The Red Cross is top heavy with administrators who are paid handsomely for distributing Other People’s Money....just like the government. Both want cash, so it can be spent by the administrators, who funnel money to agencies who agree with their ideas. Very little gets to individuals who need the help.
Do your charitable giving directly to families in need or through churches. Your gift will actually get to people who need it.
tx, that is one reason I don’t give to the Red Cross anymore. My money now goes to the Salvation Army where it will do more good.
Catholic Charities and Lutheran Family Services are two charitable organizations that consistently rank at or near the top where donation % ‘flow through’ to served constituents is highest.
Bureaucrats are one trick ponies, all they know how to do is build bureaucracies. Helping the humnan person isn’t part of the playbook, much less the core competency.
My tagline sums up my observations on the matter.