Charities

I think the reality is that staff of many charities be paid. We can argue that charities are non-profit organizations, and that therefore they should be functioning with the sole interest of those they are trying to help, but that's simply not possible, especially for the larger charities. So long as these charities have to function bởi providing large groups of people important resources, there are going to be some people who have to work there for 40 hours hoặc thêm a week.

Can we really expect these people to selflessly devote so much of their time to a cause that they get nothing out of? To put it a little less selfishly, can we expect that these people will put themselves in the poor house in order to raise the poor a little higher? They won't be able to hold down a full-time job, after all, được trao these kinds of hours.

I think there is a distinct problem with paying people who work for charities too much, regardless of how much they do hoặc how important their role is. Defining where that point lies, however, is difficult. Charities should want to recruit talent and to make it worth their while bởi making their efforts worth something thêm than just good feelings. But we should not forget what the role of charities is, and their functions should affect their wages.

So where do we draw the line? Hell if I know. We can say that earning hundreds of thousands a năm is wrong. We can say that they should earn above minimum wage. But there's a lot between those two totals, and there's no certainty on what's right. It all depends on the charity and on the individuals getting paid.

As someone who volunteers regularly (and once turned my volunteer work into a paying job), I think it's perfectly find to pay volunteers.

Here's the thing: there's two types of volunteers. The first kind is the "every once in a while" kind. These kind are often high school kids with projects that require a certain amount of volunteer hours.
The second, is the "I'm there routinely" kind.

The first kind of volunteers aren't dependable -- they hiển thị up every once in a while, for an giờ hoặc two, and then they're gone. They rarely follow a schedule, and it's impossible to guess when they're going to come next. thêm often then not, they don't do much work ("oh, I'd rather play with the chó than clean cages, hoặc feed them, hoặc groom them, hoặc walk them").
The một giây type are dependable, and they're often the ones who'll clean cages, but they're limited. If they aren't getting paid bởi the organization, that means they're getting paid somewhere else. Which means they're time is split. Which means the organization is hard pressed to fill their space.

There's this really weird idea that people have that volunteer run organizations constantly (and consistently) have volunteers coming in to help run it. This is not the case. Hell, it's not even always the case on TV, where their job is to glamorize that stuff.

Charities need people to help run them. bạn don't get people to help out if bạn offer no incentive. And the best incentive is money.