My Nonprofit Reviews

After Hurricane Katrina, I was pulled off of my AmeriCorps site to go to relief work with the local Red Cross chapter. Years later, in the aftermath of Haiti and Japan, I still cannot support the Red Cross because of the terrible situations I witnessed Red Cross staff create while volunteering. They were only interested in money, ignored volunteer offers from doctors, took people out on buses and then left them behind and in the end spent thousands of dollars to throw the volunteers a thank you party, instead of giving the victims and of that money for support. I refuse to donate to them and encourage everyone I know to donate elsewhere. I am working with a group now raising money for Japan and am strongly advocating they send their money to a different charity.

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