From all accounts, the Occupy people are doing a simply spectacular job on the ground in NYC. If you want to give, give to them and not the Red Cross, which siphons off so much money for administrative salaries.
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Donating to an entity that is totally devoid of administrative structure and self deploys in a disaster is a bad idea. At least with the Red Cross there is accountability for the use of proceeds and they have response access because of appropriate disaster training.
The Red Cross pays its administrators obscene salaries (and bonuses?).
What does accountability mean in those cases?
Sounds like you may be favoring a corporatist/establishmentarian structure over a true grass-roots one.
I’d like to give those kids a monetary vote of confidence, but my only beef is that you must donate a minimum of $250 to get a tax receipt from Occupy Sandy. I understand the impulse to keep administrative costs down, but that’s a lot more $$$ than I have available to contribute.
Occupy Sandy is getting kudos from the folks on the ground:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/11/occupy-leads-relief-in-powerless-red-hook.html
http://www.nynatives.com/content/thankfulness-occupy-wall-street-bikes-power-lower-east-side
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/11/occupy-sandy.html
http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/2012/11/occupy-sandy-power-to-the-people-jacobin.html