Originally Posted by Feather3
Here's a true example of WM's wonderful community charity:
A WM Rep came to the motorcycle club my huz belongs to several years ago. The club is non-profit & does charity for children who have illiness. They donate to any other organization as long as they get some kind of recognition. The club has raised & donated many thousands of dollars over the years. The club's walls are lined with plaques & trophies for donations. WM was asking the club (which has around 65 members) to donate to them, so they could take that money & donate it to a local family who had a terminal child. The club asked if they did this would the club get any recognition. The answer was NO, but WM would. We were shocked that such a big company would consider such a thing. The club told this person we don't do that, but would donate directly to the family. The rep refused to give the club the families name & address. I've heard more stores like this. WM is all about image.
In light of the above, I wanted to relay a story about our local Starbucks. Starbucks has a program where they will pay local charitable organizations $10 per hour for every hour one of their Starbuck's employees volunteers at some function of the charitable organization. We did that with them last year and it was a great success. And the kicker: Starbucks does NOT want their name mentioned anywhere during the event. They realize that the event is about the CHARITY, not about STARBUCKS. That's class, and that's the way it ought to be.