Reply To: Honest Tzedakah

I’m ok with the idea that wasting/spending large sums of money is necessary to raise even bigger sums of money. But that doesn’t mean I want to be part of it. And I wonder whether people think about this issue before deciding on where to give. Personally I would much rather give to people and places so that as much of my donation goes to people that need it most. Wouldn’t $35 million spent directly on poor people, for example, go much further than $35 million minus tens of millions of overhead expenses, with then only half left to help people?