# Golden Key International Honour Society?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-key-international-honour-society/682547
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 28, 2014, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-key-international-honour-society/682547 "2014-02-28T21:32:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2014, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-key-international-honour-society/682547/1 "2014-02-28T21:32:19Z")
My daughter\* just received an invitation from [this](https://www.goldenkey.org/) organization and I’m wondering if it’s a scam or something worthwhile. It costs $80 to join, and then… I guess you get to put it on your resume and go to meetings where you “network” and such like? I’m reading about it now, but I just wondered if any of you have any experience with it.
\*Yes, she is an amazing good child. 😃
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### Author:  [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2014, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-key-international-honour-society/682547/2 "2014-03-01T21:01:11Z")
There’s a Q & A on [this page](http://ask.metafilter.com/23093/Golden-Key-Intnl-Honour-Society-worth-it) about it. It doesn’t get very favourable answers, including this:
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> …Golden Key’s submission to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), obtained by the Ubyssey, shows Golden Key spent just $289,461 (US dollars) on scholarships, less than 5 per cent of their total expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997.
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> And in this recent investigation of Golden Key’s spendings, the Ubyssey discovered the organisation would not provide the Atlanta Better Business Bureau with its financial statements. According to Valerie Maclean, general manager of the Vancouver Better Business Bureau, this is a secretive tactic highly unusual for a non-profit organisation.
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### Author:  [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-key-international-honour-society/682547/3 "2014-03-01T21:09:55Z")
they would be honored to get your money.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-key-international-honour-society/682547/4 "2014-03-03T15:53:58Z")
Thanks, guys, I appreciated your answers!