The Red Cross doesn’t know how they will be using funds donated to help Hurricane Harvey survivors. Which is alarming considering the organization’s poor track record of actually giving funds to charity.
NPR’s Morning Edition interviewed Red Cross executive Brad Kieserman to ask how the funds will be distributed. Kieserman said that as of Wednesday morning, “had spent $50 million on Harvey relief, mainly on 232 shelters for 66,000 people.”
“Through donations, how much of every dollar goes to relief?”NPR’s Ailsa Chang asked him.
But he responded without actually providing an answer to her question:
“Yeah, I don’t think I know the answer to that any better than the chief fundraiser knows how many, how much it costs to put a volunteer downrange for a week and how many emergency response vehicles I have on the road today. So I think if he was on this interview and you were asking how many relief vehicles in Texas, I don’t think he’d know the answer and I don’t know the answer to the financial question I’m afraid
That is ridiculous! Nobody at the Red Cross knows how much they spend helping people in need. But, they handle billions of dollars in charitable donations. Smoking gun anyone?
Source: Zero Hedge
This is not new. They have lined thier own pockets for years.
They handle billions of dollars but don’t know how much goes to helping people. Hmmmmm.
About .09 out of a dollar goes to help people in need. I donate to the Salvation Army myself.