Google results can tell you a lot about an organization.

I wanted this blog to be balanced so I started googling WWF to see if there is any criticism about their recruitment or donation policies. I was planning on making a post discussing the criticisms and my reaction to them. What I found was nothing related to recruitment or donation, only two links had criticism of any sort moderately critiquing actions in the Philippines and Australia.

Here is what I googled:
Anti WWF
Stop WWF
WWF Criticism

All other criticisms were about the World Wide Wrestling Federation, which used to have the same initials, WWF.

I have been doing a lot of research about this blog pertaining to recruitment and donation policies for Greenpeace. After looking for negative comments on WWF I started doing the same for Greenpeace, so I googled the same adjectives I did with the WWF:

Anti-Greenpeace
Stop Greenpeace
Greenpeace Criticism

What I found was night and day. Where WWF had only two legit criticisms, Greenpeace has pages. Most of the grievances have little do with recruitment, so I tried googling "Greenpeace annoying." If you follow some of the links you find that people have posted on a forum speaking out against Greenpeace recruitment policies and the post will get pages of responses in agreement.


I know Greenpeace won't change how they go about recruiting and receiving donations, they are an aggressive "anything to get press" type of organization much like PETA. Also like PETA, they rub a lot of people the wrong way, and although it works for PETA it isn't working for Greenpeace. Canada has taken away its charity status. The WWF receives double the amount of donations without using street recruiters. They have been proven to use false facts to garner support. The public goes out of their way to avoid them.

It is time for a change. That change can start with you, Abigail Smith. You are in charge of the recruiters in Orange County. Tell the recruiters you oversee to be respectful and give people space. It will result in less money at first, but more respect. People will donate to an organization they respect.


Like the WWF.

Concerned about the environment. Respectful. Successful.