CEO of Operation Blessing William Horan gets paid 167, 727 dollars.

[sarcasmo]

This is one reason I do NOT donate money. The COO of Pat Robertsons charitable company gets paid more than most everyone here on DU. How can they justify that salary? I often wonder what Robertson pays himself out of this charity. Some offshore bank? I thought this needed attention since I keep seeing all of the Fema/operation blessing articles. The salary is to the right of the chart.


http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/4265.htm

[cornermouse]

1. Obviously Mr. Horan is blessed.

O8)

I do donate. I just don't donate to anyone who can get on tv.

[sarcasmo]

4. We have about a thousand Hurricane victims here in West Michigan.

I will be taking them socks and shirts on Wednesday. I prefer to give directly and not cash.

[cornermouse]

10. I gave my money to an organization

without a religious agenda. I know it will be used well and properly to aid the evacuees.

I never have and never will give Robertson or his ilk anything.

[bluedawg12]

2. William Whoreiam ..iam..sing it with me! n/t

[napi21]

3. Yep! I stopped donating to almost all charities when the

hugh salaries at the United Way were made public quite a while ago! I happen to KNOW someone who is a senior officer of a major charity. What you posted about Operation Blessing is the RULE with these folks, and not the exception!

The only I ever donate to is one I am also a volunteer for, and I KNOW where every penny goes. Our President sends out monthly financial statements to each of us too!

[Lindacooks]

7. Donate locally. My dh was the director of a local United Way and

a local woman's shelter and he got paid very little for it - United Way salary was around $21,000 and the woman's shelter was $38,000 - this out of budgets of over half a million.

[mitchum]

5. But...but...but...in order to compete with the private sector...

"charitable" organizations must offer this type of compensation in order to attract the "best" Such as William Horan.
THAT is always the boilerplate rationale given for this practice.
And, of course, it's bullshit.

[Spazito]

6. The head of the American Red Cross earns over FOUR HUNDRED

THOUSAND, according to Wikipedia. I have seen figures posted of over five hundred thousand.

[bluedawg12]

8. I donated to Noah's Wish

please check them out if you are concerned about the well being of little creatures during disasters.

http://noahswish.com/

[PurityOfEssence]

9. Religion, Incorporated is a fine racket

By definition above reproach, they can fleece and abuse as they please.

[VPStoltz]

11. There was piece on NPR yesterday about the charities

listed on the FEMA site: Red Cross, Operation Blessing and Second Harvest. Red Cross has been run by Repugs for some time, Operation Blessing channels most of its contributions into the 700 club, and I guess Second Harvest was thrown in for a token real charity. Pat Robertson used to be or still is business partners with Robert (?) Taylor, the dictator of I forgot where in Africa. As Mick says on the new CD, "You call yourself a Christian, I think you're a hypocrite, You call yourself a patriot, I think you are a crock of shit!"