Just read on the Fox News page, of a ceo getting amost $1,000,000 in 2008. Not for a for profit company, which I couldn't disagree with. But, for the Boys and Girls clubs, charity organization. A Roxanne Spillitt, ceo for the club, made $360,774 in salary. Had $150,000 in a bonus. $83,152 in compensation. And the kicker is, $385,500 in a deferred retirement payment. The govt. has kicked in millions over the years to this charity. Now, 4 Republican senators are holding up the next bill, untill they can get a disclosure of who,what,where that money has been going to. The clubs had increased in number in years past, but are now starting to decline because of lack of donations. Do ya think!! Anybody know where I can apply for a job like this?? ;)gypsyman
Only big org. I give to, is the Salvation Army
Even the good old Salvation Army live quite a bit better than the people they serve.
Nothing like what the others like the American Red Cross or The commie United Way get.
By day, Henry Graciani oversees a 54-bed treatment center for alcoholics and drug addicts who come to him broke and hopeless. After work, he makes a quick drive to the $1.3-million Santa Monica home he shares with his wife and three children.
Graciani is not a high-paid executive returning to a beach retreat. He and his wife, Dina, are career Salvation Army officers who bring home $25,000 per year (not a lot of money)-- combined. They are among dozens of the charity's officers in Southern California who are paid modest salaries but given rent-free housing -- some in high-priced communities such as Rancho Palos Verdes, Seal Beach and Santa Monica.
Best known for its red-kettle holiday bell ringers, the Salvation Army is one of the nation's largest charities. It serves more than 69 million meals a year to the needy, houses thousands of the nation's homeless and provides ready response to worldwide disasters -- most recently in Haiti. It's also a real estate powerhouse.
In Los Angeles and Orange counties alone, the charity owns 87 homes and condominiums worth about $52 million. Nationwide, it valued its real estate holdings at about $4 billion in 2008 -- one-third of its total assets.
For more than a century, the Salvation Army has provided a vast social-service safety net throughout the world, offering food for the homeless, shelter for the abused and relief for disaster victims. Founded in 1865 in London, the Salvation Army has an unusual, quasi-military structure and a highly religious mission.
These Officers only live in the homes, and after retirement, they are given enough money for a down payment on a home of their own.
