{"id":362,"date":"2008-09-23T19:58:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T01:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottnkelly.com\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2008-09-23T19:58:30","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T01:58:30","slug":"and-now-for-a-word-from-our-sponsors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/23\/and-now-for-a-word-from-our-sponsors\/","title":{"rendered":"And now for a word from our sponsors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so not really, but I read\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a title=\"ADA Fundraising Vs. JDRF\" href=\"http:\/\/diabetesupdate.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/sixy-five-percent-of-funds-raised-by.html\" target=\"_blank\">THIS<\/a><\/strong><\/span> shocking piece of blogerature (that&#8217;s blog +\u00a0literature) and just had to share. For anyone without a few minutes available to click the link, here are the cliff notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The LA Times reported this July that only 35.1% of the money donated to the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in California actually went to the ADA. The rest went to the for-profit fundraisers it hired.<\/li>\n<li>The ADA gets $213 million dollars a year of which $7,678,945 is spent on &#8220;administrative expenses.&#8221; That translated into English means &#8220;Salaries for top ADA executives.&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The Charity Navigator site calculates the &#8220;fundraising efficiency&#8221; of an organization which is how much money it spends to raise a dollar. They report that the ADA spends $.26 to raise a buck. In contrast JDRF spends $.09.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdrf.org\/index.cfm?page_id=100903&amp;sitereferer=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-363\" title=\"JDRF\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/walkjdrf-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a>So basically, the next time you want to make a charitable donation, go for the guys who actually use the money to fund useful research rather than outsourced staff-meetings. Besides, if <a title=\"Nick Jonas and JDRF\" href=\"http:\/\/www.parade.com\/celebrity\/0808\/nick-jonas-interview?nwl=080808\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Jonas<\/a> supports, them, what could be cooler? Right Mom? (Wait, did I just\u00a0morph into\u00a0my 8-year old?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so not really, but I read\u00a0THIS shocking piece of blogerature (that&#8217;s blog +\u00a0literature) and just had to share. For anyone without a few minutes available to click the link, here are the cliff notes:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}