ANALYSIS - Big tsunami donors rank poorly in generosity league


  • World
  • Thursday, 23 Jun 2005

LONDON (Reuters) - In the weeks following the Asian tsunami, Chuck Simmons squirreled himself away in his home in Rochester, New York, scouring the Internet for any scrap of evidence to document American generosity after the disaster. 

From corporate fundraisers to Salvation Army "kettle campaigns", he spent more than 100 hours tallying up almost 1,000 private donations for "The Stingy List", an online aid ledger published on his personal blog (http://blog.simmins.org). 

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