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1/15/2018 6:14 am  #1


Because Inquiring Minds Want To Know....

.....about the Clinton Foundation.

First, let's start with the basics.

Here's a link to the Clinton Foundation's Exempt From Tax Form for 2014.
http://seriousgivers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/311580204_201412_990.pdf

As a comparison, here's a link to the Trump Private Foundation Form for 2014.
http://seriousgivers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/133404773_201412_990PF.pdf

NO LAUGHING PLEASE!!!

Hillary & Bill release 8 years of tax returns (07/31/2015)

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/hillary-clinton-releases-eight-years-of-tax-returns

Trump now says he'll release his taxes — maybe — after he leaves office. May 11, 2017

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1/15/2018 6:27 am  #2


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So, where does one find information on who exactly benefits from the Clinton foundation?
https://clinton-foundation.org/2015/#!/

What Work Does the Clinton Foundation Do?

Although the foundation has a wide array of initiatives — promoting economic equality for women, boosting entrepreneurship in emerging markets and tackling climate change — it is perhaps best known for its health care initiatives.

It has several separate entities through which it deploys its health programs, including the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).

Established as part of the Foundation in 2005, CGI essentially acts as a launching pad for programs by bringing together a variety of stakeholders, including NGOs, executives, entrepreneurs, politicians, and others, who then commit to various ambitious projects. CGI doesn’t actually implement those projects itself—rather, it says it serves as a “catalyst for action.”

For instance, in 2015, as a participant in CGI’s events, the infant and maternal health group Embrace Innovations pledged to bring its innovative Embrace infant warmer (which doesn’t require a fixed electricity source) to 100,000 babies in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/files/2013year-endreport.pdf

http://fortune.com/2016/08/27/clinton-foundation-health-work/





So, where does one find information on who exactly benefits from the Trump foundation?

On October 3, the office of New York attorney general Eric T. Schneiderman ordered Donald Trump’s personal charity to cease fundraising in New York state immediately; The Foundation had been violating state law by soliciting donations without proper authorization.

At this point, I’d like to point out that the Clinton Foundation, which has helped reduce poverty and improve the health of thousands of people across the globe, has virtually nothing in common with the Trump Foundation.

Records show that from 2009 to 2014, the Trump Foundation raised $4.36 million, of which $2.5 million was from New Yorkers.

State rules require nonprofits raising more than $25,000 a year in New York to register and file audited financial statements and annual financial reports to the attorney general’s charities bureau.

Since the Trump Foundation has not complied with this requirement, Schneiderman’s office notified Trump that he must provide those financial documents within 15 days.

This got me thinking: What exactly is the Trump Foundation? I discovered that it is managed by Trump and his children Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr., but they only spend half an hour a week working on it. 

Here are some true facts about the organization I was able to uncover. (Unlike the fervid declarations of the Republican nominee for President, these actually are accurate.)

1. Donald Trump No Longer Contributes to His Foundation

2. Trump Donates Other People’s Money, but Takes the Credit for Himself

3. Trump Has Used Foundation Money to Buy Himself Gifts


4. Trump Foundation Money Has Been Used for Political PurposesThe Foundation does make a few dozen donations annually, in amounts usually ranging from $1,000 to $50,000. Since around 2005, the money for these gifts has come primarily from Trump’s friends and associates, mostly in return for favors granted. The Foundation gives money, for example, to charities that rent Trump’s ballrooms. Comedy Central gave $400,000 to the Foundation after Trump appeared on one of their celebrity roasts, and People Magazine donated $150,000 after Trump gave them rights to publish photos of his son Barron.

Trump bought a 6-foot-tall portrait of himself with charity money.





The Trump Foundation is clearly not a charitable organization, as other foundations are.
 

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1/15/2018 7:48 am  #3


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The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation convenes businesses, governments,NGOs, and individuals to improve global health and wellness, increase opportunity forwomen and girls, reduce childhood obesity, create economic opportunity and growth,and help communities address the effects of climate change.

In 2013, the ClintonFoundation reached significant milestones across all of its initiatives, from adding 5,000new schools across the United States to the Alliance for a Healthier Generation’s Healthy Schools Program, to facilitating $30 million in foreign direct investmen tin Haiti.

