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Thanks for the link. That is a big difference and I appreciate the information. With that being said, RC is still a bloat of an organization that spends hundr

Thanks for the link. That is a big difference and I appreciate the information. With that being said, RC is still a bloat of an organization that spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year on overhead... and will not give 100% of the money they're raising right now for Haiti to Haiti.

boucher 17y ago
Ultimately, isn't what matters that the most aid possible gets to where it's needed? I don't understand the criticism of organizations that spend money on "overhead." I think Dan Pollatta's book, Uncharitable, is pretty interesting. In your comments on the other thread you talk about not accepting the status quo and having a hacker attitude towards charity, but it seems like your criticisms of the Red Cross are because they aren't status quo enough -- they spend some non-zero amount on things other than direct aid. We should judge a charity on it's efficacy, not its tactics. If it costs $500,000 a year to convince the most talented people to spend their time working with a charitable organization, and if that person proves to be worth the money, why shouldn't that be encouraged?
- TobiasCassell 17y ago
  Up-voted, thank you for reading Pallotta's book, that book is a mindbomb...