Locks of Love

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I knew I had read somewhere [last question on that page] that Locks of Love might not be as lovey-dovey as they would like to be, but had forgotten where.

subbes has a number of links which may be of interest to those who were considering donating to Locks of Love.

Comments

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Nobody, except them, really knows where that huge amount of money goes.

They make something like US$300k each year, about US$150k of it from selling your precious hair, and the vast majority of it apparently goes out to advertising - ie, getting even more people to give even more hair to get even more money for even more advertising to get even more hair to get even more money for even more advertising...

Just over 100 wigs/year, compared with the heaps of hair people send to them, sounds to me like a complete ripoff.

Surely, they don't need THAT much money to maintain the staff and organizational structure that's actually nessecary to run such an organization. Making 113 wigs every year, you don't really need a very large staff, and most of your costs should go towards making the wigs and paying your MINIMAL staff. I think that every year that should cost them next to nothing, surely not the amount of money they make off that hair.

And how many of the kids they give wigs to have families that could easily afford purchasing a real-hair wig, as opposed to having it given to them free-of-charge?