To date,Clinton Foundation accomplishments includeproviding kids in more than 20,000 American schools with healthy foodchoices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity;improving the incomes of 21,000 farmers in Malawi by more than 500 percent; reducing 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions in cities worldwide; training more than5,000 people in marketable job skills in Colombia; helping more than 6.8 million people access lifesaving HIV/AIDS medications; positively impacting the health of 25 million peoplein the United States by facilitating$100 million in strategic investments;and improving more than 430 million lives through more than 2,800 commitments made by Clinton Global Initiative members.

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1/15/2018 7:49 am  #4


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The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, founded by theAmerican Heart Association and the Clinton Foundation,works to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity and toempower kids to develop lifelong, healthy habits.

The Allianceworks with schools, companies, community organizations,healthcare professionals and families to transform theconditions and systems that lead to healthier children.

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1/15/2018 7:50 am  #5


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•The Alliance recruited more than 5,000 schools forthe Healthy Schools Program, which is now comprisedof more than 20,000 schools serving more than 12.2million children.

• In September, the Alliance joined McDonald’s toannounce a Clinton Global Initiative commitment thatwill increase access to fruits and vegetables and expandmarketing for healthy options in McDonald’s top 20markets, representing 85 percent of their global sales.

• More than 2.7 million children now have access to theHealthier Generation Benefit for weight-related medicalcare and nutrition counseling

.• The Alliance expanded its Healthy Out of School Timeprogram to provide onsite technical assistance in nutritionand physical activity to 340 sites, serving more than 23,000 youth.

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1/15/2018 7:54 am  #6


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Accusations against Trump and his foundation include the following:

Solicitation of donations without a licenseUnder New York State law, a not-for-profit foundation must register as a "7A Charitable Organization" if it plans to solicit outside donations in excess of $25,000 in any year.[33]

The Trump Foundation was initially registered as a private foundation set up solely to receive his own personal donations.

As long as it was registered as a private foundation and not soliciting outside funds, it did not have to file annual audited reports with the New York State Charities Bureau[33]

However, records show that Trump began soliciting donations at least as early as 2004[33][/url] and possibly as early as 1989.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_Foundation#cite_note-:5-34][34]

Delay in granting donations solicited for veterans organizations' benefit

In April 2016, Fox News reported that, more than two months after Trump said he had raised $6 million for military veterans at a pre-Iowa caucus fundraiser, "most of the organizations targeted to receive the money have gotten less than half of that amount."[35]

Around that time, Trump also said he had contributed $1,000,000 of his personal funds.[21][/url] In late May, Trump revised his figures downward, saying that $5.6 million had been raised at the event and that he had contributed his $1,000,000 share only the previous week, after the media criticized him.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_Foundation#cite_note-WaPoVets-21][21]

He also provided a list of the beneficiaries of the $5.6 million.[36][/url]Foundation grants as political advertisementsTrump may have used Trump Foundation grants to advance his presidential campaign, in violation of rules barring charities from engaging in political activity.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_Foundation#cite_note-:2-37][37]

Trump distributed at least some of the funds publicly at "Donald Trump for President" political rallies, displaying large-size donation checks that included his campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” or a link to a campaign website.[17][/url][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_Foundation#cite_note-:2-37][37][/url][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_Foundation#cite_note-38][38]

Grants to the National Museum of Catholic Art and Library

In each of 1995 and 1999, the Trump Foundation granted $50,000 to the National Museum of Catholic Art and Library. A 2001 report by The Village Voice stated, after visiting the museum in East Harlem, that the facility had "next to no art" and no official connection to the Catholic church, despite having had a 10-year track record of soliciting large-scale donations for its collection.

The Voice and, later, The Washington Post, concluded that Trump may have directed the grants to the museum to curry favor with the museum's then chairman, Eddie Malloy, who was also head of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York. The Council had worked on behalf of one of the unions of workers who worked on Trump construction projects.[17][/url][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_Foundation#cite_note-39][39]

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1/15/2018 7:57 am  #7


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Failure to make pledged 9/11 donations

An investigation by the New York City Comptroller's office in October 2016 showed that Trump and/or the Donald Trump Foundation may have failed to honor at least one pledge to charities established to provide relief for victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Trump had made a pledge of $10,000 to the Twin Towers Fund on The Howard Stern Show in late September 2001.[40][/url] The Twin Towers Fund, later administered as part of the New York City Public and Private Initiative, was created by then-New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani "to benefit the families of firefighters and police officers who died in the attacks.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_Foundation#cite_note-41][41]

