The Red Cross is slime.
Dealt with them during a flood in OK.
Slime.
Pure slime.
Did this have to be an excerpt? I cannot handle the ads and other popups on the site but would like to read the entire article.
A large bureaucracy, mostly designed to suck in money, and to snuff out any spirit of communities or individuals doing anything to help.
The most important thing to them is that everything be organized, and that they have full control.
Red Cross HQ is in Washington DC. United Way HQ in Alexandria VA. Basically DC again.
They are both tools. Essentially when dealing with them, you are dealing with government disguised as philanthropy.
If you really want to find an organization that helps with no strings, it’s the Salvation Army.
“the organization is letting bureaucracy get in the way of common sense by denying offers for hot meals and turning away donations and volunteers that didn’t go through their own channels”
Sounds like they’ve reached the point where Job One is to keep the bureaucracy functioning to spec, and whatever else might be accomplished is a side effect.
Inflexible Commies.
How unhelpful. But hey, they followed the rules!
Red Cross execs—even local ones—make 2 - 2 1/2 x their Salvation Army counterparts.
I deal with Salvation Army and Samaritans Purse. Never Red Cross or United Way.
My favorite was from a few years ago (Katrina I think) where the Red Cross wanted the Salvation Army and Southern Baptist relief workers to wear Red Cross T-shirts.
My recollection is that the policies and operations of the Red Cross have been the subject of controversy for years. I cannot recall the specific controversial issues, but they are presumably a matter of public record.
Red Cross is a usury organization that would fit right in with the Clinton Foundation.