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Please if you want donations, don't show their mugs.

Anyone who donates at this point has a screw loose anyway, IMHO. With barely 5% of the more than ONE BILLION DOLLARS already collected having actually been distributed to any affected families, and most of that having been given out only after extreme pressure was applied publicly by the likes of Bill O'Reilly, it's going to be a loooooong time before I give any "charitable" organization a penny.

If you really want to make a difference, get online, find the name of someone that was killed, and cut a check directly to his/her family. Even better, go out of your way to make sure that your money goes to one of the "less-worthy-of-recognition" families, such as those whose family members were working in WTC restaurants for $9/hr, while support five or six kids at home, that have gotten almost zero media attention. The already-ultrawealthy Cantor Fitzgeraldites have gotten almost 100% of the press coverage thus far, and they're the least needy of all.

Proceeds should go to victims of the concert.

The concert is organized by the Robin Hood Fund. check out their site here.

The Robin Hood Fund is known for having 100% of the donations go to the stated cause. The fund itself underwrites the expenses, therefore, every dollar you donate will go the cause, not the expenses of putting on the concert.

The Robin Hood Fund has a long track record of good works.

I agree...This is what happened, and it still can happen. The Mayor should open an account at CITIBANK and take all the money that was donated in the name of the victims AWAY from the United Way AND the Red Cross and put a Four-man committee of Private Citizens, chosen by Guiliani and put Guiliani in charge. Period. If I gave money under the guise of it going to be victims, I would be really, really pissed about now. I didn't, because I foresaw this coming. I hate the United Way and I'm not wild about the Red Cross, although they are a bit better.

You have some good points and ideas! I would love to know where all the money has gone...certainly not to the victims from what we are hearing!

You have posted the MOST EXCELLENT suggestions I have seen in a long time. The more I hear about the delay in payments, and things like the Cantor Fitzgerald mess, the likely I'd be to donate to the "charitables". Just give straight to the unheralded families who have lost loved ones. Or even to the displaced folks who have lost homes and or worldly possessions.

Kudos Timesink.

Anyone know how the donations to this what looks like Liberal Love Fest are being distributed?

If you really want to make a difference, get online, find the name of someone that was killed, and cut a check directly to his/her family. Even better, go out of your way to make sure that your money goes to one of the "less-worthy-of-recognition" families, such as those whose family members were working in WTC restaurants for $9/hr, while support five or six kids at home, that have gotten almost zero media attention. The already-ultrawealthy Cantor Fitzgeraldites have gotten almost 100% of the press coverage thus far, and they're the least needy of all.

I second that wholeheartedly and I am about to do just that!