[SmartBlondeGPhB]

Originally posted by EEKappa
Okay, that's several questions, all good ones, and I'll try to answer them...

Aren't there more important issues facing young women that need the financial support that who owns a badge?

The Fraternity is not funding badge rescue, it's individual members who choose to purchase them with their own funds. Safe to say, those same members are also frequent contributors to the Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation (which is the best funded foundation of any Greek-letter organization's, btw. )

I don't mean this to criticize organizations who have formal programs in any way, I really just wonder why so much money is being spent on getting these badges.

The organizations don't have the formal programs, it's individual members who form groups. So, it's their money!

Here, here. That is how our group works.