How Much Profit Is there In a Non-Profit?

Want to help in Boston? Careful about sending money. Eighteen years ago $15 million was collected for the Oklahoma City Bombing victims. After the Governor got through all those funds were consolidated into one fund at the Oklahoma City Community Foundation. Now after all these years we find that the nearly $15 million made $4.5 million in interest to a sum of $19.5 million but that only $5 million was ever paid out to victims. So remember as you help the victims, don't become one yourself.

Disaster relief? Dealing with Oklahoma City bombing fund 'horrible,' victim says

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By Anna SchecterRock Center A group of survivors and relatives of those killed in the Oklahoma City bombing are outraged that there is $10 million sitting in a disaster relief fund designed to help them. Meanwhile they say they’ve been denied help for years. “They te …

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  For Your Information: Past Trustees of the Oklahoma City Community Foundation since 1995.
  James Young 1995–97
  J. Edward Barth 1989–98 
  Frank McPherson 1989–98 
  George J. Records 1989–99
  Ben Demps 1996–2000 Raymond Hefner 1994–2000
  Richard Sias 1995–2001
  Linda Lambert 1993–2002 
  Robert Butkin 1999–2002
  William O. Johnstone 1994–2003
  Anne Hodges Morgan 1994–2003
  Jeanette L. Gamba 1995–2004
  James H. Holloman Jr. 1997-2006
  Ronald J. Norick 1998-2007
  Paul B. Odom Jr. 1998-2007
  William Shdeed 2000-09
  Paul W. Dudman 2001-10
  John E. Green 2001-10
  Jim Daniel 2002-11
  Judy Love 2002-11
  Nancy Coats-Ashley 2003-12
  Kirland Hall 2003-12

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  For your Information current trustee of the Oklahoma City Foundation:
  Our Trustees
  
  The bylaws of the Oklahoma City Community Foundation require that six of the 15 Trustees be nominated by outside organizations and the remaining nine be appointed by the current Board of Trustees. Nominated for three-year terms, a Trustee can serve up to nine consecutive years. Below are the Trustees for FY2013. 
  
  Steven C. Davis, Chairman
  Attorney, Hartzog Conger 
  Cason & Neville
  Appointed by the Trustees
  
  Dr. Steve Agee 
  Dean, Meinders School of Business
  Oklahoma City University
  Appointed by the Trustees
  
  Mary Ann Bauman M.D.
  Medical Director, Women’s Health and Community Relations, 
  INTEGRIS Health
  Appointed by the Trustees
  
  Jim C. Clark
  B.C. Clark Jewelers
  Appointed by the Trustees
  
  Leslie Hudson
  Community Volunteer
  Appointed by the Trustees
  
  Oscar Jackson
  Secretary of Human Resources & Administration, State of Oklahoma (retired)
  Appointed by the Trustees
  
  Jane Jayroe
  Writer/Community Volunteer
  Nominated by the Oklahoma City Mayor and City Council
  
  Ann Johnstone
  Community Volunteer
  Nominated by Allied Arts
  
  Steve Mason 
  Cardinal Engineering
  Appointed by tUnited Way of Central Oklahoma 
  
  Harry Merson
  Private Investor
  Nominated by the 
  U.S. Judge, Western District 
  of Oklahoma
  
  Jenny Love Meyer
  Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores 
  Nominated by the Trustees
  
  J. Larry Nichols
  Devon Energy
  Nominated by the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber
  
  P.B. Odom III
  P.B. Odom III Land Development Companies
  Appointed by the Trustees
  Bond Payne
  Heritage Trust Company
  Appointed by the Trustees
  Tony Tyler
  Tyler Media
  Appointed by the Trustees
  
  Christian K. Keesee
  Kirkpatrick Bank
  Ex Officio
  
  John L. Belt, Secretary & General Counsel 
  
  Nancy B. Anthony, President & Assistant Secretary 
  
  Rhonda Godwin, Assistant Treasurer

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   You ask, if you've read this far, what I expect will happen republishing all this info? Not a damn thing actually, but it seemed appropriate. Having served on a board or two or so I know how hard it is sometimes to get an organization to do the correct thing. This one however I Think the IRS needs to take a Hard Look at. I hear that the Internal Revenue System is trolling Social Media to find Fraud and Abuse by Taxpayers and Not For Profit Institutions Misusing Funds by using word and phrase detection programs to pick up on those doing a dirty deed. Some Eleemosynary Organizations have nary an elee in their mosy.

