If They Only Knew …

The complainer used the quote to try and paint Vaneeda and her staff as manipulative tricksters whose sole purpose in life is to separate good people from their money. Did he fail to mention the life-saving work ADA does? Of course. Did he cherry-pick certain parts of the story and try to change their meaning by wrapping them up in his own biases? Indeed. But he also found an audience and garnered dozens of supportive responses — most seemingly based on a general belief that nonprofits should somehow do the work they do without support from the public, and that angels should descend from the heavens to feed the hungry, house the homeless, save abused children and animals, make art available to the masses, teach people to read, etc. (Fundraisers, of course, know that those angels do exist. They’re called donors.)