It was not up to the "lone worker" to make the decision to refuse the charitable donation.  He apparently violated policy and overstepped his authority.  

If the charity felt they'd be poisoned by the money, just hire a healing mage and reverse the damage.  :P

May 27, 2012 -- 8:35PM, Ironhold wrote:

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A lone CCF worker shot them down flat; some of the money would have come from the sale of items relating to D&D, and the worker wanted nothing to do with money so "tainted".

[If] CCF had to (actually) sell D&D items, I could understand not wanting to have anything to do with it...but it was not the CCF's workers decision to make. Bad situation. 

Welcome, thetanager!

I see what you're saying, but I do wonder if it matters if the 'evil' the money came from is something that is clearly harmful and has no real benefit whatsoever (like sex trafficking), or if it came from something more ambiguous that only a set group of people have a problem with (like D&D).  A positive association with the former would *definitely* be permanently harmful to CCF's reputation.  The latter, on the other hand, *may* be harmful in a way that CCF could rise above. If that makes sense.

In 2008, Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax passed away. After consulting with his family, the execs behind the annual gaming & comics convention known as GenCon opted to make the Christian Childrens' Fund - Gary's favorite charity - the recipient of their annual charity auction.
A lone CCF worker shot them down flat; some of the money would have come from the sale of items relating to D&D, and the worker wanted nothing to do with money so "tainted".
In the process, this person failed to actually go through the proper channels to get a decision; rather, they took upon themselves authority they didn't have. In fact, the people in charge of the charity would have gladly accepted the money had they even known about the matter. Instead, when the news was leaked to the general public, CCF's reputation wound up so badly battered that they ultimately had to change their name. IIRC, within a week of the first reports the head of the company was drowning beneath several thousand hostile e-mails.
But by that time it was way too late. Fisher House, a charity that operates housing units near military hospitals so that the family of wounded soldiers can be near them during their treatment, was #2 on the list; they were more than happy to recieve the $17,000 raised in Gary's memory.

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Some won't take " tainted money" due to thier religous beliefs.

For others, money is money?

To each beliefs.