  
  

  
  

  Here is a statement from the foundation holding the $10 million not distributed.
  http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51022189#.UWzAXbWG14x

  

  Oklahoma City Community Foundation statement

  www.nbcnews.com

  We are disappointed the March 1, 2013 episode of "Rock Center with Brian Williams" failed to provide a more balanced approach in their story about the Oklahoma City Disaster Relief Fund. Not only did the news staff fail to document the accuracy of the erroneous claims made in the story but they also...

  
  

  "Watson said the foundation has encouraged survivors and their families to get on public assistance before requesting help from the fund for medical bills and the like." "Let's see, if I made a donation to help the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing and Nancy Anthony decides it appropriate to deny it to the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing, that makes it ok?
  Let's see, if Nancy Anthony and the OCCF decide to build themselves a new office to dwell in to the tune of 6 million dollars and purchase the land that the property sits and the money it takes to do this involves money donated for other reasons, that makes it ok?
  Let's see, Nancy Anthony makes $232,000 a year salary to manage the Disaster Relief Fund. Really?? That's 5 times the median income in Oklahoma..... That's ok?"
  http://www.okgazette.com/oklahoma/article-16917-a-closer-look.html

  

  A closer look

  www.okgazette.com

  In the wake of complaints from some survivors of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing and their families, the Oklahoma City Disaster Relief Fund is being audited. The critics claim that the Oklahoma City Community Foundation (OCCF), which oversee...

Let It Go She Said....Grump Spit Sputter Growl & Piss

There were 40 people on the tour's motor coach originally built for 60. thus there was 30% more leg room and 30% more ability to recline and 30% more window for everyone.  Of course things weren't wider, but it made for a pretty nice comfortable tour.  One I would recommend to anyone over 50.

There were two sub-groups within the tour. One from Kansas City which numbered 25 or so (never figured it out for sure) and a group of six from different parts of the country that were kinfolk to one another or long time friends.  Then there was the rest of us.  At the very first boarding, the tour coordinator watched how slow I was moving with my cane and all and tagged me as his "aisle blocker" as opposed to any of the others. So he took me aside and assigned me the front right seat reserved for the handicapped and ask me to get on and off either last or first.  At my speed that meant always last.  The seat actually had less leg room than the other seats because there wasn't a seat in front of it, but it looked directly out of the front window.  As a photographer that pleased me greatly, and even offset to some degree the "handicapped" designation which I found embarrassing.

Forty people on board, 38 of who were gracious friendly kind and helpful.  Then there was me and this other guy.  He was in the group of six.  He was 69, slim trim and healthy and very active, as were all in his cadre.  They were the ones that went to all the shows and river rafting and the little hiking trips and so forth.  He and his wife had claimed the seat across from us and just behind the driver.  3&4 of his group was behind them and 5&6 were right behind us. They were all nice people.  He, not so much as nice.  It seems somewhere in the process he wanted the best seat for photographs. (His camera was a Nikon DSLR with lens that inter-changed)  But instead I had it.  Whoops.

He really wasn't a photographer.  He was a poser.  Double meaning that word.  He posed as a photographer and as a photographer he like to com-pose his photographs by posing people in them.
Now you begin to see why my wife says, "Let it go!"  No, no, not me.

He took away a big chunk of my peace of mind with little side remarks, none so offensive that anyone could challenge him on them. He didn't appreciate that the tour guide had placed us in the handicapped seat, where he wanted to be. So for five days he nibble away, and I behaved.  But still I hate his type.  Just saying, my meds really are working and he is a lucky guy that they are.  The wife says he will always be miserable because nothing will ever be quite good enough for him.  Well I don't do schadenfreude, I like immediate open revenge or let revenge grow cold then have at it.  I don't remember his name.  Made a point of that. So I'm writing this little tirade to dispose of my last bit of spite for him, knowing that there are others others out there like him.  I just hope they sit several seats down from me next time and I'll take my tunes to block out their mutters.

