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Post by Anthony on Aug 11, 2013 0:15:41 GMT -5
These articles detail Madonna's charitable contributions. Notice how the Kabbalah Centers get more money than AIDS Research projects or the Raising Malawi Charity.  2007Revealed: Madonna donated staggering £2million to Kabbalah groups in one year aloneSpiritual advice for Madonna hasn't come cheap - she handed over close to £2m to the Kabbalah religious group in one year alone.Tax filings for her charitable foundation, called Ray of Light Foundation, revealed a total of £1.75m was given to the Kabbalah Centre of Los Angeles. A further £2,600 was given to an offshoot of the group, Spirituality for Kids. The money is believed to have paid for books and other items to be used in schools. The figures are contained in the 2007 tax filings to the US taxman for her Ray of Light Foundation. According to reports in the US while Kabbalah benefited from her generosity no money was given to her other main charity, Raising Malawi.Despite adopting a son David from the impoverished African country Madonna, 50, did not make any charitable donations to groups working in the country. Madonna's other sizeable charity donations include £200,000 to the Mobilization Against AIDS charity and £10,000 to the TJ Martell Foundation for Cancer Research.The singer has a £300m fortune and ticket sales from her last tour grossed over £60m. Having divorced husband Guy Ritchie after four years of marriage she is reported to be giving him a cash lump sum of £12m. Ritchie will keep their 1,200 acre Ashcombe House country estate in Wiltshire which is worth £20 million. The film director will also keep his £3 million Punchbowl pub in London. In one of the biggest celebrity break-ups of 2008 the singer petitioned for divorce on the grounds of 40-year-old Ritchie's 'unreasonable behaviour'. The couple were granted a 'quickie divorce' at London's High Court in December. The couple will share custody of their sons, Rocco, eight, and three-year-old adopted David. Madonna's 12-year-old daughter Lourdes, from a previous relationship, is expected to live in America with her mother. Madonna and Ritchie were briefly reunited over Christmas for a service at the London Kabbalah Centre. But they left in separate cars and Madonna had dinner with close friend Gwyneth Paltrow and husband Chris Martin. 2009Madonna’s donations in 2009 – Rumour about a flight – The “Holiday” caseMadonna’s charitable donations in 2009 Of the nearly $2.9 million the singer donated to different causes, in 2009, through her Ray of Light Foundation, a vast proportion went to organisations with links with the Kabbalah movement. She gave $2.25 million to Raising Malawi, $200,000 donation to Spirituality for Kids and $10,000 to the Jewish Big Brothers and Sisters scheme, a charity, based in Los Angeles, that runs mentoring programmes for Jewish children.  |
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Post by Anthony on Aug 11, 2013 21:38:38 GMT -5
There might be an error in my Original Post (where I posted her 2009 charity donations). Upon doing more research at flea dip's site (thanks flea!) I found that she actually gave $0 to Raising Malawi. Either... 1- Her fans made a typo (meant to type Kabbalah instead of Raising Malawi) 2- Her fans tried to hide the truth of her "charitable" contributions This article says her Ray of Light Foundation is found to be "delinquent", no money to Malawi or Africa was sent, more money to Kabbalah. Dark Day for Madonna's Ray of Light FoundationIt's just not shaping up to be Madonna's day. In the wake of a judge's assurances that her heart—if not her residency—was in the right place in a rejected bid to adopt a second Malawi child comes word that the Queen of Pop's Ray of Light Foundation has been deemed "delinquent" by the state of California.The foundation, created in 1998, had a pristine record for more than a decade before being cited by the attorney general's office. According to state records obtained by FoxNews.com, the foundation's license was renewed last year and is scheduled to expire on May 14. Tax forms the foundation most recently filed with the IRS—which grabbed headlines last year for its curious omission of selected donor charities—have been removed from GuideStar, the publicly accessed website that includes all registered foundations. The 990 forms first came to light late last year and contained several embarrassing revelations, including that Madonna's foundation sent a whopping zero dollars to her Raising Malawi charity and donated no funds whatsoever to any charities working with or in the impoverished nation.Madonna did, however, according to the papers, hand over $2.6 million and change to the Kabbalah Centre of Los Angeles and another $4,000 or so to the Kabbalah-founded Spirituality