Jirard has never come across as the type of guy who would knowingly just sit on something like this. Another video and thread here seems to imply his brother is running the account and Jirard didn’t know until last year that the money hadn’t been donated, so the brother may be the one primarily at fault? The fact that it was just sitting there unused also implies to me more incompetence or negligence instead of bad intent, so I do want to give them at least a bit of BOTD. That said, that still leaves a whole year where both brothers were just sitting on the money. If they really are looking for “the right place” to donate the money to, they’d better pick a place/places fast and get that money out. Either way they’re probably gonna see a lot fewer donations in the future. If they’re just collecting money from their followers and donating it somewhere else, they may as well just do what a bunch of other content creators do (and what I think they do for their other charitable stuff IIRC) and just do marathon videos/streams with links to just donate to the charities directly in the chat/comments. Cuts out the middleman and keeps them out of this kind of trouble.
The Completionist's Charity Has Been Lying To You For Years
Submitted 1 year ago by Goronmon@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QItBdql_8FI
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Grangle1@lemm.ee 1 year ago
helloharu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That said, that still leaves a whole year where both brothers were just sitting on the money. If they really are looking for “the right place” to donate the money to, they’d better pick a place/places fast and get that money out.
Sorry I don’t know much about these guys and how they operate, so it may need explaining, but that rings alarm bells for me. Why didn’t they know and communicate that with everyone donating to begin with? I’m not sure I’d have parted with any money if I didn’t know upfront where it was going.
Grangle1@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Jirard was asked essentially that by Mutahar and Karl and he said that the foundation was “looking for the right place to donate it to that aligns with our values” and that when he found out there was internal conflict within the foundation about when and where to donate, with Jirard himself, by his own account, being in favor of getting the money out sooner than later. Unfortunately, that just led to further delays. Just terrible incompetence by all parties involved.
ioslife@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
TLDW?
Goronmon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The only thing the charity has done with the money donated has been to pay for it’s own expenses. The rest has just been sitting in an account somewhere. No grants or anything have been made with the money so far.
At least that what the charity’s filings claim.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
How can it have expenses at all if it’s just a bank account held by the guy’s brother? Why does it need to be a charity or exist at all if they’re just donating the money to another group, why be a middle man?
This whole thing reeks, imo.
Carighan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I never even heard of them, but fuck. Damn. ☹️
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Even if keeping the money on on a bank account for nine years was an honest mistake: Don’t tell that every penny will be donated and then deduct expenses.
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 1 year ago
Is it not normal for a charity to deduct expenses from donated funds? I didnt think that was the scandalous part, I always thought that was standard practice for charities in general.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, it is normal but then credible organizations then won’t make the claim that everything will be donated. When such statements are made, the reasonable expectation is that costs are covered by 3rd parties.
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m not sure if this fits here, but that’s the main difference between “100% of profit” vs “100% of revenue”