How the American Red Cross Spent Its Haiti Money

The American Red Cross is under pressure this week to answer detailed questions from Congress about the spending of the nearly half a billion dollars it raised after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. But newly obtained internal documents call into question whether the Red Cross itself has an accurate accounting of how the money was spent. In his article for ProPublica, “Confidential Documents: Red Cross Itself May Not Know How Millions Donated for Haiti Were Spent,” reporter Justin Elliott concludes that the charity failed to track its own spending, oversee projects, or even know whether or not they were successful.