Weather grew cooler last night, would have been a good time to walk if I weren’t so creaky.

Looked at the website of one of my old workplaces, and am dismayed to see that it is woefully, embarrassingly out of date… then I stumbled across the .org rather than the .com site… a totally different site, even more outdated, older design, not forwarded from the other. Both are full of broken links, both internal and external.

Shameful, and I won’t even go into how many 508 compliance errors are on there.  FLASH on the page!

It has contact information for someone who passed away two years ago.

I followed up to look at their social media pages.

• Twitter – out of date by nearly six months.
• Facebook – even longer.
• Blog – dead after 6 entries, and years out of date
• YouTube – no new videos for years.
• google plus, super kaput, of course.
• RSS feed of recoveries, stale for more than a year.
• They’re no longer listed on Charity Navigator.

Looked at the tax reports up on guidestar, and the donations have dropped dramatically. I’ll be interested to see if they got *any* donations in 2015, once the tax paper work becomes available.

• 2014 – $267,401
• 2013 – $515,648
• 2012 – $600,099
• 2011 – $1,008,134
• 2010 – $1,050,671
• 2009 – $1,254,845 via 990
• 2008 – $1,330,819
• 2007 – $1,315,614
• 2006 – $828,343
• 2005 -$707,503

Also ran a review of public tax records (form 990, public access) , and there are only 4 employees, now? Yeesh. Glad I got out of there when I did.

I found this review of A Child Is Missing Inc. Check it out or write your own review of a charity.

http://gr8np.org/go/Am6

–shared via GreatNonProfits.org

Woke late, and didn’t have time to locate a plastic monster to photograph.

Recently heard the term “zetetic“.

From Ancient Greek ζητητικός ‎(zētētikós, “inquisitive, keen”), from ζητέω ‎(zētéō, “I seek”).

I like it a bit more than “skeptic”. To my mind, there aren’t as many negative connotations.

see also –

zetetics pl ‎(plural only)

1. (uncountable, mathematics) A branch of algebra which relates to the direct search for unknown quantities.

2. plural of zetetic

aside from a high-speed motorcycle  vs cop car chase and a little fallout 4, I slept all day.