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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?
has this method of collection been tried before? if not I'm guessing this is an untapped goldmine for the right entrepreneur: set up charities with simpler donation vectors.
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Well, think that one through: if your advertisement says "Text 12345 to 45678 to donate $10 to the Red Cross", and you do so, and then your itemized cellphone bill says "Red Cross: $20", what is your reaction likely to be? Merchants foot the bill for transaction costs to encourage transaction volume. It is the same reason I quote my prices as $29.95 not "$29.95 plus whatever your credit card costs me to process."
i've already seen a non-red cross ad for the exact same thing, except $5 for hati, and the ad specifically stated transaction and standard data rates are added on top. looking for the ad now. edit: http://twitter.com/RedCross/status/7720590281 edit2: beatten
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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 ra…
BEFORE 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…
You can text DOB to 90999 and $5 goes to Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders). Surely we can all agree they're okay.
The Red Cross and UNICEF and other large charities are great, but it's definitely worth remembering that organizations like MSF have been on the ground in Haiti since before the quake.
Does anyone know if there is a Europe based phone number where it is possible to send donations (something similar to 90999)?
Amazon also has a donation button on their home page for Mercy Corps to help victims of the Haiti earthquake. http://www.amazon.com/
(I know little about the charity beyond what I read on its website but, again, thought it might be of interest to people here).
Related (via reddit.com): http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/13/jimmy.louis.haiti/?...
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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).
No thanks, I won't feed that inefficient monster.