In the weeks following the devastating earthquake in Haiti, massive amounts of donations have been pouring into the island country, in the forms of food, money, and medical aid. However, many are speculating on whether or not their donations are actually reaching their intended destinations. Wyclef Jean‘s Yele foundation recently came under fire for its alleged mismanagement of finances, but the organization is not the only one being called into question.
Russell Simmons has called out the American Red Cross for what he claims is a small percentage of donations entering Haiti. “I’m worried about the Red Cross’ overhead,” he told the NY Daily News. According to CharityNavigator.com, the Red Cross’ 2008 overhead was less than 10%.
A philanthropist himself, Simmons expressed his opinion that all donations must reach Haiti.
thats why i dont donate shit/ this whole fuckin haiti shit is illuminati at work
Sure that the RedCross and all doz NGO’s are not as transparent as they pretend to be…but that doesn’t mean they fuck wit the Illuminati / 1 world order…whatever u call them!! u peolple who believe in that kind of stuff are fucking stupid, go read some books before talking about some worldwide plot theory BS, cuz u don’t know what u’re talking about..be carefull when fuckin with Internet, cuz there’s a lot of BS in there…dumb ass
“According to CharityNavigator.com, the Red Cross’ 2008 overhead was less than 10%, meaning that 90% of donations did not reach those in need…”
“You loaf of bread head, keep a sober head
One point five million years my overhead”
RZA,”Must be Bobby”
Overhead is your operating expenses. If your overhead is less than 10%, then more than 90% is going to those in need. So of every $1.00 donated through the Red Cross, more than 90 cents is going to Haiti.
Thank you! At least somebody has someone common sense on here!
Russ and this Web site needs to get their facts straight, that Web site says 90.1% of Red Cross expenses went to Program Expenses. In other words, expenses paid to help Hati or whatever other needy persons that the Red Cross helps such as military familes. It had 3.9% in fund raising expenses, which is low for a charity. And 5.9% of those are for admin expenses, which for an organization with 30,000 employees is not bad. Also, that same site referenced rates the Red Cross with 3/4 stars. If you check the Yele Haiti Web site you can’t even find a financial statement that shows where the money is going.Plus Clef was using that donated money to pay his self for concerts that he was doing. I donated to Yele during like the last 2-3 disasters and I regret it now that I now how Clef is living. I’m sure there are similar stories with the Red Cross too on some level, but overall its a bigger org that could most likely better serve Haiti than Yele could. So if I have to choose between the lesser of two evils I would go to Red Cross.
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Less than 10% goes to people in need from what is donated. There has been millions of Dollars given to the Red Cross and to the Bush and Clinton and other organization. So if 500 million has been donated they only get $5,000,000. Lets get serious everybody out to make a dollar. Greed is the American way
All that shit is suspect to me, sad but one of the reasons I didn’t donate, horrible, horrible tragedy but I don’t trust none of these cats in the states to do whats right when it comes to money, and there is a lot of it floating around, lots of room for mishandling.
I don’t like how RUSS is always kind of an ambassador for the hip hop community, I don’t think he is anymore then Spike Less is one for black cinema, sometimes he comes off as very arrogant and self-absorbed kind of. Back when Russ was relevant it was LL Cool J, Kool G Rap, Don Demenace, ELLIS and Legin, and Beastie Boys
StanSmith – you got it backwards, if their overhead is 10% that means they keep 10% to cover their costs, and the other 90% goes to the cause you’re donating to
well according to numerous business websites haiti is currently recieving 1% of all donations which mean that the telethon that raised 57 million generated 570 thousand dollars for haiti. the red cross has been in the eyes of the govt for years as one of the biggest frauds in history
the red cross ceo makes like 500k a year plus bonuses..
its all bullshit… hati aint seeing no 90% of all money donated.. get with the fuckin program.. they got 100’s of millions of dollars threw charities (suposed to, at least) yet many people there dont have no fuckin food to eat?? water to drink?? get fuckin real people.. 90% of donated money gets fuckin raped, and stolen by those helping out… fuckin criminals.. wait till the revolution comes when the people of the world are tired of money grubbing bitches
Charities help people avoid taxation, they’re set up to 1) give the rich something to feel good about 2) get a nice tax write off and 3) let the actual charity line its pockets. Example: Angelina Jolie’s ETHOS water, If you read the back it says 5 Cents from each bottle goes to get children in africa fresh drinking water. That’s the ammount you get back from recycling the bottle and they charge people 2$/bottle. I always point that out to people who act all high and mighty drinkin that shit and ,ake fun of em for even buying bottled water total idiots. Anyway I’d be very surprised if 10% of the money donated is making it to Haiti. Another note wyclef definitely takes some gratuitous advantages with his charity 100K for a free concert….Bullshit. At the end of the day they all do so donate at least t will make yourself feel better even if at the end of the day it made no difference
sad but true my friend
As said as it is to say, lets just say for example…..reports say that there is 100mil donates to red cross for haiti relief. I would estimate that they would see 35mil, and only 15-20 mil would be used properly cause they have there own corrupt government problems. Its very sad, but prob very true. fucked up world.
Another point now that Haiti’s crumbled to the ground the Rich people are gonna rush in and rebuild it the way they see fit. Before the quake Haiti wasn’t the greatest vacation destination in the carribean but now with the economy and people in shambles there would be no opposition to the building of newer luxury resorts. Its gonna go american another huge divide between the rich and the poor more luxury but 10x more ghetto’s
Same thing I been sayin man, this country wouldn’t be actin HALF as concerned if there wasn’t a buck to be made in the long term…just like these dumbass celebs wouldn’t be actin concerned if there wasn’t a gang of publicity to be gained…fugazi ass muthafuckas…
and what has russell simmons done for haiti?
ain’t none of that money raised from telethon, redcross, wyclef are going to haiti. it’s all bullshit
yes, in order to help we need to have telethons on 12 channels, make expensive music videos (see wyclef) , hold hands around a circle and sing we are the world.
give me a break
Yawn…there is nothing new under the sun. If YOU believe in the cause(not just Haiti but any) then donate and have NO qualms about it. On the other hand, if YOU believe the Red Cross, Wyclef etc is evil/wicked then don’t donate one red cent. No need to broadcast it one way or another people. Yep, it’s that simple.
But where do we get off trying to persuade OTHERS with OUR train of thought when NO ONE asked for OUR advice on the matter???