At least in the US, charity bingo, raffles, etc. are a fairly common thing in some segments of society. I don’t think these are generally seen as controversial or problematic, although I also get the impression that they don’t raise huge amounts of money per individual event. So I don’t think all of the downsides you describe are inherent to the charity-gambling mashup. Whether there is some middle path that brings in significantly more money than bingo at a VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) post without bringing in the pathologies of for-profit gambling is an interesting question. My guess is that the relatively low stakes and occasional nature of extant charity bingo & raffles go a long way to explaining why those efforts seem unobjectionable.
At least in the US, charity bingo, raffles, etc. are a fairly common thing in some segments of society. I don’t think these are generally seen as controversial or problematic, although I also get the impression that they don’t raise huge amounts of money per individual event. So I don’t think all of the downsides you describe are inherent to the charity-gambling mashup. Whether there is some middle path that brings in significantly more money than bingo at a VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) post without bringing in the pathologies of for-profit gambling is an interesting question. My guess is that the relatively low stakes and occasional nature of extant charity bingo & raffles go a long way to explaining why those efforts seem unobjectionable.