Autism Speaks Not Recommended by BBB

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http://www.bbb.org/charity-reviews/nati ... rk-ny-1456

"Autism Speaks does not meet one or more standards..."

That doesn't surprise me, with the way that they want to cure and eliminate us, and the scare tactics that they use, to make people afraid of the word, autism.

Where does it say it is "not recommended" by BBB?

It says it doesn't meet a particular standard:

Good on the BBB, thanks for posting the link Whitetiger.

Thanks for the great link, WhiteTiger. I'm posting the data to my local ASAN group here in Portland, OR.

You do have to pay to join the BBB, and these "Reports" are just their shake down method.

Autism Speaks has reduced costs as a percent of funds raised, raised more funds, and the "Sales Income" spoken of is reported in the statment.

Credit cards are a good way of spreading Autism Awareness. It is not "income," it is another path of donations.

A major credit card company can donate some of their income, and spread autism awareness.

Neither Autism Speaks or the credit card company makes any percentage on the sale, only the usual transaction fee, then interest.

The writer of this lacks knowledge, or is misrepresenting how all credit cards work.

I have reviewed Autism Speaks statments, they run a clear and clean set of books.

The BBB has approved some major consumer fraud companies, who paid the fees and got the plastic plaque.

Customers who get screwed will also be dumb enough to file a complaint with the BBB, who will look into it, stall, till the crooks move to the next town. Then they revoke the old BBB Aproved, and aprove the new, for $35, which comes with a new plastic plaque.

Those who complain about those who are doing something, are always out to get some of the money.

Autism Speaks has yet to raise one day's cost of autism, and 75% of that is all the private research money there is. 18 hours out of a year is going to try to do something.

You should all file a complaint with the BBB.

All the report seems to mention is accounting practices. In other words, they state that Autism Speaks knows where their money came from, and where it went/is.

Now, looking at some of the information in the report about where the money went, I wouldn't mind having either of these two's salary...

There is a website on line that has a link to the books of Autism Speaks. I wish I knew it. It also has a summary of what percent gets paid to execs and what percent goes to help autistics, which I believe was 6%.

Maybe we SHOULD all complain to the BBB

The article states it, 25% goes to all fund raising costs, 75% gets donated to programs, and most of that is research.

Pay levels seem more University than New York CEO.

Ah, questions about where the money goes. To satisfy Inventor, we need to throw in some stats and verifiable data - 75% sounds correct (and makes it sound like they're a really nice organization) until you break down the 75% a little more.

From: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/autismspeaks/

"...while the bulk of Autism Speaks’ budget (65%) goes toward genetic and biomedical research, only a small minority of Autism Speaks’ research budget goes towards research oriented around improving services, supports, treatments and educational methodologies, with most funding going towards basic research oriented around causation and genetic research, including the prospect of prenatal testing."

They really want the prenatal test. Once they get the prenatal test down, the same thing will happen to us as happens to Downs Syndrome kids. 91-93% termination rate. Then there will be no more Inventors

Source for termination rate: Caroline Mansfield, Suellen Hopfer, Theresa M. Marteau (1999). "Termination rates after prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, spina bifida, anencephaly, and Turner and Klinefelter syndromes: a systematic literature review". Prenatal Diagnosis 19 (9): 808–812. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199909)19:9<808::AID-PD637>3.0.CO;2-B. PMID 10521836. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi- ... 7/ABSTRACT. This is similar to 90% results found by David W. Britt, Samantha T. Risinger, Virginia Miller, Mary K. Mans, Eric L. Krivchenia, Mark I. Evans (1999). "Determinants of parental decisions after the prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome: Bringing in context". American Journal of Medical Genetics 93 (5): 410–416. doi:10.1002/1096-8628(20000828)93:5<410::AID-AJMG12>3.0.CO;2-F. PMID 10951466.