for Kids, a sum that was widely reported to represent royalties promised to the organization from her best-selling kids' books. ------------------------------ Here's something else I found, when she does do something for Raising Malawi, she usually involves Kabbalah. I thought the main focus of Raising Malawi was to help poor people in Africa by proving essential supplies (food, water, clothing, medical care, etc.) not forcing your beliefs down the throats of others. ARTICLE 1:  Why the heck would you ask Madonna to adopt more children? Madonna Visits Malawian Kids' CenterMadonna and her 9-year-old daughter, Lourdes, visited a center for street children that benefits from the charity work the pop star is doing in this impoverished country in southern Africa. Madonna, wearing her now familiar straw hat, and Lourdes arrived at the center Wednesday and were whisked into the compound of three buildings. The 48-year-old singer is visiting Malawi to check on projects run by her Raising Malawi organization. She arrived Monday with Lourdes and David Banda, the Malawian toddler she is hoping to adopt. Singing and clapping were heard coming from children inside what is called a social rehabilitation center in the capital. The center cares for about two dozen children, providing them with food, clothing and schooling before reintegrating them into their communities.A crowd of onlookers cheered "Madonna, Madonna" when she arrived. "Well done, Madonna. We love you. Adopt more," read the sign carried by Richmond Muchina. "I love Madonna and she is most welcome," he said. "I wish she would come every week. She must adopt more and more because she has got the power." The Spirituality for Kids program, based on Kabbalah, Judaism's mystical sect that counts Madonna among its devotees, is involved with the center.Madonna took custody of then 14-month-old David during a visit to Malawi in October. The move sparked controversy and raised concerns that regulations were being swept aside to benefit a pop star who has been generous to the country. ARTICLE 2- More proof that she gave money to Kabbalah instead of AIDS/cancer research: Madonna Building Kabbalah-Linked Orphanage in MalawiI told you last July that Madonna was giving millions of dollars to the Kabbalah Centre, an IRS-sanctioned religion founded by Karen and Philip Berg. The Kabbalah Centre is not part of Judaism; it is an independently organized religion.Madonna’s largesse comes through her Ray of Light Foundation. She parks money there tax-free, then distributes it to other causes. Wednesday's announcement that she’s going to build an orphanage in the African country of Malawi is linked to the planned curriculum: Kabbalah.Madonna, you see, is hooked on Kabbalah. The newest tax filing for the Ray of Light Foundation shows she hasn’t given up on the Bergs yet. She gave their Spirituality for Kids branch $268,106 in 2005. Madonna donated another $184,250 to the Kabbalah Centre itself. And that’s what she’s reporting publicly and in the United States. What’s interesting about Madonna’s donations to the Bergs is that they far exceed anything she gives for music or education. Her donation to the Grammy Foundation’s MusiCares program — $2,500 — is laughable by comparison. The same goes for the sum she handed over for AIDS research in 2005 — $10,000 to AIDS Project Los Angeles and $15,000 to the T.J. Martell Foundation for Leukemia, Cancer and AIDS Research.For all of her preaching about AIDS, Madonna lists nothing on her Ray of Light return for groups like amfAR, Elton John's AIDS Foundation or dozens of other organizations trying to stamp out the disease in Africa.Only one charity besides Kabbalah — Habitat for Humanity at $100,000 — got a large amount of Madonna's money. The material girl — who is said to be adopting a Malawian baby to keep in step with Angelina Jolie — has her priorities. |
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Post by Anthony on Aug 11, 2013 21:50:41 GMT -5
Madonna Gets Gucci $$$ for KabbalahIf you thought Madonna pulled a fast one getting Live Nation to give her a $120 million contract, here’s one better. The Material Mom has conned both UNICEF USA and Gucci into helping her raise money for the Kabbalah Center and Madonna’s patron gurus, the Berg Family.Gucci is throwing an all-star fundraiser on Feb. 6 for Madonna’s charity, Raising Malawi. GUCCI's "A Night to Benefit Raising Malawi and UNICEF" will take place in heated tents on the north lawn of the United Nations, with special co-hosts Sarah Jessica Parker and Salma Hayek scheduled to attend along with Madonna. However, neither Gucci nor UNICEF is aware — even though it’s been noted here many times — that Raising Malawi is merely a front for Philip Berg’s Kabbalah Center of Los Angeles.In fact, before anyone writes a check: Raising Malawi is also still