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My little sister is partially disabled and has more medical issues that I can count, but rather than sit on her pension from the state after being permanently injured while working at the state hospital, she decided that she wants to do something with her life, so she started a Non Profit Organization (NPO) that has several goals, but mainly to help kids from impoverished families with extracurricular activities, small scholarship awards, parents can contact the NPO for assistance with birthdays and Christmas, natural girl pageants, etc.
I’m very proud of my baby sis, and love my nieces and nephews to death for the fact that many times they help out with the delivering of gifts (most recently hundreds of dollars in classroom supplies to nominated teachers) without even a tear for giving away truckloads of toys that they can’t keep.
Now for the truly SC and EW parts
•Scumbag scammer lying rich folk - They call it “working the system” but thanks to jerks who put false applications into the NPO claiming in need status, Little Sis now has a procedure that weeds them out quickly. First she researches the requesting family (yay for the internets!) and if she finds that things are fishy she will call them and tell them that in order to proceed they will need to sign a waiver that will let them put their name and picture in the human interest section of the paper. 99 times out of 100 they tell her to cancel the request but sometimes they will argue the point, whereupon she will blast them “This is such and such at such address, right? If you need our help so much then why don’t you sell one of the 5 four wheelers that you just bought the family last month? Or cancel the vacation plans to Hawaii that you were blogging about a few days ago? No? We’re here to help people who need it, not so you can save a few dollars, GOODBYE.”. These people are usually worth 6 figures or more and should be shot.
•Only kids say thank you - A sad state of affairs that the adults and older kids usually don’t bother with a simple “Thank you” even though she makes everything happen herself. There’s no team of volunteers, no paid workers, just Little Sis setting up trips to Disney on Ice, group ice skating trips, clothes shopping trips, etc. I’ve had to talk her out of tears more than a few times, remind her that her kids and her big brother are DAMN proud of her work
•People who think that NPO = Free money. Mostly friends, they think that Little Sis can just pull money from the NPO so that they can go on vacation, go to the movies, whatever. Forget the fact that that would equate fraud and put Little Sis in a federal pen.
•Personal attacks – This one puts me into a murderous rage. Little Sis puts in for freebies EVERYWHERE. She’s won so many things from various stores and radio call in promos that it’s not even funny. She almost always uses what she wins for the family. There have been a few people who will friend Little Sis on Facebook, and when she will post “I won this!” they will attack her, calling her a liar and a thief and accuse her of stealing from the NPO to give her kids presents. Most recently was a $150 charm bracelet that she got with a gift cert that she won from a local jeweler. It got so nasty that she had to delete the thread and immediately unfriended the person with a simple message “You’re an ass, that was a present for my 8 year old daughter that I won legitimately. Don’t bother asking for our help again”
My little sister is partially disabled and has more medical issues that I can count, but rather than sit on her pension from the state after being permanently injured while working at the state hospital, she decided that she wants to do something with her life, so she started a Non Profit Organization (NPO) that has several goals, but mainly to help kids from impoverished families with extracurricular activities, small scholarship awards, parents can contact the NPO for assistance with birthdays and Christmas, natural girl pageants, etc.
I’m very proud of my baby sis, and love my nieces and nephews to death for the fact that many times they help out with the delivering of gifts (most recently hundreds of dollars in classroom supplies to nominated teachers) without even a tear for giving away truckloads of toys that they can’t keep.
Now for the truly SC and EW parts
•Scumbag scammer lying rich folk - They call it “working the system” but thanks to jerks who put false applications into the NPO claiming in need status, Little Sis now has a procedure that weeds them out quickly. First she researches the requesting family (yay for the internets!) and if she finds that things are fishy she will call them and tell them that in order to proceed they will need to sign a waiver that will let them put their name and picture in the human interest section of the paper. 99 times out of 100 they tell her to cancel the request but sometimes they will argue the point, whereupon she will blast them “This is such and such at such address, right? If you need our help so much then why don’t you sell one of the 5 four wheelers that you just bought the family last month? Or cancel the vacation plans to Hawaii that you were blogging about a few days ago? No? We’re here to help people who need it, not so you can save a few dollars, GOODBYE.”. These people are usually worth 6 figures or more and should be shot.
•Only kids say thank you - A sad state of affairs that the adults and older kids usually don’t bother with a simple “Thank you” even though she makes everything happen herself. There’s no team of volunteers, no paid workers, just Little Sis setting up trips to Disney on Ice, group ice skating trips, clothes shopping trips, etc. I’ve had to talk her out of tears more than a few times, remind her that her kids and her big brother are DAMN proud of her work
•People who think that NPO = Free money. Mostly friends, they think that Little Sis can just pull money from the NPO so that they can go on vacation, go to the movies, whatever. Forget the fact that that would equate fraud and put Little Sis in a federal pen.
•Personal attacks – This one puts me into a murderous rage. Little Sis puts in for freebies EVERYWHERE. She’s won so many things from various stores and radio call in promos that it’s not even funny. She almost always uses what she wins for the family. There have been a few people who will friend Little Sis on Facebook, and when she will post “I won this!” they will attack her, calling her a liar and a thief and accuse her of stealing from the NPO to give her kids presents. Most recently was a $150 charm bracelet that she got with a gift cert that she won from a local jeweler. It got so nasty that she had to delete the thread and immediately unfriended the person with a simple message “You’re an ass, that was a present for my 8 year old daughter that I won legitimately. Don’t bother asking for our help again”
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