Clinton Foundation gets 'A' rating for spending 88-89% of funds on charity
LINK: https://www.charitywatch.org/ratings-and-metrics/bill-hillary-chelsea-clinton-foundation/478
Other charities in the same category: https://www.charitywatch.org/ratings-and-metrics/bill-hillary-chelsea-clinton-foundation/478
Governance & Transparency Benchmarks: https://www.charitywatch.org/governance-and-transparency/bill-hillary-chelsea-clinton-foundation/478
Interesting article from FactCheck.org on Carly Fiorina's smears of Clinton Fdn: http://www.factcheck.org/2015/06/where-does-clinton-foundation-money-go/
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even though it's been well regarded for as long as I can remember. If you get Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, The Washington Times and NY Post and others making implications that it's a political slush fund for foreign leaders and businessmen to bribe the Clintons, it's easy enough for the Dittoheads and Fox News followers to believe it. And, if they start believing it, it slips into real news coverage, even if it is to rebut what's on Fox or on Rush. Then, it just feeds into the "where there is smoke, there is fire" message that Republicans have been crafting on the Clintons for 25 years. ("All those problems, there must be something there or else why keep bringing it up?"
God forbid you were actively proving them wrong in every response. Facts & logic be damned.
Congratulations to the Clinton family and to Bill in particular. This is his baby. He could have retired like Bush Sr. to play golf, instead he established a foundation that has helped thousands of people around the world.
multinationals and a network of politically-connected donors and thus doesn't have to pay substantial advertising costs to raise funds. While it receives many small donations, it has a network of huge donors, including nation-states such as Saudi Arabia which contribute tens of millions of dollars.
Cumulatively, that has added up to some $3 billion over 41 years, much of that in recent years since Hillary left the State Department. According to a recent Washington Post article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/clinton-money/
Their fundraising haul, which began with $178,000 that Bill Clinton raised for his long-shot 1974 congressional bid, is on track to expand substantially with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 White House run, which has already drawn $110 million in support.
The Washington Post observed a year earlier: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clintons-raised-nearly-2-billion-for-foundation-since-2001/2015/02/18/b8425d88-a7cd-11e4-a7c2-03d37af98440_story.html
“To be raising $250 million a year, certainly puts them in the top ranks of U.S. nonprofits in terms of fundraising,” said Steven Lawrence, director of research for the Foundation Center, which studies philanthropy. Lawrence said the Clintons’ ability to draw support from overseas — a coveted goal for many U.S. charities and university endowments — was especially unusual.
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The donor list shows that the foundation has relied most heavily on seven donors that have each given more than $25 million, including a foundation established by a Canadian mining magnate, Frank Giustra; the national lottery of Holland; and Chicago-based Democratic donor Fred Eychaner. Other major donors giving at lower levels run the gamut of industries and interests, such as the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, beverage giant Coca-Cola, and the governments of Oman, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
