k9dancer

I don't think it's about ego. Many of us have to scrimp and save, and to have our investment of time and money bring in less than we put into it is heartbreaking. Not only that, but the charity loses, too, and here's how:
Let's say someone hires a band to put on a concert. That person says to the charity, "you can have all the proceeds of the concert." The concert cost, let's say $5000 for the band and the venue. We haven't even added in the cost of promotion, which was only about a month prior to the concert. Not enough time. Anyway, the ticket sales were under a thousand dollars. So the concert goes in the hole over $4000; the promoter, who wanted to benefit the charity, was a nice guy, but the charity would have been better served by the $5000 instead of the few hundred that they gained. I know, because I am an officer of that charity. This is a true story.