Clinton Foundation has an A rating

[Onlooker]

One of the reasons many civil rights, gay rights, and women's rights groups support Hillary is because her family is associated with decades of public service and a lot of good works. Recently, right wingers have done their best to attack the Clinton Foundation, which is involved in climate change initiatives, AIDS treatment, and farming especially in less developed countries. Needless to say, right wingers and their trolls do what they can do to discredit the charity as a means of attacking Hillary and reducing aid to the African and Caribbean countries the charity is especially active in. While the charity has made mistakes, the fact is that it is rated very highly. Charity Watch gives it an A rating, while another group, Charity Navigator, has declined to rate it until they develop an appropriate methodology.

A lot of interesting information at this link:

https://www.charitywatch.org/ratings-and-metrics/bill-hillary-chelsea-clinton-foundation/478

[grasswire]

1. Haiti. nt

[PufPuf23]

15. Protests continue against Hillary Clinton’s role in Haiti after earthquake March 17, 2016

PORT-AU-PRINCE – Six years after Haiti was devastated by the massive 2010 earthquake, many people in the impoverished Caribbean country continue to hold Hillary Clinton’s State Department and the Clinton Foundation responsible for a recovery effort that cost billions for what is widely perceived to be little return.

The New York Times reports that the Clintons have been a target of protesters in Port-au-Prince, who claim earthquake aid money was mismanaged and lucrative deals went to Clinton cronies.

The litany of complaints included the circumstances surrounding the Caracol industrial park, a project which was backed by both the Clinton Foundation and the State Department. Hundreds of farmers were evicted from their land during the park’s construction, and the project delivered less than half the number of promised jobs.

Also singled out by critics was Mrs Clinton’s brother Tony Rodham, who turned up in business ventures on the island, sparking speculation about insider deals.

more at: http://curacaochronicle.com/region/protests-continue-against-hillary-clintons-role-in-haiti-after-earthquake/

[grasswire]

23. thank you

"earthquake aid money was mismanaged and lucrative deals went to Clinton cronies"

BOOM

[nc4bo]

16. I hear they're waiting to check into a fine hotel. No?

Ok well how about homes being built for those who were displaced, lost everything or live in shacks?

Like in the ads? :

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/our-work/clinton-foundation-haiti

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-clintons-haiti-development-plans-succeed--and-disappoint/2015/03/20/0ebae25e-cbe9-11e4-a2a7-9517a3a70506_story.html

http://www.blackagendareport.com/clinton_haiti_elections

http://socialistworker.org/2011/01/13/how-haiti-was-abandoned
Red Cross did these people wrong too, I heard.

http://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-red-cross-500-million-in-haiti-relief

Very very sad that all the money raised in their names has not improved many lives in Haiti.

[leftofcool]

2. There is a long list of wonderful things the Clinton Foundation has done.

[Trust Buster]

3. Attacking their charity is about as low as it gets.

[JaneyVee]

4. Does great work, especially on this:

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/our-work/clinton-health-access-initiative/programs/pediatric-aids

[Warren DeMontague]

5. WaPo: Independent watch groups split on the Clinton Foundation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/04/27/independent-watch-groups-split-on-clinton-foundation/

[Onlooker]

10. You should try reading the article, not just the headline

They are not split. One rated the Foundation an A, the other didn't rate it.

Charity Navigator, which calls itself the nation's largest charity evaluator, has declined to issue a rating to the Clinton Foundation, citing the organization's "atypical business model." A spokeswoman for the organization did not respond to a request to elaborate on Monday. But Borochoff said the rival group uses an automated program to analyze the tax filings of charitable groups. The program does not allow analysis of the Clinton Foundation because the organization files a series of a tax returns for its different initiatives, he said.

[Warren DeMontague]

20. I did read the article, thanks. Thats why I linked to it.

I didnt editorialize, I just posted the link. The headline, likewise, was written by the post, not me.

I assume people here are bright enough to come to their own conclusions.

I actually thought the paragraph about the "mistakes" was the more interesting one, myself.

On Sunday, the acting chief executive of the Clinton Foundation acknowledged that the $2 billion global philanthropy has made "mistakes," notably failing to disclose to the IRS that it received millions in foreign government donations over some years that coincided with Clinton's service as secretary of state. CEO Maura Pally said the organization's overall revenue figures have been accurately reported to the IRS.

Here is another WaPo story on the topic.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-foundation-reveals-up-to-26million-in-additional-payments/2015/05/21/e49da740-0009-11e5-833c-a2de05b6b2a4_story.html

[EdwardBernays]

6. If it's so amazing

Why have they twice covered up who the donors are?

Once by funneling donations through a Canadian charity, then lying about why.

