Posted on 10/04/2015 2:04:16 PM PDT by Mamzelle
I think that having a Wounded Warriors program is a NATIONAL DISGRACE! If I were President I would put them out of business immediately! What the hell kind of a country do we have that needs a charity to help wounded soldiers that were wounded and disabled defending this country! Dump the food stamp program and give it all to the wounded soldiers! Same for 90% of the other welfare that goes to 99 million people who are sitting on their a$$ instead of working.
Fisher House for vets.
Take a look at http://ptsdusa.org also, if you don’t mind.
We really need to do more to stop soldier suicides.
I give to our local veterans council. They run transportation to get vets to the VA hospital, help shut ins and homeless vets and have little overhead as they’re staffed by mostly volunteers. Look local and help those in the community where you live.
Mustard
DAV
USAF ‘72-76
http://www.woundedwarriorregiment.org/index.cfm/wwbnw/hopeandcarecp/?mobileFormat=false
If you send money to these guys, every penny will go to the soldiers because the overhead and admin are already covered by the military.
Every time I see their commercial I think the same as you.
They suck. I posted their financials here a few weeks ago.
Big exec salaries, 30% goes to fundraising and I think it was 58% went to programs for vets. They stockpiled the majority of their $$ and did not spend it.
My father who served in WWII Pacific Theatre had a similar complaint about Red Cross. Said they charged servicemen for doughnuts. He would never give them a dime.
Wounded Warriors exists because of the shortfalls and mismanagement that the Veterans Administration has become.
Wounded Warriors is an anti-2A organization.
Their particular ad campaigns attempt to tug at folks’ hearts, just like those ASPCA ads that now show, of all places, on The Food Network.
Since their percentages of disbursement lean heavy towards management’s slice of the pie, they don’t get my pennies.
I give, as I can, to a Native American School for kids ... St. Joseph’s, in South Dakota.
A couple years ago they were refusing contributions from Christian organizations.
>> I’ll ask my neice, who just left the position of Director of Digital Media Communications for the Wounded Warrior Partnership <<
I’ve read or heard somewhere that WWP doesn’t give directly to vets, but rather that they give all their “charity” disbursements to other vets’ groups.
Then those other groups give directly to vets, but only after the latter organizations subtract their own overhead expenses. If this scenario is accurate, WWP would seem to be a shockingly inefficient organization.
Sorry to say, however, that I can’t verify the story. So I’d appreciate if you could ask your niece whether this info is correct.
I second http://ptsdusa.org and Camp Hope. They haven’t been around long enough to be rated by Charity Navigator, but they are the real deal. Founded by a Father and son who take no salary. They are expanding and will soon be able to help more vets with the opening of an additional new housing at Camp Hope. They have already helped numerous suicidal vets and haven’t lost one yet.
While I have the utmost respect for our wounded service men and women; I refuse to give the worthless "Wounded Warrior's Project" a penny for our hard earned money! They don't want to receive donations from Christians, so be it... the so-called "Wounded Warrior's Project" and the "leadership" that run it can rot as far as we are concerned!
Their mission statement explains it all about WWP, I'll talk to her later, as she is in transit to NYC for interviews.
John
[Every time I see their commercial I think the same as you.]
Every time the music for their commercial starts, I hit mute.
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