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Originally Posted by jeanm1963  My daughter cut off nearly 15 inches of hair at 11 years of age and donated it to Locks of love.. I learned later they are not such a great company and do not use most of the hair donated....
Here is the article that was sent to me AFTER she had cut her hair and donated it! Bad Hair Day: Locks of Love is a Scam
I was still so proud of her because her intentions were good   |
After reading your post, I found some interesting information:
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Locks of Love has received criticism for its practice of selling donated hair, rather than using it in wigs as the donors expect. They refer to the hair they sell as "unusable material," but the buyers are using it to make wigs. According to a 2003 report by the Better Business Bureau’s Wise Giving Alliance, in 2002 alone Locks of Love had raised over $150,000 by selling donated hair and had received another $213,000 in charitable contributions and grants, but provided only 113 human-hair wigs.
Locks of Love representatives are frequent guests on The Oprah Winfrey Show and other daytime television shows, where they provide haircuts to guests and audience members, often using guilt trips as manipulation (this is something they encourage of all donors). Though the representatives and show hosts normally suggest that the hair collected during the show will go into a wig, that the wigs are given free of charge to children with cancer, neither of these outcomes is guaranteed or accurate (rarely do the wigs go to children with cancer). The organization was formed to help people with the illness of alopecia, not to help cancer patients.
Accountability standards
The Better Business Bureau report issued July 2008 states that Locks of Love does not meet its standards for charity accountability because the organization did not accurately report the charity's expenses in its financial statements despite requests for that information. The Better Business Bureau reports that Locks of Love made $352,401 from "unusable material sales". Locks of Love - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Don't know if Wigs for Kids is any better, not as much information is out there on them, but I do know that they only accept hair that has not been colored or processed, and may have a problem getting enough hair. Here's there site:
How to Cut a Ponytail for Donation | Wigs For Kids