Conscience laundering - doing charity to make themselves feel better rather than figuring out the best way to alleviate suffering.

From Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.
To me this is the main problem with our stroke associations. They have absolutely NO sense of urgency to solve all the fucking problems in stroke. They actually are dragging their feet by just putting out press releases and never putting together any public strategy.  You employees of these stroke associations can respond by pointing directly to public strategies with whom contributed to those strategies..