needed was a solid dose of the dark ages. Every time you think you have an idea of how bad it can get, it gets worse.
So now we're down to donating to UW-Madison, Scripps, Docs w/o Borders, Engineers w/o borders, & the Red Cross. They earn every penny of support they get the hard way. I'm glad to see Apple making some (any) gesture of goodwill. It all adds up.
