Large sums of money and the Federal Government Laws for big charities have killed charity in America. It have allowed people to grab money through administration costs.
I have several friends who are very involved with charitable organizations working on behalf of veterans and others who are military bloggers. They are not impressed with Wounded Warriors and all that I know have withdrawn their support of this organization. It does not appear to be what it seems.
According to Charity Navigator, WWP allocates 55 percent of its revenue to program expenses and 44.8 percent to fundraising and administrative expenses. That’s pretty poor.
I have no first-hand knowledge, but I’ve heard the same. There are plenty of other ways to help wounded veterans where the money will be properly used.
This is news.....
I’d like to hear others assessment of the WWP.
There are several, solid, well intentioned, conservative media voices, supporting WWP.
I would have thought they vetted WWP.
Laura, Hugh, Bill, Dennis, etc....
Be skeptical of any charitable organization that advertises on television!
I make a general rule of not donating to charities whose admins make more than I ever did...
They are after $$$$ humongous Businesses/Corporate money, not individual donations, and ALWAYS turn Lefties. As they will support gun control etc etc
Only a VERY small fraction of the donation they collected will be used for the true purpose of the ‘non-profit org’, i.e. helping wounded veterans.
Sadly, I have heard the same thing from a friend (Marine) at Walter Reed.
I had no idea. We have donated to WWP several times in the past. Can anyone verify this?
I quit working with them when they refused to accept donations from a church. After researching their “success,” it seems like they are good fundraisers, but not good at transparency.
How about Marine Parents? I’ve done a little work with them, and they seemed legit.
They lost me when they refused a donation from a church group awhile back. (See http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/wounded-warrior-project-apologizes-for-rejecting-church-donation.html)
Several years ago, I made a rather substantial donation (for me) to an org that purported to provide laptop computers to injured vets.
That got me on ‘the list’. Twice per month thereafter, I was receiving ‘we want more’ mailings. Some of those mailing were costly to produce, as they included pre-paid FEDEX return packs, etc.
It took 4 returns that I marked ‘REMOVE ME’ before they quit sending their mailings.
The total cost of their expensive ‘we want more’ mailings probably ate up half of my original donation. I concluded that they had turned into a professional fundraising org that spend more on fundraising than aiding vets. In one of their last mailings they indicated that they were joining one of the bigger ‘vet aid’ groups.
Regrettably, it becomes more difficult to find ‘real’ groups/orgs that actually do disperse aid as they claim.
They lost my respect when they came out to be anti-2A.
http://www.ammoland.com/2012/11/wounded-warrior-project-is-anti-gun/#axzz2kMIDi0Cu
Charity Navigator also compares the overall score of several other veteran's orgs at the bottom of the page, and they don't look much better:
Wounded Warrior Project, FL - 54.39
USO of Illinois - 58.16
DAV (Disabled American Veterans) Charitable Service Trust, KY - 55.36
USO of Missouri, Inc. - 64.37
Special Operations Warrior Foundation, FL - 68.89
The same page also provides a link to highly-rated vets aid orgs at the very bottom, but you have to be a registered user to access it.
You mean the fact that they now want “Monthly Donors” to continue their revenue stream but won’t take a penny from firearms groups or churches? The fact that they are paying for high priced advertising and wasting the money they do get just to drive that revenue stream?
This sucks. I gave them a lot of money.