Bono's Foundation Under Fire For Handing Only 1.2% of Funds to Charity

[Dale]

I came across this article earlier today:

Bono's ONE Foundation Under Fire for Giving Little Over 1% of Funds to Charity (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1314543/Bonos-ONE-foundation-giving-tiny-percentage-funds-charity.html#ixzz10TNqfRuo)

Here are a few quotes from the article:


The non-profit organisation set up by the U2 frontman received almost £9.6million in donations in 2008 but handed out only £118,000 to good causes (1.2 per cent).

And here's one from the comments section:


I remember someone saying to Bono "before you start asking us to give away our money to the poor, donate yours first".

I've always been a bit skeptical of "mainstream" charities, especially those fronted by celebrities. It's definitely good PR for Bono and his band to run a large, multinational charitable organisation; but I'd certainly dislike to be in the shoes of a long time ONE Foundation supporter.

[irishspirit]

I would love to be able to say that I am shocked, however, I cannot.

BONO in my view, is a NWO puppet! Check into the man. We all know what happens when the NWO take money for charity, is disappears.

[Swami]

Bono kneeled for the Queen of England and got knighted..........
If that isn't a Illuminati ritual. I'll eat my socks..

[irishspirit]

yes swami,

And to consider he is an "Irishman" doing that. WOW!

BONO is a complete shill, do not like him now and never will.

[Dale]

I would love to be able to say that I am shocked, however, I cannot.

Quite true.


BONO in my view, is a NWO puppet! Check into the man.

Whether he's aware of it or not; Bono, and many other "celebrities" for that matter, are most certainly mixed in with a crowd I'd hate to meet in a dark alley.

[frank samuel]

Unfortunately this is an ongoing reality for most charities organizations. The logistics is a nightmare and the founders of these charities are hardly ever involved, so it suffice to say that the founders are not always aware of the internal dealings of the charity . The staff who run these charities many times reserved a huge salary for themselves, thus the reason why little money goes to the actual charity itself.

I been doing charity work since I was old enough to remember, due to the corruption within many of these charity groups I now just contribute personally my time and money directly to those in need within the community.

If you guys remember the we are the world fund raising campaign held in the 80's organize and inspire by Bob Geldorf , the food send to Ethiopia sat at the border until it rotted,it never made it to the starving masses. To be fair there's many organizations who do good around the world but unless the founders and people all get personally involved most fund just get derailed into the pockets of the greedy.

How to end this nightmare of infective charities who keep the funds instead of directing the funds to those in need is a problem in which all of us will have to get personally involved. We can end world hunger and we can improve the quality of life of people all around the world, but in the case of charities is like reinventing the wheel.

Many many blessings to all.:wub:

[Swami]

Unfortunately this is an ongoing reality for most charities organizations.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Prince Bernhard and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)


To attract donors, large and small, as well as media attention, Nicholson, Scott and the founding fathers of WWF wanted the royal family to lend their name. They approached Prince Philip to be president. Philip was an avid outdoorsman and hunter - in January 1961 he had bagged a Bengal tiger in India - and he and Queen Elizabeth had been to Kenya, on a safari best remembered because King George VI died while they were watching wild animals and Princess Elizabeth had become Queen. Scott sent Philip a draft of the proposed charter. Philip read it carefully, replying that one provision was 'unctuous,' and another 'to wordy.' This careful reading was not what Scott hold expected. It is 'a great bore that he suggests so much alteration,' Scott wrote Nicholson. The founding fathers had wanted the Prince only as a figurehead. Philip agreed to head up the British chapter of WWF, but he turned down the presidency of the International and suggested his friend Prince Bernhard for the post. The men were alike in many ways. Both had been born into European royal families, but not very distinguished ones, and had acquired their status and string of titles when they married - Bernhard to the future Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. The two men were handsome, dashing, and staunchly conservative politically.

