Saturday, November 5, 2011

For those considering donations ---

You might find this very interesting.
As you open your pockets for the next natural disaster, please keep these facts in mind:
The American Red Cross President and CEO Marsha J. Evans salary for the year was $651,957 plus expenses
The United Way President Brian Gallagher receives a $375,000 base salary along with numerous expense benefits.
UNICEF CEO Carol M. Stern receives $1,200,000 per year (100k per month) plus all expenses including a ROLLS-ROYCE. Less than 5 cents of your donated dollar goes to the cause
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The Salvation Army's Commissioner Todd Bassett receives a salary of
only$13,000 per year (plus housing) for managing this $2 billion dollar organization. 96 percent of donated dollars go to the cause.
The American Legion National Commander receives a $0.00 zero
salary.  Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!
The Veterans of Foreign Wars National Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary.  Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!
The Disabled American Veterans National Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary.  Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!
The Military Order of Purple Hearts National Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary.  Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!

The Vietnam Veterans Association National Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary.  Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!

 
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3 comments:

Mark said...

John, can you post this message on the Skype rooms so that it will all be displayed? About 1/4 of the text is cut off of the right hand margin in my browser. I have tried it with Firefox and IE and both cut it off! Thanks, Mark

John MacHaffie said...

It is posted in the skype rooms. Glad to do it.

Cletis said...

The data posted here about the American Red Cross, United Way, UNICEF, and Salvation Army are all completely wrong, and in fact backwards.

The Salvation Army, listed here as the best of those four in terms of charity efficiency, is in fact the worst of them, according to the standard for evaluating charity efficiency, CharityNavigator.org, as well as Forbes magazine. In decreasing order of charity efficiency, the list should actually look like this:

UNICEF: 92% of donated dollars go to the cause.
American Red Cross: 92% of donated dollars go to the cause.
United Way: 85% of donated dollars go to the cause.
Salvation Army: 82% of donated dollars go to the cause.

Given the complete misrepresentation of the fact posed by these four charities, I can only wonder about the accuracy of the remaining claims of zero-dollar salaries and the unmentioned charity efficiencies of these others. Does anyone have that data, or is this merely a copy-and-paste-unsubstantiated-rumors-from-other-websites kind of place, like almost all other right-wing sites?