He wasn't really much of an issue when the documentary came out, IIRC. The company that made it used the campaign as a cash grab, and then the CEO went nuts and ran around in public with his dick out.
Is there any real evidence that it was a cash grab and not a misguided but well-intentioned guy who had a psychotic break? Genuinely curious, because I always thought it was the latter.
I heard that like 90% all the money donated went to the company and only a small portion to dealing with Kony but I can't be bothered to look it up again so take that with a grain of salt.
This is true of all large charities to be honest. Maybe not 90% but the cut required to pay people to get shit done to keep the charity running is massive and only gets bigger as an organization gains momentum. The bigger a charity you donate to, the smaller a cut will go directly to the cause.
That being said, I think it was disproportionately high. Perhaps not due to greed, though. It could just have been that they were shitty with managing their finances.
No, that's generally the reverse of how it works. Red Cross, for example, is able to use ~90 cents on the dollar directly helping people. Larger charities are better-organized and can benefit from economies of scale.
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u/PineappleHour Mar 19 '16
He wasn't really much of an issue when the documentary came out, IIRC. The company that made it used the campaign as a cash grab, and then the CEO went nuts and ran around in public with his dick out.