dude ... that's just wrong
This topic was created in the Miscellaneous forum by P-Angel on Friday, July 12, 2013 and has 8 replies.
Newtown Donations: Panel Suggests Breakdown Of $ 7.7 Million Between Families
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN 07/11/13 11:39 PM ET EDT AP
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- A community foundation tasked with dividing up donations received after the Connecticut school shootings Thursday night made preliminary recommendations on $ 7.7 million that call for giving $ 281,000 to each of the families of the 26 children and school educators killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School last year.
The families of 12 surviving children who witnessed the Dec. 14 shootings would each get $ 20,000; two teachers who were injured would get $ 150,000 between them.
The foundation was asked to divide up $ 11.4 million that was raised with the help of the United Way. The foundation previously decided to divvy up $ 7.7 million to the families and survivors and to have committees decide on uses for the remainder of the donations, including whether to use some of it for future mental health care and other needs.
The recommendations were released before a public forum Thursday at Newtown's Edmond Town Hall to discuss how to divide the $ 7.7 million. Kenneth Feinberg and Camille Biros, special advisers to a distribution committee appointed by the Newtown-Sandy Hook Community Foundation, made the recommendations.
"Is the money adequate? Of course not," Feinberg said. "No amount is adequate to deal with these horrors. Money is a pretty poor substitute but that's what we have. Solomon himself could not distribute this money in a fashion that would please everybody."
The committee met privately before the meeting with some family members. A handful of people commented at the meeting, attended by dozens. Some questioned the process for arriving at the $ 7.7 million for the families.
"Why isn't all the money going to all the victims? The intent was to give the money to the victims. We're starting from a false premise and this process is re-victimizing the victims," said Caryn Kaufman, who represents a coalition of prior mass shooting victims.
Jeffrey Dion, deputy executive director of the National Center for Victims of Crime, praised the recommendation to provide money to the 12 children who survived the shootings because he said it recognizes the lasting trauma survivors suffer.
Some victims' families have complained the process has caused them anguish by putting them in the difficult place of deciding how to divide the money.
The $ 7.7 million is expected to be paid out next month.
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN 07/11/13 11:39 PM ET EDT AP
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- A community foundation tasked with dividing up donations received after the Connecticut school shootings Thursday night made preliminary recommendations on $ 7.7 million that call for giving $ 281,000 to each of the families of the 26 children and school educators killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School last year.
The families of 12 surviving children who witnessed the Dec. 14 shootings would each get $ 20,000; two teachers who were injured would get $ 150,000 between them.
The foundation was asked to divide up $ 11.4 million that was raised with the help of the United Way. The foundation previously decided to divvy up $ 7.7 million to the families and survivors and to have committees decide on uses for the remainder of the donations, including whether to use some of it for future mental health care and other needs.
The recommendations were released before a public forum Thursday at Newtown's Edmond Town Hall to discuss how to divide the $ 7.7 million. Kenneth Feinberg and Camille Biros, special advisers to a distribution committee appointed by the Newtown-Sandy Hook Community Foundation, made the recommendations.
"Is the money adequate? Of course not," Feinberg said. "No amount is adequate to deal with these horrors. Money is a pretty poor substitute but that's what we have. Solomon himself could not distribute this money in a fashion that would please everybody."
The committee met privately before the meeting with some family members. A handful of people commented at the meeting, attended by dozens. Some questioned the process for arriving at the $ 7.7 million for the families.
"Why isn't all the money going to all the victims? The intent was to give the money to the victims. We're starting from a false premise and this process is re-victimizing the victims," said Caryn Kaufman, who represents a coalition of prior mass shooting victims.
Jeffrey Dion, deputy executive director of the National Center for Victims of Crime, praised the recommendation to provide money to the 12 children who survived the shootings because he said it recognizes the lasting trauma survivors suffer.
Some victims' families have complained the process has caused them anguish by putting them in the difficult place of deciding how to divide the money.
The $ 7.7 million is expected to be paid out next month.
I realize that there are administrative fees for the United Way .... but, there is no way in hell that they need to keep 3.7 million
3.7 million fucking dollars that people donated out of their own pockets to aid in the suffering of those people ... and an agency gets to line their pockets with it?
That's just wrong !!!
It said that, "committees decide on uses for the remainder of the donations" ..... there is no deciding ... give all the fucking money to the people, less minimal expenses
=/
Posted by ellessque
United Way is the biggest charity fraud in the United States.
If people don't educate themselves...I don't know what to tell you.
It's not about the people, Elle ..... seriously, do ever have anything valid to say?
People give of themselves, and they can only give to what option is available to them. If people didn't give anything, then there wouldn't be the 7.7 million for the people.
This isn't about ... oh, look how stupid people are for giving to the UW ... you're an idiot
Just like in the other thread ... you comment about how you won't be bullied, and you don't like this, and you won't have that ..
... when we are talking about Martin
You are clueless .... you have zero ability to seperate how you feel, so you can address the topic. And then when words fail you in figuring out how to subject yourself .. you just delete the thread.
Again .... this is just wrong. Give all the money to the people, less minimal expenses.
If people want to be up in arms about something they can control, then do it with something they can control .... like reform.
The United Way is keeping 3.7 million dollars of hard-earned money belonging to the citizens who contributed this money from their hearts.
The scummy reality
That is really fucked up but not surprising. It's actually surprising they didn't take a bigger cut. Bono's ONE foundation makes this look amazing by comparison. Only 1% of donations funded charity. See story for more deets if you like http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1314543/Bonos-ONE-foundation-giving-tiny-percentage-funds-charity.html
Still this kind of skimming really is corrosive and unfair. It does more than cheat victims out of their cut, it corrodes confidence in charitable giving.
Kudos to you for bringing this to light.
Still this kind of skimming really is corrosive and unfair. It does more than cheat victims out of their cut, it corrodes confidence in charitable giving.
Kudos to you for bringing this to light.
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