Above the law: America's worst charities

[William769]

The worst charity in America operates from a metal warehouse behind a gas station in Holiday, Florida.

Every year, Kids Wish Network raises millions of dollars in donations in the name of dying children and their families.

Every year, it spends less than 3 cents on the dollar helping kids.

Most of the rest gets diverted to enrich the charity's operators and the for-profit companies Kids Wish hires to drum up donations.

In the past decade alone, Kids Wish has channeled nearly $110 million donated for sick children to its corporate solicitors. An additional $4.8 million has gone to pay the charity's founder and his own consulting firms.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/13/us/worst-charities/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

This is just disgusting. The article is long but I suguest reading you will be shocked.

[Aerows]

1. Cue the usual suspects

rushing in to defend charities (and we know why, since they run them and are anything but on the left).

[Le Taz Hot]

2. That's why I stopped giving to the big charities

and started giving to the smaller, local ones in which I can actually see benefits being distributed DIRECTLY to the people in need. One of my local favorites:

http://www.poverellohouse.org

Virtually every community has organizations like this one. You KNOW where the money goes and it's not going to someone's already-wealthy pockets.

[William769]

3. Agreed.

Big charities have been off my list for years now with the exception of a few HIV/AIDS charities and even then I track their ratio to "administrative" costs.