Ted Rall Tweaks American Cancer Society For Seeking Free Work

The cartoonist Ted Rall runs a letter he received from and the letter he sent in return to the American Cancer Society. They wrote Rall and presumably others seeking free work -- immediate free work -- in return for some combination of the exposure and one might guess an endorsement of the organization's charitable goals and outcomes regarding same. This intrigues me because organizations like the American Cancer Society presumably ask for free work all of the time from lots of volunteers.

In an industry where people bizarrely do work for free or with a leveraged-against-them contract for people that are seeking to directly and immediately profit from their work, or at least accrue some sort of status by publishing it, suggesting that standards of pay for play be applied to an organization like this one constitutes a forward position. I do think by paying certain people and not others that organizations like the American Cancer Society open themselves up to this kind of thing, though, for sure, and what percentage of a group's received money and volunteer time go where is a huge issue and due diligence as to this matter should be part of everyone's charitable giving. As I recall, the ACS has specifically been criticized in the past for high organization-to-outlay costs in its regional offices. In general it's highly preferable to demand this sort of respect across the board than not at all.
 
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