And another time by breaking a promise they made to Obama to release the donors while SOS. A promise not kept to this day.

And how can soooooo many people that donate to the foundation just coincidentally get such preferential treatment?

3x as many donors had their weapons deals approved by Hillary as non-donors, for example.

And why did UBS - after Hillary intervened on their behalf with the IRS - up their annual donation to the foundation from 60k to 600k and pay Bill 1.5m for some Q and As?

And why does this pattern repeat over and over and over and over with Foundation donors?

Donate money get a favor. Or you get a favor and then donate a lot of money.

Why does every single Clinton supporter think that all of this ^^^^ and the endless other examples just like this are all just coincidence, when the entire world knows that these same Clinton supporters would be angrily posting about how corrupt a Republican was, if he only did this kind of thing once.

You can simply Google Halliburton and Cheney or just Blackwater and you'll see accusations and beliefs posted by liberals for YEARS with less evidence than what exists about Bill and Hillary and their "Foundation".

Either all those liberals were lying then or theyre all lying now. And personally I think they're all lying now. No sane person sees this pattern in a politician, for years and years, and just assumes it's all just a big coincidence.

[dragonfly301]

19. +1 eom

[SidDithers]

7. "Recently, right wingers have done their best to attack the Clinton Foundation"...

Not only right-wingers.

DU rec.

Sid

[DesertRat]

8. k&r

[Impedimentus]

9. How much did that cost them ?

?

[PeaceNikki]

11. 89% of their funding goes to charity

Contrary to what you may have heard, their foundation is highly efficient with only 11% overhead, and has provided $2,000 million dollars to the poor and needy.

Their foundation projects include training African farmers to get access to seeds, equipment and markets for their crops, reforestation projects in Africa and the Caribbean, renewable energy projects in island nations, and work to lower the cost of HIV/AIDS medicine and scale up pediatric AIDS treatment. And here’s a picture from Oakland from the Clinton Foundation’s “Too Small to Fail” project.



http://zfacts.com/2016/02/clinton-speaking-fees/

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/06/19/fact-check-clinton-foundation-money/28977319/

[LexVegas]

12. They artack civil rights icons, female journalists, why not a charity? nt

[Impedimentus]

21. Is an "artack" some kind of small marsupial ?

"They artack civil rights icons, female journalists, why not a charity? nt"

I'm strongly against animal cruelty of any kind.

[mcar]

13. Charity watch is a great source

for objective information about nonprofits. Thanks.

[FlatBaroque]

14. Part slush fund, part money laundering. It is a very interesting scam. /

[FlatBaroque]

17. Without the Clinton Foundation, how would Syd Blumenthal make a living? /

[grasswire]

22. well, that $120,000 may not be his only source of income

Remember, he was trying to gin up some private enterprises in Libya.

The new Chalabi.

[think]

18. Clinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton’s State Department

Clinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton’s State Department

By David Sirota & Andrew Perez 05/26/2015 09:02 am ET | Updated May 26, 2015

Even by the standards of arms deals between the United States and Saudi Arabia, this one was enormous. A consortium of American defense contractors led by Boeing would deliver $29 billion worth of advanced fighter jets to the United States' oil-rich ally in the Middle East.

~Snip~

But now, in late 2011, Hillary Clinton’s State Department was formally clearing the sale, asserting that it was in the national interest. At press conferences in Washington to announce the department’s approval, an assistant secretary of state, Andrew Shapiro, declared that the deal had been “a top priority” for Clinton personally. Shapiro, a longtime aide to Clinton since her Senate days, added that the “U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army have excellent relationships in Saudi Arabia.”

These were not the only relationships bridging leaders of the two nations. In the years before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia contributed at least $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, the philanthropic enterprise she has overseen with her husband, former president Bill Clinton. Just two months before the deal was finalized, Boeing -- the defense contractor that manufactures one of the fighter jets the Saudis were especially keen to acquire, the F-15 -- contributed $900,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to a company press release.


~Snip~

American defense contractors also donated to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state and in some cases made personal payments to Bill Clinton for speaking engagements. Such firms and their subsidiaries were listed as contractors in $163 billion worth of Pentagon-negotiated deals that were authorized by the Clinton State Department between 2009 and 2012.

The State Department formally approved these arms sales even as many of the deals enhanced the military power of countries ruled by authoritarian regimes whose human rights abuses had been criticized by the department. Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar all donated to the Clinton Foundation and also gained State Department clearance to buy caches of American-made weapons even as the department singled them out for a range of alleged ills, from corruption to restrictions on civil liberties to violent crackdowns against political opponents. ...

http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-1934187

[grasswire]

24. pay to play nt