Facebook is steering users to donate to the Center for Disaster Philanthropy

Re:Facebook is steering users to donate to the Center for Di... by nickodell on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @10:49PM (#15129388)

It's annoying that the article doesn't talk about how effective the Center for Disaster Philanthropy is.

Sure, the Red Cross has mismanaged stuff, but this new charity could be even worse. All the article tells us is that Facebook thinks highly of them.

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Re:Facebook is steering users to donate to the Center for Di... by mjevans on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @11:49PM (#15129608)

Let's do some research:

Red Cross:

Mostly OK, but... there are some occasional issues.

https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summar... https://www.charitywatch.org/ratings-and-metrics/american-re... http://www.npr.org/2016/06/16/482020436/senators-report-find...

Meanwhile the Center for Disaster Philanthropy ... is smaller.

https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summar...

I actually can't quickly find any issues on them, though comparing the one common source they seem to have far better transparency, and lower internal overhead (I suspect more volunteers?).

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Re:Facebook is steering users to donate to the Center for Di... by AndrewCHM on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @11:57PM (#15129628)

For direct sources of the information

Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org/about-us/news-and-events/publication...

CDP: http://disasterphilanthropy.org/who-we-are/financials-annual...

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Re:Facebook is steering users to donate to the Center for Di... by ColonelBlimp on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @09:58AM (#15132165)

I might be wrong, but I haven't found any reference on the Center for Disaster Philanthropy website of their non-profit status (e.g. 501(c)(3) organization). So my question is: are they a charity?

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