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Red Cross Sunshine Act Would Require More Stringent Accountability Measures
September 16, 2015; ProPublica Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) unveiled the proposed American Red Cross Sunshine Act concurrent with a Government Accountability Office report, also requested by Thompson,...
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The Multiple Roots of the Excruciatingly Slow Aid Response in Nepal
September 21; Thomson Reuters Foundation If you follow the ongoing programming of 21st-century disasters, Nepal’s April earthquake was a rerun of NGOs being taken to task for failing in their relief...
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The Content of the GAO Audit of Red Cross that is the Basis for Demands for...
Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com September 23, 2015; Homeland Security Today Here at NPQ we are great believers in the value to managers of reading forensic audits and that is how we look at the...
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Sen. Grassley “Taking Names” on Red Cross’s Reported Lack of Cooperation with...
Chuck Grassley / Gage Skidmore September 28, 2015; NPR, “The Two-Way” The questions various entities have raised about the accountability and transparency of the American Red Cross have spawned a...
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In Disaster Relief, Individual Efforts Can Do More Harm Than Good
UDDT withstanding flooding from Cyclone Aila / SuSanA Secretariat October 28, 2015; The Observer With the consistency of the tides, money always floods from the public when disaster strikes. But this...
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Cyclone Chapala Doubles Down on Humanitarian Aid Crisis in Yemen
November 3, 2015; USA Today According to USA Today, Cyclone Chapala was the second-strongest cyclone on record ever to hit the Arabian Gulf. The storm hit the coast of Yemen, causing numerous deaths...
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Food Banks Embrace the Power of Logistics Drawn from E-Commerce
Daily Bread Food Bank on Thanksgiving Day / Olivia Chow December 2, 2015; Wall Street Journal When you gather your bag of canned goods to donate to your local food drive between now and the end of the...
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What Ails the Red Cross Looks Like a Perfect Storm of the Very Familiar
December 14, 2015; ProPublica For the past few years, NPR and ProPublica have been conducting an investigative series on the American Red Cross. Their articles have charged that the organization has...
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What’s Best for the American Red Cross: Being among the Public, or Marketing...
Disaster Vehicle 179 / Falk Lademann Follow December 24, 2015; ProPublica The potential effect of restructuring or consolidating the Red Cross chapter system is one of the issues queried in a six-page...
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In Wake of Recent Consolidation, WV Red Cross Performance Under Fire
January 10, 2016; Register-Herald (Beckley, WV) Near the end of last year, NPQ reported on a letter sent by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) to the American Red Cross, asking CEO Gail McGovern about the...
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Yulon & Acer Donate US$330,000 toward Taiwan Earthquake Recovery Efforts
Rico Shen [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.5 tw], via Wikimedia CommonsFebruary 6, 2016; Focus Taiwan News Channel The Yulon Group, Taiwan’s largest automaker, pledged on Saturday to donate NT$10...
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Simple Congressional Questions on Red Cross Remain Unanswered
February 8, 2016; ProPublica According to an article from ProPublica published on Monday, February 8th, Gayle McGovern, CEO of the American Red Cross, appears to be stonewalling on some of the...
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In Disaster Relief, Individual Efforts Can Do More Harm Than Good
UDDT withstanding flooding from Cyclone Aila / SuSanA Secretariat October 28, 2015; The Observer With the consistency of the tides, money always floods from the public when disaster strikes. But this...
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Cyclone Chapala Doubles Down on Humanitarian Aid Crisis in Yemen
November 3, 2015; USA Today According to USA Today, Cyclone Chapala was the second-strongest cyclone on record ever to hit the Arabian Gulf. The storm hit the coast of Yemen, causing numerous deaths...
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Food Banks Embrace the Power of Logistics Drawn from E-Commerce
Daily Bread Food Bank on Thanksgiving Day / Olivia Chow December 2, 2015; Wall Street Journal When you gather your bag of canned goods to donate to your local food drive between now and the end of the...
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What Ails the Red Cross Looks Like a Perfect Storm of the Very Familiar
December 14, 2015; ProPublica For the past few years, NPR and ProPublica have been conducting an investigative series on the American Red Cross. Their articles have charged that the organization has...
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What’s Best for the American Red Cross: Being among the Public, or Marketing...
Disaster Vehicle 179 / Falk Lademann Follow December 24, 2015; ProPublica The potential effect of restructuring or consolidating the Red Cross chapter system is one of the issues queried in a six-page...
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Yulon & Acer Donate US$330,000 toward Taiwan Earthquake Recovery Efforts
Rico Shen [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.5 tw], via Wikimedia CommonsFebruary 6, 2016; Focus Taiwan News Channel The Yulon Group, Taiwan’s largest automaker, pledged on Saturday to donate NT$10...
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Simple Congressional Questions on Red Cross Remain Unanswered
February 8, 2016; ProPublica According to an article from ProPublica published on Monday, February 8th, Gayle McGovern, CEO of the American Red Cross, appears to be stonewalling on some of the...
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Sen. Grassley Calls Out Red Cross for Stonewalling Haiti Investigation
June 16, 2016; WBUR-FM (Boston Public Radio) Senator Charles E. Grassley of the Senate Judiciary and Finance Committees issued a letter on Thursday essentially declaring that the American Red Cross...
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