Questions Surround $100 Million in ‘Fire Aid’ for Los Angeles
Questions are raised about how around $ 100 million raised by “Fire helps” concerts following Los Angeles fires earlier this year are spent – with certain victims who claim do not receive anything.
The starred bill for the performance concert, held on two distinct stages, has raised a massive sum. But many residents of the Pacific Palisades and Malibu (Fire des Palisades), and Altadena and Pasadena (Fire d’Eaton), say they did not benefit.
There have been two important local surveys by local media, each reached different conclusions – but not necessarily contradictory – on Fire Money Help.
The first, from ABC Kabc -7 affiliate, concluded that money was well spent – on organizations:
About 120 organizations have divided $ 50 million when the first series of Fireaid funds was published in February. 7 On your side, trying to reach out to each of them, and heard of more than 50 to find out how money is used.
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The Pasadena Humane Society used $ 250,000 from Fireaid to treat and house the pets burned and left homeless by the flames.
Heal The Bay received $ 100,000 and used it to test the contaminants along our coast.
However, surrounding the news, as underlined by the local subsidiary of Fox KTTV, noted that few victims had benefited:
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Via Yahoo! News:
This “concert of benefits” could be one of the largest scams in the history of fundraising in the event of a disaster, “said independent journalist James Li on X.
Thanks to Li and Sue Pascoe, an investigative journalist for having toured the news, we now know that the Faireaid funds have not gone directly to residents, but rather to non -profit organizations selected by a charitable organization based on the other side of the country.
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As Pascoe reports, the Annenberg Foundation was responsible for managing the Faireaid funds. Pascoe sent an email to the organization by asking: “How many funds have been spent specifically for the palisades and which non -profit organizations from this community receive money?” But Pascoe did not receive an answer, and no one answered when she called several extensions of the company.
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However, when Pascoe spoke with Wallace, she was shocked to learn that Fireaid products would not go to residents affected by devastating fires. Instead, money would be distributed to several non -profit organizations affiliated with the Annenberg Foundation.
In short, the question of whether the fire funds are spent correctly summed up whether they should have addressed residents who have lost their homes and property directly, or if they should have helped organizations to help the victims of fire in a general or indirect sense, or help the related causes.
Pascoe says that it is too easy for organizations to become eligible for the financing of firefighters, and more surveillance is necessary.
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