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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Sting's Rainforest Foundation Charity Under Fire]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2008/05/07/stings-rainforest-foundation-charity-under-fire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2008/05/07/stings-rainforest-foundation-charity-under-fire/</guid><description><![CDATA[When a charity has a celebrity at a fund raiser, everyone thinks the celebrity donated his time. But that is rarely true. Not only does the celebrity get paid, the celebrity normally gets his full fee.<br><br>So when the event has a lot of celebrities, the percent given to the charity is low.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 7th 2008 12:17PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Sting's Rainforest Foundation Charity Under Fire]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2008/05/07/stings-rainforest-foundation-charity-under-fire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2008/05/07/stings-rainforest-foundation-charity-under-fire/</guid><description><![CDATA[It's called a non-profit masquerading as a "Tax Shelter".   It's not unusual: Sammy Sosa comes to mind as the most recent example of a celebrity forming a non-profit releif organization, making nearly all deposits into the fund himself, and then not disbursing the funds.  And Trudie Styler hasn't a leg to stand on when she says the time the non-profit has been around is a testament to "it's strength".  Any fund will be strong if you park millions in it and collect the interest.<br><br>If I were Britain's Inland Revenue, I'd be calling for an audit of the fund and the Sumners.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 9th 2008 2:29PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Sting's Rainforest Foundation Charity Under Fire]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2008/05/07/stings-rainforest-foundation-charity-under-fire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2008/05/07/stings-rainforest-foundation-charity-under-fire/</guid><description><![CDATA["...And no one's gettin' fat except" Momma Sting.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lisa G.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 7th 2008 1:10PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>