I worked in the charity sector for years. One thing that always stuck with me is a colleague that said the main aim of any given charity should eventually be to no longer be necessary. You identify the need, you address and eradicate it. However, as we also discussed most charity is born out of inequality so should not be necessary in the first place. The fact that it is renders it unlikely that you will ever fully address the need.
My major issue is how much the state now relies on charities and goodwill to address social issues that one could argue should be addressed by government; mental health, unemployment, recidivism and so on. In a properly funded democracy, these are the kinds of challenges that govt at local and national level should be resourced fully to address. Look at something like mental health and how terrible public services are through lack of money, and just how much they are propped up by charitable interventions. If you suddenly took all charities away it would be calamitous.