Connections

In all of life and art there is an underlying theme of order and mathematics.  Make of it what you will, but no mater how and why the universe functions there is this underlying connection of everything to everything and back again. Whether by design, random  occurrence, or utter chaos the connections are never broken. Meaning or no meaning, they are always there, and they are always satisfying and beautiful.

Let's NOT Honor the 50th Anniversary of Vietnam

This idea of memorializing the Vietnam "conflict" is not so hot.  For one thing, they are starting it two years too late for a 50th celebration.  It started officially in 1960, not 62.

Secondly, I would venture that most of us left alive from Nam (about 800,000 maybe less) just don't care to relive it.  Then there is that hatred that we had to live with for 20 years after we came back.  It seems that the ultra left is ginning it up again.  I've read articles that blame the Vietnam conflict all on the United States and our Imperial desires. Not even our opponents believed that.  And of course giving honor to those that fought there is a no no too.

So here it is on wind again--atrocities--baby killers--killers--murders--genocide--   I don't really want to hear that again.  I don't want to watch the parades knowing the most of those marching by who are supposedly Viet Vets are fakes and wanna be types. I don't want to listen to our newest vets referring to us as whiners and sponges consuming all the VA resources.  And for god's sake shut up about Jane Fonda.

Leave Vietnam alone.  Leave it be. Don't rip off any scabs.  Give us all here at home and our counterparts in Nam another 10-15 years and we will all be dead.  Then let the fakers march and parade and be honored.

Well Gad Dam I punched the correct button or somthin.

Sorry for being so stupid but for a month now I have NOT been able post anything cause I couldn't figure what they (Gurgel) had done and I was a "magazine" or something and "post" a new blog was no where to be found.  Still don't know how the devil I got to a control page even now.  These guys here at this new blog thing are so bright that they are idiot savants.  Maybe just idiots.  Anyway I bookmarked the magic pages and maybe, just maybe, I will be able to blog again.  So I am back to "Simple" which is actually more complete/complex than their graphic eyepoppers designed for bubble gummers.  Maybe I'm just to old to do this.  I mean my first telephone call was on a party line of 15 people and my "Number" was two longs and a short on the crank.  I did work with Big Daddy however in the Agency and latter in life created a unitary data system for a whole frickin State Higher Education System that was copied by a dozen other states.  You know seriously I had to fire one of my programmers when he mucked up the data base by fixing it and improving on it.  Anyways I've been pissed for a month, but now I back, I think.

MEMORANDUM: You Are Mortal

Imagine you are in a time machine hovering over a villa in the Roman city of Pompeii.  You hover there and observe the disaster as it unfolds.

Thus we have a day in Pompeii.

Day 8: On the Yukon and Klondike Rivers

On the morning of the 8th day we were taken on a boat trip on the Yukon and the Klondike, pretty neat, but it wasn't what I bought when I bought the tour.  I bought a real trip on a real ferry, the Yukon Queen up the Yukon River to Eagle, Alaska.  But Holland America not only canceled that trip but pull the Yukon Queen off the river.  So much for getting what you paid for.  So here we went on a fake paddle steam boat for a couple of hours and 4 miles of rivers and back.

He we go. Here comes the Klondike Spirit, note: don't go on the third deck it make the boat top heavy.  This blog and photos are about this excursion on the Klondike Spirit.

Dawson from the river.

Fish Camp

Fish Camp

Ferry across the Yukon

Water taxi

Not sure what they are doing, the Yukon has no rapids anywhere near Dawson.

But at least I got to boat by the Steam Boat Graveyard, twice.

Here are some details about the steamboats in the graveyard.

The Klondike River is geographically considered a braided delta where it flows into the Yukon. Not to mention it has been dredged to death because it is here where the waters slow down before flowing into the strong, fast, and deep Yukon and dropped its gold.

Back at Dawson we disembarked and proceeded on.