Uneasy feeling about quilts donated to Ronald McDonald House
03-01-2010, 12:56 PM
#51
Super Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,162
Originally Posted by tigger5464
Good for you about going in person. That way, IMO, they can't ignore you or your emails. They have to come up with some type of answer. I can see both sides of the problem...npo and donations, but the npo's need to really understand the donors side also? That by this type of thing happening, it hurts all npo's.
This is just MHO and I hope that you get this resolved soon. Keep us posted please?
This is just MHO and I hope that you get this resolved soon. Keep us posted please?
03-01-2010, 01:24 PM
#52
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 2,055
This is what happens way to often in organizations....
I am sorry to say that when things like this happen it tends to turn people off........ and then these organizations wonder why donations go down.
I would want to find out just what happened with my quilts and make sure it didn't happen again.
Good luck finding out and please keep us posted.
I am sorry to say that when things like this happen it tends to turn people off........ and then these organizations wonder why donations go down.
I would want to find out just what happened with my quilts and make sure it didn't happen again.
Good luck finding out and please keep us posted.
03-01-2010, 02:22 PM
#53
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 506
Originally Posted by ghostrider
You are all so eager to assume the very worst of these people without giving them the opportunity to explain before going over their heads. They may not even have received the email messages due to vacations, conferences, illnesses, computer crashes, any number of things.
Extreme Quilter, until you actually speak with them, I think you are being terribly unfair and, as a NPO administrator and board member, I find your prejudgement frightening. Why have you not picked up the phone and called them in all the weeks this has been eating at you?
Extreme Quilter, until you actually speak with them, I think you are being terribly unfair and, as a NPO administrator and board member, I find your prejudgement frightening. Why have you not picked up the phone and called them in all the weeks this has been eating at you?
I was a little fired up at what appears to be an attack on Extreme Quilter and the rest of us for sharing our opinion. As an NPO adminstrator I would think you, above all, would be concerned with the lack of response from staff and the director and how that reflects on the RMH. The "need" for the private home phone number and a conversation makes it sound like someone is trying to cover something up. Extreme Quilter has made several attempts at clarifying the RMH error and has a right to ask for the opinion of others.
Just so you know, this situation would not keep me from donating. It would just help me to clarify how my donation is to be used.
03-01-2010, 03:20 PM
#54
Super Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 5,453
No one is attacking her..And i am sorry if it has been taken that way.
I hope it all works out well for her, and she finds out what she needs to know about her quilts.
this now leaves me out of this thread..with best wishes and a happy resolution for all involved...
I hope it all works out well for her, and she finds out what she needs to know about her quilts.
this now leaves me out of this thread..with best wishes and a happy resolution for all involved...
03-01-2010, 10:12 PM
#55
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Oklahoma city Okla
Posts: 141
Hello i thought RMH is a nonprofit organzation then why is this unknown person buying quilts from RMH & what's really strange the director hurry and answer the 1st e-mail ,then when you started to inquire about the unknown person wanting you to make her a quilt she pass the buck,and refuse to answer any more mail, the unknown person has busted the director & her staff member, they' in this together please hurry and call headquarter, i wouldn't tell her anything (director) she would then have enough time to cover her tracks, this is my two cents.let us know what happens because if it's not misunderstanding they're doing other people the same way LOL Annette
03-01-2010, 10:13 PM
#56
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Oklahoma city Okla
Posts: 141
Hello i thought RMH is a nonprofit organzation then why is this unknown person buying quilts from RMH & what's really strange the director hurry and answer the 1st e-mail ,then when you started to inquire about the unknown person wanting you to make her a quilt she pass the buck,and refuse to answer any more mail, the unknown person has busted the director & her staff member, they' in this together please hurry and call headquarter, i wouldn't tell her anything (director) she would then have enough time to cover her tracks, this is my two cents.let us know what happens because if it's not misunderstanding they're doing other people the same way LOL Annette
03-02-2010, 04:04 AM
#58
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: pa
Posts: 305
As a staff member of a local PA RMH I would make a personal trip to your local house...WE do not ever sell our wuilts, they are given tot he sick children or the parents of them for the child! Yor situation is NOT common practice, and I would personally address it and get answers. So sorry for your problem, I hope you continue to give to charities...whichever one you choose!
03-02-2010, 05:45 AM
#60
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Illinois
Posts: 5,142
I never donate anything to national "charities". I ony do local things so that I know they are going for things they are intended to go for. When I donate them to children's homes I just ask if it's going to be sold or given to a child so that I know what's going to happen to it.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
mochasue
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
3
07-10-2009 06:56 AM