During the 2016 Republican National Convention, Giuliani announced that Trump had made unspecified "anonymous" donations after the Sep 11 attacks, although such donations have not been identified.[40]

Giuliani also said, in support of Trump's candidacy, "Every time New York City suffered a tragedy Donald Trump was there to help,.... He's not going to like my telling you this but he did it anonymously.”[40]

The New York City Comptroller's office told the New York Daily News it had manually reviewed "approximately 1,500 pages of donor records of the Twin Towers Fund and the related entity NYC Public/Private Initiatives Inc., containing the names of more than 110,000 individuals and entities that were collected as part of the audits" through August 2012.[42][/url] According to the News, Comptroller Scott Stringer "found that Trump and [the Trump Foundation] hadn't donated a dime in the months after 9/11"; however, because the reviewed period only covered one year after the attacks, the Comptroller's office was "unable to conclude definitively" that Trump never gave to the fund after August 2002.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_Foundation#cite_note-:3-40][40]

According to its IRS Form 990 tax filings, the Trump Foundation made no grants to the Twin Towers Fund or to NYC Public/Private Initiatives, Inc. from 2002 through 2014, although Trump may have made personal donations after August 2002 that would not have shown up in these filings.[40]In 2016, after the convention,

Trump's campaign suggested that the Trump Foundation made a grant to the American Red Cross after the attacks; however no record of this exists in the foundation's tax filings from 2001 through 2014. As with the Twin Towers Fund, if Trump instead had made a personal donation, it would not have shown up in the foundation's records.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_Foundation#cite_note-:3-40][40]

Read more:[/url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_Foundation
 

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1/15/2018 8:21 am  #8


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Amazing job ,Dolly!  I was attempting to compare these two "foundations" last evening! This morning everything anyone needs to know is right in front of me! No one will ever compare to you and all the information you take the time to compile for us! Brillant ...thank you!

 

1/15/2018 8:33 am  #9


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Thank you Serenity.
Isn't it funny how some can never seem to find info when the info doesn't favor their argument?

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1/16/2018 5:59 am  #10


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Thank you, Dolly. I wish you could carry this over to the NV as some people are still having a hard time understanding the Foundation and Uranium One. 
I appreciate your research on these matters which help the rest of us lazy girls (me) 

 

1/16/2018 6:41 am  #11


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esm wrote:

Thank you, Dolly. I wish you could carry this over to the NV as some people are still having a hard time understanding the Foundation and Uranium One. 
I appreciate your research on these matters which help the rest of us lazy girls (me) 

esm, it's my pleasure.
Unfortunately, it doen't look like I'll be posting at the NV. I keep getting the runaround, even though I was never banned and assured I would be welcome if I chose to "re-register".
Anyway. it's good to hear from you...and by the way, you're far from lazy and intelligent to boot!


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1/16/2018 7:56 am  #12


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There are so many people that work very hard at not "getting it,"  ignorance is bliss with them.  You are appreciated here Dolly, we embrace the truth.

 

1/16/2018 9:13 am  #13


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Yes thank you Dolly for posting all of this info!

I did share some of your links at NV.  I didn't think you'd mind.

The Hillary hate is ridiculous at times.

 

1/16/2018 9:21 am  #14


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Sam wrote:

Yes thank you Dolly for posting all of this info!

I did share some of your links at NV.  I didn't think you'd mind.

The Hillary hate is ridiculous at times.

It gets old, a few posters on that site don’t care about the truth.
 


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1/16/2018 10:58 am  #15


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teluog wrote:

There are so many people that work very hard at not "getting it,"  ignorance is bliss with them.  You are appreciated here Dolly, we embrace the truth.

 
I second that. You're always informed Dolly......❤️❤️❤️

 

1/16/2018 2:14 pm  #16


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Ditto on that...and have a great vacay Cleans !!

 

1/16/2018 2:24 pm  #17


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Ditto on that...and have a great vacay Cleans !!

 

1/16/2018 7:15 pm  #18


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Hi pets!

Yes enjoy your vacation cleans...with the snow we are having overnight tonight...I want to go with you!

And you go next right Pets?

Enjoy your evening!

 

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