Reuters AlertNet - Big tsunami donors rank poorly in generosity league

Reuters AlertNet - Big tsunami donors rank poorly in generosity league: "Big tsunami donors rank poorly in generosity league
23 Jun 2005 13:28:00 GMT

Source: Reuters
By Tim Large

LONDON (Reuters) - In the weeks following the Asian tsunami, Chuck Simmons squirreled himself away in his home in Rochester, New York, scouring the Internet for any scrap of evidence to document American generosity after the disaster.
From corporate fundraisers to Salvation Army 'kettle campaigns', he spent more than 100 hours tallying up almost 1,000 private donations for 'The Stingy List', an online aid ledger published on his personal blog (http://blog.simmins.org).
'I stopped updating the list when American private contributions exceeded a billion dollars,' Simmons, a 49-year-old businessman, said in a telephone interview. "