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2009-08-15 The Giving Tree is not what it appears
The information that Libby Wright uses for the promotion of her organization is completely FALSE. I'm a former employee who left as part of a mass exodus with half a dozen other employees within the same week over a year ago because it came to our attention that Libby had conned the Tucson public into donating monetarily to Giving Tree programs that were not even in existence.
It is a well known fact that in addition to her overwhelming donations from the public, she also can find it in her conscience to charge the homeless individuals and families she “serves” $8.50 per person, per night, for shelter and a shower and the failure or inability to pay will quickly get a homeless individual and their family (including children) thrown out on the streets.
I have many, many examples of ethical and moral improprieties with Libby's organization and during my employment, I saw dozens of examples of outright dishonesty and deception that played on public sympathy to gain donations from individuals and church congregations. I watched as thousands of dollars and mountains of food flowed through Libby's hands each day during the holidays (most of which had to be stored in various restaurant freezers around Tucson - and was never picked up). I watched as bicycles were donated for the homeless children, none of whom received a single bike because they were all sold at auction. Same with donated cars, trucks, etc. There were countless reports from the shelter residents of regular drug dealing in the bathroom of the Compassion Hope Center taking place right in front of the children. All of this is in addition to the inexcusable requirement of the residents (old, sick, women with children) to designate Libby as "executor" of their governmental monthly income in return for a bed to sleep in so that Libby received their checks each month in her own personal mailbox and distributed to her residents their monthly social security or child support income- but only if they were in good standing and had paid up all of their "shelter fees". Libby's entire program revolves around creating a perpetual needniness and dependence on her that ensures a regular income from those she says she "helps". Please do not believe Libby's claims that CPS and governmental agencies actually drop off children to her; CPS will not even return her phone calls and have refused to work with her any longer because of her Libby's refusal to follow protocol. As well, the police and EMS are called out to her shelters so frequently that it now takes over an hour to get responses to emergency calls from The Compassion Hope Center. The Compassion Hope Center is NO CHURCH. The "sermons" that take place are given by anyone who cares to step up to the microphone.
This is NOT a “Christian” organization as has been stated by Libby repeatedly. There is nothing Christian about Libby Wright. Those of us who know the unethical inner workings of her operation and the many ways Tucson has been deceived by her know that The Giving Tree organization is just a money-making web of deception. The investigation into The Giving Tree shouldn't be limited to just the Compassion Hope Center; in my opinion this individual is nothing short of a criminal and should be locked up. --guest
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