I have very little now, but am giving to the Humane
Society who is out there now rescuing the animals.
I've given to a church organization who actually is
giving food to those in Mississippi. Let us know
which organizations are genuine in their giving.
Toochis
--- Michael Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> This is why I so often seem heartless and cynical
> when I don't donate to
> these admittedly dire situations and needy causes.
> It just seems so
> often useless and full of the normal red tape that
> you would see in
> governments that I normally just refuse to give
> money due to a bad
> attitude about the level of bullshit that seems to
> go on behind the
> scenes. I know there are good people involved in
> these
> organizations...I do...I just have a terribly
> negative opinion of this
> type of thing.
>
> I am not a total cheapskate but I do like to choose
> things that I find
> important for my yearly donations as well as things
> that I feel
> confident are getting direct results and go through
> as few a number of
> channels as possible. I am very fond of donating to
> public radio so
> hopefully disaster relief can be taken from my tax
> dollars through
> Canadian efforts and I'll continue to help people by
> trying to make them
> realize that there are alternatives to your news,
> current affairs and
> mainstream music out there and it's (mostly,
> depending on your
> willingness to donate) free and run by volunteers
> and it's wonderful and
> it touches every community you can imagine.
>
> All the best to all everywhere,
> Michael
>
> William A Brent wrote:
>
> > At 07:20 PM 9/2/2005, Danny Steward wrote:
> >
> >> I pulled all this information off Google in the
> past 30 minutes.
> >
> > hen it must be true.
> >
> > so who to give money to?
> >
> > the Red Cross?
> >
> > The American Red Cross may be expert at responding
> to public
> > disasters, but for years it has failed to get a
> grip on financial
> > disasters at its local chapters.
> > There's the fundraiser in Louisiana caught padding
> her own bank
> > account with donations, the manager in
> Pennsylvania who embezzled to
> > support her crack cocaine habit and the executive
> in Maryland who
> > forged signatures on purchase orders meant for
> disaster victims, to
> > name a few.
> > But the biggest criminal scandal inside the Red
> Cross surfaced in New
> > Jersey last year. And though it's been kept off
> the front pages, it
> > ranks among the biggest charity frauds ever.
> >
> > -OR-
> >
> >
> > By Amran Abocar in Toronto
> > November 22 2002
> > Police have laid criminal charges against four
> doctors, the Canadian
> > Red Cross Society and a United States
> pharmaceutical company after a
> > five-year investigation into tainted blood
> >
> > -and then there was 9/11 here in NY-
> >
> > WASHINGTON - Generous North Americans who gave
> more than half a
> > billion dollars (U.S.) to the Red Cross expected
> their donations would
> > go directly to surviving family members and
> victims of the Sept. 11
> > terrorist attacks.
> >
> > Canadians opened their wallets to donate $10
> million (Cdn) to the New
> > York, Washington and Pennsylvania victims, Suzanne
> Charest of the
> > Canadian Red Cross said last night.
> >
> > But in a growing scandal which threatens to rock
> the foundation of the
> > 120-year-old American Red Cross, it now appears
> that of the $530
> > million (U.S.) total donated, more than $200
> million is being diverted
> > to the blood agency's long-term goals and
> administrative costs.
> >
> > That includes (all figures in U.S. dollars):
> >
> > $109 million for improving the Red Cross'
> telecommunications,
> > accounting and database management systems.
> >
> > $50 million for the agency's blood reserves
> program.
> >
> > $26 million for "community outreach."
> >
> > $29 million for "indirect" or administrative
> relief costs.
> >
> > $11 million for international assistance.
> >
> >
> >
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