Posted on 11/28/2015 3:18:08 AM PST by smoothsailing
http://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/
I buy wreaths for my dad and father in law. For every two you buy, WAA donates another wreath to a veterans cemetery.
BTTT
“In 2007, the Worcester family, along with veterans, and other groups and individuals who had helped with their annual Veterans wreath ceremony in Arlington, formed Wreaths Across America, a non-profit 501-(c)(3) organization””
This is probably the answer to your question...All monies are put back into expenses for the organization - no profit is taken for the owners or organizers of a 501 -(c) 3. It looks like contributions ran short which ended up with this problem for this year.
Where was that picture taken?
I wonder if politics came into it, hurting donations.
A cemetery / historical society meeting normally has no politics beyond budget arguments.
A couple weeks ago, a representative from Wreaths from America came, and said they put the wreathes on every grave of every veteran of every war. If the person is from the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WW2, Gulf War, they put a wreath on it.
You’d think that honoring all dead for the past 200 years wouldn’t be controversial but was.
I wonder if donations to them went down in light of that view.
“”While Wreaths Across America is a non-profit, Worcester Wreath Company is not “”
Read your post again and I see that you covered this...Sorry!
Pearl Harbor, IIRC.
That would really be sad
First of all, how does this happen? The cost can’t conceivably even come close to the price tag of one michelle obama vacation. Where are the two clowns occupying the White House on this?
I don’t want their filthy hands involved in this. Or any government involvement.
This is a voluntary, citizen patriot driven endeavor and that’s the way it must stay.
My point is that all it not transparent here. I have no basis to criticize - other than the non-transparency in the matter.
I don’t question the sacrifice of all involved with Wreaths Across America, and never did - I’ve seen it myself. And I never questions the origins of work, or the company’s owner’s motives.
I also have no problem with a company making a reasonable profit so please don’t imply that I did.
700,000 wreaths in December is a humongous number. Now that the company is making that many wreaths for a non-profit charity, it seems to me the profitability of making those wreaths should be made known.
Why is no one else asking this question?
What if I had a profit-making business (I’ve had four), and started a non-profit charity that purchased my company’s products and the non-profit grew to where it was my for-profit company’s largest volume of sales?
Wouldn’t any reasonable person want the numbers involved to be made public?
Why impune me for simply asking very legitimate questions - not about the non-profit, but about the profit making company?
What percentage of all wreaths made by the company in a year go to Wreaths Across America?
Are these questions untouchable because of the non-profits good work on behalf of our deceased veterans?
They are not a non-profit, so far as I know.
You can donate on their online website too.
http://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/
I buy wreaths for my dad and father in law. For every two you buy, WAA donates another wreath to a veterans cemetery.
I’ll do that. Also, I like to forward these types of things to family. I much prefer they give to these types of organizations than buy me Christmas “stuff”.
I like to think this shows they are not forgotten.
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