[Howlin]

Did you watch that show? Does anybody know what CBS said?

[VA Advogado]

This is all I found on the 60 minutes website:

THE AMERICAN RED CROSS: It took a public outcry to make the Red Cross funnel all the money it collected for 9/11 to those victims. But Mike Wallace finds out that wasn’t the first time the venerable charity has come under fire for how it spends donations raised after a major disaster.

LINK

[edwin hubble]

I saw the 60 minutes piece on the Red Cross last night. (Sunday 3/10).

A classic, 60 minutes full-scale attack.
Withering, scathing, no-holds-barred report that showed the Southern California Chapter of the American Red Cross had solicited funds using the photophaphs and names of local disaster victims... with NO intention What-So-Ever of letting any of those victims have One Dime of the funds.

The local chapter president gets $300,000 per year.
$100,000 of which is BONUS for operating in the black.
That means Not Spending or disbursing solicited funds.

Red Cross basically did not respond.

[heleny]

I listened to the show, but don't remember much. The Red Cross has a rebuttal/whine on its website. Among the information listed is:

On Sunday, March 10, the CBS News show 60 Minutes ran a ... story about the American Red Cross.

The 60 Minutes segment focused on 3 problems (San Diego, Loma Prieta and Red River)

[San Diego is where the Alpine and Viejas fires occurred in January 2001
Loma Prieta is the location of the San Francisco earthquake around 1990.
I don't remember what disaster happened at Red River.
60 Minutes did not report other examples of the ARC's problems, but others probably existed.]

National Red Cross is audited annually by ... KPMG.

When donors designate, their intentions are always honored.
[But, most donors don't.]

60 Minutes reported that the San Diego chapter has not provided a financial report to Supervisor Jacob and the fire victims. ...
$242,021 has been spent on immediate disaster relief and in direct support of the families affected by the fire of the $343,000 designated by donors for the Alpine/Viejas fires, more than two-thirds of the donations. [what about the other 1/3? and what about all the undirected money collected using this disaster?]

60 Minutes reported that the national audit of San Diego found that the chapter had misspent $112,000. .... National Red Cross and the chapter agreed that indirect costs associated with the Alpine Fire, such things as the cost of telephones to service this disaster, would not be counted
[I think 60 Minutes mentioned the spending of donations on phone service and chapter expansion.]