I get about 5 calls a week and they never leave a message...didn't know who it was for several days...now I can tell them to leave a message or stop calling.
Most of what the Red Cross does is take donated blood and sell it to health care providers. Of the more than $3 billion that the Red Cross spent last year, two-thirds was spent not on disaster relief but rather on the group's blood business.
The charity spent $2.2 billion on the blood business, most of which went to employee wages and benefits. By contrast, the charity spent $467 million, or 14% of total spending, on its famous domestic disaster response programs, including the expensive Sandy relief effort.
Nonprofit experts say that in combining the blood business spending with disaster relief spending, the Red Cross is painting a confusing picture of its operations for donors.
"It has the effect of making the Red Cross look better than it actually is."
If the Red Cross split its blood business from the rest of the charity, "their ratios would look worse. So they don't want to do that," says CharityWatch.