Posted on 11/11/2013 8:53:48 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
You cannot go wrong with that approach to gift-giving.
It is sad that there are groups raising money for wounded veterans when you realize that this means that the government is not providing adequately for them. There should be no need that the government should not be providing for injured war vets.
Cut welfare for non veterans by 50% and take that money and give it to the vets.. I could live with this.
Maybe only Vets and active millitary should be allowed to vote....
I never served in the millitary but I would support this wholeheartedly ...
Thanks for your post!
Yes thanks !! America people passionately want to help Veterans in some way. The Obama regime is corrupt and our government feeds the wolves with our pitiful efforts.
The same thing happens when one donates to USO. Several years ago, I read a story that alleged that USO provides its donor list to its data processing contractor, which the contractor can sell freely for its own benefit and that the contractor is related to one of the USO executives.
If y'all are looking for a place to donate, give the Paul Anderson Youth Home a look. My mom was involved with them for a while. If you donate, you will get a few letters asking for more, but that's typical of any charity. But these guys are good to go.
Good data you have there!
A number of years ago, I interviewed for Director of Data Processing at DAV in their Northern KY Headquarters.
I was shocked that 90-95% of all the staff were in some way employed in the direct mail departments. The rest- the people that did something for veterans - were all shoved into one small office in one corner of that huge building.
I knew then that DAV was a scam. I was so disappointed, I’m sure that it showed through the rest of the interviews.
Interesting that WWP and DAV show about the same rate of overhead. I’m sure they are artificially fluffing their charitable work.
To clarify:
44.8% goes to fundraising and administrative expenses.
Another, separate 55% goes to program expenses.
“Program expenses,” here, does NOT mean overhead. It means money spent on the various programs. HOWEVER, it is important to note that none (or very few) of these programs donates money directly to wounded warriors; it mostly goes to programs which are regarded by them as assisting wounded warriors. And this may include a lot of for-profit and high-overhead programs.
To put another way: Suppose we were talking about feeding Wounded Warriors. (And we are NOT) If you give $10, $4.48 would go to fundraising and administrative expenses. That leaves $5.50 to “feed” them. But what if “feeding” means taking them to a restaurant? (Again, I’m using a FICTIONAL example.) How much of the $5.50 goes to food, and how much goes to the restaurant’s profits, the restaurant’s expenses, the waitstaff and their tips, the taxis to the restaurant, etc.
The truth is that Wounded Warrior mostly buys a lot of expensive services for injured warriors. Are they worth the money? I’m not going to say injured warriors shouldn’t get those services! But given that half of the money comes straight off the top, I’ve gotta believe that there are better ways to help the lives of injured soldiers.
Winner.
Thanks for the clarification.
Thanks for the info!
Thank you!
Disgusting.
I give NOTHING to DAV and encourage everyone to also blacklist them.
“Wounded Warrior mostly buys a lot of expensive services “
Including dominating advertising time on Fox News channel. That has got to be some of the most expensive advertising out there. No wonder various Fox News hosts love them.
Thanks for that breakdown. I obviously didn’t understand what program expenses meant.
In the first place, it looks to me like overhead is too high. Not fraudulently high, but ineffeciently high.
In the second place, it sounds like that same poor management carries over to how they choose to help. It makes me wonder if there is more to the relationships between WW and the “restaurants” they use.
Ben Raines said:
I use to donate to WWP but stopped last year when i discovered they did not take donations from any 2nd Amendment organizations. That was enough for me to stop donating.
This fraud needs to stop.
Like United Way.
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