I can now reveal:I was interviewed by a reporter with Reuters, in London, on Monday of this week. This followed several e-mails from their Washington Bureau.They were researching a story about tsunami aid on the sixth month anniversary, and they had come across The Stingy List [PDF file}. Here is the portion of the report [...]
Tsunami: Donation News
Jun 21st, 2005
I have been interviewed about the Stingy List by a certain European news agency. They are working on a story about the donations to tsunami relief and where we stand at the six month anniversary. I will post about the story when it goes on the wire, which should be this week. I have no [...]
Tsunami: An Honest Charity
May 11th, 2005
News 24International medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres is tracking down hundreds of thousands of tsunami donors worldwide and offering them their money back after it received four times as much money as it needed, a report said on Wednesday.In Australia alone the charity sent out more than 4 000 letters telling donors it could not [...]
Tsunami: Other Results for American Giving
Apr 22nd, 2005
Another source has also been tracking the giving of Americans for tsunami relief. They asked permission to use my work early on, but never, NEVER, gave me a link or a credit. Poopie heads! Anyway, here’s what they came up with:Center on Philanthropy: [...]
Tsunami: Final Stingy List Update
Apr 20th, 2005
We did it! $1,030,714,108.34Over a billion dollars in private donations for tsunami relief. THE STINGY LIST is linked over at the left. All us stingy Americans did it. Pfui on you, Jimmy Carter.The efforts continue. As I researched this final report, I saw many, many concerts, auctions, sales, etc. that are scheduled for the next [...]
Tsunami: American Aid Nears $1 Billion
Mar 14th, 2005
THE STINGY LIST is very near $1 billion U.S. As of this update, it’s at $989,189,234.32. I’ll wait a week for the next update and see what happens. The Roman Catholic share of the list is at $47,545,277.33. Green Bay had a large update, and I added Nashville.
Not On THE STINGY LIST
Mar 11th, 2005
OK, this is an illustration of why I’ve been very conservative with the numbers on THE STINGY LIST, linked at left:The American Red Cross, in Washington, has raised roughly 40 percent of all contributions, more than $410.3-million. More than $174-million of that total has come in since the organization announced on January 26 that it [...]
Cruise Generosity
Mar 10th, 2005
The next time you consider taking a cruise, you might want to consider one of the Carnival Cruise Line offerings. The corporation has donated $3.2 million for tsunami relief. Carnival chairman Micky Arison has joined with his company and donated his 2004 bonuss, $2.4 million.
American Giving
Mar 8th, 2005
I have updated THE STINGY LIST over at the left.
$968,948,732.93
That’s a lot. A whole lot. I’ve got a bunch of e-mail information requests out and I do believe the total will exceed $1 billion U.S.
This is money from church collections, children selling hot cocoa on the corner, shoppers in stores, big corporations and small [...]
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