Why should we trust charitable foundations?
None of us would rejoice if we were deceived. It is especially frustrating when it comes to money. Moreover, if you are deceived once, then perhaps the next you will no longer believe even the one who will tell the truth.
It happens that people who are full of desire to help and do good deeds meet scammers online. In addition to the fact that you cannot know for sure whether the story of the child to whom you want to transfer funds for treatment is real, you also do not suspect how much money has actually been collected and how much of it will actually be spent on the specified treatment.
We can only suspect how the parents or volunteers who collected more than necessary for the child's treatment will act. We can neither know the truth nor control. It is a mistake to consider everyone honest, decent and exclude the possibility of abuse of trust. It is risky enough to place expectations on a person who is under stress, and the parents of children in need of help live in it.
On the other side of this story, there are charitable foundations and the dobro.ua platform, which act as guarantors of the honesty, efficiency and safety of your funds. Legal entities (funds) are almost the only ones whose activities can be officially claimed. The fund, unlike the ghostly stories from Facebook, really exists, reports on its activities to the tax authorities and can bear real responsibility for illegal actions in the legal field.
Let's imagine a situation in which funds have been collected to help a child, but the child no longer needs this help.Are you sure that the person to whom you sent the funds to the card, in this case, will send you the funds back or report on their alternative use?
The funds and the dobro.ua charity platform have a procedure for redirecting the collected funds in such a case. That is, if the goal of the collected project cannot be achieved (treatment is no longer needed, funds have been collected from other sources, the goal or treatment protocols have changed, the death of the ward, etc.), each philanthropist who registered when transferring charitable funds or left his email receives a letter informing about the revealed circumstances. A philanthropist has 14 working days to independently redirect charitable funds from one charity fund project to another. All this is done quickly and clearly.
You, as a philanthropist, should know that the responsible fund will not stop informing you about the fate of your funds, despite the fact that you have already transferred them and are on the account of the fund. After all, your attention and trust is the most expensive currency of any charitable project.
Help through charitable foundations is the only way of honest and transparent charity, where you will not be deceived, and those who need help will receive it.
Be careful. Support only those charitable projects in which the goal is clear and achievable, where people communicate transparently and frankly.
Choose those who can be monitored and tested. Only in this way can we truly create a world where everyone can safely do good deeds.
Source: dobro.ua PR manager Bohdan Berdnyk's column for Liga.net.
