re: Red Cross Exec Doesn't Know What Portion Of Donations Go To Harvey Relief

23,000 paid employees.

$286M of $2.7B on non-direct support (fundraising & management).

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concluded that the Red Cross had spent $124 million — one-quarter of the money donors gave for earthquake relief in Haiti in 2010 — on internal expenses. 

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The Red Cross is a fricking scam.

During the Haitian esthquake, I had a friend who owns a rice mill who had like 20 million pounds of milled rice in sacks in a warehouse in Haiti. He told me he'd give me a big commission if I sold it. I called someone I know in government and he had a representative from the Red Cross call me. She wanted us to donate the rice to them. It was like $5,000,000 worth of rice. I told her "No, we cannot donate it to you. We'd go bankrupt. But we can sell it to you below market value and it's already in Port-au-Prince ready to be distributed to the people."

So she has her boss call me from a satellite phone from Port-au-Prince. This bitch tells me the same thing. "Can you donate it to us?" So I tell her the same thing I told her underling. Then she pulls the "All of our food is donated to us. Imagine the lives you could save if you donate this food to us." I said, "I just read that the Red Cross has received over 80 million dollars in donations for the earthquake relief, so I suggest you spend a couple million of that money to save their lives. What do y'all do with all that money if you have everything donated to you?"

I basically told her to frick off, and if people were starving there, it's on them for not spending their donations wisely. Never heard back from her or anyone else with the Red Cross.

I'll never give them a dime.

I told this story in another thread the other day. A close friend who is a veterinarian was ordered to STOP providing medical care to animals after the flood because the Red Cross wanted to figure out a way to track his work so they would get "credit" for it from the government. They shut down his clinic and after four hours of waiting around he left.

That's so fricked up

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By the end of that day, the city took back control of the shelter and relegated the red cross to a supporting role. They rescinded the rule against volunteers under 18, got rid of the video requirement, and started to institute a sustainable volunteer plan.

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I can vouch for this. County Judge Ed Emmett who has always shown great leadership in Harris County during crises announced this at a daily press conference saying something to the effect that we are not going to let a bunch of bureaucracy prevent us from taking care of people.

Local channel 2 in Houston shoes the call in for red cross to donate and pushing it and keep stating that 91% of all donations go to the flood victims

I thought that seemed like BS considering everything that was said during time LA floods

Is it sad that I trust JJ Watts campaign more than the Red Cross? It's not the volunteers ... it's the management I distrust.

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True story.

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Thanks for the back-up. I didn't remember the details that well but I just know it galled the shite out of me when I read about it.

All I know is that When I decided I wanted to help, I checked into the Red Cross. I filled out their application and waited to be assigned. Before being assigned, they said they had to run a background check and I'd have to watch a video and something else. I said screw them and am currently posting this from a truck loaded with supplies heading to Houston to help anyone and everyone we can. Meanwhile, the Red Cross finally got around to emailing my background check form about 10 minutes ago.

You here about millions coming in but where does that money go? I don't know any flood victims that got money from all these athletes and movie stars donating.

If I was raising money and could raise millions or donate a million dollars I would go door to door get a bank account and wire it directly to those that need it.