Charities

When a charity screws up, funds should dry up.  Over the years I have withdrawn support to a number of them.  In each case they lied or broke the law.  It does not matter to me if they correct their errors or not.  There are new charities that do the job without screwing up.  Here a a few examples.

At one time I gave money to the Shriner's for their Shrine Hospitals.  They implied the money would go their hospitals.  It did not. It went to parties instead.  No more Shriner's.  If you want a source on that, go rummage through The Washington Monthly archives.

I gave money to the Nature Conservancy.  The execs took excessive salaries, gave themselves low to no interest loans and gave land to Texas oil guys.  The Washington Post documented these illegalities.

The Salvation Army and I had a long history.  I don't agree one bit with their religious claptrap, but I did respect them for the work they did. They supposedly did it all with donations.  They stressed that.  To me the Army walked their talk.  Then Bush was elected and we had that faith based initiatives crap.  That's when I found out the Army had been on the federal dole like every other major charity for years.  The worst part was they tried to prevent anyone from learning about their federal funding.   My contributions went to zero forever.

Now the Susan B. Koman charity has joined the list of unworthy charities.   Cutting funding was wrong.  There is no recovery.

I have added Planned Parenthood to my list of charities.  How about it? Will you do the same?