Charlottesville: Where's the $200,000 the DSA raised?
Local activists including Allie told Al Jazeera that the DSA initially wanted the Red Cross, an international charitable organisation that also requires a police report to verify claims, to distribute the funds.
After members from the DSA's Charlottesville and Richmond chapters complained about the choice, national DSA went with the National Compassion Fund (NCF), according to the DSA's Deputy Director David Duhalde.
Allie never received this news. It came when she was looking into charitable organisations supporting the victims of the October 1 Las Vegas shooting, the deadliest in modern US history, that she saw a Charlottesville fund on the website of the NCF. She immediately applied again.
According to Allie, it was DSA Richmond chapter that confirmed that the funds had been transferred to the NCF, not the national chapter to which she had originally applied for assistance.
Other than an automated response from NCF, Allie has not received word from the charitable organisation.
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Duhalde said "all 10" people who applied through the DSA had their information transferred to the NCF.
The NCF did not return Al Jazeera's request for comment.
For Allie, who suffered a crushed pelvis, the DSA's conduct, including the lack of transparency and public outreach regarding the fund's status, was "problematic".
While she was "sorry" for any harm the facts about the Charlottesville fund might cause the DSA, "this is something they completely brought upon themselves with their actions", Allie said.
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