The mighty scams of the “fund raisers non-profit/charities”:

With very few exceptions, fund raisers are gigantic swindles perpetrated by a bunch of blood sucking, high on the hog living parasites that pray on the sympathy of kind and generous people who want to help their fellow human beings in the time of need. Only pennies on the dollar ever reach their intended destinations.

How many billions of dollars are donated each year to disaster relief charities and hardly any of it goes to the victims, here in the USA and around the world. The thieves are lined up misappropriating the money as it comes in.

Case in point; there is a lawsuit pending between the victim’s of the Chardon High School, Chardon, Ohio shooting families and The United Way that collected to date a total of $952,000 which was supposed to go into a “trust fund” for the shooting victims families but according to the records less than $150,000 was distributed to them.

In February, a board members of the “Chardon Healing Fund” stated that nearly half of the $952,000 collected had been given to the six families affected by the shooting. They not only misappropriate the funds, they also lied about its distributions.

These people are very slick and conjure up names like “The Healing Fund and Trust Fund” to tug at the heart strings of the donors. The largest recipient from the donations that is getting healed the most is The United Way and they certainly can not be trusted.

If in fact as stated “half of the money” was given to the victims families, why only half? Shouldn’t it be more like 85%. 15% for administrative costs sounds reasonable to me.

The following are a few examples of what some “non-profit” CEO’s make a year.

Chief Executive, Brian A. Gallagher, President and CEO of United Way receives a total package equating to $973,535 compensation per year. I would like to know for what?  Can the bulk of that money be better served going to the people that need it instead of keeping Brian in caviar?

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The worst offender was yet again for the 11th year in a row is, UNICEF – CEO, receives $1,200,000 per year, plus use of a Royal Royce for his exclusive use where ever he goes, and an expense account that is rumored to be well over $150,000.

The second worst offender this year is Marsha J. Evans, President and CEO of the American Red Cross…for her salary for the year ending in 2009 was $651,957 plus expenses. Enjoys 6 weeks – fully paid holidays including all related expenses during the holiday trip for her and her husband and kids. including 100% fully paid health & dental plan for her and her family, for life.

The third worst offender was again for the 7th time was, Brian Gallagher, President of the United Way receives a $375,000 base salary (U.S. funds), plus so many numerous expense benefits it’s hard to keep track as to what it is all worth, including a fully paid lifetime membership for 2 golf courses (1 in Canada, and 1 in the U.S.A.), 2 luxury vehicles, a yacht club membership, 3 major company gold credit cards for his personal expenses…and so on. This equates to about $0.51 per dollar of income goes to charity causes.

Fourth worst offender who was also again in the fourth spot, for every year since this information has been made available from the start 1998 is amazingly yet again, World Vision President (Canada) receives $300,000 base salary, (plus supplied – a home valued in the $700,000 – $800,000 dollar value range, completely furnished, completely paid all housing expenses, including taxes, water/sewer, telephone/fax, HD/high speed cable, weekly maid service and pool/yard maintenance, fully paid private schooling for his children, upscale automobile and an $55,000 personal expense account for clothing/food, with a $125,000 business expense account).

I am sure there may be a few more legitimate organizations out there that are not skimming and scamming their donors but the one that stands out in the forefront seems to be The Salvation Army’s who’s Commissioner Todd Bassett receives a salary of only $13,000 per year (plus housing) for managing this $2 Billion dollar organization. Now that is a charitable man.

Think twice before dishing out your hard earned money to these supposed non-profit charities. The reason they are called non-profit is; by the time the big wigs are finished cutting up the pie there is very little to no profit left for the intended recipients.

So the next time you have a compassionate heart and fell the need to donates some of your hard earned green backs; give it to the guys with the red kettle and the bell.