{"id":1978,"date":"2008-12-14T13:15:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T17:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2008-12-14T13:15:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T17:15:42","slug":"poen-borders-seiu-org-spends-zero-on-its-charitable-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/14\/poen-borders-seiu-org-spends-zero-on-its-charitable-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Open borders SEIU org spends zero on its charitable purpose&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Los Angeles Times <\/em>   <\/p>\n<p><strong>SEIU-founded nonprofit spent zero on its charitable purpose in two years   <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A nonprofit organization founded by California&#8217;s largest union local [Service Employees International Union] reported spending nothing on its charitable purpose &#8212; to develop housing for low-income workers &#8212; during at least two of the four years it has been operating, federal records show. The charity, launched by a scandal-ridden Los Angeles chapter of the Service Employees International Union, had total expenses of about $165,000 for 2005 and 2006, and all of the money went to consulting fees, insurance costs and other overhead, according to its Internal Revenue Service filings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of the 5,000-plus charities we&#8217;ve looked at, I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ve ever seen one that didn&#8217;t spend anything on its charitable programs,&#8221; said Sandra Miniutti, vice president of Charity Navigator, an online rating service<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; MORE http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-union13-2008dec13,0,6257988.story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Times SEIU-founded nonprofit spent zero on its charitable purpose in two years A nonprofit organization founded by California&#8217;s largest union local [Service Employees International Union] reported spending nothing on its charitable purpose &#8212; to develop housing for low-income workers &#8212; during at least two of the four years it has been operating, federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}