Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Wow. I was afraid of that. I get a lot of requests for donations & any of them that send me 'stuff' is suspect to me. Why/how can they afford to send these 'gifts' if they are supporting people in need?
These all have to be investigated before you donate. That is really too bad. There are so many that our using our dollars to benefit themselves rather than the needy.
Charity Watch and Charity Navigator are two useful sites to check when considering donations. Wounded Warrior Project has always tugged at my heartstrings, but I will not donate to them.
No surprise, really. I know some people will take exception in this case when they normally wouldn't care, because this is a charity that focuses on veterans, but people raking in money running charities is not unusual.
Quote:
Originally Posted by fitzy24
I am not surprised. I'm also not surprised someone brings up Clinton which has nothing to do with the WWP.
Some people are so politically obsessed that for them, everything is about partisan politics (even when it's obviously not).
Unfortunately, this story doesn't surprise me. I've read too many stories of wounded veterans and their families reaching out to WWP to request help with artificial limbs, or alterations to their homes to make them handicap accessible, or financial assistance with medical bills ... and all they get in return is WWP branded merchandise.
I just think we shouldnt be too quick to drop WWP until we see how the new board/execs handle it. The mission and purpose is still there, someone just needs to step in and clean it up.
I've been reading for over 20 years about how charities defraud the people that trust them, to the point that I believe that anyone that donates anything to a large charity are foolish rubes. It's no longer news. Charities use the plight of other people (and animals) to get people to give them money, and then they use that money for purposes other than what the people that gave it to them intended.
That's standard practice. That's what they ALL do. Anyone that says otherwise is an uniformed idiot, and anyone that believes what the uninformed idiot is saying is another sucker volunteering to get fleeced.
If McDonalds can have the exact calorie count on their cheesebergers and the tobacco industry can have warning labels on cigarettes, then tax-exempt scamming, crooked charities can be required to post the exact percentage of how much of their gross income is used for "administrative" purposes (you know, necessary things like luxury homes, cars, travel to exotic places, high-end hookers, cocaine, iPhone 6's, and a cash loan to their neighbor down the street to renovate his nightclub. And in a large font too, Exactly the same size of font as the name of the charity.
People should have learned this lesson decades ago, with the United Way, but they didn't because they're stupid. Charities are a scam, and always have been, ever since the 1800's, and non-profits are a scam and always have been, ever since incompetent wives of politicians needed the illusion of constructive purpose and something to do.
Charities today take care of themselves first. If there's any leftover money that goes to whom they are serving.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.