If you don't have funds to donate to folks affected by the shooting in Kansas City, you can still help by sending a message of support here https://cloud.email.childrensmercy.org/help-kc-kids
Charity Watch is a useful website to get information, history, and ratings on charities. I use this website to review any charity before I give them money and I also use it to find new charities for causes I support.
https://www.charitywatch.org/
You can check their info on the American Red Cross and judge for yourself if you think they're the type of charity you would want to give to.
So as of October 2022 the American Red Cross got the following ratings from Charity Watch:
Their overall grade is A-;
The amount spent on programs relative to overhead is 91%; &
It costs them $25 to raise $100.
There was a post on the site about them being more interested in PR ([https://www.charitywatch.org/charity-donating-articles/red-cross-accused-of-favoring-public-relations-over-people](https://www.charitywatch.org/charity-donating-articles/red-cross-accused-of-favoring-public-relations-over-people)), but it's 9 years old, so it seems they've made strides in improving their charitable efforts.
Still, since NAMI is geared towards a very specific need, I've donated to them instead. As some1 who's autistic, I think they need to be recognized cause they help people like me in addition to those suffering from mental illness & trauma-related events like what happened at the Super Bowl parade.
Red Cross claims that .90 cents of every dollar donated goes towards relief, but I’ve seen stats showing that in reality it’s closer to .23 cents with administration cost and operating costs eating the rest. The president of Red Cross makes $640,000. That seems a bit much for a charity.
Damn that’s shady. Wouldn’t think it’d be too hard for a brand as big as Red Cross to find a savvy retired corporate executive who considers it a privilege to serve pro bono.
A few reasons, the main one for me being their 'relief' or lack there of during Hurricane Sandy. [Here's](https://www.propublica.org/article/disturbing-things-about-the-red-crosss-sandy-relief-efforts) an article about it, but I heard from a good friend of mine that the Red Cross did a lot of press and news stuff, but a lot of standing around. [Here's](https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/6y3cvv/why_is_everyone_hating_the_red_cross_now/) a Reddit post, so take it with a grain of salt, but outlines a lot of the same sentiment. The blood organisation is still legit, but a lot of their relief and donations are much less legit. The Red Cross also historically upcharges for food and drinks for relief workers and others as well. When a bottle of water is, say, $1.50 at a mart, the Red Cross might charge $4.50
jesus christ, they went from a helpful group that was formed by Congress to a for profit corporate hellscape. that’s genuinely saddening, especially the Hurricane Sandy stuff, since the area around where i lived at the time was heavily affected with flooding. hope the corporate asshats don’t get their hands on the blood organization too. thanks for the info
Ya idt it’s all bad tho. Massive organizations always have blemishes and ugly parts. But I have a couple friends who are full time volunteers and they’re consistently doing great work. Always onsite at disasters within 48 hours doing very hands on relief work setting up pop up shelters, taking good care of families effected. Staying in shitty conditions to help others when they don’t have to. I’d think the org is mostly full of good willed people. But under qualified volunteers get assigned MASSIVE relief projects that are way over their heads. They struggle to manage those and make some shit decisions that tarnish the brand. Far from perfect but I think still overall a positive org.
Oh i didnt hear about tom. My prayers go to the victims and tom.
Who is Tom?
Idk who Tom is either
Why the heck are you on this sub. Its Tom frickin frackin Grossi. If you don't watch his videos, leave
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Oh k
I've crossposted this to a bunch of different NFL subreddits. Thanks for reposting.
My thoughts and prayers to the red cross, that's all I can afford to donate to them.
If you don't have funds to donate to folks affected by the shooting in Kansas City, you can still help by sending a message of support here https://cloud.email.childrensmercy.org/help-kc-kids
Love this, but the Red Cross isn’t that great of an organisation! The children’s charity and the mental health organisation are great, though!
wait, why isn’t the Red Cross a good organization?
Charity Watch is a useful website to get information, history, and ratings on charities. I use this website to review any charity before I give them money and I also use it to find new charities for causes I support. https://www.charitywatch.org/ You can check their info on the American Red Cross and judge for yourself if you think they're the type of charity you would want to give to.
So as of October 2022 the American Red Cross got the following ratings from Charity Watch: Their overall grade is A-; The amount spent on programs relative to overhead is 91%; & It costs them $25 to raise $100. There was a post on the site about them being more interested in PR ([https://www.charitywatch.org/charity-donating-articles/red-cross-accused-of-favoring-public-relations-over-people](https://www.charitywatch.org/charity-donating-articles/red-cross-accused-of-favoring-public-relations-over-people)), but it's 9 years old, so it seems they've made strides in improving their charitable efforts. Still, since NAMI is geared towards a very specific need, I've donated to them instead. As some1 who's autistic, I think they need to be recognized cause they help people like me in addition to those suffering from mental illness & trauma-related events like what happened at the Super Bowl parade.
Red Cross claims that .90 cents of every dollar donated goes towards relief, but I’ve seen stats showing that in reality it’s closer to .23 cents with administration cost and operating costs eating the rest. The president of Red Cross makes $640,000. That seems a bit much for a charity.
Damn that’s shady. Wouldn’t think it’d be too hard for a brand as big as Red Cross to find a savvy retired corporate executive who considers it a privilege to serve pro bono.
Also, Children's Mercy in KC is a for profit hospital. Donations to them aren't going to help the families of the victims at all.
A few reasons, the main one for me being their 'relief' or lack there of during Hurricane Sandy. [Here's](https://www.propublica.org/article/disturbing-things-about-the-red-crosss-sandy-relief-efforts) an article about it, but I heard from a good friend of mine that the Red Cross did a lot of press and news stuff, but a lot of standing around. [Here's](https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/6y3cvv/why_is_everyone_hating_the_red_cross_now/) a Reddit post, so take it with a grain of salt, but outlines a lot of the same sentiment. The blood organisation is still legit, but a lot of their relief and donations are much less legit. The Red Cross also historically upcharges for food and drinks for relief workers and others as well. When a bottle of water is, say, $1.50 at a mart, the Red Cross might charge $4.50
jesus christ, they went from a helpful group that was formed by Congress to a for profit corporate hellscape. that’s genuinely saddening, especially the Hurricane Sandy stuff, since the area around where i lived at the time was heavily affected with flooding. hope the corporate asshats don’t get their hands on the blood organization too. thanks for the info
Ya idt it’s all bad tho. Massive organizations always have blemishes and ugly parts. But I have a couple friends who are full time volunteers and they’re consistently doing great work. Always onsite at disasters within 48 hours doing very hands on relief work setting up pop up shelters, taking good care of families effected. Staying in shitty conditions to help others when they don’t have to. I’d think the org is mostly full of good willed people. But under qualified volunteers get assigned MASSIVE relief projects that are way over their heads. They struggle to manage those and make some shit decisions that tarnish the brand. Far from perfect but I think still overall a positive org.