Comments on: Thank you, Mary Emma Allison

By: UNICEF USA

UNICEF USA — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:22:30 +0000

Hi Henry,

A number of people have received an email claiming that the U.S. Fund for UNICEF’s CEO or UNICEF’s Executive Director makes $1,200,000 per year.

These types of misinformation campaigns are frustrating, as there is absolutely no truth to the claims being made. In fact, they are far from the reality as related to UNICEF or the U.S. Fund.

The compensation of U.S. Fund for UNICEF staff mirrors the level of responsibility and professional expertise unique to each person’s role and does not impede UNICEF’s ability to deliver services and programs for children and their families. With an annual budget of over $390 million, the U.S. Fund’s President & CEO salary represents one ninth of one percent of the U.S. Fund’s annual resources.

The U.S. Fund’s Board of Directors determines the compensation of its President & CEO, who is compensated well within the range of other non-profit organizations of comparable size. (In fact, the compensation provided to the U.S. Fund’s President & CEO typically ranks in the bottom third of all CEO salaries for NY-based nonprofit organizations.)

For more information please visit: http://www.unicefusa.org/about/faq/is-it-true-that-your-ceo.html

By: Henry

Henry — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:26:09 +0000

UNICEF CEO Caryl M. Stern receives $1,200,000 per year (100k per month) plus all expenses including a ROLLS ROYCE. Less than 5 cents of your donated dollar goes to the cause.
The Salvation Army’s Commissioner Todd Bassett receives a salary of only $13,000 per year (plus housing) for managing this $2 billion dollar organization 96 percent of donated dollars go to the
cause.

By: Cheryl White Dennis

Cheryl White Dennis — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:25:03 +0000

In the early 1950′s I started Trick or Treating for UNICEFF through my Sunday School and passed on the tradition to my children and grandchildren. The day before Halloween this year 3 children came to my door for UNICEF with their little orange boxes, what a thrill it was to see.
Thank you Mary Emma for filling a need , creating a tradition and creating wonderful memories for so many.
You will no doubt be organizing something as important in heaven!
My heart goes out to your family as they mourn their loss.
Chweyl White Dennis

By: Bethany Feuerstein

Bethany Feuerstein — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:38:58 +0000

I remember going out with my church Sunday school class when I was a kid to Trick or Treat for UNICEF on the night before Halloween. We were instructed to accept coins but not candy. When my own sons were old enough to go out for UNICEF, I could not find any groups doing it. So I went online and found information on the site to get started. I have been leading Trick or Treat for UNICEF through my church for about twenty years now. Several people have told me how much it meant to them and how happy they were to find that it was still going on. I am grateful to Mary Emma for starting it all and my condolences to the family.
Beth Feuerstein
Geneseo United Methodist Church

By: Julia Moulden

Julia Moulden — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:36:05 +0000

Oh, how I loved that program — thank you SO MUCH Mary Emma, for creating it (and how sad that it no longer exists). I will never forget the little orange boxes and my pride in handing it in. I also loved when UNICEF collected coins from travellers on aircraft. It’s more than every little bit helps — it instructed me in the idea that others did not have a roof over their heads nor enough food to eat. May you rest in peace.

By: pat fox

pat fox — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:01:01 +0000

Dear Mary Jean, Mickey, and Clyde.
I remember you, yuor Mom and Dad from my childhood. I lived across the street from the Bridesburg Presbyterian Church, in Phila. It is with warmth and kindness that I remember your Mom and Dad. It was fun going door to door, we got candy for ourselves and lots of pennies and nickles for UNICEF in those little milk cartons. I will hold you and yours in my good thoughts.
Pat Coyle Fox

By: Anne Dee Goldin & Howard Charles Yourow

Anne Dee Goldin & Howard Charles Yourow — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:22:53 +0000

We remember our own childhood Halloween efforts on behalf of Trick or Treat for UNICEF, salute the Allisons for their brilliant, simple vision, and hope that the world’s parents and children will forevermore participate in this most worthwhile of campaigns!

ADG/HCY

By: Alisa Aydin

Alisa Aydin — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:32:56 +0000

I did not know Rev. Allison or Mary Emma, but their vision has shaped my life. My thoughts and prayers are with the Allison family.

By: Paulus

Paulus — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 01:33:10 +0000

Hi Alison,
We knew if you were still alve you would love to witness this 60th anniversary of the Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF innitiative which you started. You have briought smiles and happiness to kids all over the world and its because of you that many have had the chance to have a better life. I know where you are now, many smiles of children you saved through this innitiative are all over and the candle lights they bring with them is just to beat you farewell and to say THANK YOU.
Till we meet again

By: Robert Thompson

Robert Thompson — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:26:24 +0000

Mary Emma Allison is a shining example of how one person can make a huge difference in the world. Her home-spun wisdom, do-good intentions and simple yet powerful vision to help children around the world by encouraging US families to drop a few coins in trick-or-treaters’ milk cartons on Halloween ignited a grassroots campaign that quickly spread across the country. Sixty years later, Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF has become our nation’s oldest and largest philanthropic youth movement, raising over $160 million from millions of children every Halloween who continue to collect coins in their little orange boxes. Mary left the world a better place for children to survive and thrive because of the generosity she inspired in millions of Americans young and old.