captaincrash
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The Make a Wish organization is my preferred charity.... 
.... donating time and funds. I appreciate that their administrative ratio against budget is extremely slim - especially compared to other organizations claiming to be charitable.
Plus - I've experienced personal loss and the passing of loved ones - and I truly admire the objectives and achievement of the Make a Wish chapters.
Reading this thread brings a quiet measure of satisfaction that they set aside an evening with their expensive ship to host a fund raiser. Although they might have had to park the Magic anyway for what-ever reason - I imagine their bean counters would otherwise prefer to keep the boat "working". Most other companies might agonize over parking an asset as large and valuable as a 3/4 billion dollar cruise ship for a nite to benefit a charity.
I would guess the ship might lose an average of $200 per adult passenger - and if we were to assume a full ship with about 1600 out of the 1754 person capacity in the 877 cabins - then they gave up 3.2 million in revenue for ONE day! Not counting the revenue from the last 154 passengers. So - in effect Disney gave up an estimated 3.2 million in revenue, plus they had to pay for their idle staff for the ship for one day - and depreciate the $700,000,000 ship (original cost when launched) one day as parked in port! Er, rather they will no doubt write off the loss on one day as a charitable donation (if they can). But my point is the "donation" of $2,000,000 cash + loss in revenue of about $3,000,000 plus the idle staff costs (if some of their staff were idle) - plus one days' depreciation on a 700M ship amount to a fairly generous donation + not counting that the charitiable organization brings lots of very very sick kids for a day at a Disney park - probably also largely donated by Disney. The resources they have given to the Make a Wish Foundation and sick kids is a huge committment.
I for one do not mind patronizing an organization like DIsney with the annual passes we have - our last 2 DCL cruises (one coming up in September on the Magic) and all the DVDs and Disney movies and things we've purchased. The only thing I have not done yet but I think we'll revisit is INVESTING a little in DISNEY STOCK. Not in seeking a killing in profit - but in making an investment "endorsement" of their firm.
Heck... I work for a $50,000,000,000 company in upper middle management and regrettably we do not engage in many nobel community service fnctions like this one - but our firm does engage in commmunity service - just not the same as Disney.
At any rate - pardon my soap-box chatter - it's just a little something I wanted to share with any who might read through my lengthy dribble.
* a healthy sprinkling of Pixie Dust to all! *
regards from,
Tom & Alicia
.... donating time and funds. I appreciate that their administrative ratio against budget is extremely slim - especially compared to other organizations claiming to be charitable.
Plus - I've experienced personal loss and the passing of loved ones - and I truly admire the objectives and achievement of the Make a Wish chapters.
Reading this thread brings a quiet measure of satisfaction that they set aside an evening with their expensive ship to host a fund raiser. Although they might have had to park the Magic anyway for what-ever reason - I imagine their bean counters would otherwise prefer to keep the boat "working". Most other companies might agonize over parking an asset as large and valuable as a 3/4 billion dollar cruise ship for a nite to benefit a charity.
I would guess the ship might lose an average of $200 per adult passenger - and if we were to assume a full ship with about 1600 out of the 1754 person capacity in the 877 cabins - then they gave up 3.2 million in revenue for ONE day! Not counting the revenue from the last 154 passengers. So - in effect Disney gave up an estimated 3.2 million in revenue, plus they had to pay for their idle staff for the ship for one day - and depreciate the $700,000,000 ship (original cost when launched) one day as parked in port! Er, rather they will no doubt write off the loss on one day as a charitable donation (if they can). But my point is the "donation" of $2,000,000 cash + loss in revenue of about $3,000,000 plus the idle staff costs (if some of their staff were idle) - plus one days' depreciation on a 700M ship amount to a fairly generous donation + not counting that the charitiable organization brings lots of very very sick kids for a day at a Disney park - probably also largely donated by Disney. The resources they have given to the Make a Wish Foundation and sick kids is a huge committment.
I for one do not mind patronizing an organization like DIsney with the annual passes we have - our last 2 DCL cruises (one coming up in September on the Magic) and all the DVDs and Disney movies and things we've purchased. The only thing I have not done yet but I think we'll revisit is INVESTING a little in DISNEY STOCK. Not in seeking a killing in profit - but in making an investment "endorsement" of their firm.
Heck... I work for a $50,000,000,000 company in upper middle management and regrettably we do not engage in many nobel community service fnctions like this one - but our firm does engage in commmunity service - just not the same as Disney.
At any rate - pardon my soap-box chatter - it's just a little something I wanted to share with any who might read through my lengthy dribble.
* a healthy sprinkling of Pixie Dust to all! *
regards from,
Tom & Alicia
