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"While Congress has raised concerns regarding some Katrina spending, experts say it's too early to determine how all the donations are being used.

'It's kind of hard to hit a moving target,' said Peter Dobkin Hall, a lecturer at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard. 'Eventually, people will get down to that.'

Of the nearly $3 billion given, the American Red Cross has raised $1.82 billion - nearly two-thirds of all donations.

Hall attributed that to the fact the Red Cross is an iconic organization people hold up and admire.

But the nonprofit faces plenty of problems with Congress demanding answers to the agency's Katrina response and its president, Marsha Evans, resigning, Hall said. 'Any organization that's been through four CEOs in 10 years is a dysfunctional organization.'"