What is The New York Community Trust?
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.
So who got money from them recently?
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)
Now, you and I might wonder on what basis they requested this grant.
That can be answered easily enough. HURRICANE KATRINA RELIEF......
http://fdncenter.org/pnd/hurricane/foundations.jhtml;jsessionid=DMCUJO3MO4GDNTQRSI4CGXD5AAAACI2F
So let's get this straight. If the ordinary rank and file JW sends money to the organization, they should NOT specify it's for Hurricane Katrina Relief. HOWEVER if the WBTS feels like it, they can request grant monies from charitable organizations in the specific name of Hurricane Katrina Relief efforts!!!
Now what makes this astonishing.....When you receive grant monies, if you ever hope to get more grant monies in the future you must supply proof and documentation that this money was spent in the way you said it would be spent. Why is the WTBS not held to that same standard when it asks for money from it's follwers????
Why would asking the WBTS to show proof of how much money they took in for Hurricane Katrina, and how it was spent, RAISE RED FLAGS if a JW asked about this?
Lisa
Thank you anonymous PM'er who sent me this link!!!!!
