Question: I receive letters weekly asking me to donate to various organizations. Since they all must have large budgets, I am curious how much of our donations actually go to funding their programs.
Answer: If you want to see if an organization is spending its charitable donations honestly and wisely, you can go to Give.org, part of the Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance. It sets standards for charities on at the www.give .org/standards/index.asp Web site.
Give.org suggests that at least 65 percent of total expenses be spent on charitable programs. No more than 35 percent of contributions should be spent on fundraising, it says. The site allows one to look up individual charities.
Question: Several recent letters to the editor bashed Ted Turner for his huge financial contribution to the United Nations. What is his address where we can tell him how much some of us appreciate his support?
People are also reading…
Answer: You can contact the philanthropic founder of CNN through the Turner Foundation Inc., 133 Luckie St. N.W., 2nd Floor, Atlanta, GA 30303, or visit its Web site at www.turnerfoundation .org.
Question: During Jimmy Carter's terms as governor and president, we never heard of his son, who is now running for political office out West. Tell us about him.
Answer: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter's oldest son, John William "Jack" Carter, a Las Vegas investment banker, is a Democrat who ran unsuccessfully in the midterm election against Nevada incumbent Republican Sen. John Ensign.
Jack was born in Virginia on July 3, 1947, and was raised in Plains, Ga. In 1968, he enlisted in the Navy and served in Vietnam. He earned a physics degree from Georgia Tech and a law degree from the University of Georgia in 1975.
Jack campaigned for his father for governor and again when he ran for president. He was in his 30s, living in Calhoun in northwest Georgia, when his father won the presidency and never lived in the White House. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have four children from previous marriages. He moved to Nevada in 2002.
Faculty concerned about changes to U of A admissions policy