not a registered charity. All of its forms, filings and press releases direct back to the Kabbalah Center.Berg’s son Michael started Raising Malawi under the pretext of helping orphans in that impoverished country. But after Madonna helped herself to one, David Banda, Berg and the rest of the Kabbalah/Raising Malawi team went to work on their real cause: indoctrinating unsuspecting Malawi orphans into their brand of mysticism. According to Berg’s blog from April 24, 2006, his first move was to bring Malawi teachers to Los Angeles to retrofit them for Kabbalah. He wrote: "We have brought a number of teachers from the African nation of Malawi to Los Angeles. This is part of our Raising Malawi initiative. They will be learning the Spirituality for Kids curriculum for the next 3 months. After that, they will go back to Malawi and teach the children there these empowering spiritual life lessons. I am very excited about this project. This morning we welcomed them to the Centre."Spirituality for Kids, of course, is to Kabbalah what Delphi is to Scientology: its curriculum. Certainly, Gucci doesn’t have to raise money for this group. According to its most recent tax filing, Spirituality for Kids had gross receipts in 2005-2006 of over $25 million. Its listed net assets came to $15.7 million. Gucci and UNICEF should know that Spirituality for Kids depends on the large donations of a few devoted souls. They are listed in the group’s most recent federal tax filing: Susan Strong Davis ($600,000); Missy Kardonski ($354,000); Gail Gordon ($350,000); Madonna ($268,016); Daryoush Mahboubi-Fardi ($175,000); Michael Fuchs ($130,000); Herbert Dodell ($109,000); Stewart and Lynda Resnick ($100,000); Mike Kessler ($100,000). Raising Malawi, by the way, has been in business for two years, accepting money through Spirituality for Kids. According to Madonna’s rep, they’re only "now in the process of completing and submitting an IRS Form 1023, Application for Recognition of Exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code." And Spirituality for Kids is not the Bergs’ only 501(c)(3) tax-free foundation. There’s also the well-funded Kabbalah Center of Los Angeles, which claims $21.1 million in assets for the same period. The really shocking part of this is that most U.S. synagogues that feature conservative or reform mainstream Judaism are struggling to stay afloat and running in the red, not to mention that true Kabbalah is a sacred study reserved for the most learned Orthodox Jews. Something clearly isn’t kosher here. Are we really ready for little Malawian children wearing $26 red strings on their wrists and drinking bottled Kabbalah water, being read bedtime stories written by Madonna and practicing the Zohar? And wearing Gucci loafers as they trick or treat for UNICEF? Or Kabbalah? I suppose we should be. In my conversations with people from both UNICEF and Gucci this week and last, it’s also clear that they did not know about the background of Raising Malawi. As I wrote in this space on October 18, 2006: Raising Malawi is run entirely by Spirituality for Kids, or Kabbalah, according to the site.The rest of the team besides Michael Berg is his wife Monica, SFK’s director of public relations; SFK’s Director of Development Philippe van den Bossche; SFK’s Director of Research and Global Training Dr. Heath Grant; and “philanthropist” Hedi Gores, wife of Beverly Hills “barely a billionaire” leveraged-buyout king Alec Gores, who runs Gores Technology Group. (On a side note, Gores, according to the New York Times, is said to have hired private eye Anthony Pellicano to wiretap and spy on his second wife, Lisa, to catch her cheating with his brother, Tom, a business competitor.) For what it’s worth, both Gucci and UNICEF profess no knowledge of the whole thing. They each sent nice statements claiming that all the money collected on the 6th will go directly to orphans. Gucci insists, despite the Kabbalah connection: “Both UNICEF and Raising Malawi support non-sectarian programs to assist children in need and comply with international charitable giving and transparency standards.” Madonna’s rep, Liz Rosenberg, sent us an extensive defense of Kabbalah and Spirituality for Kids, by the way, insisting that the two are not related, and that SFK is not religious, and that Malawi children are not being targeted for religious purposes.She concedes, however, that “ In 2006, as a response to the urgent need for psycho-social support among children affected by poverty, disease, parental loss, sexual abuse, and chronic hunger, eight Malawian teachers were hired and brought to SFK headquarters in Los Angeles for training in the SFK curriculum. These teachers have since returned to Malawi and have successfully created a specialized empowerment program, SFK-Malawi, for orphans and vulnerable children.”