Scott, who liked consorting with royalty, made the pitch. 'Prince Philip (who was sailing with me at Cowes in the 12 metre 'sceptre' on Saturday) . . . told me that he was very keen that you should 'head-up' the international Trustees,' Scott wrote to Bernhard. 'Please may I ask Your Royal Highness to say that you will be President of the Trustees of The World Wildlife Fund.'' Prince Bernhard he eventually said yes, and he served as president until 1976, when he was forced to resign after it became public that he had solicited more than a million dollars in 'commissions' from Lockheed in exchange for Lockheed's receiving contracts to build warplanes for the Netherlands. (At one point after the scandal broke, Bernhard said that he had intended to give the money from Lockheed to WWF; a member of the board at the time insists this is not true.

http://www.ntz.info/gen/n00774.html

1001 club


he 1001 Club | Membership list
Bankers, intelligence agents, and raw materials executives striving for a sustainable future

Note: if you look up information on the 1001 Club on the internet you'll find that the group is listed on Wikipedia's WWF page. The author has added it there several years back, but any attempt to add additional information - however basic - has always been blocked. A separate Wikipedia page on the 1001 Club, largely written by the author, was also cleaned out after several months, even though this site is the only location on the net with photocopies of membership lists. But as you'll see, a good number of the members of the 1001 are extremely controversial.

http://www.isgp.eu/organisations/1001_Club.htm

[jackovesk]

I would love to be able to say that I am shocked, however, I cannot.

BONO in my view, is a NWO puppet! Check into the man. We all know what happens when the NWO take money for charity, is disappears.

I could not of said it better myself irishspirit...

The list of his corrupt NWO cronie mates is endless i.e. Dmitry Medvedev, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, George Bush, US treasury secretary Larry Summers, Pope John Paul II, Colin Powell, Al Gore, Vladimir Putin, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Russian Mafia Boss Roman Abramovich, The UN etc, etc......

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2010/0828/1224277755857.html

To all the U2 fans, Bono has you all fooled..! It really makes me angry when so called Humanatarian Rockstars take advantage of the sheeple and their generosity and turn out to be a Fraud, this bloke is corrupt as the next MWO Minion!

[Zook]

Hi TCR,


Quite true.

Whether he's aware of it or not; Bono, and many other "celebrities" for that matter, are most certainly mixed in with a crowd I'd hate to meet in a dark alley.

Bono is definitely shill material. It was disgusting to see him defend the Bush regime while it was perpetrating some of its most egregious frauds.

As for musicianship, toss U2 in with 70`s second-tier supergroups like Chicago, America, CCR, Rush, Three Dog Night, Steppenwolf, Led Zeppelin, etc. ... and U2 would be forced into third- or fourth-tier anonymity. How does one pronounce overrated in pub crawl Irish?


Cheers
Uncle Zook

[tone3jaguar]

He is Al Gores buddy, not exactly a shocker.

[Dale]

[...] due to the corruption within many of these charity groups I now just contribute personally my time and money directly to those in need within the community.

I'd say that's the best way to go. What I do, personally, is donate something anonymously to an individual, family, or group that I know is struggling in some way. No tax write-offs, no personal gain; just an honest service-to-others act.

[3(C)+me]

No more U2 CD's or concerts for me....

[Swami]

No more U2 CD's or concerts for me....

Nice frisbee's, U2 CD's, When thrown with the right force, they fly an awful good distance.......

[shybastid]

Well said Fred and Zook.. I can name Charitable Groups here in the States(United Way is One) that pays really good salaries to their employees. Really Good Pay and Perks. VERY top heavy organizations. Does'nt mean they're evil,it means the people collecting the monies and going to Professional football games, have an adgenda. Their paychecks!!
Fundraising is big business,and you have to pay good fundrasers good money. It's how it works.
I never thought much of Bono anyway, so I've never really heard much about his charity drives.
BUT, And I know nothing about the Irish and England, isn't that over the top to be knighted by the queen in England? Is'nt that a bit much? Maybe I'm wrong.

[Seikou-Kishi]

ONE said it took no money from the public and that most of its funding came from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.


Any money coming from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is dirty, dirty, putrid money

[grannyfranny100]

Hi

My favorite charity is Heifer International http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.204586/?msource=kwga6&gclid=CO67xKzRraYCFULNKgodyV6Rnw, a non-profit organization whose goal is to help end world hunger and poverty through self-reliance & sustainability.

Since I have a limited budget, I gifted a gardner's gift basket, http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.6329405/?msource=kwga6 on behalf of my family members for Christmas. This basket represents everything a family will need to start a sustainable farm – tree seedlings, rabbits to generate organic manure, chickens to eat pests and a hive of bees to pollinate crops and increase yields plus they get face to face help to get started. Once established, the family passes some of the offspring, etc. to another needy family.

