Buddhist Marketer

Stop Asking Me To Donate To Your Little Walk A Thon

I give money and time to NFPs and don’t mind when they hit me up for donations.  But fundraisers drive me apeshit.  The vast swath of ‘em are ineffectual, wasteful, inefficient, bloated exercises in feelgooder tokenism.

• If you want to give money to a charitable cause, then you give money to a charitable cause
• If you want to trot your ass around town, either by walking, running, biking, or swimming, then you trot your ass around town
• In particular, if you want to try and cure cancer, then may I suggest advocating on behalf of preventative health measures, especially radical shifts in nutritional intake?  Me paying you to waddle around in spandex is about as likely to cure cancer as the mean IQ of callers into C-SPAN suddenly skyrocketing above 100.

Of all the possible avenues for effecting meaningful change in your chosen pet area of giving-a-shit, may I suggest demoting that fundraiser to the bottom of the list?

Click here to donate $1 to my Please Stop It With The Pledge A Thons campaign.