Just got a donation request in the mail. Good organization? Worthy of donation? Looks like one I'd like to help.

Find another organization to support. WWP is anti gun and has massive overhead costs

We discussed this many months ago. Not a good organization.

Good enough. Thanks.

Fuck them.

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:
Fuck them.

Yes.

Yuge expenses, lavish parties, too much overhead and waste, AND they're anti gun.

People always talk about WW but as has been noted they are not that good, and thats's not just because of their politics. I prefer to donate to the DAV (Disabled American Veterans).

Thank you, mbinky.

"Wounded Warrior Project says 80 percent of their money is spent on programs for veterans. That's because they include some promotional items, direct response advertising, and shipping and postage costs.

Take that out, and the figures look more like what charity watchdogs say -- that only 54 to 60 percent of donations go to help wounded service members."

"But CharityWatch president and founder Daniel Borochoff said his biggest concern is the group is sitting on a $248 million surplus -- and that not enough of it is being spent on veterans."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/w...-news-investigation/

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:
Fuck them.

I agree - Fuck them!

Not cool, man.

H&K-Guy

They suck giant donkey dick.

I was hoping the March '16 firing of executives for lavish spending signaled the board of directors was serious about fixing this broken charity. According to Charity Navigator, they've made progress and their Feb '17 rating was 90.49 vs their June '16 rating of 82.10.

However, they have a long way to go to be as good as DAV. DAV has a 15% program expense growth vs WW's 55.7%, 96.1% of DAV's raised funds go to program vs WW's 75.1%, and DAV's CEO has a $0 salary vs WW's outrageous $431k (national non-profit average is for charity based in the Northeast is $157k)

You would do well to check out Gary Sinese's foundation. They do good things well.
https://www.garysinisefoundation.org/

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Good call I love Lt. Dan. Does a hell of a job for veterans.

The govt needs to redefine non-profits, and charities to the public. These organizations are in-fact corporations, only their surplus revenue goes to the title cause, everything else is retained for overhead and operating costs. If their parties, events or, licensing campaigns become too excessive, than the grants which are the entire reason for their existence, dry-up...meanwhile, their employees and executives still get paid.

Thank you, clipper1.

I've only seen WWP booths twice. Once at a gun show/swap meet, the other time at a big multi-gun match.

That aside... they seem to have grown too large too fast, like many once good organizations do. Your dollars are better spent elsewhere.

If you would like to help wounded warriors at a grassroots level, check out my post about Colonel Michael Tachias. https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...380011424#1380011424

Nope. Horrible. Had a recent scandal concerning misappropriation of funds.