When we looked into the crises regarding the company, we actually found a lot of articles that state why people stopped supporting the organization.
1. The Telegraph - Why I Stopped Supporting Save the Children?
- the organization is giving cash to parents in UK rather in to the kids in developing countries and people find that move political.
There are no children suffering from malnutrition in Britain, and if there is, there shouldn't be because there are lots of ways and rights in the country that could help preventing that case.
Save the Children said that the money that they donate to UK is coming from the corporate donors rather than the regular contributors but people still do not like that situation.
"We want to do a little to help the kids of Mumbai, whose miserable lives we glimpsed from the comfort of our cinema seats when watchingSlumdog Millionaire; and the children who scavenge the rubbish tips of South-East Asia or Latin America for food or items that they can sell; or the truly malnourished of Africa. What do charity workers on the front line there feel when they see their organisations becoming quasi-political?"
-The organization is protecting its corporate donors by censoring criticism about them. British Gas is one of them for instance, and it is said that Save the Children earned £1.5m over 10 years by the company. The charity is also accused of dropping a potential campaign on the effects of fuel poverty on children while it was under consideration for funding from EDF. The Independent reached emails that showed the senior staff was worried to damage the partnership with EDF. Reaction from Save the Children: The charity, which has a partnership with the drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline and a £23.5m deal with Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Reckitt Benckiser to stop children dying from diarrhoea, said earlier this year that a key part of its strategy was “not being afraid to be commercially focused”. However, one of the former senior managers claimed that the NGO went a bit too far to protect its partners and quashing the news. Dominic Nutt explains this to the Independent as: Dominic Nutt, the head of the press team at Save the Children until 2009, told Panorama he had been keen to campaign on fuel poverty because of the pressures it put on poor families but claimed press releases criticising price rises by British Gas were “spiked”. Writing in The Independent, Mr Nutt says: “When British Gas put their prices up, our policy colleagues asked us to send out a press release condemning them… I wrote the release, got it approved by the policy experts and prepared to press ‘send’. “But the release was spiked because, I was told, it would upset British Gas who were Save the Children donors. The quest for money is beginning to destroy the mission.” Save the Children acknowledged that a fuel-poverty campaign had been at the early stages of consideration but said the idea “didn’t get to first base” because of a separate campaign on UK child poverty. A spokesman said there was no connection between any publicity plans and the EDF funding, which eventually went to another charity. Justin Forsyth, the chief executive of Save the Children, said: “It is simply wrong and misleading to suggest our silence can be bought. We will continue to campaign on all the areas we think matter most to saving children’s lives both at home and abroad. Save the Children would never put in jeopardy our values and our cause by pulling our punches on a campaign for money from a corporate partnership.” http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-price-of-charity-save-the-children-exposed-after-seeking-approval-of-energy-firms-8994225.html 3. Daily Mail: Do You Donate to the Bosses and Employees in Save the Children? Save the Children increased performance-related pay to executives by a third compared to the previous year, a move that could prove controversial following criticism of the huge pay-packets enjoyed by charity bosses. Reaction From Save the Children: ‘Save the Children does not run a bonus pool for its senior executives. Instead, all staff pay increases are related to performance, and the salaries of our executive directors contain a performance related element.' Save The Children spokesman //www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2386616/Save-The-Children-bosses-160-000-bonuses-MP-calls-greater-scrutiny-charity-
1. The Telegraph - Why I Stopped Supporting Save the Children?
- the organization is giving cash to parents in UK rather in to the kids in developing countries and people find that move political.
There are no children suffering from malnutrition in Britain, and if there is, there shouldn't be because there are lots of ways and rights in the country that could help preventing that case.
Save the Children said that the money that they donate to UK is coming from the corporate donors rather than the regular contributors but people still do not like that situation.
"We want to do a little to help the kids of Mumbai, whose miserable lives we glimpsed from the comfort of our cinema seats when watchingSlumdog Millionaire; and the children who scavenge the rubbish tips of South-East Asia or Latin America for food or items that they can sell; or the truly malnourished of Africa. What do charity workers on the front line there feel when they see their organisations becoming quasi-political?"
2. The Independent - The Price of Charity: Save the Children Exposed After Seeking Approval of Energy Firms
-The organization is protecting its corporate donors by censoring criticism about them. British Gas is one of them for instance, and it is said that Save the Children earned £1.5m over 10 years by the company. The charity is also accused of dropping a potential campaign on the effects of fuel poverty on children while it was under consideration for funding from EDF. The Independent reached emails that showed the senior staff was worried to damage the partnership with EDF. Reaction from Save the Children: The charity, which has a partnership with the drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline and a £23.5m deal with Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Reckitt Benckiser to stop children dying from diarrhoea, said earlier this year that a key part of its strategy was “not being afraid to be commercially focused”. However, one of the former senior managers claimed that the NGO went a bit too far to protect its partners and quashing the news. Dominic Nutt explains this to the Independent as: Dominic Nutt, the head of the press team at Save the Children until 2009, told Panorama he had been keen to campaign on fuel poverty because of the pressures it put on poor families but claimed press releases criticising price rises by British Gas were “spiked”. Writing in The Independent, Mr Nutt says: “When British Gas put their prices up, our policy colleagues asked us to send out a press release condemning them… I wrote the release, got it approved by the policy experts and prepared to press ‘send’. “But the release was spiked because, I was told, it would upset British Gas who were Save the Children donors. The quest for money is beginning to destroy the mission.” Save the Children acknowledged that a fuel-poverty campaign had been at the early stages of consideration but said the idea “didn’t get to first base” because of a separate campaign on UK child poverty. A spokesman said there was no connection between any publicity plans and the EDF funding, which eventually went to another charity. Justin Forsyth, the chief executive of Save the Children, said: “It is simply wrong and misleading to suggest our silence can be bought. We will continue to campaign on all the areas we think matter most to saving children’s lives both at home and abroad. Save the Children would never put in jeopardy our values and our cause by pulling our punches on a campaign for money from a corporate partnership.” http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-price-of-charity-save-the-children-exposed-after-seeking-approval-of-energy-firms-8994225.html 3. Daily Mail: Do You Donate to the Bosses and Employees in Save the Children? Save the Children increased performance-related pay to executives by a third compared to the previous year, a move that could prove controversial following criticism of the huge pay-packets enjoyed by charity bosses. Reaction From Save the Children: ‘Save the Children does not run a bonus pool for its senior executives. Instead, all staff pay increases are related to performance, and the salaries of our executive directors contain a performance related element.' Save The Children spokesman //www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2386616/Save-The-Children-bosses-160-000-bonuses-MP-calls-greater-scrutiny-charity-