https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2018/4/report-red-cross-spent-25-percent-of-haiti-d.htm konane's Blog: Report: Red Cross Spent 25 Percent Of Haiti Donations On Internal Expenses en-us Lottery Post RSS Generator https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2018/4/report-red-cross-spent-25-percent-of-haiti-d.htm#c186073 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2018/4/report-red-cross-spent-25-percent-of-haiti-d.htm#c186073 Tue, 24 Apr 2018 00:26:50 GMT konane Thanks Eddessa. Little oversight as to where funds go either it seems.

]]> konane https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2018/4/report-red-cross-spent-25-percent-of-haiti-d.htm#c186068 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2018/4/report-red-cross-spent-25-percent-of-haiti-d.htm#c186068 Mon, 23 Apr 2018 23:38:26 GMT eddessaknight <br />This has been a growing problem in recent times exacerbated principally by way overpaid $$$ CEO & staff

]]> eddessaknight https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2018/4/report-red-cross-spent-25-percent-of-haiti-d.htm#c186067 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2018/4/report-red-cross-spent-25-percent-of-haiti-d.htm#c186067 Mon, 23 Apr 2018 22:52:23 GMT konane Thanks Sully. Shame yes but the public has a right to know.

]]> konane https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2018/4/report-red-cross-spent-25-percent-of-haiti-d.htm#c186066 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2018/4/report-red-cross-spent-25-percent-of-haiti-d.htm#c186066 Mon, 23 Apr 2018 22:50:31 GMT sully16 such a shame.

]]> sully16 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2018/4/report-red-cross-spent-25-percent-of-haiti-d.htm#c186065 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2018/4/report-red-cross-spent-25-percent-of-haiti-d.htm#c186065 Mon, 23 Apr 2018 21:44:42 GMT konane Thanks Lejardin. I've often wondered about oversight and actual amounts which go to people in need.

]]> konane https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2018/4/report-red-cross-spent-25-percent-of-haiti-d.htm#c186064 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2018/4/report-red-cross-spent-25-percent-of-haiti-d.htm#c186064 Mon, 23 Apr 2018 21:24:47 GMT lejardin Disgusting. I never donated to the Red Cross, that United something or other that employers tried to get 100% employee participation, even if it was a dollar, Goodwill, et al as the money made from donations goes into CEO's pockets. The only place I give or donate to is Salvation Army, their funds go where they are supposed to and also hire disabled etc.

]]> lejardin https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2018/4/report-red-cross-spent-25-percent-of-haiti-d.htm https://blogs.lotterypost.com/konane/2018/4/report-red-cross-spent-25-percent-of-haiti-d.htm Mon, 23 Apr 2018 21:00:08 GMT konane Very revealing article, suggested reading.

Report: Red Cross Spent 25 Percent Of Haiti Donations On Internal Expenses

By: Laura Sullivan Source: NPR

....The Red Cross, including McGovern, repeatedly has told the public that all but 9 percent of donations spent go to humanitarian programs. But Grassley's office found that 25 percent of donations sent to Haiti or nearly $125 million were spent on fundraising and management, a contingency fund and the catchall category the Red Cross calls program expenses.

The Red Cross sent the bulk of the remaining donated money to other nonprofits to do the work on the ground. Those other nonprofits then took their own cuts as high as 11 percent for their own expenses.

The most important thing [from the report] is an unwillingness to level with the people exactly where the money went, Grassley says. There's too many questions in regard to how the money was spent in Haiti ... it gives me cause to wonder about other money being donated for other national disasters. .....

....The Red Cross, created by a congressional charter more than a century ago, receives a range of special benefits from the U.S. government. ......

....In meetings and email correspondence over several months, Red Cross General Counsel David Meltzer questioned GAO's legal authority to look at the Red Cross.

The Red Cross argued that investigators' requests for internal decision-making, internal oversight, and internal funding allocation are outside of GAO's authority, according to the GAO's account.....

https://www.npr.org/2016/06/16/482020436/senators-report-finds-fundamental-concerns-about-red-cross-finances

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