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What the heck does the Clinton Foundation actually do?

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Since the Clinton Foundation is the subject of controversy, I guess I will have to post an article from inside philanthropy to help illustrate what the Clinton foundation does.

What the Heck Does the Clinton Foundation Actually DO?* - Inside Philanthropy - Inside Philanthropy

One notable excerpt
One quick way to understand any nonprofit is to look at its budget and see what it’s spending money on. If you look at the Clinton Foundation’s consolidated expenses for 2014, which totaled $249 million, you’ll find that the biggest part of those expenses—57 percent—was for running the Clinton Health Access Initiative, or CHAI. Technically, CHAI is a freestanding nonprofit, and it files its own 990 tax return, but it is still roughly under the Clinton Foundation umbrella. CHAI was started in 2002 to focus on saving the “lives of people with HIV/AIDS in the developing world by dramatically scaling up antiretroviral treatment.” It has since expanded to address other health issues like malaria and maternal health, operating in some 35 countries. The Gates Foundation is CHAI’s biggest funder. It gave it over $60 million last year alone.

Meanwhile, the Clinton Foundation directly runs various programs tackling other problems. The largest of these, dollar-wise, is the Clinton Climate Initiative, which works to prevent deforestation, develop clean energy, and help island nations meet the climate challenge (as we’ve reported). As with CHAI, there’s nothing all that surprising about this effort, which is similar to other nonprofit work in the climate space. The government of Norway, which gives large amounts of money globally to slow deforestation, is among the top funders of CCI.
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Its main purpose is to launder money for Clinton and their cronies as well as sell pay for play access to Hillary and Bill's influence in politics.
 
Same thing their 'speeches' do.

Remember...Hillary said they were broke when they left the White house.
 
Unitedwestand13 said:
Can you disprove any of the work that the Clinton foundation has done?
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Of course they can't.

You have to remember the mindset here. Hatred of the Clintons has festered for more than 25 years. It's now impossible for them not to believe the Clintons are basically the mafia.
 
WCH said:
Remember...Hillary said they were broke when they left the White house.
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ROTFLMAO

They spent 8 years in the people's house, having the people foot the bill, while Slick got paid millions of dollars by the taxpayers, right? And they come out broke? LMAO

If that's the way they manage their checkbook, what the sam hill are they going to do with the nation's economy?
 
Kobie said:
Of course they can't.

You have to remember the mindset here. Hatred of the Clintons has festered for more than 25 years. It's now impossible for them not to believe the Clintons are basically the mafia.
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Well ... that and the ever growing pile of Vince Fosters.

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DamnYankee said:
ROTFLMAO

They spent 8 years in the people's house, having the people foot the bill, while Slick got paid millions of dollars by the taxpayers, right? And they come out broke? LMAO

If that's the way they manage their checkbook, what the sam hill are they going to do with the nation's economy?
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I'm guessing that she will add another $10T to the National Debt.

.... but to be fair I don't think Trump will do much different.
 
Unitedwestand13 said:
Since the Clinton Foundation is the subject of controversy, I guess I will have to post an article from inside philanthropy to help illustrate what the Clinton foundation does.

What the Heck Does the Clinton Foundation Actually DO?* - Inside Philanthropy - Inside Philanthropy

One notable excerpt
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Let's take a little bit more detailed look at this.

You can find the 2013 Clinton Foundation financial statement starting on page 94 of this PDF - https://www.clintonfoundation.org/sites/default/files/clinton_foundation_annual_report_2014.pdf
Yep, 57% of their spending is for CHAI.

