by LDH 17 Replies latest jw friends
the WTS GOT 50,000 US$ from the trust
GXJW,
NOT a dumb question. This means they received the money. Hell they even got more than Ex- US President Bill Clinton's nonprofit (right after the WBTS figures).
Now which JW in good standing can ask headquarters to account for how money for Katrina Relief was actually used?
Jank--the Community trust info came from another poster, but I agree....I gots krazy skillz!
Lisa
LDH- I am speechless. Why would the Watchtower Society solicit funds from a wordly organization? Aren't they from Satan and are all going to be fireballed soon? Did they tell them that after they took the money??????
that is just one grant from one source.. i wonder how many more they recieve in a year?
how many " volunteer" hours are spent requesting grants?
is there any public financial information that we might be interested in available from some of the companies that give to the wtbs?
it sounds like grants gifted to the wtbs is potentially a big money source, sure would be a shame for people to inform some of these grant sources about some of the wtbs financial practices!
The central core dogma of the Watchtower is Jesus second coming (invisibly) in 1914 and is a lie.Jehovah's Witnesses are a spin-off of the man made Millerite movement of 1840.
Everybody seems to know it but them.The JW and SDA are spiritual descendants of the millerite 'great disappointment' the SDA readily admit it.
I was just thinking-I'll bet neither W.T. magazine nor any other publication will acknowledge receipt of this grant money or thank the donor publicly. But the Society will publish how much they did for the hurricane relief.
I wonder what the New York Community Trust would think of the WTS requesting that recipients of aid turn over their insurance checks?
I should have known, LDH, that you were posing this as a rhetorical question. Just for fun, this is how the WTBTS states it's mission for the public face:
http://www.jw-media.org/beliefs/index.htm
And another:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/jt/index.htm?article=article_04.htm
By the way, this organization pads it's mission worst than most. Most organizations have their mission statement front-and-centre, as is expected in an open and honest society.
Here is their stated purpose on the Canadian tax returns:
119288918RR0001 - WATCH TOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY OF CANADA - North Vancouver:
THE PROMOTION OF BIBLE EDUCATION, PREACHING AND TEACHING THE GOOD NEWS OF GODS ESTABLISHED KINGDOM IN THE LOCAL AREA THIS INCLUDES HOLDING PUBLIC MEETINGS OF RELIGIOUS WORSHIP ON A WEEKLY BASIS, DESIGNED TO UPLIFT THE MEMBERS OF THE CONGREGATION AND ANY WHO ATTEND BY MEANS OF MORAL AND SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTION BASED ON GODS WORD THE BIBLE
119288918RR0216 - GEORGETOWN CONGREGATION OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES, Georgetown :
TO ASSIST THE LOCAL UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATION OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IN CARRYING OUT THEIR RELIGIOUS OBJECTIVE OF PREACHING THE GOOD NEWS OF GOD'S KINGDOM AND PROMOTING PUBLIC RELIGIOUS WORSHIP DESIGNED TO UPLIFT JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES AND ANY WHO ATTEND THEIR PUBLIC MEETINGS BY MEANS OF MORAL AND SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTION BASED ON GOD'S WORD THE BIBLE.
What is The New York Community Trust?So who got money from them recently?
We are the country's largest community foundation, with assets of $1.9 billion and almost 1,800 individual charitable funds. We have been helping charitable individuals, businesses, and private foundations with their philanthropy since 1924. We make philanthropy convenient, professional, and lasting.A Better Chance ($500), ACORN ($10,000), American Friends Service Committee ($25,000), American Jewish Committee ($5,000), American Kidney Fund ($500), American Red Cross in Greater New York ($130,450), American Red Cross, Mineola ($500), American Red Cross, White Plains ($50,000), American Red Cross, National Headquarters ($180,865), American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($2,470), AmeriCares ($2,750), America's Second Harvest ($31,000), Arcandiana Arts Council ($1,000), Baton Rouge Area Foundation ($71,925), Catholic Relief Services ($2,500), Community Foundation of Acadiana ($25,000), Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham ($25,000), Community Foundation of Greater Jackson ($25,800), Community Foundation of South Alabama ($25,000), Direct Relief International ($500), Enterprise Corporation of the Delta ($102,000), Federation of Southern Cooperatives and Land Assistance Fund ($500), Foundation for the Mid South ($50,000), Greater New Orleans Foundation ($50,750), Gulf Coast Community Foundation ($28,000), Habitat for Humanity ($10,670), Hands On Worldwide ($25,000), Heifer Project International ($2,500), HHC Foundation of New York City ($500), Humane Society of the United States ($2,100), International Rescue Committee ($152,000), Jewish Center of the Hamptons ($500), Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation ($5,000), Ms. Foundation for Women ($5,000), NAAP ($100), New Orleans Bar Foundation ($87,000), North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System Foundation ($2,500), NYRAG ($10,000), Petsmart Charities ($1,520), Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors ($10,000), Salvation Army, Conneticut ($3,750), Salvation Army of Greater New York ($9,750), Salvation Army, Massachusetts ($100), Salvation Army of Sarasota ($1,500), Sisters of Charity of Sain Elizabeth ($20,000), Southeastern Louisiana Legal Services Corporation ($50,000), Southern Mutual Help Association ($104,400), Tipitinas Foundation ($600), Tulane Educational Fund ($2,500), Twenty-First Century Foundation ($2,000), UJA-Federation of New York ($4,660), Union for Reform Judaism ($10,000), United Jewish Communites ($250), United Methodist Church ($5,000), United Negro College Fund ($500), Unitarian Universalist Association ($500), United Way of America ($5,000), United Ways of the Texas Gulf Coast ($5,000), Vanderbilt University ($25,000), Vanguard Public Foundation ($500), Vermont Public Radio ($150), Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York ($50,000), William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation ($39,000)
WOW! You have to hand it to the WTBTS, they are good.
They get the R&F to donate to Katrina relief, making it to the WWW, then they get a grant, spend the grant on relief (one assumes) and yet convince the R&F that it was THEIR donations which were spent.
