This is a lesson in - do your research before donating!
According to reports a charity called "The Black Lives Matter Foundation" has raised MILLIONS - however they are no way associated with "Black Lives Matter Movement"
"The Black Lives Matter Foundation, a Santa Clarita, California–based charitable organization that has one paid employee and lists a UPS store as its address, has a very different goal, according to its founder: 'bringing the community and police closer together.”'
Since the killing of George Floyd, corporations including Apple, Google, and Microsoft raised $4 million for the soundalike foundation — and almost delivered the money.
“I don't have anything to do with the Black Lives Matter Global Network. I never met them; never spoke to them. I don't know them; I have no relationship with them,” Robert Ray Barnes, the founder of the Black Lives Matter Foundation, told BuzzFeed News in a lengthy interview. “Our whole thing is having unity with the police department.”
In a statement to BuzzFeed News, a Black Lives Matter spokesperson confirmed that the groups are indeed “two completely separate organizations” and that Barnes’ foundation “has nothing to do with us.”
“The Santa Clarita group is improperly using our name,” the spokesperson said. “We intend to call them out and follow up.”