re: Is the Red Cross a bad organization?

Like most entities that are first on the seen of major catastrophes,things don't run smoothly right away. Often their own local volunteers are impacted by what has hit the community so they are sending in outside volunteer and relying on delivery of supplies to impacted areas that creates more issues.

I've toured their local facility and it is impressive. 1 of 4 facilities the Kuwaiti government donated to the U.S. gulf coast after we liberated them from
Sadam Hussein.

They are tasked with all the big issues. They aren't very adaptive and their staff often seem like they "don't have a heart", but that may be somewhat necessary at times to move and care for the masses. Batch processing may be necessary I guess.

I can see some truth in the criticisms I see. I also am not sure you could handle the varied nature of he things they respond to any better in a mass response manner. The local charities are a necessary fill in for the gaps in Red Cross coverage.

They aren't all the way bad. 50 cents of every dollar you donate, might find it ways to victims.


But they are a long way from being good. They pay their employees an extra percentage of donations during emergencies.

I have no experience, but if some organization is providing food, wouldn't they want to know where it came from? Same with supplies. I am sure negative press would haunt any one that gave disaster victims and first responders food poisoning.

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I am sure negative press would haunt any one that gave disaster victims and first responders food poisoning.

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As opposed to the universal negative press you can see they generate all on their own?

These are people they "helped" shitting all over them.

Again, frick the Red Cross. It exists to make itself money, not to help.

When a tornado hit my dads house the salvation army was there in about 6hours, stopped by twice a day. Red Cross showed up about 5 days later

They are a good organization, but large part of their donations and assets never make it to those in needs. Where as the Salvation Army's CEO makes 13,000 a year just think about that. I think it is better to donate local but that is just me.

Yes

Yes, Most of the money donated goes to employees and does not get to the needy.

I've seen the good and the not so good from them. I would prefer to use a local organization if possible.

Charity Navigator - Red Cross - 91% of funds raised go to programs, services and aid.

That's not too bad. In fact, that's really good.

Salvation Army hides behind it's religious affiliation and does not report what percentage goes to programs and what goes to administrative and other hard costs.