The nation of Singapore, which has among the best economies of the world this year in 2010, donated a massive $1.07 billion. The National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre (NVPC) observed this in its latest study. In fact ever since the NVPC began back in 2004 it has never before borne witness to such massive charity being done by the country.
The same time there has also been this fear of cheating and fraud for there are still a number of people out there more than willing to misappropriate the funds as given by people in charity. In fact, one of the headlines which made it to national news big time was that of a Singapore Red Cross employee. He had misappropriated about ninety thousand dollars worth of charity funds in his own favor and thus cheated. After his cheat was discovered, the man was handed over to the police and suspended.
The law has become stricter when it comes to keeping an eye on any sort of misappropriation of funds. The other big names to have come out with matters of such misappropriation of funds are; The National Kidney Foundation, Ren Ci Hospital and Medicare Centre among others.
But all said and done, this is still not stopping people one bit from readily continuing with their charitable deeds and giving a decent chunk of their monthly earnings to charity. At h same time, many other charity groups and organizations have started to ensure that their working is more transparent and thus people may be able to view things more clearly.
There would thus not be an opportunity for a member to cheat as far as the funds are concerned. The Boys' Brigade Share-A-Gift programme for example also doesn’t only rely on monetary donations but rather also charity being done in the form of food, clothing, household items etc.
FLIP project includes participation of local students to provide nonprofit fundraising ideas for charity to create community awareness in Gibraltar amongst the teenagers.
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