How Charities Are Helping Haiti: How Much They Raised and Spent (incredible)

[uppityperson]

The donations are from the USA and I picked a few to post. It is very interesting to see all these organizations listed like this (amounts raised, spent and on what). While I know some of the money went to organizational costs and some is still to be spent, I would like to see what happened to the rest of the moneys that were raised.


http://philanthropy.com/article/How-Charities-Are-Helping/66243/

Doctor Without Borders (MSF)
Difference $1,293,138

Doctors Without Borders USA (Médecins Sans Frontières USA)
New York
Amount raised: $66,483,138
Amount spent: $65,190,000 worldwide
Where the money went: Health-care services provided to more than 180,000 people. Costs include drugs, medical equipment, logistic equipment, salaries, and support services.

American Red Cross
Difference $347,000,000

American Red Cross
Washington
Amount raised: $464,000,000
Amount spent: $117,000,000
Where the money went: About half spent on food and emergency services; about a third for shelter; and the remainder toward activities such as cash assistance and water, sanitation, and health programs.

Salvation Army
Difference $13,700,000

Salvation Army
Alexandria
Amount raised: $20,500,000
Amount spent: $6,800,000
Where the money went: Managing a camp for 20,000 people in Port-au-Prince, providing food, water, and medical aid and supporting cash-for-work programs. Plans to build more than 4,000 transitional shelters.

World Vision

World Vision
Federal Way
Amount raised: $44,000,000; $192,000,000 worldwide
Amount spent: $56,000,000 worldwide
Where the money went: More than $17-million of the total raised internationally has been spent on emergency and transitional shelter; $13-million on food; and $2.4-million on water and sanitation. Work programs and education have received less during this initial phase, but amount will grow.

[ret5hd]

1. Well, that validates my decision to donate to DWB rather than...

RC or SA.

[uppityperson]

4. Me too. They do a really good job and will (eventually) take you off their request for donations lis

I had to call them a couple times to get my name taken off the request for donations list. I told them I didn't want them spending my money asking me for more money. The first time I called the person didn't know of such a list but said they'd look. The second call gave me a person who knew how to access the list and I was off it.

I would like to see what the rest of the monies are spent on for each of those places. It is an interesting list. If you go to the link and look at BushClinton fund, they haven't spent a lot but I think they said it is for grants for recovering businesses so it makes a bit of sense it is still going out.

But for those who provide immediate help, I would like to see what happened to the rest of the $$

[jwirr]

6. It would be nice if all organizations we donate to would use the internet

to ask for more instead of snail mail. We save trees that way as well.

[xchrom]

2. dwb does a remarkable job.

but i'm not going to complain -- haiti needs every penny.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Gee, the Salvation Army gave out less than a third? Why am I not surprised?

Giving money to the SA is giving money to a rightwing political organization that mostly doesn't give a shit about people.

In the Red Cross' defense (though I'm not a huge fan), they never raise money for specific disasters - they have a big fun built up to use in case of an emergency, and then, if something like a Haitian earthquake happens, they have money ready to go and, usually, whatever they raise during the disaster goes to the next one.

[uppityperson]

5. Donate to International Red Cross as they have a better history than ARC.

[Lance_Boyle]

9. They use the rest to buy bells. n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Bells and real estate.

Plus they gotta hire the bigoted jackasses that work at the Salvation Army "help" centers so that when people come in looking for help, someone is there to tell them "no". It's the personal touch that makes the SA stand out above other bogus charities.

[Scurrilous]

7. Thanks.

K & R :thumbsup:

[AlabamaLibrul]

8. I know a fantastic woman,

I believe her official title is "oncology nurse" IIRC (? nurse specializing in cancer patients) or some such, her hospital worked with the Red Cross to bring a little Haitian boy who not only had cancer, but serious bodily injury (amputation was involved, again IIRC) back to Florida to operate on him a few months ago.

Can't find the article now but it warmed my heart.

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. I've been wondering how all that money was being spent. Thanks for posting this

[uppityperson]

12. I've been looking for a while, finally found a good list.

[uppityperson]

13. kick for evening crew