WestCoastOriolesFan

Good:  Mike Trout finally gets through farting around and starts taking baseball seriously. He puts up a 20 WAR season.
 
Bad:  It takes the Angels 7 games to beat the Dogs in the World Series.

Good:  Mike Trout finally gets through farting around and starts taking baseball seriously. He puts up a 20 WAR season.
 
Bad:  It takes the Angels 7 games to beat the Dogs in the World Series.

Good:  Mike Trout finally gets through farting around and starts taking baseball seriously. He puts up a 20 WAR season.
 
Bad:  It takes the Angels 7 games to beat the Dogs in the World Series.

I currently run a small Non-Profit theater company and I have woked for Non-Profits for most of my adult life. I think for some Non-profits, the larger you get, the further you get away from you mission and that is where things get dicey.
 
 
We have a focused mission for providing theater arts and theater arts education to the community with one of our focuses on bringing theatre
to kids through classes, in school perfromances and Theatre for Young Audiences Productions. If we get away from that, then we aren't achieving our mission. Obviously, it looks like Arod's charity isn't doing what it is supposed to  and that sucks for all Non-Profits because most people only hear about the big organizations, not the thousands of small 501 © (3)'s that are working their asses off for the greater good of their community
 
The organization that I run now runs on the most shoe string of budgets ( I am the Artistic director and President of the Board and receive zero pay, our actors receive a Stipend and our teachers are paid. The rest is primarily volunteer). If it wasnt for our tax exempt satus, we would be screwed. There are plenty of large Non-Profits that pay their high up staff quite a large salary, but the law says they are allowed to recieve a fair and reasonable salary based on their job description. Sometimes I think that is unfair when the low end staff is struggling to make rent because they are working in a field they love.
 
Sadly, I think it is true hat a lot of these large charities that are started by sports figures, celebrities and the like are meerely a way to hide funds, make more money or re-direct their earnings to not pay taxes and that sucks.

Always wise to check out whoever is asking for $$.  http://www.charitynavigator.org/
 
Rotary International is usually my first choice: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4553