Thursday, May 30, 2013

Blake Shelton’s benefit concert for Oklahoma: Good intentions, but who gets the donations?

Blake Shelton’s benefit concert for Oklahoma: Good intentions, but who gets the donations?: oble intentions all around (except for scalpers reselling the $25 tickets). But it remains to be seen if “Healing in the Heartland: Relief Benefit Concert” will actually help victims — or join the ranks of hastily-conceived attempts at humanitarian relief.

“There’s an awful lot of emotional giving that happens after a disaster,” said Heather Joslyn, an editor at the Chronicle of Philanthropy. “Sometimes that can be a recipe for wasteful spending.”

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