SUGGESTIONS

Some time ago (late October early November 2010)I dropped a suggestion into the Suggestion Box at a local non-profit organization we frequent. Well, the other day 90-120 days after my drop, I received a voice mail from someone at the non-profit. The message began by apologizing for taking to so long to either acknowledge and/or agree with my suggestion, you,can guess where the rest of the message went; thanks for your suggestion but no thanks its not for our organization.
After thinking about the reply, the only thing that occurred to me is Why Do I Bother?

How Non-Profit Entities can keep themselves from getting Ripped-Off

I spent 90 days working for a for-profit fund raising company which was a major division of one of America's premier magazine publishing companies. The parent company has since gone bankrupt, but before they did, as a sales rep for one the fund raising divisions, we were lectured to keep informing our prospective education market fund raising targets, just how ethical our home office company was. This was in spite of also being told how our real mission was to get as much profit as possible from every school fund raising program, we could sell, with our real goal of selling the schools any fund-raising program so that they made as little profit as possible.

This is not an anti-cookie selling sales message its actually a message to all non-profits ( schools, churches, bands etc. ) to never do business with any for profit fund raising companies. And, by the way, I also found the worst offenders in short-changing the non-profits on fund-raising profits, were ex-educators ( ex-local school board members, ex-local principals, and ex local teachers.) All of whom used there supposed empathy with their ex-colleagues to further their own un-ethical goals.