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post #46 of 47
1/16/10 at 12:56am
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Originally Posted by sahwnfras View Post
Text "Yele" to 501501 to donate $5 to Wyclef Jeans Yele Haiti relief fund

Yele.org
careful with Yele... looks like they have some accounting and tax issues:

Groups Raise Doubts About Wyclef Jean's Charity - ABC News
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post #47 of 47
1/16/10 at 1:26am
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Originally Posted by VicAjax View Post
careful with Yele... looks like they have some accounting and tax issues:

Groups Raise Doubts About Wyclef Jean's Charity - ABC News
I'd say a bit more than that. It looks like it has legitimacy issues from that article. Not to mention that their plans for the money are unsurprisingly amateurish.

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Originally Posted by ericj View Post
They accepted the money under the pretense that it would be put to certain uses.

Putting it toward the aggrandizement of the organization as a whole - however venerable that organization may be - is dishonest.
At that point, they didn't have many good options. Boiling it down, it's either a) somehow undonate the money, b) spend it on other programs that need funding or c) dole it out in the form of cash payments to people for whom the emergency is long over.

a) is a logistical nightmare and c) is a spectacularly inefficient method of using the funds. At least b) had the benefit of some future utility. Sure it may be technically false advertising, but that's SOP for charities. Major disasters like 9/11 always bring in more money than is immediately necessary.
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