from the GOP press office Gazette
Because of a weak economy and cash-strapped donors, Focus on the Family said it is eliminating 202 jobs, the deepest cuts in the 32-year history of the Colorado Springs-based Christian nonprofit. The ministry laid off 149 workers, and cut another 53 vacant positions.
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Although Focus grabs most of its headlines on political topics, it spends only 6 percent of its budget in that arena, such as the roughly $500,000 the organization spent to support the Proposition 8 gay marriage ban in California.
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Screw FotF.
but I do feel bad for the people out of a job…
they are a few weeks too late for an administration that would have just loved to dump a load of cash on them to bail them out, I’m sure.
while declaring war on phrases like Happy Holiday, James “Ebenezer Scrooge” Dobson kicks his own to the curb. What a sad irony.
… in fairness, it looks like he runs a financially ethical organization:
http://www2.focusonthefamily.c…
That same page also notes that he hasn’t named a university after himself. (SMACK, Oral!)
by the talk of “book sales” in that paragraph. They pay a portion of radio airtime in compensation for the increased publicity for their book sales… implying that the book sales are their personal income, rather than the income of Focus. And by all indications, it’s not an inconsiderable income.
never forget it.
Unless of course, if you don’t like it.
Interesting article on the “Doctor” from 5280 Magazine a while back, when FotF was much more relevant…
Dobson lives well but not lavishly, and makes most of his money from royalties on internet and bookstore sales of his many books (he waives the royalties on sales directly from FotF).
http://www.5280.com/issues/200…
to a more deserving group of people!
which allegedly account for 95% of its budget (although I suspect that some ofthose donations have something of the character of advertising, in much that way that public radio sponsorships do).
One wonders, is this specific to Focus, or is it hitting the entire televangelism industry?