Broadway Cares ripped for directing funds to Gaza

ggersten said: "The problem is asking for donations to help ailing actors (and other theatre persons) and then not spending the money for that purpose."

This is only an objection if Broadway Cares hasn't raised at least $400,000 in other contexts where there was no promise to spend the money for that purpose.

Call_me_jorge said: "Dreamboy3 said: "When I give money to Broadway cares I don’t think I’m giving money to aid organizations in Gaza."

From their mission statement:

“To support efforts by the entertainment industry to address other critical health issues or respond to an emergency, in each case as approved by the Board of Trustees”

and in case you haven’t been following; there is an emergency in Gaza."

In case you haven't been following, there are emergencies in lots of of places. -https://www.unrefugees.org/emergencies/

ok, so if you donated to BCEFA and then found out afterward that 400k was given to the NRA, you'd be cool with it. Great. I wouldn't.

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "They did support Ukraine. $300k.

Also grants for Reproductive Rights, Hurricanes (Katrina, Harvey, Sandy Irma, Maria), South Africa organizations in honor of The Lion King...the list goes on.

All these things are within their broad mission.

Though just to be clear, it's not going SPECIFICALLY to Gaza: These Broadway Cares grants consist of two $200,000 awards to Doctors of the World, a human rights organization providing emergency and long-term medical care to the world’s most vulnerable people; and the International Rescue Committee, an organization committed to responding to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helping communities survive, recover and rebuild.

A reminder that there are plenty of other HIV/AIDS-related nonprofits that people could choose to donate to, and the smaller ones have less of the money going to organizational overhead and may have more specifically-targeted missions.

Nonprofit is merely a tax status and a form of business entity."

You're right, there are smaller non-profits that are probably in much more need of public support. BCEFA clearly has lots of unrestricted funds and plenty of flexibility on how to spend them.

imeldasturn said: "gibsons2 said: "Very strange that out of all, many far more disastrous and urgent current refugee crises, BCEFA specifically chose to give money to Gaza."

The Palestinian genocide seems disastrous and urgent enough to me."

I don't think you know what "genocide" means. But thats a different discussion. And the conversation here is about BCEFA approving grants for causes that are not in line with their mission statement.

I think this is fantastic and anyone bothered needs to seriously look within. You aren’t actually mad that the organization is straying from their “mission statement” and you should explore why that is.

Updated On: 2/13/24 at 11:46 PM

Maybe I underestimate the real motivations of people here but I would be shocked if people complaining about this had a problem with the concept of aid going to Gaza. I think people are reasonable and mature enough to know that the innocent people of Gaza are in a rough situation and need help (even people who support Israel. I don’t think it’s mutually exclusive). BUT I don’t see how it’s also unreasonable for people to expect that their donations for actors go to well, actors. Gaza has the international attention right now and governments will support and provide aid. These same governments are not going to support actors. That’s why we need charities for actors.