Now let's look at CHAI. Their 2013 tax return is here - http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org/content/uploads/2015/11/CHAI-AMENDED-2013-990.pdf
You might wonder why the Foundation statement says it provided $127M in grants to CHAI and the CHAI tax return says it only received $117M but there's no sense in nitpicking every little thing.
You might notice that while the Foundation's Management and General expenses (primarily salaries) is 7% of revenues, when we look at CHAI salaries are 42% of revenues but, again, that's just nitpicking.
You might notice that the Foundation granted 85% of it's revenue to other (affiliated) organizations but CHAI granted less than 10%.
You might notice that of that $46.4M "Other" expenses nearly $11M went to travel expenses and another $7M plus went to "conferences".
You might notice that less than 15% of those "other" expenses went to "Direct Program Expenses".
You might notice that Part IX, Line 11g shows nearly $7M in more "Other" category expenses and refers you to Schedule O for an explanation. You might further notice that Schedule O (beginning on page 56 of the return) doesn't say a doggone thing about Part IX, Line 11g

Now I have no idea what the other entities the Foundation grants money to look like but if this is an indication then of the $295 Million the Foundation brought in more than half of that went to another organization that provided roughly $16M in direct benefits to (ostensibly) charitable organizations. That's less than 10% of the 57% of revenues the Foundation provided to CHAI.

If the other organizations under the Foundation have the same kind of numbers that comes to less than $18M direct charitable effect from nearly $300M in revenues. We're talking about 6 or 7 cents of every dollar going to the Clinton Foundation making it to what might be an actual needy organization.
 
I heard the Clinton Foundation sacrifices little babies to Satan.
 
Kobie said:
Of course they can't.

You have to remember the mindset here. Hatred of the Clintons has festered for more than 25 years. It's now impossible for them not to believe the Clintons are basically the mafia.
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IMO, anyone who votes for her/them is an accessory
to criminal activity.
 
Lutherf said:
Let's take a little bit more detailed look at this.

You can find the 2013 Clinton Foundation financial statement starting on page 94 of this PDF - https://www.clintonfoundation.org/sites/default/files/clinton_foundation_annual_report_2014.pdf
Yep, 57% of their spending is for CHAI.

Now let's look at CHAI. Their 2013 tax return is here - http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org/content/uploads/2015/11/CHAI-AMENDED-2013-990.pdf
You might wonder why the Foundation statement says it provided $127M in grants to CHAI and the CHAI tax return says it only received $117M but there's no sense in nitpicking every little thing.
You might notice that while the Foundation's Management and General expenses (primarily salaries) is 7% of revenues, when we look at CHAI salaries are 42% of revenues but, again, that's just nitpicking.
You might notice that the Foundation granted 85% of it's revenue to other (affiliated) organizations but CHAI granted less than 10%.
You might notice that of that $46.4M "Other" expenses nearly $11M went to travel expenses and another $7M plus went to "conferences".
You might notice that less than 15% of those "other" expenses went to "Direct Program Expenses".
You might notice that Part IX, Line 11g shows nearly $7M in more "Other" category expenses and refers you to Schedule O for an explanation. You might further notice that Schedule O (beginning on page 56 of the return) doesn't say a doggone thing about Part IX, Line 11g

Now I have no idea what the other entities the Foundation grants money to look like but if this is an indication then of the $295 Million the Foundation brought in more than half of that went to another organization that provided roughly $16M in direct benefits to (ostensibly) charitable organizations. That's less than 10% of the 57% of revenues the Foundation provided to CHAI.

If the other organizations under the Foundation have the same kind of numbers that comes to less than $18M direct charitable effect from nearly $300M in revenues. We're talking about 6 or 7 cents of every dollar going to the Clinton Foundation making it to what might be an actual needy organization.
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Excellent, Luther. It's a shell game.
 
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money - either personally or through companies or groups - to the Clinton Foundation. It's an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.

At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.

News from The Associated Press

Crooked Hillary claims the associated press cherry picked the stats .... :roll:
 
As corrupt as I think the whole thing is, the Foundation actually does good work as well. I witnessed it first hand when I was working in Cambodia.
 
blaxshep said:
Its main purpose is to launder money for Clinton and their cronies as well as sell pay for play access to Hillary and Bill's influence in politics.
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But, you forgot its value in avoid taxes. The Clintons are like Al Gore and love taxes as long as they don't have to pay.
 
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