{"id":18455,"date":"2014-11-29T04:10:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T12:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=18455"},"modified":"2014-11-29T04:10:17","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T12:10:17","slug":"charity-begins-with-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/charity-begins-with-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity Begins with Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/salvarm2.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most of us give from the heart, and that&#8217;s a good thing. Sometimes it&#8217;s a challenge getting a true financial picture of where our donations are going. \u00a0At a minimum, do a little research this holiday, then donate to nonprofit companies that best fit the profile of \u00a0businesses you want to help.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GOOD &#8211; ranked by various sources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/holidays\/christmas-red-kettle-salvation-army.html\">Salvation Army<\/a>\u00a0pays\u00a0some of the \u00a0smallest salaries in the industry to corporate executives, while spending more than 50% of its budget\/ earnings\u00a0on\u00a0\u00a0programs for the needy. The company was founded in San Francisco.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WORST &#8211; ranked by Charity Navigator &#8211;\u00a0charitynavigator.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SANTA CLARITA&#8217;S The Gentle Barn (animal rights)<\/li>\n<li>ENCINITAS San Diego Botanic Garden<\/li>\n<li>CERRIOTS College Bound (education programs)<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO Nativity Prep Academy (private elementary &amp; secondary schools)<\/li>\n<li>LA VERNE Shiloh International Ministries (religious)<\/li>\n<li>SAN PEDRO Cabrillo Marine Aquarium (aquariums)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>10 CHARITIES IN DEEP TROUBLE &#8211; ranked by Charity Navigator<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#4 SAN RAMON Agape Villages (children&#8217;s and family services) \u00a0Working capital:\u00a0$-3,956,096<\/li>\n<li>#7 SAN JOSE Ballet San Jose (performing arts) Working capital $-2,095,327<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>10 Charities Overpaying their For-Profit Fundraisers &#8211; ranked by Charity Navigator<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#4 California Police Youth Charities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>HIGHEST PAID EXECS WITH NON-PROFITS &#8211; ranked by Watchdog.org<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Goodwill of Southern California paid more than $1.1 million in total compensation to its former CEO, making him the highest paid Goodwill executive in the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In California, these five Goodwill organizations exploit the special minimum wage exemption and pay executives top-dollar, reported by\u00a0John Hrabe, Huffington Post. \u00a0A short sample of some executive compensation packages over the past few years:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>$282,295- CEO of Goodwill Industries of San Diego County<br \/>\n$265,388- CEO of Goodwill Industries of Orange County<br \/>\n$376,317- CEO of Goodwill Industries of Sacramento Valley &amp; Northern Nevada<br \/>\n$507,898- CEO of Goodwill of Southern California<br \/>\n$344,754- CEO of Goodwill Industries of Santa Clara County\/ Silicon Valley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us give from the heart, and that&#8217;s a good thing. Sometimes it&#8217;s a challenge getting a true financial picture of where our donations are going. \u00a0At a minimum, do a little research this holiday, then donate to nonprofit companies that best fit the profile of \u00a0businesses you want to help. GOOD &#8211; ranked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18455"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}