[ARRL-OK] Tsunami Relief Fund

[Kim Elmore]

This isn't ham radio, but it's a very good question.

The web site lists legitimate organizations. Each has different overhead 
charges, of course. I know for certain that, with the Salvation Army, if 
you designate your donation for a particular effort, 100% of the donation 
goes to *that* effort.  This is not the case for donations to their general 
fund, from which they extract overhead operating expenses (they have to get 
them from someplace).

To make absolutely certain that as many pennies as possible go where you 
want them, donate to the charity *directly* with check or cash. Go to their 
web site, get a phone number, call, and find out how to donate to them 
specifically for tsunami relief. If you use a credit card, the credit card 
company charges a fee for their service. This is as it should be (they must 
charge for the service they provide) but some might take umbrage at such 
fees against donations for charity.

Kim Elmore, N5OP

At 02:50 PM 1/6/2005, you wrote:
>How, pray tell, can we tell if this is a valid charity or just
>another scam such as all those that popped up after
>the Murrah bombing, 3 May 99 tornados, and 9/11???
>
>Never any accounting of the billions of dollars contibuted.
>
>
>73  ---  Mac, K2GKK
>
>
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: Eddie Manley <jema1 at pcwan.net>
>Reply-To: ARRL Oklahoma Section List <arrl-ok at mailman.qth.net>
>To: ARRL Oklahoma Section List <arrl-ok at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: [ARRL-OK] Tsunami Relief Fund
>Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:14:25 -0600
>
>Hi All
>If you have any interest in contributing to the Indian Ocean disaster, I 
>received this URL in the mail today.
>============
>
>In support of the victims of the Tsunami disaster...
>
>Please visit the following link for
>information on Emergency Tsunami Relief
>efforts and where and how you can help.
>
>
><http://www.emergencyemail.org/tsunamirelief.asp>
>
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>Eddie K5EMS 73
>Asst Section Manager
>
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                           Kim Elmore, Ph.D.
                        University of Oklahoma
         Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
"All of weather is divided into three parts: Yes, No, and Maybe. The
greatest of these is Maybe" The original Latin appears to be garbled.