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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Thu Jun 13, 2013, 04:46 PM Jun 2013

Above the law: America's worst charities

(CNN) -- 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

The 50 worst, ranked by money blown on soliciting costs http://www.tampabay.com/americas-worst-charities/
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Above the law: America's worst charities (Original Post) SecularMotion Jun 2013 OP
How do people like that sleep at night? Bay Boy Jun 2013 #1

Bay Boy

(1,689 posts)
1. How do people like that sleep at night?
Thu Jun 13, 2013, 05:20 PM
Jun 2013

Taking advantage of people who want to actually help people, that is so sick.

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