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Originally Posted by fluffy0000
A Charitable Rush, With Little DirectionBy STEPHANIE STROM
NYT
Published: March 15, 2011
Disasters, particularly those epic enough to earn round-the-clock news coverage, are a fast way to get donors to open their wallets. So it was no surprise when nonprofit groups, starting with the American Red Cross and moving down to small charities, scrambled to raise money to help the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
..,The Japanese Red Cross, for example, has said repeatedly since the day after the earthquake that it does not want or need outside assistance.
Holden Karnofsky, a founder of GiveWell, a Web site that researches charities, said he was struck by how quickly many nonprofit groups had moved to create ads using keywords like “Japan,” “earthquake,” “disaster,” and “help” to improve the chances of their ads showing up on Google when the words were used in search queries.
“Charities are aggressively soliciting donations around this disaster, and I don’t believe these donations necessarily are going to be used for relief or recovery in Japan because they aren’t needed for that,” Mr. Karnofsky said. “The Japanese government has made it clear it has the resources it needs for this disaster.”
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^that info may be true....but it's hard to sit around and just watch news about what happen. I am sure the Japanese government is able and capable of helping its own people without help..but there are people in this world who have good attentions and want to donate even if Japan says it does not need help.