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However Credit must go where credit is due. I copied that graphic from FReeper NIKK
Posted on 09/12/2017 3:50:32 PM PDT by lionstar
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- At least one city leader is questioning the Red Cross's choice of hotels while coming to Houston to help with Harvey relief.
City Councilman Dave Martin dubbed the charity the "Red Loss." He made the point last week at city hall, claiming he hadn't seen the charity in his district.
Five days later, they still haven't shown up in Kingwood, Martin claims.
Flood victims like Ronald Leggett, who live in Kingwood echo Martin's complaints.
"I haven't seen them," Leggett said. "I've been here almost every day."
But that's not what really has Martin upset.
Some of the luckiest Red Cross volunteers are staying the night at the St. Regis Hotel, one of the city's finest 5-star places to spend the night.
ABC13 Investigates found Red Cross vans parked outside the hotel along the street in an area marked for limousines over the weekend.
The Red Cross admits it had 20 volunteers staying there for days on end, due to "limited availability" they say, in the Houston area.
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This doesn’t surprise me from what I have heard about it.
“Yep - and the Red Cross is very secular and rigid with their protocols.
The brass gets overpayed and no Christians need apply”
Did I read Red Cross CEO makes 500 large?
Just reinforcement to my policy of not giving to the Red Cross
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I think it may be 800,000 that’s why we don’t give to them.
I do not donate to the United Way or Red Cross. I donate to my local church and various disease organizations. Could the Red Cross workers not find a place in the shelters to stay?
Many faith-based disaster relief services absorb all overhead through normal church offerings.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Disaster Relief is 100% pass through. All overhead covered through other sources.
IOCC (Orthodox) is about 90 cents per dollar passed through.
Just reinforcement to my policy of not giving to the Red Cross
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I got wise to them and the others that have been exposed a long time ago.
That’s because Red Cross officials were hold up in an expensive
ordering room service 3 or 4 times a day.
I didn’t forget. After 911 money poured into the Red Cross. And then they said.....we’re not spending it all here.
To me that’s taking advantage of a bad situation. I’ll never give them a dime.
The 9/11 debacle was the end of my charitable donations to the Red Cross. I’m sure their lawyers did their due diligence to make sure they could skirt it on a technicality but in my mind it smacked of what would constitute fraud in most “for profit” businesses. Living in NJ I also know a number of people who were affected by Sandy and none of them had any offers of assistance from the RC.
Made me think quite a bit about the whole charity thing. How the business is managed, how decisions are made for specific situations and whom, at the end would wind up deciding where to apply the money.
I honestly could not come up with a way to structure an organization like this without rampant misallocations.
My solution? We have a home in NJ that is in a middle class/bordering on lower class neighborhood. With the exception of a few few extra vehicles and a vacation home in northeast PA we live modestly and stay in the area for work. There are plenty of hardworking people we have come to know over the course of time around here. On occasion when one of them needs help, it is our discernment that dictates who is the recipient.
This allows us to make adjustments as we go along. If we give someone money for a legitimate purpose but later see them spending their own recklessly, that’s it. Still our friend but no more money. We can also decide that there’s a greater good (ie. someone can’t afford heating oil and it’s 15 degrees out and they have two kids) and act accordingly.
The old saying that charity starts at home is correct. And once your home is well off it should move to your family, friends and neighbors. At the end of the day, you will probably make better decisions than any disinterested organization will.
BTW, there is only one organization I donate regularly to and it is FreeRepublic. In case anyone reading this has not heard, there’s a Freepathon going on and JimRob could use your help.
Cheers.
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More information is required, before concluding that the money (for the hotel) was misspent.
The Red Cross officials were there to conduct business — as such, staying at a business hotel makes sense. They would need access to conference rooms, a business center, communications, etc. Those sorts of amenities are simply not available at budget hotels or motels. It also makes great sense to have all the staff stay at the same hotel — and for that hotel to be where they do their office work. Especially where transportation and communications systems are mostly non-functional.
They are big on jihadi refugees-do not donate to them. Buy some gift cards and distribute to friends of friends who got wiped out
Watch how well that money is spent!
Same is true of the United Way, right? Every few years their gold-plated executives seem to get rapped for outlandish salaries, spending, etc.
In this area there are UW public service ads aplenty on talk radio, the most offensive of which is a pitch to donate money to help United Way clientele pay their income taxes!
As if I have money to pay someone else's damned tax bill...
“Watch how well that money is spent! “
Before or after the drug and alcohol bills are paid?
I scratched the Red Cross off my list a long time ago.
The Red Cross was along the lines of a joke during 9/11, IIRC, by holding back funds, with billions in reserve, for some selfish stupid reasons.
The public relations department of the American Red Cross might accurately be considered a disaster area right about now. During a City Council meeting on September 6, Council Member Dave Martin expressed his exasperation with The Red Cross and its complete absence in Kingwood and Clear Lake, where some of the most devastating flooding occurred. Martin also revealed that Red Cross volunteers are sleeping very comfortably at the St. Regis, a hotel in Houston described as “boutique luxury and Southern hospitality.” To give you some perspective, according to the hotel website as of September 12, the cheapest available room starts at $328 per night.
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