Don't Donate to the Red Cross

[I've posted stuff like this before - find a new charity if you care at all how your money is spent. - Bozo]
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Andy Cush
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Donating to charity, especially in a time of crisis, can be intimidating. There are so many options. How do you know the organization you choose will use the money effectively? You might pick one with a history, a pedigree, a name you can trust. You might pick the American Red Cross. Fuck that.
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During Hurricane Sandy, in New York, the Red Cross was impossible to avoid. They were soliciting donations. They were in the press, calling their operation "near flawless." They were doling out "digital hugs." What they were not doing was very much actual relief work.
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The Red Cross' operation on the ground was criticized from all sides nearly as soon as it began, and as Barry Ritholtz at Bloomberg points out, the organization declined any requests to disclose how it spent money after the storm. At one point, it went as far as claiming that its Sandy response was a "trade secret."
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Where did the money go? ProPublica's Justin Elliott and Jesse Eisinger and NPR's Laura Sullivan investigated the Red Cross' response to Hurricanes Sandy and Isaac, and the wastefulness and incompetence they found is astonishing.
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Some representative passages from their report, titled "The Red Cross' Secret Disaster":
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During Isaac, Red Cross supervisors ordered dozens of trucks usually deployed to deliver aid to be driven around nearly empty instead, "just to be seen," one of the drivers, Jim Dunham, recalls.

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