#my house is so anti-rc as both my parents have had individual sour experiences with them

[smellslikecold]

eurgh i’ve been raised to hate the red cr//oss during crises and seeing people spreading wrong information about donating to them is starting to stress me out ahhhh... I’m happy to see people donating but... aaaahhh please do it correctly

if you don’t specify that you want your donation to go towards hurricane harvey relief, your donation just goes into RC’s general funds. Meaning part of it does go to the general disaster relief fund, but only a fraction of that fraction will go to Harvey. And the other part of your donation goes to things like payroll, marketing, utilities, etc. 

If you want to donate to something specific through the red cross, you gotta specify it. It’s why victims of Sandy, Katrina, 9/11, etc never saw even half of what was donated because RC reallocated all non-specified donations. So yeah, texting their donation number is easy, but it’s not going where you think it’s going unless you write ‘harvey’ in the text field if that’s even true and tracked