A good reminder with the holiday , giving season ahead.<\/p>\n
It seems that the Salvation Army is one of the best!<\/p>\n
THINK BEFORE YOU DONATE<\/p>\n
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT BEFORE YOU MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS:<\/p>\n
As you open your pockets to do a good thing and make yourself feel good, please keep the following facts in mind:
\n—————————-<\/p>\n
The American Red Cross
\nPresident and CEO Marsha J. Evans’<\/p>\n
salary for the year was $651,957 plus expenses<\/p>\n
MARCH OF DIMES
\nIt is called the March of Dimes because<\/p>\n
only a dime for every 1 dollar is given to the needy.<\/p>\n
The United Way
\nPresident Brian Gallagher<\/p>\n
receives a $375,000 base salary along with numerous expense benefits.<\/p>\n
UNICEF
\nCEO Caryl M. Stern receives<\/p>\n
$1,200,000 per year (100k permonth) plus all expenses including a ROLLS ROYCE.<\/p>\n
Less than 5 cents of your donated dollar goes to the cause.<\/p>\n
GOODWILL
\nCEO and owner Mark Curran profits $2.3 million a year.
\nGoodwill is a very catchy name for his business.<\/p>\n
You donate to his business and then he sells the items for PROFIT.
\nHe pays nothing for his products and pays his workers minimum wage! Nice Guy.
\n$0.00 goes to help anyone!
\nStop giving to this man.<\/p>\n
Instead, give it to ANY OF THE FOLLOWING<\/p>\n
GO “GREEN” AND PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE IT WILL DO SOME GOOD:<\/p>\n
The Salvation Army
\nCommissioner, Todd Bassett receives a small salary of only<\/p>\n
$13,000 per year(plus housing) for managing this $2 billion dollar organization.<\/p>\n
96 percent of donated dollars go to the cause.<\/p>\n
The American Legion
\nNational Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary.
\nYour donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!<\/p>\n
The Veterans of Foreign Wars
\nNational Commander receives a$0.00 zero salary.<\/p>\n
Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!<\/p>\n
The Disabled American Veterans
\nNational Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary.
\nYour donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!<\/p>\n
The Military Order of Purple Hearts
\nNational Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary.
\nYour donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!<\/p>\n
The Vietnam Veterans Association
\nNational Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary.<\/p>\n
Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!<\/p>\n
Make a Wish: For children’s last wishes.<\/p>\n
100% goes to funding trips or special wishes for a dying child.<\/p>\n
St. Jude Research Hospital<\/p>\n
100% goes towards funding and helping Children with Cancer who have no insurance and can
\nnot afford to pay.<\/p>\n
Ronald McDonald Houses<\/p>\n
All monies go to running the houses for parents who have critical Children in the hospital.<\/p>\n
100% goes to housing, and feeding the families.<\/p>\n
Lions Club International<\/p>\n
100% OF DONATIONS GO TO HELP THE BLIND,BUY HEARING AIDES, SUPPORT MEDICAL MISSIONS AROUND THE WORLD. THEIR LATEST UNDERTAKING<\/p>\n
IS MEASLES VACCINATIONS (ONLY $1.00 PER SHOT).<\/p>\n
Please share this with everyone you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A good reminder with the holiday , giving season ahead.<\/p>\n
It seems that the Salvation Army is one of the best!<\/p>\n
THINK BEFORE YOU DONATE<\/p>\n
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT BEFORE YOU MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS:<\/p>\n
As you open your pockets to do a good thing and make yourself feel good, please keep the following facts in mind: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}