ity Navigator, our work to guide intelligent giving means not only highlighting effective organizations, but also informing donors about organizations which are performing poorly. Shiloh International Ministries was one such organization. Over the 13 years in which we evaluated the organization, only once did it receive anything above a 0-star rating, and then, in 2005, it only earned 1 star.
Shiloh International Ministries, highlighted by the Tampa Bay Times as one of America’s Worst Charities, has now closed down. The organization, which according to the article has also operated under the names Handicapped Children's Services of America, American Veterans Network, Adolescent AIDS Foundation, and Help Hospitalized Children Fund, is no longer listed on the IRS Business Master File, which lists all exempt organizations registered with the IRS.
While there are many reasons for this organization’s chronically low rating, one factor was the high amount spent by the organization on fundraising. In the organization’s most recent rating, Shiloh International Ministries spent 81.9% of its total expenses on fundraising, 13.2% on administrative expenses and just 4.7% on program activities - which go toward fulfilling an organization’s mission. Only 2 of the over 8,000 charities that we rate spends that little on programming and only 5 spend that much on fundraising.
The organization also failed to follow many industry best practices, including not having a CEO compensation process, not reporting CEO compensation on its annual Form 990, filed with the IRS, and having no independent voting board members.
We hope that during this holiday season, you find Charity Navigator a helpful resource in making your giving choices and are able to avoid organizations which won’t use your donation wisely!
It can also be noted that some comments posted under some charities appear to be purposely intended to falsely impugn those charities.
One just read appears to invert the actual, published information on the charity project funding and fundraising.
This issue of disinformation has now become extremely common, and unless moderation of facebook commentors can be instituted, it sows falsehood which can damage the work of excellent charities. It might even destroy them.Is Blogistan the Switzerland of Corporate Competition?
Sure, it’s part of the sales process to compare one’s stuff with the competition’s stuff, but so far I haven’t seen any overt snarkiness in the corporate blogs of my counterparts in the other trenches at HP and Dell. We read each other, now we’re linking and commenting on each other.
What surprises is me is the state of relations between the three big PC companies bloggers. It’s actually civil, I think for the simple reason that all three of us are in tough customer service worlds, we’re facing the same problems, and there is no map to follow. In other words, I sense we’re all making it up as we go along.
I post a link to Eric Kintz’s blog at HP because the guy is so smart, and he invites me to participate in a group post with some other corporate bloggers, and then Richard at Dell shows up in the comments here on my post about losing a customer …..
And then we blog about Toshiba having a good tablet hinge design and the Inquirer notes it and gives us a gold star ….
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. I come from an ultra-competitive industry — journalism — where at PC Week it was InfoWorld that was the devil and at Forbes it was Fortune and so on and so forth. That kind of competition is actually fun and very motivational in terms of driving scoops and deadlines. Here the battle is for the hearts and minds of loyal customers while trying to differentiate our products on a basis other than price.
In any event, it’s kind of cool to be blogging with my competitors and not against them.
Eric Kintz actually observed the opposite phenomenon last fall — corporate blog fights.
Author David ChurbuckPosted on 2007-01-12 Categories Interactive MarketingLeave a comment on Is Blogistan the Switzerland of Corporate Competition?
THEORY Wanda's broken heart

So maybe Wanda is just so destroyed she broke. That seems likely.  She snapped and right now she thinks she is in control.  Her past is trying to creep in by playing the commercials.   

Someone else earlier on suggested each time she uses her powers she gives more Energy to. Mephisto or Nightmare whoever the villian will be. That makes sense.   

Alternatively it caught their attention when she created it.  Agatha got there to monitor the situation and I think Dottie may be a bit villianish too however she could turn out to be an ally.

This is getting good. Thoughts?International DISC, TEAMS & Values (Online)
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The video shows yarn Yoshis interacting with Mario, Link, and Donkey Kong Amiibo, each changing the pattern to look similar to the character of the figure. No other transformations were shown, but plenty of other Amiibo were shown at the end of the video, which implies that this functionality will work across