My Nonprofit Reviews

As someone who worked for Ad Agencies producing Direct Mail, the last mailing ended it for me in making any contributions. ELEVEN items, all expensive to produce. Included a large 4 color printed custom mailer, 4 color over B/W 2 sided letter, a perfed 4/C over B/W certificate, a 4/C over B/W drawing/letter; a custom daily planner, perfect bound, with a foiled cover & a placement ribbon; a 4/C over 4/C die-cut backer that held a pen, & the planner. Attached to this backer is also 4/C printed Music CD, & a 4/C printed CD Sleeve with a glassine front. All off these items have to be assembled, inserted into the mailer with a foam type protector, sealed with clear disks, then labeled from pre-printed address mailing labels.
All these elements need to be written & designed by an agency, approved
by the management team, & final digital Art must be produced by the agency to go to a variety of Printers. The bigger the package, the higher the postage costs. Given the large stream of CONTINUAL mailings of truly unwanted stuff - it's obviously going to cover those costs. Especially since there is such a small base at the school, the monies have to be going more towards outside support & vendors, cranking out these packages vs. going to the school & children. With more moderately produced & FEWER mailings, you'd have more money going where it's truly needed, the School & the children. And the fact that this non-profit "Machine" is not transparent & refuses to release just how their funding is distributed, what their top people pull in as salaries, & has no charity rating for people to determine if this is where they want their funding to go - this is not the place to put your money. Note their direct mailing lists are also being resold, as other Indian charities now have access to you.