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Post by AmeliaMagic on Aug 12, 2013 19:54:45 GMT -5
I've alas been interested in her charity claims. Look like I was right about her donating anything to
actual causes that will help more people.
And basically, giving money to Kabbalah is giving money to herself since she practices that religion.
This must have taken a lot of time to find Anthony!
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Post by jessicalotiva on Aug 13, 2013 17:12:59 GMT -5
It is sad to read her fans going on about what a great humanitarian she is only to find she has donated squat to things that actually matter.
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Post by Anthony on Nov 7, 2013 2:25:54 GMT -5
Didn't know that she was "donating" money to a charity for winners of her "Secret Revolution" project-thing. BTW for fans who are going to proclaim her as a great humanitarian- Just because she donates some pocket change to an organization does not make her a great person. Anyone who is rich can donate money to charity. Take Donald Trump in his Celebrity Apprentice show as an example. Whenever one of the celebrities on the show won a weekly challenge, he would donate money to a charity of their choice. Really, this is nothing new or innovative.  First Winner Named in Madonna’s ‘Art for Freedom’ ProjectEDIT: Wait. This is only going to happen for a year? So she will only be giving out about $120,000 (assuming each price is $10,000). |
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Post by Anthony on Nov 27, 2013 3:22:24 GMT -5
If you see on her Instagram, you can see all the photos she has posted from Haiti. Is that all these poor innocent people are to her? Props she can photograph herself next to so she can look caring and compassionate? Based on her captions, it looks as if she thinks of this as just another vacation.  Compare this Billboard article with the one Perez, a Madonna fan, posted. Perez said that she is "helping out in Haiti" while the Billboard one says she is just posing with people and not actually doing anything. Her ex-husband is the one who has actually helped out in the country. Billboard- Madonna Visits Haiti To See Sean Penn’s Aid Work
The gross Perez one: Madonna Helps Out In Haiti With Sean Penn!- How is she helping when Sean clearly says, and you can tell from her photos, that she is just visiting the country? Unless she is actually giving out/cooking food or handing out water bottles or cleaning or building something, I don't equate visiting a country to "helping out." All she is doing is using these people and posing in photos with them and posing with the building/work that other people actually did.   - Yes, Madonna donated money to Haiti in the past. But the greedy witch only donated $250,000. On this post from flea's site, you can see that other celebrities donated at least $1 million or more money than her. - Yes. As I said earlier in this post, it looks as if Madonna thinks of this trip to Haiti as another vacation. I know for a fact, based on her past actions, that she is not there to improve the country or help in any significant way. |
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Post by someone on Nov 27, 2013 12:39:12 GMT -5
Maybe she bought a few things there and thinks that she's helping by improving the country's economy.  |
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Post by ihatemadonna on Nov 27, 2013 16:50:38 GMT -5
Lazy greedy c.unt.
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Post by ForgottenOne on Nov 28, 2013 12:51:04 GMT -5
Yes. She is doing nothing there. This is how the hag is "helping: in Haiti.  |
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