Locks of Love

[funkytuba]

Thanks for the interesting link, Ilona! There's a lot of great info about hair there.

For the specific reasons people seem to disapprove of LoL: see http://www.tlhs.org/faq.html and go down to the bottom.

Some legitimate concerns there, but not a lot of backed-up facts... mostly opinions.

The claim about the majority of the donated hair being resold could be of issue if you wanted to be sure that your hair made it onto some kid's head. Donate it to the cancer society if that's your concern.

Seems odd that the website complains about LoL not switching to soliciting cash donations, but then doesn't want them to sell the donated hair. I guess if you really care about your hair, as these people obviously do, then you'd want to be sure it became a charity-provided wig per the stated goal of LoL.

One of the links is to the Better Business Bureau's website which describes how LoL doesn't have an independently-audited financial statement available. If they continued to be out-of-compliance for a long period of time, it would concern me too.
The BBB's guidelines say that if you're a charity and you're under $100,000 your own internal statement is good enough; up to $250k, you've got to have an external accountant provide the statement, and above $250k, it has to be independently audited. LoL made $374,543 in 2002, so they fall into the third category.


So... make your own decision...