Donating
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- abstrakt
Not boasting or anything, I just think if people start posting in here it will inspire others to donate. Worth a try.
I donated $50.
- jevad0
$500 - 50/50 between red cross and unicef
- abstrakt0
nice!
- _salisae_0
nice move, abstrakt.
i intend to and will update when i do. have to get paid first!
- abstrakt0
hehe right on man :) my bank account is at 1k right now, so i couldn't do too much.
- JazX0
Not to be a punk, but don't make me start about the 90% adminstrative take stuff. It'll make you rethink those money donations. Although, I still feel really sad about those types of tragedies, but I've seen too much corruption in action and know too many non-prof people. They concur. I'm all for donations, but only as long as they count.
- abstrakt0
so you didn't give them anything then?
- JazX0
lol no I did anyway, I felt too guilty about my good situation. I also sent a bundle of clothes to Sri Lanka. My buddy's family's friends.
- prodigalslacker0
$100 to red cross.
- abstrakt0
right on prodigalslacker.
i found this on Red Cross' Australian website:
How much of my donation will go to victims?
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Australian Red Cross will not deduct more than 10% of any donation for an international appeal to cover its own costs.So Red Cross is good. 10% to the organization is totally cool.
- BonSeff0
i wont say how much, but would i be a bad guy if it were 0?
i dont think its fair to call out jazx for questioning these agencies.. right now its fraud city
- JazX0
yeah, that's since they got busted, don't forget. Not trying to knock them persay. Things got reorganized, because they had to, they were brought into the light as a whole.
- abstrakt0
alright well they're cool now. just don't discourage people from donating.
- JazX0
Depends on how you see these organizations as a whole. I wish the tragedy never happened. Hopefully, they are not doing the ol' 80% to 90% intake. Like anything else, middlemen kill it all. It's just an opinion man. :)
- liquid0
ok I donated to the red cross.....but as everyone should recall after 9/11 they decided that they were going to keep some of the money for future disasters instead of earmarking it towards what people donated for....which was 9/11
- BonSeff0
they're cool because their pr dept put out a press release huh? dont think so/ however the good far outweighs the bad
- abstrakt0
ok, BonSeff, since you're the expert, which organizations are OK to donate to?
- JazX0
yes, that's the thing, at least they do something at any rate. otherwise there is no one doing nothing. Don't knock USAID, I've seen them in action and by far it's one arm of the US Foreign policy that works. Of course you'll never hear that, because it's a positive action the US takes.
- JazX0
Starbucks better be damn well DONATING. Sumatra-blende coffee is probably picked by broke hut-livin' no electricity/education receiving kids.
- lind0
100 to the Red Cross as well -- despite the fact that the CEO of that organization gets a salary of over $600K, which is like crazy money -- check the source: http://www.charitynavigator.org/…
Anyhow, the reason I chose them is because compared to other charities, they have a good rating and for the Amazon convenience.
- JazX0
Red Cross: wtf..... Primary Revenue $2,877,150,841 that's more than a lot of corporations...
yikes that's scary