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Candie's Foundation and Bristol Palin silly goosery
Henroid
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So, something caught my eye that I think more people need to be made aware of. Check it. (Article in full below)
A friend put it best by saying the Palin family is a circus act. But beyond the Palin family's ridiculous greed for money since they got popular in America, another disgusting facet of this situation is money not going to the people it claims need it.In 2009, Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol joined a teen pregnancy prevention nonprofit called the Candie’s Foundation. Today, the Associated Press reported that the Candie’s Foundation released its 2009 tax information, revealing that Bristol was paid a salary of $262,500.
But a closer examination of the tax form by ThinkProgress shows that the group disbursed only $35,000 in grants to actual teen pregnancy health and counseling clinics: $25,000 to the Mt. Sinai Adolescent Health Center and $10,000 to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. View a screenshot of Bristol’s exorbitant salary below:
View a screenshot of the Candie’s Foundation charitable disbursements below:
Thus, the nonprofit paid Bristol over seven times what it paid to teen pregnancy prevention groups. In addition, the Candie’s Foundation spent $165,000 on advertising, including this spot with Bristol and “The Situation” of MTV’s Jersey Shore:
(cut because nobody wants to see The Situation)
Notably, Bristol’s Candie’s Foundation group is run by Neil Cole, an executive at the teenage clothing company Iconix Brand Group. Many critics have pointed out that the Candie’s Foundation appears to be geared towards improving the public image of Cole’s company rather than reducing teen pregnancy.
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It's Bristol Palin, is there really any question?
It's a field of our legal system I know nothing about. I know there's SOME sort of qualifier in existence to make the non-profit claim. It's just a matter of how much it can be bent. This isn't a bending though. It's a pretty heinous case of breaking it. With any luck it's a matter of "Spend more on charity goals than compensating people's time working for the charity." I mean my god. I can't wait for the Palin spinnery.
"That's right everyone, don't have sex before marriage because you might end up having to go on a highly paid lecture tour."
Looks like family connections still get you a pretty good salary, these days. Nice to see that part of the economy is doing well.
Man, fuck this noise seriously. Fuck that foundation. And fuck her.
Oh wait, that's already covered.
FREE MARKET!
...right?
However, this case reminds me quite a lot of The Susan G. Komen Foundation's recent troubles, wherein they spent millions of dollars in court trying to claim ownership to the phrase, ". . . for the cure." Some of those court costs went towards filing actual suits against other cancer charities.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/komen-foundation-charities-cure_n_793176.html
Suing other charities / foundations for a phrase really pissed me off when I first heard about it. I guess recognition for charity work is more important than other organizations existing to do good.
Rigorous Scholarship
You have heard of "defend or die", right?
Well, Allen Funt probably asked God to help him film the ultimate Candid Camera episode. Unfortunately, it will never stop.
Every year Bristol Palin doesn't get pregnant again, they put $262,500.00 in a jar...
pleasepaypreacher.net
This is what pisses me off the most.
It's the exact opposite of what this foundation claims to be about. "Don't have pre-marital sex because you'll end up ruining your life!" (which isn't the whole truth, but this isn't about what I THINK it should be)
What ends up happening?
Bristol Palin has pre-marital sex.
Bristol Palin has a kid.
Bristol Palin GOES ON TO BE SUCCESSFUL AND MAKE FAT STACKS OF CASH.
That's the exact opposite.
So not only is she preaching about the consequences of her actions that she never had to fucking face (do we even see her with her kid? Or does she just hire someone to take care of him?), she's preaching about consequences she never realistically even had to worry about (She was out of school already, she was old enough to work and live on her own, mother didn't kick her out/disown her, people treat her like a goddamn hero and not a pariah).
It's disgusting. She's almost worse than her mother.
That the Palins are using the spotlight to cash in? Cause you know, shocker
This one sounds more like a PR firm than a bloated charity, though.
If you ever need to talk to someone, feel free to message me. Yes, that includes you.
It is rather ridiculous to assume that the world needs more awareness of how pregnancy works.
Of course, abstinence advocacy groups are fighting for admirable goals the stupidest way possible.
"You kids shouldn't have sex, period."
"Why not?"
"Because you could get pregnant and ruin your life! Or catch some horrible disease!"
"That's what condoms, birth control, oral sex, anal sex, handjobs, and/or Planned Parenthood are for."
"WHARBLGARBBL!!!1!"
Well, this time it might be tax-fraud illegal or something.
Usually I disagree with Modern Man to some degree or another, but on this we agree 100%. People who support the Palin family as being American heroes are blind as shit for not realizing the family is reaping the benefits of celebrity to make money.
To be fair, it's no the first time the family has faced ethics issues. Technically this is same shit, different day.
How is this an ethics issue for Bristol?
They hired her to be in an ad campaign because she's famous. She did so, and got paid.
The rest of the problem is whether the charity itself was in compliance with whatever tax codes govern charitable organizations.
It's not every celebrity spokesperson's job to make sure the company they do a commercial for does exactly what the company says they'll do in their mission statement.
What, is this an ethics issue for "The Situation" too?
Not everyone who works at non-profits is an unpaid volunteer.
CEO of United Way - a non-profit charity - reportedly has an annual salary of over $1 million. Several college football and basketball coaches have annual salaries in the multi-millions, even as they are part of non-profit educational institutions.
The issue is not that she's being paid. The issue is that she's being paid more than the charity is actually using for their cause.
Yes. A type of Situational ethics, you could say.
Well, I had the misunderstanding that she was involved to the point where she wasn't seeking to be paid period. I mean if it was far less than this her being paid wouldn't bother me much at all. Though, even if it was like $60 it'd still be more than what the charity actually spent to fulfill its mission statement. Which is still scummy and evil.
:vomit:
The thing is, the abstinence groups that Bristol Palin associates herself with probably replace that limed statement with "Because Osama Bin Laden shares in the orgasm of every unwed teen!!!!" or "It makes Jesus cry!"
So, you believed a member of the Palin family did something for purely altruistic reasons? They're a family of grifters, Henri. Throw "The Riches" on your netflix queue for a handy guide to the Palins
Not that I disagree on the Palins being opportunistic profiteers.
But the idea that everyone who works for a charity or other non-profit should be some kind of altruistic unpaid volunteer is pure goosery.
Is the CEO of the American Red Cross a non-altruistic money-grubber? Because that position pays well into the 6 figures.
Is he paid $200,000 dollars from a charity that takes in $250,000 and uses about $50,000 for it's actual mission? The red cross takes in millions of dollars each year and it makes sense to pay as though it is a multi-million dollar corporation. Even then I am sure he makes a great deal less then he would in the private for-profit sector. This kind of underhanded charitable garbage is a sure fire way to funnel money around to people though.