Posted on 12/26/2010 12:31:28 PM PST by Mikey_1962
1. American Tract Society
Administrative expenses: 68.0%
Topping the list of America’s worst charities is an organization that spent more than $1.6 million dollars on its administrative expenses in 2007, over twice what it spent the previous year.
2. Boys Choir of Harlem
Administrative expenses: 66.3%
Long-respected for its role in improving the lives of disadvantaged and impoverished young people in Harlem, New York, the Boys Choir of Harlem went all the way to the White House, performing for sitting presidents since Lyndon Johnson.
3. National Council of Negro Women (NCNW)
Administrative expenses: 64%
Serving as an umbrella organization for 39 national and local advocacy groups for women of African descent both in the U.S. and abroad, the National Council of Negro Women coordinates its activities with partners in 34 states.
4. Union Rescue Mission, Little Rock
Administrative expenses: 62.1%
Arkansas’s Union Rescue Mission is the first charity on the list whose administrative expenses reached over 60 percent of total expenses for the last reported year. The Mission’s goals are of the highest importance, targeting hunger, victims of abuse, and people struggling with addiction in Arkansas and her neighboring states, which it pursues through the efforts of a few key Baptist reverends.
5. Cherokee National Historical Society
Administrative expenses: 58.2%
Dedicated to preserving the history and traditions of the Cherokee people, the Cherokee National Historical Society, based in Oklahoma, is the fifth-most inefficient charity in the United States
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In short, screw your bro.
....the Jesse Jackson model!
I've never known a white Baptist Pastor who consented to be called "Reverend" - Pastor, Brother, Preacher but not Reverend.
You got my thoughts exactly.
vaudine
Is the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on the bad charity list? Morris Dees and his few top employees take out high salaries, what they call education expense is all the fund raising literature they send out and little goes to anything else.
I have never heard of a white “Reverend” either. Maybe it’s a Black thing.
Wait a minute; without the aid to THAT particular group, Democrats would be out of business, and tons of black "activists" would be un-needed!
Then again, we'd save Billions of taxpayer wealth-redistribution dollars for sure!
A number of denominations use “Reverend” as a courtesy prefix for clergy: “The Reverend Mr. Lastname” or “Reverend Father Lastname” are the equivalent of elected officials’ being “The Honorable Representative Lastname.” The titles are used in the addressing of letters, and that’s about it.
You call your congresscritter “Congressman” or “Representative” or “Mister,” in every other usage, and most people call their clergy “Father” or “Deacon” or “Mister” or “Pastor.” Baptists seem to me to be more likely than other groups to address a pastor as “Reverend,” in speech, as in “Reverend Graham,” but I’ve never heard any use “reverends” in this way as a plural noun. They would say “pastors” to identify a group of church leaders.
The Silver Star Families of America, an organization that assists the wounded, ill and dying of the Armed Forces from
all wars, runs less that 5% admin.
And it is actually in their by laws.
Check out charity financial pages before you donate to see how transparant they are.
With a salary of $303,936 a year, all I can say is that Mo Dees is living well. It must be good to be oppressed.
So?
I agree, I agree!!!
Reverend is an adjective, and your reference to politicians
is fine. You wouldn’t address your Senator by saying,
“Well Honorable, I disagree with you.”
You can’t trust government stats with things like that because of the way government accounting goes.
I doubt if the SSA numbers are comparable to private industry.
La.
Exactly. Nor would you say, “Several of the honorables were indicted in Wake County last week.”
I'm 65, Baptist my entire life and have known many Baptist Pastors and have never met a Baptist Pastor who wanted to be addressed by the title "Reverend".
I've never met Sharpton or Jackson and don't even know if they claim to be Baptist.
News people refer to them as Reverend.
My current Pastor has an earned doctorate, (As opposed to an honorary one) and prefers to be called brother Bobby.
Just going from the general media. References to Billy Graham and his son Franklin Graham always say “Reverend Graham,” as if that’s what you’d say if you met either man in person.
Would real people (non-journalists) say Mr. Graham?
Our Puerto Rican deacon, “Reverend Mr. Rafael Fuentes,” according to the bulletin, goes by “Brother Rafael.”
Please see my number 36 and 37 reply
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