In Search Of The Red Cross' $500M In Haiti Relief (2015)

Post by ianamartin » Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 1:56 AM UTC

ianamartin wrote: post #96

yeukhon wrote: post #83

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Good question. There is Salvation Army, which accordingly to the comparison to Red Cross, has done extremely better job, delivering its mission well. But why didn't orgs like FB or Google (I forgot which) advertized SA? SA is well-known too. I think there is a social effect, but more likely because the people working at Red Cross has better reach to the big organizations and media outlet, despite the backlashes. The…

SA is tied to Catholics, and this is a big deal breaker for a lot of people.

I stand corrected by the comments here. Apologies for getting this wrong.

Post by eru » Thu, Sep 28, 2017, 10:52 AM UTC

dispo001 wrote: post #127

5mk wrote: post #109

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I wouldn’t call a charity with an A- rating from CharityWatch a “travesty”.

All that means is that there are many worse charities. I tried to look into it one time and find things written by people who watched from up close. It made me physically ill long before I looked at any substantial number of them. I think the usual formula is to "pay" the CEO 200 k and spending the rest on ever larger promotion cycles. What is needed in the west is a huge tax on charities and other non-profits to be…

> What is needed in the west is a huge tax on charities and other non-profits to be entirely used to monitor their activities.

Nah. Just remove charitable donations from being tax-exempts, and then it's no longer a problem for the government when charities don't deliver, but a private problem of their donors.

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