Charities Need Slots Revenues to Sustain Themselves
Places like the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars both have to raise money for charity to operate. They spend a good portion of the year doing various fundraisers and lotteries that help them bring money into the businesses and the majority of the money, in turn, is given away to charity. Sometimes its children, hospitals, needy families and the homeless who receive the funds and all of the charity organizations rely on the money from fundraising to sustain them throughout the year.
In the post-recession economy however, charity money is not coming in. Places that normally would raise funds are being stifled by the market and having a hard time bringing the help they used to have into their businesses. Many of them use some form of a gambling night with all of the proceeds going to charity, but as more states have allowed slot machines to come in it has made it less popular among residents to go to the smaller locations to play. People are more prone to go to big-name casinos rather than to small VFW basements for their gambling needs. As a result, the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars want to do something proactive. Both organizations are looking to bring in slot machines to their own organizations in an effort to bring in more money and help charities.
Logic dictates that more good can come from patrons gambling at VFW halls and the American Legion than playing at casinos. Without the slot machines they don’t stand much of a chance because of gambling proceeds are going to the numerous casinos around instead. It would not take much for places like this to be able to offer the same thing that the large casinos are offering only on a smaller scale. Without some move, the smaller organizations will slowly have to close down. They can’t bring in the money they need to sustain themselves and to support charities at the same time. Charities are having problems because their budgets are cut drastically and some programs are even being eliminated. Hopefully some decision will be made and small organizations will be allowed to bring in slots and rely on them. Although that may not be the sure-fire answer if people fail to support them and opt for large casinos to play slots at.
