Mar-a-Lago Red Cross Gala Raises Questions
(The gates of luxury: outside of Mar-a-Lago) Does it matter where you host your charity gala? The days following Trump’s January 27 executive order were chaos. Customs and Border Protection agents were abruptly tasked with barring Syrian refugees’ entry to the United States indefinitely, blocking…
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Red Cross Gives Money Directly to Canadian Wildfire Evacuees
Much of central Canada is still ablaze. According to reports, wildfires just spread to the Saskatchewan province having torn through Fort McMurray over the past two weeks, scorching well over 100,000 hectares of land and displacing more than 80,000 people. The number of individual fires…
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Red Cross Under Scrutiny
The Red Cross is drawing some bad press following a joint report by ProPublica and NPR concerning the organization’s accounting. An oft-cited statistic – peddled by Red Cross CEO Gail McGovern, among other executives – that the group uses 91 cents of each dollar it…
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