Donations Wow!

As you open

your pockets to do a good thing
and make

yourself feelgood,


please keep the following facts in mind:


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The American Red

Cross
President and CEO Marsha J.

Evans'
salary for the year was $651,957

plus expenses

MARCH

OF DIMES
It is

called the March of Dimes

because
only a dime for

every 1 dollar is given to the needy.




The

United Way
President Brian

Gallagher
receives a $375,000 base salary

along with numerous expense benefits.

UNICEF
CEO

Caryl M. Stern

receives
$1,200,000 per year (100k

permonth) plus all

expensesincluding a ROLLS

ROYCE.
Less

than 5 cents of your donated dollar goes to the

cause.

GOODWILL
CEO and owner Mark Curran profits

$2.3 million a year.
Goodwill is a very catchy

name for his

business.
You donate to his business and

then he sells the items for PROFIT.
He pays nothing for his

products and pays his workers minimum wage! Nice Guy.
$0.00 goes to

help anyone! Stop giving to

this

man.
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Instead,give it to ANY OF THE

FOLLOWING


GO

"GREEN" AND
PUT YOUR MONEY
WHERE

IT WILL
DO SOME GOOD:

The Salvation

Army
Commissioner, Todd Bassett

receives a small 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 of America
National Commander

receives a $0.00 zero

salary.
Your

donations go to help Veterans and their families and

youth!

Make a

Wish: For children's last

wishes.
100%

goes to funding trips or special wishes for a dying

child.

St.

Jude Research

Hospital
100%

goes towards funding and helping Children with Cancer who have no

insurance and can
not afford to pay.

Ronald

McDonald

Houses
All

monies go to running the houses for parentswho have critical Children in the

hospital.
100%

goes to housing, and feeding the

families.

Lions

Club

International
100%

OF DONATIONS GO TO HELP THE BLIND,BUY HEARING AIDES, SUPPORT MEDICAL

MISSIONSAROUND THE WORLD.

THEIR LATEST

UNDERTAKING
IS

MEASLES VACCINATIONS (ONLY $1.00 PER SHOT).

Please

share this with everyone you

can.

well I'll be darn, I always support the Veterans org. but it was sure a good read on the others,,,, I guess charity does really start at home,, there homes.........what a shame. and I am assuming the report is accurate.

I have known this since 1964, while in the Phillipines the red cross was there, coffee 25 cents a cup, dounut 25 cents........ the salvation army was also there, for troops all free....... haven't given to anyone but the salvation army ever since...... all reliefs scare me, like the one for starving kids, dogs,etc...... always someone wants to make a big pay day out of it.......

This ought to be a sticky!

Thanks!

My wife used to work for The Red Cross. When she found out how little of each dollar went to help the ones who needed it, she resigned.

Same thing Bob. A 1983 tornado hit Springfield hard when we lived there. The local R.C. chapter appealed for donations and people responded. What most didn't know was that the RC charter required a large cut go directly to the National chapter, recall it being in the 50-60% range. Bit of a bait and switch deal to me. They do some good work no doubt but it left a bad taste in my mouth.

Good Message.

I always drop change in the Ronald McDonald box as I was unaware what they do for parents with sick children until my cousin's daughter was in an accident. They provided a place to stay near the hospital at no charge. That's a great organization.

Shriners is another one to mention. Their hospitals do great things for children with medical issues much like St. Jude.

I'm still a little pissed back in the 70's I was walking around with a little orange UNICEF box with starving kid pictures on it asking for change donations. I was unaware I was helping support a war effort in Africa to prop up a communist organization that was friendly to the United Nations. What can you trust with that kind of stuff that goes on.

I am just looking forward to donating to the Hungry Crappie Foundation.