Inept? How about corrupt? I’d never give money to Red Cross.
Concur, it has been that way for some time, donate to other charities.
The administrative costs are huge. The bureaucracy delays things that need to be done. Their handling of blood products is atrocious
This has been true for a LOoooooong time! Like many “iconic” institutions, a way too high percentage of ANY and ALL monies given to the Red Cross goes abeth to keeping this lumbering behemoth of a bureaucracy, well, goes to keeping it being “The Red Cross”-—it is Big Government by another name-—no wonder it was once run by a prominent Senator’s wife, Elizabeth Dole.
Remember 911? Money poured into the Red Cross......and then they said.....hey, we’re not gonna spend it all here. We’re gonna save a bunch of it.
That’s when I knew NEVER to give to the Red Cross.
The American Red Cross is chartered by Congress.
Why on earth would I ever expect it to efficiently provide relief to disaster victims?
Like everything else connected with Congress, I should have expected to be ineffectively managed by politically connected cronies and wasteful in all of its activities. But I thought the A.R.C.’s scale would facilitate rapid distribution of relief even if it were less efficient than other groups. It seems that was not the case.
Fortunately, most of my Harvey donations went to Salvation Army and food banks.