Red Cross raises nearly $1 BILLION from Katrina and STILL gets FEMA funds

[samdogmom]

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-opwal274444388sep27,0,6267271.story?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines

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As of last week, the American Red Cross reported that it had raised $826 million in private funds for Hurricane Katrina victims. The Chronicle of Philanthropy has the total figure at more than $1.2 billion for all relief groups reporting. So the Red Cross received about 70 percent of all giving.

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This skewed giving to the Red Cross would be justified if the organization had to pay the cost of the 300,000 people it has sheltered. But FEMA and the affected states are reimbursing the Red Cross under contracts for emergency shelter and other disaster services. The existence of these contracts is no secret to anyone but the American public.



Does this offend anybody else? Or am I missing something?

[Squatch]

1. Nope...

Link

Marsha Evans
President, CEO
Compensation: $450,008

[Rainbowreflect]

2. I am not offended. Just because there is a huge disaster

does not mean that the Red Cross does not still have many other people they are helping.
That said, I usually do not give much to Red Cross after a disaster, I give more to other groups that do not get as much help.