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In Search Of The Red Cross' $500M In Haiti Relief (2015)
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Re: In Search Of The Red Cross' $500M In Haiti Relief (2015)
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd say it's sad, but not surprising. People are sheep.
I wouldn't go that far - companies partner with The Red Cross left and right after every major disaster, and the mainstream media downplays the problems with the organization. For the average person, there's no reason to suspect that they'd be misusing/misappropriating funds.
I suppose it comes down to the semantics of sheeple. I personally do my best to scrutinize the message put out by major corporations and the MSM.
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#43One thing that gets overlooked commonly with the the Red Cross is that it is a congressional charter. [1] According to the charter the purposes of the corporation are: (1) to provide volunteer aid in time of war to the sick and wounded of the armed forces, in accordance with the spirit and conditions of: (A) the conference of Geneva of October, 1863; (B) the treaties of the Red Cross, or the treaties of Geneva, of Au…
Given their brand recognition status, any attempts by Congress to revoke their charter would be a career-ending move for the politicians involved.
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#44I built an internal system reporting on billions of dollars of project spending for a large NGO family. People inside the family of organizations could see financial budgets, actual financials, and progress information for any of thousands of projects.
Every project had a person responsible for it, written out goals and risks, at least quarterly progress updates, and funding organizations checking up on the projects at regular basis. Even when partnering with local organizations to get work done, the NGO had permanent people in the country keeping an eye on things.
There are definitely organizations that do a good job of handling this stuff.
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#45>But the charity will not provide a list of specific programs it ran, how much they cost or what their expenses were. Corruption, ineptitude or both? It's the American way!
And tax deductible.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's just bucket A and bucket B right? Like, the money going towards operations is still donated. The page about the operations money even puts it in terms of having 2 bank accounts: https://newstorycharity.org/the-builders/ So fine, they are able to advertise that they are spending 100% of certain funds on programs. But it is just a marketing gimmick, they still have some overall efficiency, just like any other ch…
It means there's more transparency about where the money is going. It's going to be hard to get corporate donations if you have to say to them, "we need X from you to run the business of providing only Y in actual support". It surely has to help stop bureaucratic creep. You're forced to run lean and efficiently in the administration.
Isn't that the pitch they make to the large contributors? That if they have $X of funds for operations they will be able to gather and deploy $Y funds for programs?
Surely the large contributors have some concern for that ratio.
Of course I think of matching campaigns the same way (as a gimmick). If you are willing to donate $10,000, why not blare out that you are matching $10,000 instead of just donating it.
Re: In Search Of The Red Cross' $500M In Haiti Relief (2015)
#47One thing that gets overlooked commonly with the the Red Cross is that it is a congressional charter. [1] According to the charter the purposes of the corporation are: (1) to provide volunteer aid in time of war to the sick and wounded of the armed forces, in accordance with the spirit and conditions of: (A) the conference of Geneva of October, 1863; (B) the treaties of the Red Cross, or the treaties of Geneva, of Au…
Given their brand recognition status, any attempts by Congress to revoke their charter would be a career-ending move for the politicians involved.
It could happen, it just couldn't come out of the blue. Someone would probably need to pay for a nation-wide awareness campaign (the irony) about the evils of corrupt charities such as The Red Cross or Susan G Komen.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given their brand recognition status, any attempts by Congress to revoke their charter would be a career-ending move for the politicians involved.
It could happen, it just couldn't come out of the blue. Someone would probably need to pay for a nation-wide awareness campaign (the irony) about the evils of corrupt charities such as The Red Cross or Susan G Komen.
What's up with Komen? I realize I could google it, forgive me, but it sounds like you're in a position to give me a quick precis =)
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#49This doesn’t suprise me :\ I think YC funded a non profit that was designed to avoid corruption like this.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
It means there's more transparency about where the money is going. It's going to be hard to get corporate donations if you have to say to them, "we need X from you to run the business of providing only Y in actual support". It surely has to help stop bureaucratic creep. You're forced to run lean and efficiently in the administration.
Isn't that the pitch they make to the large contributors? That if they have $X of funds for operations they will be able to gather and deploy $Y funds for programs? Surely the large contributors have some concern for that ratio. Of course I think of matching campaigns the same way (as a gimmick). If you are willing to donate $10,000, why not blare out that you are matching $10,000 instead of just donating it.
Of course I think of matching campaigns the same way (as a gimmick). If you are willing to donate $10,000, why not blare out that you are matching $10,000 instead of just donating it.
Obviously many companies match for the marketing, but besides that, they're also convincing others to donate. It's like giving people a "50% discount" on their donations. If the matchers believe in the cause, why wouldn't they match rather than just donate?