- flowergirl
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Re: Is the Wounded Warrior Project a Scam?
I stick with the environment, animal and parks organizations, plus the Rails to Trails group. My contributions are small in comparison to many others.
- Common Sense
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Re: Is the Wounded Warrior Project a Scam?
It's looking more like they have lost their direction with their true mission.
If you are giving them donations I would carefully look at this. Maybe withhold any more until
this is under control.
Charity watchdog reportedly places Wounded Warrior Project on its watch list
The Wounded Warrior Project, the charity for wounded veterans, has been placed on Charity Navigator’s watch list over accusations of using donor money toward excessive spending on conferences and parties instead of on recovery programs, according to CBS News.
According to the charity’s tax forms, obtained by CBS News, spending on conferences and meetings increased from $1.7 million in 2010, to $26 million in 2014, which is the same amount the group spends on combat stress recovery.Charity Navigator is a watchdog organization that evaluates charities in the U.S.
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- Just Fred
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This happens when a so-called charity is instead, treated like a business.
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Looks like a scam to me.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Yeah, it looks like a scam for me, too. That's why I started the post in the first place. Look at it it this way:
Someone approaches you and asks, "Would you like to contribute to the Wounded Warriors Project?" Well, if you say 'no', you come across as not giving a rip about wounded veterans, so you give them a few bucks and feel like you care about those poor souls who the nasty government has tossed them on a dung pile.
It works. That's why the head of the organization rakes in $475,000.00/year.
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