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Regarding 'just cash', I would like to quote the Red Cross: "The best way to help a disaster victim is through a financial donation to the Red Cross. Financial

by user24 13y ago

Regarding 'just cash', I would like to quote the Red Cross: "The best way to help a disaster victim is through a financial donation to the Red Cross. Financial contributions allow the Red Cross to purchase exactly what is needed for the disaster relief operation. Monetary donations also enable the Red Cross to purchase relief supplies close to the disaster site which avoids delays and transportation costs in getting basic necessities to disaster victims. Because the affected area has generally experienced significant economic loss, purchasing relief supplies in or close to the disaster site also helps to stimulate the weakened local economy." http://www.redcross.org/support/donating-fundraising/other-ways-to-give/donating-goods http://www.redcross.org/support/donating-fundraising/other-w...

ck2 13y ago
Do not freaking donate to the Red Cross. Find a local charity. The Red Cross is HORRIBLY inefficient and wasteful. Your money is buying them furniture.
- user24 13y ago
  Firstly you can't throw claims like that around without a source, secondly I don't think now is the time to make FUD about which charity to donate to, thirdly that's tangential to what I was quoting (that cash is better than goods), and fourthly http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/10/typhoon-haiyan-kills-10000-in-philippines-live-updates#block-527f6de7e4b055987af6768e http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/10/typhoon-haiyan-... edit: fifthly: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=3277#.Un99so05h0Q http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...
  - ck2 13y ago
    Maybe they behave better in other parts of the world, but the Red Cross in the USA is everyone's knee-jerk reaction to throw money at, and they have many many issues: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Red_Cross#Controversies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Red_Cross#Controversie... http://articles.latimes.com/2006/feb/04/local/me-redcross4 http://articles.latimes.com/2006/feb/04/local/me-redcross4 https://www.google.com/search?q=Red+Cross+resigns https://www.google.com/search?q=Red+Cross+resigns (note all the resignations are different people!) http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/18/red-cross-sandy-recovery/2508065/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/18/red-cro... http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/11/12/the-problem-with-the-red-cross/ http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/11/12/the-problem... and there was a huge scandal where they used emergency fund donations to buy furniture for their offices - having trouble finding it right now
    - ceejayoz 13y ago
      The controversies linked in the Wikipedia article seem pretty ho-hum for an organization the size of the Red Cross. Stuff like credit checks of volunteers, following the FDA's (stupid) rule on blood from homosexual males, a dispute with Johnson + Johnson, etc. hardly support the allegation of mass corruption in the group.
- lostlogin 13y ago
  It pays my neighbour who is a nurse to go and work in Syria. It doesn't get much more direct than that.

by user24 13y ago

ck2 13y ago

Do not freaking donate to the Red Cross. Find a local charity. The Red Cross is HORRIBLY inefficient and wasteful. Your money is buying them furniture.

user24 13y ago
Firstly you can't throw claims like that around without a source, secondly I don't think now is the time to make FUD about which charity to donate to, thirdly that's tangential to what I was quoting (that cash is better than goods), and fourthly http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/10/typhoon-haiyan-kills-10000-in-philippines-live-updates#block-527f6de7e4b055987af6768e http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/10/typhoon-haiyan-... edit: fifthly: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=3277#.Un99so05h0Q http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...
- ck2 13y ago
  Maybe they behave better in other parts of the world, but the Red Cross in the USA is everyone's knee-jerk reaction to throw money at, and they have many many issues: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Red_Cross#Controversies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Red_Cross#Controversie... http://articles.latimes.com/2006/feb/04/local/me-redcross4 http://articles.latimes.com/2006/feb/04/local/me-redcross4 https://www.google.com/search?q=Red+Cross+resigns https://www.google.com/search?q=Red+Cross+resigns (note all the resignations are different people!) http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/18/red-cross-sandy-recovery/2508065/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/18/red-cro... http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/11/12/the-problem-with-the-red-cross/ http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/11/12/the-problem... and there was a huge scandal where they used emergency fund donations to buy furniture for their offices - having trouble finding it right now
  - ceejayoz 13y ago
    The controversies linked in the Wikipedia article seem pretty ho-hum for an organization the size of the Red Cross. Stuff like credit checks of volunteers, following the FDA's (stupid) rule on blood from homosexual males, a dispute with Johnson + Johnson, etc. hardly support the allegation of mass corruption in the group.
lostlogin 13y ago
It pays my neighbour who is a nurse to go and work in Syria. It doesn't get much more direct than that.