Well, another thing to check out is
www.give.org
which rates those charities on what percentage is spent on admin vs. the
actual programs. Salvation Army meets the CBBB Standards for Charitable
Solicitations.
>From the website....about the American Red Cross.....
Chief Executive Officer: Marsha Johnson Evans , President and Chief
Executive Officer
Compensation*: $468,599
Half a million?
Rascal
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Terrible Tom
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 9:11 PM
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
Subject: Re: DML: The Red Cross
Joseph A. Orsini wrote:
> This is all straying way off topic and I am only going to post once on
this
> subject, and it is not intended to flame anyone so please keep tat in
mind.
> You might be best not just blindly donating to the Red Cross. Some time
> after 9-11 it came out that some of the top honchos at the RC were crooked
> thieving bastards. The organization itself is a good idea and I support
it
> but there were issues with the directors that have supposedly been solved,
> but I am still not sure. I do know that because of the accusations that
> came to light at least one if not more of the directors of the Red Cross
> were either removed or forced to resign. There was one example I recall
off
> hand about the mud slides in Cali a while back where there were local
> contributions that totaled something north of 5 million and the actual
money
> that went to help the mudslide victims was in the neighborhood of 300k.
> This was before the shake up at the top so I have no idea if things have
> improved or not. Just an FYI so you can maybe be better aware of how your
> contributions might be used. Again not trying to flame anyone or slam
what
> over the years has been a good charity organization.
>
> -Joe
>
>
>
>
>>
>>I trust the Salvation Army more than the Red Cross, just my own
>>experience.
>>
>>Rascal
>>
>
>
Hmm I guess I missed those stories - I havn't donated to anyone yet - I
just got home from work - I also worry about who gets the money and the
possibility for corruption - - you guys think the Salvation Army is a
better choice?
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