Just got this in an email. Is this true?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

The American Red Cross
President and CEO - Marsha J. Evans salary for the year 2010
was $651,957, plus all personal, medical, & pension expenses.
Less than 10 cents of your donated dollar actually goes to the cause.


The United Way
President - Brian Gallagher receives a $375,000 base salary,
along with numerous personal & family expense benefits.
Less than 12 cents of your donated dollar actually goes to the cause.


UNICEF
CEO - Caryl M. Stern receives $1.2 Million per year (100k per month)
plus all living & housing expenses, including a ROLLS ROYCE.
Less than 15 cents of your donated dollar actually goes to the cause.


The Salvation Army
Commissioner - Todd Bassett receives a salary of only $13,000 per year (plus housing)
for managing this $2 billion dollar organization. 96 cents of all donated dollars go to the cause.

[sasha031]

1. I think Charities Navigator is pretty good

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=3277

[brooklynite]

2. Correct data from Charity Navigator

ARC: 91.8% goes to program, 4.4% goes to administration

United Way: 86% goes to program, 12.4% goes to administration

UNICEF: 91.8% goes to program, 2.5% goes to administration

Salvation Army: Doesn't provide data to evaluate

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4617

[RegieRocker]

14. The main issue is how much does the ceo make.

[Demit]

3. ever hear of snopes.com?

Amazingly, it's a place where you can look things up to see whether or not they're true!

[hfojvt]

10. looking up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzh4_W1KQ0

[RebelOne]

18. Snopes.com is my go-to Web site

when I receive e-mails like that. It's amazing that everyone does not know about it.

[RC]

4. Mostly outdated and inaccurate.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/charities.asp

[MineralMan]

5. Nope. Bogus.

Snopes.

[hfojvt]

6. I googled and found this

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_charities_salaries.htm

[Thunderstruck]

7. Do you think any one of those charities would

have been around as long as they have been if what you posted was true ?

[RegieRocker]

12. Yes.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

16. +1

[MilesColtrane]

8. You can look it up here.

http://www.charitynavigator.org/

The Salvation Army, being a religious organization, doesn't have to file a Form 990, so I don't know how you could verify the figures represented in this email.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

9. I can't tell you about

most of them but for the United Way it works like this;
Each local United Way is autonomous and each one gives 1% of their operating budget to UW National. At a local level the ratio is more like 85 cents to programs, 15 cents to admin/overhead. I was a 'Campaign Executive' for two years with my local UW.

[RegieRocker]

11. Obama only received $ 475, 000 and doled out billions to help

those in need. Yep privatization is the way to go!

[Le Taz Hot]

13. It's the reason I donate locally

(well, when I actually had money, that is).

[Javaman]

15. don't believe chain emails.

I delete all the "chain" emails without reading them.

Most of the time, they are nothing more than bullshit agenda ridden emails built around what appears to be a grain of truth.

Deleting them is your best course of action.

Also, take into account the agenda of the person or corporate entity that sent it.

most of them thread back to freedom works.

[Angry Dragon]

17. Did a google and came up with some interesting things

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/12/charity-ceo-pay-questione_n_496317.html



I know this is older but remember someone telling me about him
over $800,000 in compensation in 2004

http://www.ncrp.org/news-room/news-2005/402-goodwill-chief-agrees-to-pay-cut