Good on you for posting this. I live in Australia and regularly give to a charity, I've checked them out by personally visiting some of the facilities they run and they're ok.
But I do know there are a lot of unscrupulous people out "there" who set up businesses, pretend to be charities, get government funding, employ their cronnies, and do a lot of fundraising with "guilt-trip" advertising. I can think of a couple down here who are VERY high profile organisations but won't mention them. Their self righteous attitude when they approach you on the street for a donation really gets my goat.
As for the "small fry" dodgy/incompetent or downright dishonest "charities", people need to be vigilant when giving away their hard earned money, and it really makes it very difficult for the honest charities to get money.
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