Celebrity actress backlash asking for donations to kid's baseball team. Drives $200K car.

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Celebrity/actress Alyssa Milano had asked for donations for his sons baseball team using a Go Fund Me page. She already got backlash for that but then is scene driving in a 2023 electric Porsche valued at $200,000

Alyssa Milano spotted driving $200,000 Porsche after donation request

Her excuse was she already did things for the team like buying uniforms, hosting parties etc.

Well how do non celebrities and lower income families raise money? Door to door requests. candy sales, fund raisers, raffles, look for local sponsors but that is apparently too much work for this princess.

Lazy to say the least
 

Is this a case of she makes a ton of money so she's expected to pay all of the team's expenses? Everyone else gets a free ride?

Maybe she is cheap and lazy and hasn't done anything, she'd still have to do what every other parent is required to do for her kid to play on the team. Maybe all the parents can afford it, and they shouldn't need to raise any money?

If she's already done her part, maybe she shouldn't have been the front person asking for donations?

This is way out of my league anyway...
 
Debrah N. said:
I don't know who she is but sounds like she's already doing things for the kids. Even the act of setting up the Go Fund Me and managing it is doing something.
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She is doing things for the team which is good. And the other parents are relying on or exploiting her celebrity. Like I mentioned in the op why not go old school like most kids leagues and parents do. Even if she showed up at a charity car wash, lemonade stand etc that would help and seem more sincere because she's donating her time.

Also celebrities rely on good pr so why pick a website that is ripe with scams and abuse. Go fund me is an online tin cup sometimes used for good and others used by criminal scammers. She actually would've gotten good publicity probably just making a couple of appearances on behalf of her sons team and made just as much money. Local leagues and teams raise money for their kids all the time without panhandling online.
 
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WhatInThe said:
Also celebrities rely on good pr so why pick a website that is ripe with scams and abuse. Go fund me is an online tin cup sometimes used for good and others used by criminal scammers. She actually would've gotten good publicity probably just making a couple of appearances on behalf of her sons team and made just as much money. Local leagues and teams raise money for their kids all the time without panhandling online.
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There’s no reason these kids can’t fund raise the old-fashioned way. If they want to go on a trip, they and their parents can put some effort in.
 
birdy said:
I think her husband is the head of CAA. They are not hurting for money.
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I wouldn’t expect them to pay for the travel expenses for everyone. If these are kids from his neighbourhood, they’re all from rich families. Maybe physical labour (car washes, etc) is beneath them, when they can work the GFM system.
 
WhatInThe said:
She is doing things for the team which is good. And the other parents are relying on or exploiting her celebrity. Like I mentioned in the op why not go old school like most kids leagues and parents do. Even if she showed up at a charity car wash, lemonade stand etc that would help and seem more sincere because she's donating her time.

Also celebrities rely on good pr so why pick a website that is ripe with scams and abuse. Go fund me is an online tin cup sometimes used for good and others used by criminal scammers. She actually would've gotten good publicity probably just making a couple of appearances on behalf of her sons team and made just as much money. Local leagues and teams raise money for their kids all the time without panhandling online.
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Well, I think she's done more than most (like what about all the parents of the other kids?) and Go Fund Me's have helped a lot of people in other bad situations so I'm not going to knock it.

Some examples are the Ashton Kutcher/Mila Kunas effort, using GFM to raise $37 million for Ukrainian people who have been hurt in that awful war. Then a family in Florida who lost everything in Hurricane Ian and the campaign to help them, raised $28,000. And there are countless other campaigns that have helped vets, homeless people, people who had cancer and couldn't afford treatment.

I read one page that said that Go Fund Me has raised $5 billion in its history and that's a lot of people helped. Are there unsuccessful campaigns, apparently yes. Badly written, badly managed and probably a few in there where cheats took advantage of the program. But I think what's more wonderful and worth focusing on, is that so many people cared enough about someone else's hurt to chip in a few bucks when they could and wonderful that some cared enough to go to the effort of setting up a campaign to help others. Be happy for the good that comes out of it.

It's like giving to a local food bank every time you go shopping! Couple cans of something or a box of cereal, my opportunity to 'chip in just a little' because I have more than someone who's going through hard times. Should we just adopt the attitude that those people who use food banks, 'should just get a job'? Well maybe they're trying or maybe some illness is making that less easy than for others. And I'll bet there isn't a 'sell wrapping paper door to door' or bake sale that can match the reach of a nation wide Go Fund Me campaign.

https://www.crowdcrux.com/7-inspiri...nd-us-not-everyone-in-the-world-is-apathetic/
 
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This latest GoFundMe incident has really highlighted a disconnect between her wealth and her actions. It would be one thing if she were advocating for a worthy cause that she wasn't personally connected to, but asking for money for her own son's baseball team when she could easily cover the costs herself is definitely a tone-deaf move.
 
Pinky said:
I wouldn't want to be wealthy .. everyone has a hand out, and thinks you owe them a living. If I ever won a Lotto, I wouldn't tell anyone.
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I wouldn't want that pressure either. I'd do the same as you if I could although don't those lotteries like. to use winners for their advertising? But after that was over, keep it to myself and then use my wealth to help where I could. I'm sure most of us have favourite charities both in our communities and nationally or internationally. Like the local SPCA or maybe Operation Smile.....things like that. Wouldn't that be fabulous to be able to give wads of cash regularly to those sorts of things? I'd love it. We have a couple of those sorts of things in our wills.
 
I don’t care much about what celebrities think, say, or feel. They are just people like you and I. And they are not smarter than most of us. Many are very ignorant about what they talk about and advocate. Often they are very hypocritical. For example, they will fly to some Green Environmental meeting, grandstand about how we must preserve the Earth and its environment, and then travel home. They travel on private jets and huge yachts, and then are found staying at fancy 5-star resorts. All of which have huge carbon footprints.

If a person wants to give to a cause, then do it. If not, then don’t. Don’t worry about some celebrity.
 
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Heard a story today of a fellow who flipped out when he saw a collection jar at the grocery store. The jar had photo and sad tale of an 8 year old with cancer. When the manager came, he man explained that this was his DD and the person had stolen his identity and daughter’s life off FB.
 
Brookswood said:
I don’t care much about what celebrities think, say, or feel. They are just people like you and I. And they are not smarter than most of us. Many are very ignorant about what they talk about and advocate. Often they are very hypocritical. For example, they will fly to some Green Environmental meeting, grandstand about how we must preserve the Earth and its environment, and then travel home. They travel on private jets and huge yachts, and then are found staying at fancy 5-star resorts. All of which have huge carbon footprints.

If a person wants to give to a cause, then do it. If not, then don’t. Don’t worry about some celebrity.
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The thing is, celebrity's have a bigger platform than an average citizen and as such, they have a bigger opportunity to bring causes to the attention of more people who are likely to support those causes through money, goods, services, etc. And that's why their voice is important.
 

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