Before you put on your walking shoes, let’s take a look at Autistm Speaks Annual Report, shall we? Make sure you open the link, so you can read along with me, okay? Thanks.

http://www.autismspeaks.org/annual_report.php

Click on the 990 pdf from 2008. Here’s a direct link:
http://www.autismspeaks.org/docs/Autism_Speaks_Form_990_2008.pdf

Reported Salaries:
Mark Roithmayr: $400,413.00
Peter Bell: $265,981.00
Geri Dawson: $669,751.00 (plus her HUGE relocation package)
Alison Singer: $201.942.00
Glen Tringali: $255,256.00
The list goes on and on…..

Credit card fees and bank charges: $989,344.00 (Yes folks, almost ONE MILLION DOLLARS in CREDIT CARD FEES and BANK CHARGES)

Office Expenses: $3,902,682.00 – yes, they spent almost FOUR MILLION DOLLARS on office expenses. And over a million dollars on rent on their swanky office digs at 2 Park Avenue in New York, NY.

Geri Dawson’s Relocation cost: $269,721.00 (page 55) – Almost THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS for her to relocate?

These are merely a few of the expenditures that truly made me sick to my stomach.

If you want to walk or donate, do it for a cause which will actually help children with autism – here are a few suggestions:
NVIC’s Vaccinated vs Unvaccinated Study: https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=22354
TACA: http://www.talkaboutcuringautism.org/index.htm
Generation Rescue: http://generationrescue.org/
Lend4Health: http://lend4health.blogspot.com/

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