off topic - Red Cross donation via Amazon.com

[Guest guest]

Oh, I'm just a lab rat...a tiny mote in the corporate scheme. But I' ve seen

enough in my years there (14!) to know that bad management is endemic - all the

way up to National. Which is why I'm going back to school so I can LEAVE.

Laurie

off topic - Red Cross donation via

Amazon.com

You can now make a donation to the Red Cross for disaster relief via

Amazon.com

It's very easy, especially if you're set up with Amazon to buy/deal

with " One-Click " . I just went over there - in 5 seconds it's a done

deal.

Carol

[Guest guest]

Oh, I'm just a lab rat...a tiny mote in the corporate scheme. But I' ve seen

enough in my years there (14!) to know that bad management is endemic - all the

way up to National. Which is why I'm going back to school so I can LEAVE.

Laurie

off topic - Red Cross donation via

Amazon.com

You can now make a donation to the Red Cross for disaster relief via

Amazon.com

It's very easy, especially if you're set up with Amazon to buy/deal

with " One-Click " . I just went over there - in 5 seconds it's a done

deal.

Carol

[Guest guest]

You can now make a donation to the Red Cross for disaster relief via

Amazon.com

It's very easy, especially if you're set up with Amazon to buy/deal

with " One-Click " . I just went over there - in 5 seconds it's a done

deal.

Carol

[Guest guest]

I heard this on the radio today!

I also heard that Bill Gates donated a fair amount of money, as did some others.

They were going through a list of who donated - and, who didn't donate! it was

interesting!

one they said didn't donate, were any of the newspapers - which, after,

apparently, a non-factual editorial in - maybe the new york times? someone

suggested that they should make a donation!

One thing they said, it was something like less than 24 hours, and the American

people had donated a great some of money!

OH! another I remember - Starbucks Coffee - they're going to have some sort of

deal where for each pound of coffee purchased, I think they said, $2.00 would be

contributed. Seems to me there was another big company that was doing something

similar to that.

And I saw a lady on TV from UNICEF.

I've had a problem with the red cross though for a good while! They only want

money - they never want goods - and a few years back, I read that only a small

percentage of the money donated actually goes to the cause, because the majority

goes to the red tape and paid positions within their organization. I'd like to

find a way to get it more directly to the people who need it. There was someone

else on Television from one of the countries. He mentioned some other ways to

donate, but it went in one ear and out the other - and I couldn't remember who

he said he was getting supplies from. He knows who needs rice, and who doesn't.

I'd donate to somewhere who would give the money without the bureaucratic mumbo

jumbo!!

Cris

off topic - Red Cross donation via Amazon.com

You can now make a donation to the Red Cross for disaster relief via

Amazon.com

It's very easy, especially if you're set up with Amazon to buy/deal

with " One-Click " . I just went over there - in 5 seconds it's a done

deal.

Carol

[Guest guest]

United Way was a problem ONLY on the National Level. Only one cent of each

dollar that you give locally goes to the National organization. It was a

story that was done that media didn't tell the full story about. And that

was close to 10 years ago.

Kate

At 07:28 PM 12/30/2004, you wrote:

>It's been a number of years ago. Maybe after the press got hold of that,

>they changed their ways - but I know that was how they used to do it. And

>I recall that their donations really went down for a while after that.

>Hubby said that the United way was the one with the really big scandal,

>(big salaries and very little going out) but the Red Cross has an

>enormous overhead that gets paid first.

>I'm trying to find out where I can find out - like for each dollar

>received, what percentage goes where. No luck so far!

>Cris

>

> Re: off topic - Red Cross donation via

>Amazon.com

>

>

>In a message dated 12/30/2004 6:06:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,

>martian.303@... writes:

>

> > I've had a problem with the red cross though for a good while! They only

> > want money - they never want goods - and a few years back, I read that

> only a

> > small percentage of the money donated actually goes to the cause,

> because the

> > majority goes to the red tape and paid positions within their

> organization.

> > I'd like to find a way to get it more directly to the people who need it

>

>are you sure of this? I thought the Red Cross was among the best as far as

>percentage directly to the need.

>cindi

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I was formerly involved with and privvy to some local United Way groups, in

the past, and it's going to depend a whole lot on who is put in charge of

these things on a local level. I do NOT approve of the local goings-on of

who is put in charge of these things. In small communities, these are

highly " politicized " jobs, and many take these jobs as some sort of forward

into other things, if you get my meaning. They may not be the truly " heart

felt " people to do these jobs, plus some just generally mismanage, are

grafty, and consider it to be some sort of power trip. Some just slay they

care, but don't really care about the plight of people in need. I have seen

people receive these services who don't really need this and are just

" working the system " , then others don't receive these services who really

need them. This is my local take on United Way and some such similar

goings-on. I give my funds based on what I know is going on with these

entities, and it's not going to go my local United Way. I have given some

to certain local churches who I KNOW fairly distribute funds to families who

really need help, but, of course, they don't get the kind of funding that

United Way services do. United Way services here, locally, gives to who

they WANT to, and this is a very sore sbjct with me. You can report these

things to who you think will alleviate these things, but it IS a system,

with a chain reaction. And the former complaints on the Red Cross are

absolutely correct, the other expenses get paid first, and they are

numerous, including employees, of course.

Re: off topic - Red Cross donation via

Amazon.com

>

> United Way was a problem ONLY on the National Level. Only one cent of

each

> dollar that you give locally goes to the National organization. It was a

> story that was done that media didn't tell the full story about. And that

> was close to 10 years ago.

>

> Kate

>

> At 07:28 PM 12/30/2004, you wrote:

>

> >It's been a number of years ago. Maybe after the press got hold of that,

> >they changed their ways - but I know that was how they used to do it. And

> >I recall that their donations really went down for a while after that.

> >Hubby said that the United way was the one with the really big scandal,

> >(big salaries and very little going out) but the Red Cross has an

> >enormous overhead that gets paid first.

> >I'm trying to find out where I can find out - like for each dollar

> >received, what percentage goes where. No luck so far!

> >Cris