Less Than 52% of Wounded Warrior Project Donations Helps Vets
About two years ago I was all enthused about donating $19 am month to the Wounded Warrior Project due to the ads we've all seen on TV. Then I read somewhere that the CEO makes $300,000 anally. That gave me pause, for I wondered what did the #2 person make as well as the rest of the top people in the administration. So I did not donate. Now today I read what is in the link and feel inspire to share.
I have read that the Salvation Army is the only charity that gives close to 100%.
try to charge us for coffee and donuts. They and St. Jude's Children's Hospital are the only ones who get my donations.
Jude's Children's Hospital.
I feel particularly sorry for those drafted and told either fight to the death for us or we kill you. They had no choice. And that was here in the land of the free. Something to keep in mind on July 4.
But even those who were not drafted, Pat Tillman, for example, went to war with some sort of emotional drive to serve the country without thinking through if they were, in fact, serving the country. After losing hundreds of thousands to death injuries in Vietnam war, now it is a tourist destination. Exactly what did those casualties do for the U.S.?
I think Saint-Exupéry, in “Wind, Sand and Stars,” in 1939 explained it well:
“With more or less awareness, all men feel the need to come alive. But most of the methods suggested for bringing this about are snares and delusions. Men can of course be stirred into life by being dressed up in uniform and made to blare out chants of war. It must be confessed that this is one way for men to break bread with comrades and to find what they are seeking, which is a sense of something universal, of self-fulfilment. But of this bread men die.
“It is easy to dig up wooden idols and revive ancient and more or less workable myths like Pan-Germanism or the Roman Empire. The Germans can intoxicate themselves with the intoxication of being Germans and compatriots of Beethoven. A stoker in the hold of a freighter can be made drunk with this drink. What is more difficult is to bring up a Beethoven out of the stokehold. These idols, in sum, are carnivorous idols. The man who dies for the progress of science or the healing of the sick serves life in his very dying. It may be glorious to die for the expansion of territory, but modern warfare destroys what it claims to foster. The day is gone when men sent life coursing through the veins of a race by the sacrifice of a little blood. War carried on by gas and bombing is no longer war, it is a kind of bloody surgery.
“Each side settles down behind a concrete wall and finds nothing better to do than to send forth, night after night, squadrons of planes to bomb the guts of the other side, blow up its factories, paralyze its production, and abolish its trade. Such a war is won by him who rots last but in the end both rot together.
“In a world become a desert we thirst for comradeship. It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war. But there are other ways than war to bring us the warmth of a race, shoulder to shoulder, towards an identical goal. War has tricked us.”
Wow again.
Jan, socks knocked off now
He was shot down in WWII by a German pilot. There is a very nice song written about him called Saint Ex by Widespread Panic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwM6fmkQuDI&feature=youtu.be
But of this bread men die. Indeed. Nice post.
I too, donated heavily to this charity,. It was sponsored by our company, and they Marine Corporal, with god-awful burns presented to us to show the value.
Very irritating that this, like many other charities, are really just the leadership begging, using needy icons for sympathy!
Thanks for the info!
Blush! Blush!
By the way, new data. He made began annually making $473,015 in 2014 with an anal $100,000 raise.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/08/vet-charity-s-new-fight-to-waste-your-cash.html
The government, through the VA, helps wounded warriors, but in many cases it is not enough. I was having some issues a few years ago so was advised to go to the VA and sign up on the Agent Orange Registry. That got me a complete physical and psychological evaluation. They found issues but in order to get VA Medical to address them I had to file a claim for service related issues which they determine are disabilities. I got a partial disability rating which gives me a fair monthly tax free income, plus I get VA Medical and drug coverage for a very small co-pay. This is more than enough for most wounded warriors but there are others that need much more. That’s where a real charity can help.
I believe a charity should be run by a CEO, someone who has already proven their ability to lead and to make money for the organization, someone that has already made their own fortune in a legitimate position and might actually not draw a salary at all, or draw a minimal salary, say one dollar a year. Someone like Mitt Romney, or even the guy with the funny hair that’s running for president now, would make perfect candidates to run a big charity. They could get their rich friends to help with the administration.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) buys those little VFW Buddy Poppies out of their own funds, not from the donation money, and offers them to the public a couple times a year. My Post for example pulls in some pretty healthy cash donations which go into a fund that is given out to needy vets and or their families. 100% of the money goes out to help the vets. No one gets a cut, no one gets a wage, the administrators are all (usually vets) volunteers. There are other charities that benefit veterans as well at a low cost for overhead. So I would say when you see someone giving out those poppies, be generous. I was privileged with my daughter to sit in front of a market one Memorial Day and give out those poppies. We did not sell them and anyone that wanted one got one, no donation necessary. It was a great feeling for me when someone came by and stuffed a hundred dollar bill in the can and didn’t even want the poppy. It was a great feeling to see many people putting in 20’s, 10, 5’s, even 1’s, and some kids giving their change. One told me that I shouldn’t be thanking him as he thanked me while stuffing the can. I know where my donations will go in their entirety to the cause. The VFW helps local veterans directly as well, no overhead. There are others that are way above the fifty percent's.