This saved me the expense of postage to mail my meager gifts to family members while acknowledging my good thoughts for them. They were all very impressed. They sure didn't need the junky stuff I could afford and I sure feel good about my gift that will grow and grow.

Granny Franny

[BrianEn]

I never liked Bono.

[East Sun]

Bono kneeled for the Queen of England and got knighted..........
If that isn't a Illuminati ritual. I'll eat my socks..

Yep, I hate that. But so also did Paul McCartney and Sean Connery to mention a few.

[John Parslow]

Hello Zook


Bono is definitely shill material. It was disgusting to see him defend the Bush regime while it was perpetrating some of its most egregious frauds.

As for musicianship, toss U2 in with 70`s second-tier supergroups like Chicago, America, CCR, Rush, Three Dog Night, Steppenwolf, Led Zeppelin, etc. ... and U2 would be forced into third- or fourth-tier anonymity. How does one pronounce overrated in pub crawl Irish?



Excellent quote Zook - Bono does not deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as some the brilliant bands here mentioned!

Best regards. JP :cool:

P.S. Must be clear to all by now who and what Bono is ...

[UKIPster]

Is this a joke or the truth?

At a recent U2 concert in Glasgow, Scotland, [Bono] asked the audience for total quiet.

Then, in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands, once every few seconds. Holding the audience in total silence, he said into the microphone, “Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies.”

From the front of the crowd a voice with a broad Scottish accent pierced the quiet …

“Well, ****in stop doin it then, ya evil bastard!”

[Metaphor]

Old U2= brilliant music.
Still a fan of The Edge, but Bonos ego has gotten the better of him, im sorry to say. He was probably, a long time ago, very passionate about changing the world. It´s a shame he do not see for himself what a parody of himself he has become. Perhaps it´s better when rockstars die young? Lennon, Morrison etc.

[greybeard]

Is this a joke or the truth?

At a recent U2 concert in Glasgow, Scotland, [Bono] asked the audience for total quiet.

Then, in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands, once every few seconds. Holding the audience in total silence, he said into the microphone, “Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies.”

From the front of the crowd a voice with a broad Scottish accent pierced the quiet …

“Well, ****in stop doin it then, ya evil bastard!”

No the man in the audience said. "Well stop clapping then"

Typical Scottish humor
Chris

[Myra]

Unfortunately this is an ongoing reality for most charities organizations. The logistics is a nightmare and the founders of these charities are hardly ever involved, so it suffice to say that the founders are not always aware of the internal dealings of the charity . The staff who run these charities many times reserved a huge salary for themselves, thus the reason why little money goes to the actual charity itself.

I been doing charity work since I was old enough to remember, due to the corruption within many of these charity groups I now just contribute personally my time and money directly to those in need within the community.

If you guys remember the we are the world fund raising campaign held in the 80's organize and inspire by Bob Geldorf , the food send to Ethiopia sat at the border until it rotted,it never made it to the starving masses. To be fair there's many organizations who do good around the world but unless the founders and people all get personally involved most fund just get derailed into the pockets of the greedy.

How to end this nightmare of infective charities who keep the funds instead of directing the funds to those in need is a problem in which all of us will have to get personally involved. We can end world hunger and we can improve the quality of life of people all around the world, but in the case of charities is like reinventing the wheel.

Many many blessings to all.:wub:

This is exactly why I would rather give my money to a person begging on a street corner.

[BrianEn]

This is exactly why I would rather give my money to a person begging on a street corner.


There's no administration costs. The money just goes straight to those who need it the most.

However, one guy that I used to give change to told me how much he made doing it. I never gave him another nickel The dude made more money than me. He was different than most though. He was out there all the time. Knew all the days that made the most money. Plus it just topped off what he was already getting from welfare.

[East Sun]

I would love to be able to say that I am shocked, however, I cannot.

BONO in my view, is a NWO puppet! Check into the man. We all know what happens when the NWO take money for charity, is disappears.

It may be possible that the nwo tries to initiate people who become wealthy into its ranks. Very likely to happen. Knighting British subjects or others could be an offer you should not refuse. Was not Sean Connery a claimed 'Nationalis' of Scotland? (Is that the correct word?) He was taken into the fold so to speak. Seems like a contradiction?
The report on Bono may or may not be accurate. Today there is so much deception and manipulation it's hard to tell what's true or not.