[本期导读] 你的捐款能全部用于受灾地区吗? 答案是否定的，看看救助机构如何运作吧。本期节目选自"CNN American Morning", 时间2分56秒。
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ELAM: But the question everyone has is, would it really be possible for 100 percent of our donations to go to a charity or cause to just get out there to exactly where we want them to go? Well, we dug into the numbers to find out.
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ELAM : Charities exist to help those in need, but sometimes questions arise about how much of the donated money goes to overhead. The cost of running a business.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I mean I don't know how you can avoid overhead. There are expenses.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm, you know, a little skeptical just with what I've been reading about what some of the organizations are doing with the money.
ELAM: Independent charity evaluator GiveWell.net says overhead is a necessary thing.
HOLDEN KARNOFSKY, CO-FOUNDER, GIVEWELL.NET: People should not be looking for zero percent overhead. There is this mentality of saying I want all my money going straight to the children. And as a result, a lot of the charities may not be spending the money they need to spend to figure out how their programs are going and to evaluate their work.
ELAM: Richard Walden, who founded International Disaster Relief Agency Operation USA agrees, to a point.
RICHARD WALDEN, PRESIDENT, OPERATIONUSA.ORG: Well, they need some overhead or they would never raise any money. So when it starts getting over 15 percent, you start to worry.
ELAM: Charitynavigator.org, another firm that evaluates charities, finds of the 5,500 organizations it examines, about 15 percent of donations go to overhead costs. However, GiveWell says tracking how a charity spends its money isn't the easiest thing to figure out.
KARNOFSKY: Finding out if a charity helped kids do better in school or save lives is very hard work, and that's why for a long time people have focused on this overheard number. It's not because it's the most meaningful number, it's because it's the easiest number to get.
ELAM: And when it comes to size, Walden says smaller charities are often more nimble, able to respond quicker than larger ones.
WALDEN: This whole notion that only the big agencies can do a meaningful job is simply not true, and it's never been proven out.
ELAM: So in choosing a charity, perhaps asking about overhead shouldn't be the primary question.
KARNOFSKY: Ask the much more important question. What did you accomplish? Whom did you help? How did you change the world and how much did it cost? Because when you know the answer to that question it doesn't really matter how much they spent on overhead.
ELAM: In the end after all, it should be about helping those in need.(END VIDEOTAPE)ELAM: Now, if a charity does say it gives 100 percent of your donations to help the cause, the Better Business Bureau says think twice about donating to that charity. All charities have operating costs. That's just the act of doing business. The only way you can guarantee all of your money goes to help someone would be if you were to physically able, take your money and march it down to a disaster area with your crisp dollars in your hand and give them out.Of course, that's not very feasible. Nor is it better than using a charity that is established action plans to get aid where it needs to go quickly. And this is one of the things that they keep pointing out, too. When you listen to them, is that they when I talked to the people who evaluate charities, they're saying they need money all the time and if they have money all the time, they're able to go out and help people more quickly when something happens. But overall, you shouldn't expect that. You shouldn't expect that all 100 percent of your dollars would go there, but that's not a bad thing.
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