How much of that money raised though went directly to those it was intended for though? I keep thinking there was a huge fundraiser he was involved with that had some serious problems with it (i.e. scammy in nature)
I am not saying that is certian but something with Beck and questionable fundraising this past year sticks out in my mind....
I thought the donations for the relief efforts in Haiti after the earthquake would have far surpassed anything Beck could have mustered. Wasn't some singular celebrity mostly in charge of that (Clooney?)? Or did that not count as charity?
I'm with @3. Somehow this doesn't make sense. For example, here's a locally run charity, and it raises that each year. Is there some difference I'm not getting?
That's amazingly high overhead. I, for one, never donate to a charity that spends more than 25 percent on overhead and fundraising.
Frankly, the charity's mission is so ridiculously arbitrary I know I would never donate to it. They help the families of only special ops? What the fuck is that?
A big piece of the "Don't Tread On Me" ideology that Beck is selling his fans has to do with the notion that government programs interfere with charitable giving. In other words, the government should stop paying for foodstamps so that church soup kitchens can do that work. If people's taxes weren't so high, they argue, they'd be more inclined to give to charities that (they claim) do a better job of providing those services.
This charity is right in line with that philosophy, since you'd normally assume that responsibility for taking care of the families of soldiers killed in battle would fall to the government, and yet here's this private charity providing that service.
I'm not saying there's malfeasance here, but with Beck you need to see proof of it. And if you see proof that he's not up to anything, you'd be on pretty solid ground if you decided to demand proof of the proof.
@5, SOWF provides scholarship money for the children of deceased Special Operators. I would imagine one reason they aren't paying out alot now is that this tends to be a younger group, so they don't have alot of college aged children.
@9. Special Operations includes such organizations as Navy SEALs, Special Forces, Combat Controllers, ParaRescue, MARSOC, Rangers, SOAR, Psychological Operations (oops, sorry, my bad, PsyOp is too scary a term, we're now MISO [Military Information Support Operations]), Civil Affairs, etc.
@10, the Death Benefits aren't that bad. If I were to die in the line of duty my wife (and if we had kids, they would):
$500K
Free Health Insurance until she remarried or until 23 (kids)
$1184 for my wife, $268 per kid, a month, until she remarried.
My G.I. Bill, can be passed on to either my wife or one of my children.
That's part of our Faustian Bargain... we agree to go to War, you agree that those left behind will be taken care of.
What the SOWF does is provide scholarships for your children in case your wife uses your GI Bill, or you have more than one kid.
SOWF is legit. My wife went to school with a grant from them. I thought they did good work and was sorry to see GB associated with them. Do the ends justify the means?
I am not saying that is certian but something with Beck and questionable fundraising this past year sticks out in my mind....
I thought the donations for the relief efforts in Haiti after the earthquake would have far surpassed anything Beck could have mustered. Wasn't some singular celebrity mostly in charge of that (Clooney?)? Or did that not count as charity?
http://www.childsplaycharity.org/index.p…
Sounds well and good, but according to the BBB, this charity brought in 5.6 million in contributions but only paid out 1.5 million in charity.
Is that normal for a charity? (honest to god question, because I don't know)
That's amazingly high overhead. I, for one, never donate to a charity that spends more than 25 percent on overhead and fundraising.
Frankly, the charity's mission is so ridiculously arbitrary I know I would never donate to it. They help the families of only special ops? What the fuck is that?
This charity is right in line with that philosophy, since you'd normally assume that responsibility for taking care of the families of soldiers killed in battle would fall to the government, and yet here's this private charity providing that service.
@9. Special Operations includes such organizations as Navy SEALs, Special Forces, Combat Controllers, ParaRescue, MARSOC, Rangers, SOAR, Psychological Operations (oops, sorry, my bad, PsyOp is too scary a term, we're now MISO [Military Information Support Operations]), Civil Affairs, etc.
$500K
Free Health Insurance until she remarried or until 23 (kids)
$1184 for my wife, $268 per kid, a month, until she remarried.
My G.I. Bill, can be passed on to either my wife or one of my children.
That's part of our Faustian Bargain... we agree to go to War, you agree that those left behind will be taken care of.
What the SOWF does is provide scholarships for your children in case your wife uses your GI Bill, or you have more than one kid.
So? Why aren't all service members included?
This charity sounds a lot like various organizations I've encountered that smell way too much like a vanity project for the founder(s).
But I have to think that personal direct contributions from the Gateses and Buffet would easily dwarf that.
(Just as their own personal incomes are two orders of magnitude higher than even the highest paid celebrities.)