It's pretty easy to pull up the financial and audit reports on the Salvos in Australia...Belaam said:They sound promising... I checked them out. They had an article expressing concern about how the Salvation Army is run. The bigger point is not how well I trust various groups that rate charitable agencies, but how well I trust an organization that says, "give us your money, but know that we refuse to make public what we are doing with that money." Which is exactly what the Salvation Army does. And that is what I don't trust.RhombusHatesYou said:Indeed but would you trust the American Institute of Philanthropy, a public non-profit group who's purpose is to crawl up the arses of charities and see what they're up to, who have done a thorough auditing of the Salvation Army's US districts' books?
That's odd... I just looked and it's no where near as easy to find an Annual Report to the Trustees (which is the best one to get for financial info because it's for the Territorial Command Staff and also for corporate partners) for anywhere other than Australia. Strange. Hell, in the Aussie report I just skimmed they talk about how they conform to more business standards than they are required to because it's good governance and works to maintaining their reputation of integrity with the community. You'd think the Salvos in other countries would have also twigged to that. *shrug*