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Send a $10 Donation by Texting ‘Haiti’ to 90999
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Re: Send a $10 Donation by Texting ‘Haiti’ to 90999
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Red Cross CEO earns $565,000 in salary. What's interesting is that this is higher than the CEO cap the Obama administration placed on for-profit companies which received bailout money. The Red Cross received $100 million in bailout money. http://blog.charitynavigator.org/2009/02/non-profit-ceo-pay-... http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...
CEO pay means nothing. What matters is how much good they do per dollar. I'm sure the amount of money they receive each year is available somewhere, and they'll be happy to tell you what they've accomplished with it. Compare that to other organizations instead of assuming they're ineffective because they think it's worthwhile to pay their CEO well. The magnitude of CEO pay in the private sector is similarly a non-iss…
You're right that CEO pay doesn't mean that much in the scheme of things especially if they increase the effectiveness of the organization, but it's an issue that concerns people who make a lot less and are deciding where they should donate their hard earned dollars.
http://www.slate.com/id/2220596
Non-profits also use their allure of helping others to recruit and often pay rank and file employees less than market rate wages (see some comments in the slate article).
For example, doctors who work for these organizations could likewise be making $100's of K per year. Some doctors also work much harder than their market counterpart, performing more surgeries under difficult conditions.
Re: Send a $10 Donation by Texting ‘Haiti’ to 90999
#43BEFORE you RT that RedCross donation message or donate any cash yourselves... please consider. Red Cross is a giant beast of a company. It is $600,000,000 in debt. It has ridiculous overhead. As fellow hackers... We're all trying to build startups/ideas because we think big companies are missing something... that we have a better way to do things... that we can build a better product. If you want to help Haiti. Give…
Google does not mention Red Cross at all on their Haiti relief page. http://www.google.com/relief/haitiearthquake/
They do, last time I checked:
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The following organizations are accepting SMS donations in the US only:
* SMS text “HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10 to Red Cross relief efforts Re: Send a $10 Donation by Texting ‘Haiti’ to 90999
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cell phone providers charge much more. 100% of your $10 donation passes thru to RedCross for Haiti relief. Your cell carrier keeps nothing. http://twitter.com/RedCross/status/7720590281
Right.. for those curious why this makes sense for carriers. Just think how much carriers charge for txting. Anything that gets people using SMS is a win in their book.
It's just advertising/goodwill.
Re: Send a $10 Donation by Texting ‘Haiti’ to 90999
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for your work, I despise the Red Cross.
Red Cross CEO earns $565,000 in salary. What's interesting is that this is higher than the CEO cap the Obama administration placed on for-profit companies which received bailout money. The Red Cross received $100 million in bailout money. http://blog.charitynavigator.org/2009/02/non-profit-ceo-pay-... http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...
Upthread, it's reported the Red Cross has $3.5 billion in assets and $1.8 billion in liabilities. Managing an institution of that size, you don't want to skimp on executive talent, or you can lose a lot more than $565K in the blink of an eye. And, the current CEO probably made a lot more when she was in the private sector (at Fidelity Investments and AT&T).
Re: Send a $10 Donation by Texting ‘Haiti’ to 90999
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google does not mention Red Cross at all on their Haiti relief page. http://www.google.com/relief/haitiearthquake/
They do, last time I checked: """ The following organizations are accepting SMS donations in the US only: * SMS text “HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10 to Red Cross relief efforts """
Does anyone know if SMS donations via skype work?
Re: Send a $10 Donation by Texting ‘Haiti’ to 90999
#47My family lived through the 2001 earthquake in Gujarat, India which was of similar proportions. Based on their personal experience, the things immediately needed after an earthquake are: 1) Heavy earth moving equipment (to get people out from under the rubble) 2) Tents and blankets (it is cold) 3) Medicines 4) Food Many organizations only focused on 2 and 4 in India. In the end, there was a glut of food, tents, cloth…
Ultimately these things happen because somebody decides to do them. Major hats off to anyone who just acts in such a situation.
Re: Send a $10 Donation by Texting ‘Haiti’ to 90999
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cell phone providers charge much more. 100% of your $10 donation passes thru to RedCross for Haiti relief. Your cell carrier keeps nothing. http://twitter.com/RedCross/status/7720590281
Right.. for those curious why this makes sense for carriers. Just think how much carriers charge for txting. Anything that gets people using SMS is a win in their book.
I suppose texting doesn't really cost the carriers anything. So why shouldn't they for once just decide to give it away for a good cause?
Don't they also allow emergency calls for free? (Could be state regulation, but still).
Re: Send a $10 Donation by Texting ‘Haiti’ to 90999
#49The International Federation of the Red Cross is a hypocritical organization. In Muslim countries it is called The Red Crescent (and any aid packages/vehicles are marked with a crescent moon).
Yet only one muslim country (Kuwait) figures (low down) in the accounts of top 25 donor countries for the IFRC for recent years. But 10 of the top 25 beneficiary countries are muslim. Thus the many of the donations from christian countries to an ostensibly christian emergency relief charity actually end up going to help muslims and are branded as aid from a muslim charity. (Either most of those oil-rich muslim countries aren't giving to charities, or they're only giving to charities that aid other muslims -- and it's probably the latter.)
I have no objection to people receiving aid whatever their religion (or lack of). But it disgusts me that that aid given to a "christian" charity uses the religious imagery of the donating country to raise money and ends up deceiving the recipients into believing it came from a muslim charity.
Donor and recipient end up being deceived by this duplicitous organization. Most people I've talked to about this have no idea that the IFRC is branded as the "Red Crescent" in muslim countries.
I prefer to support Médecins Sans Frontières. They seem far more honest about what they are doing.
The American Red Cross looks like it is not part of this IFRC duplicity.
Re: Send a $10 Donation by Texting ‘Haiti’ to 90999
#50The International Federation of the Red Cross is a hypocritical organization. In Muslim countries it is called The Red Crescent (and any aid packages/vehicles are marked with a crescent moon). Yet only one muslim country (Kuwait) figures (low down) in the accounts of top 25 donor countries for the IFRC for recent years. But 10 of the top 25 beneficiary countries are muslim. Thus the many of the donations from christi…
But a big part of the Christian message is to give what you can to those who need it. Note that it doesn't at any point say in the Bible 'Give money only to Christians in need' and because of this the 'Donor being decieved' isn't especially important.
However, I disagree that anybody is really being decieved at all, it is readily available knowledge that the Red Cross give money under the Red Crescent branding in muslim countries.
It would also make no sese at all to brand themselves at Red Cross in muslim countries - the symbology would have no meaning to the locals at all.