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0 pointssamstave3y ago0 comments

I love deep diving on public info to determine the internals (even, not only SOPs, policies, but also *governing culture* can be easily gleaned from reading what is placed in public view.

For example, The Salvation Army is one of the biggest jokes in all of charitable history.

I wont go into details here, but I would NEVER give a dime to the Salvation "army" (of free slave labor under the guise of "salvation" (its a tax and money fraud to its core (I went through a SHIT ton of financial documents to see what their true operatin is disguised as. AVOID)

TL;DR: TSA uses its place as a church-like service to get special tax incentives, even the buildings in SF were donated to them. They run a for-profit-grey-market of boutiques they supply with "donations" they have running trades with China-Town in SF. They take subsidies, donations and other benefits. They require all that they "help" sign up for state benefits, sign the benefits over to their org, take the benefits, then feed donated & expired processed fod to their labor force.

They only take in able bodied. Force them to go to church each sunday. and make them use external addiction help, such as AA and make it clear they are not a treatment organiztion.

They maintain a very small amount of actual employees, and play on the egos of those in their "program" using military style rankings to appease the egos of the ignorant...

They then profit like mad, corruption is rampant and they feed all their "good" donatins to their side hustle of boutiques and other grey market.

Its a fn racket.

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The point being that if you DD a company/org, you can often find out a lot from financial public info, comments from even just a few employees etc..

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nicolas_t3y ago

Please go into details, I always think it's important to call out charities that are fraudulent and going into details helps with detecting if other charities are fraudulent or not.

What lead you to look into this? How did you originally suspect them of being fraudulent? What clues did you see in their financial documents?

For example, I tend to look at Charity Navigator and for Salvation Army, they mostly get dinged by not having an independent board (which to be fair is a clear red flag) but not much more, so as someone who does want any contribution I make to charities to go toward their cause, I'm very interested in any methodology around researching a charity.

wolverine8763y ago

Do you have any evidence of these claims? A news article, for example?

I knew someone who worked briefly at the Salvation Army. They said it was shockingly efficient and effective at its charitable mission.

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