If we can get a new definition for marriage, I’m sure we should be able to redefine charity too. Personally I just don’t think 50% qualifies as a charity. Gotta go, going to the 4th of July Parade in Kirkland, WA in a couple hours. And yesterday the pipe between the house and the street broke, so no water in the house. It will be Monday before it can be replaced. Why does this always happen on a Friday, and usually on a Friday before a holiday?
Because the universe is secretly inimical. Think about it: black holes, relativity and quantum tunneling? Who thought up this crazy place?
Jan
They are currently sitting in almost $250,000,000 in assets (donation siting that are not being used) and in the last reporting year they have an excess of $100,000,000 in money they raised versus what went to "projects".
The CEO made $473,015 in 2014 after receiving a $100,000 raise from the previous year.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/08/vet-charity-s-new-fight-to-waste-your-cash.html
Gary Sinise;;; where can we get data for Gary? -- j
p.s. OK. . I just joined charity navigator and got access
to Gary's foundation's IRS forms. . after accounting for the
fact that they list the building of special homes for wounded
vets as "expenses," he's spending more than 64 percent on
the vets. . the Lieutenant Dan Band is in there for expenses,
but I couldn't pull it out. . I will write them.
p.p.s. another to which I donate is Mission of Hope, for children
in appalachia. . their percentage is 92 percent. . WoW.
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I think the Salvation Army is a lot better from the outside than from the inside.
Jan
as a certified manager teacher for NMA -- the National
Management Association. . it was a second language!!! -- j
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I guess those 60,000 or so names will stay buried. Now that was an insult. Topped only by dumping the bill of rights and the rest of it.
Not all....certainly...but for many...you aren't welcome.,
Vets take care of vets. I can only hope vets will reinstate the Constitution along with the active duty mililtary.
CEO made $473,015 in 2014 after a $100,000 raise, according to a writer who put both his name and face on his article.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/08/vet-charity-s-new-fight-to-waste-your-cash.html
CEO made $475,015 in 2014 due to a $100,000 raise.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/08/vet-charity-s-new-fight-to-waste-your-cash.html
People have been bringing this issue for years and nothing seems to happen. If you set up the free log-in, you can also see the comments which are very enlightening.
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.irs&ein=202370934#.VZidYfxjY5s
I don't know how that stacks up against other charities.
Good find, Allosaur! Thanks for posting,
The only veterans' group I donate to regularly is the Gary Sinise Foundation. 'Don't know what percentage of donations get through to vets, but I'm thinking that as a successful actor Mr. Sinise isn't a likely scammer, and in addition to being a genuinely nice guy, he plays a mean bass. 8^] He's also got some nice SWAG, proceeds from which also go to his Foundation:
http://www.garysinisefoundation.org/
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If you remember Hazlitt's Broken Window analogy apply that to ethanol. Sure the new engines are supposedly built to handle it but the old ones can't and are being destroyed before their time. Which means a new car or a new engine. When you could have spent the money on something else or kept it in your retirement fund. Doesn't matter who throws the brick the window is broken and you have to spend after tax dollars to replace it.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/08/vet-charity-s-new-fight-to-waste-your-cash.html
right out in the open with 100% signs on the company and battalion lawns.
Add to that Army Emergency Relief and the umit's pet civic action projects it took a chunk of change out of our income. It's got to be a billion dollar a year racket with current pay scales.
Does anyone give a stuff?
No evidence of that.
According to their information, the expenses breakdown for Wounded Warrior Project is 34% fundraising, 6.1% Administrative, leaving 59.9% for Program Expenses.
Contrast that with Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service Trust, which spends 96.5% for Program Expenses. See http://cst.dav.org/
You might also consider Special Operations Warrior Foundation, a charity providing support and assistance to active and reserve personnel serving in the U.S. Special Operations Command and their families. It has Program Expenses of 85.4%. See http://www.specialops.org/
Giving to a charity where 85 to 97 cents of every dollar I donate goes to those in need makes more sense to me than giving to the highly touted Wounded Warrior Project....
Air Warrior Courage Foundation (MD) 99.78
USO Metropolitan Washington (VA) 91.34
Honor Flight Network (OH) 93.29
Fisher House Foundation (MD) 92.55
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/08/vet-charity-s-new-fight-to-waste-your-cash.html