[VOA]

...We ask that you will send legions of angels into those organizations and shake
them up with your Light, shatter the matrices of dense thinking and bureaucratic
red tape and guide them into a renewal of their original purpose. ...

TEXOKIE,
while I give a hearty Amen to all you said in your prayer, it appears that
we should add in a bit more for The Red Cross, given their "United Way"-esque weasely
words and actions.

I fear that only when a legion of lawyers and fraud investigators (as in The
Red Cross' breaking of contracts, verbal and/or implied, to donors) show up at their
headquarters and their banking institutions with some big fat subpoenas.
I'm afraid that a few "perp walks" is about the only thing that would bring
The Red Cross back onto the straight and narrow.

Given some of the INCREDIBLE duplicity of chapters of The Red Cross here in
California (especially the San Diego chapter), I almost despair about the
organization so much that I think my charitable dollar would more likely reach
people in need if I just threw it out the window, as opposed to writing The Red Cross
a check.

Sad, sad, sad.
For me, the final straw with The Red Cross was when Dr. Bernadette Healy quit after
trying to fix the organization.

[TEXOKIE]

I agree that Red Cross performance has been sadly lacking. I was first alerted to it myself when victims following the OKC bombing caught them with the hand in the cookie jar. They would get letters which would refer to checks for that particular family, and there would be no check in the envelope. The Red Cross had thoughtfully taken it out to go into their general fund....or wherever.

My prayer was for the purpose of asking God to take command of the situation. The Red Cross used to be a very fine organization. If it can be fixed, then only God can do it. In the meantime, until there is an organization with integrity, I'm grateful for FReepers acting with determination to fill in the breech. Someone above suggested the Boy Scouts....wonder if that is a real possibility?