Posted on 12/20/2005 5:23:06 PM PST by hiho hiho
My donations are getting pared down to nothing.
The Salvation Army is the only organization I give to anymore.
The rest of my charity will go to whom I choose directly.
No overhead there!
Exactly. Or I just give it to someone in need. I plan on buying a new truck this coming year. When I do I'll probably give my old one, still worth probably 8K to a buddy that's struggling with his lawn care biz.
Now that would be a shame . . . :-)
Someone told me there is a web site to find out what monies were recieved and spent by these 501(c)3 non profit organizations. I have not been able to find it. Maybe someone here knows.
it won't be when people like me stop my donations....which I do very frequently since I don't like to have garage sales......
Libby Dole was the CEO of a NATIONAL organization.....this guy is from one state, and not a hugely populous one at that......
We all thought it was so noble at the time but he's probably making more money than all of us now!
I think this may be the one you're thinking of:
http://www.charitywatch.org/
Well, after I posted that Charity Watch link, I was looking at their site in more depth and am not sure it's the one I was remembering! I found another page with links to SEVERAL such sites that help evaluate charities here:
Effective Donating To Help You Give Wisely
http://www.heartsandminds.org/links/givelinks.htm
A few years back the Goodwill organization is the San Jose area was rocked when the director of one store had sold the good donations to furniture stores and pocketed the money. It worked so well, she got three of her sisters involved and they ran separate stores in the area. The lavish lifestyle finally got someone to look into the matter and the result was they were said to be clearing over $20,000 per month per store. I read the story right here on Freerepublic so maybe its available somewhere.
Me too. Great minds think alike.
Michael Miller, $830,000. a year President of Portland's Goodwill, is that you?
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