Wounded Warrior Project - Not Good

Curious expression coming from you

but yes thats abysmal specifically since its goal is supposed to be helping out veterans hurt in service of our country many of which have a lifetime of needs in front of them.

Thats funny. A year or two ago I was flying home from knoxville. And sat next to a guy who worked for WWP.
It was weird he kept talking about all the meetings he was flying to for this Organization and all the plans they had for the future.

I thought to myself it is really strange to be talking about your job like it was a position in a conventional business environment.

And at our local Walmart we have 5 or 6 spaces right up close designated for Wounded Warriors and they are NEVER occupied . Never seen one person park in their for years..

This Organization wreaks of something suspicious, imo

I'll make it very simple so everyone can understand:

Any charity with massive advertising programs? Guess where the money goes.

Duh.

IMO most advertised charities are scams.

There's a charity that advertises on local TV about dogs & cats where they send you a tshirt for a donation. WTH! So send thousands of people tshirts that cost about $10 each to make instead of using the money towards the charity.

I truly struggle with this one... on the one hand, they only use 60% for the charity, and that's pretty shitty.

Buy on the other hand, if they didn't advertise, and they didn't give out the TShirts, they'd use 100% for the charity, but would raise much less money. Which would you rather have (for the charity): 100% of $100k or 60% of $50m?

What's really shitty is that people won't part with the $20 unless they get the crappy TShirt or unless they see the stupid kids pretending to be a band on the TV.

But there are a LOT of really shady money raising operations, and far too many charities allow their name to be used by skeezy fundraisers who pass along far too little of the proceeds, sometimes only 20 or even 10 cents on the dollar.

The pitch goes like this: We raise money for you. For free. Costs you nothing, you just say "go for it" and money starts showing up. The charity CEO might be kinda slow to accept, so they throw in a little something for him personally. It's really hard to resist free money, zero effort, for your charity.

Once the papers are signed, all those cretins you know and love from Boiler Room and Wolf of Wall Street hit the phones hard and start printing money, er, picking pockets I mean.

Those are the ones I don't have mixed feelings about. Those mercenary fund raisers should mostly be dragged out back and shot.

I stay away from all fundraisers that spend nearly as much or more on dubious administrative costs, including t-shirts and advertising. I don't want a stinking t-shirt to help people or animals. I consider that a waste of my money and won't donate if I'm offered a "product" for my donation.

I'm glad the news is shining a bright light on their expenditures and hope their donations sink like a stone.

Now you know why the only military charities I support are the following:


-Navy and Marine Corps Relief Society
-Army Relief
-Air Force Aid Society


If you look 'em up, the put almost all of their money into aid, with almost no overhead.


All those charities that go on national TV for funds don't put much into what they claim to help. Sorry, but I don't even trust DAV anymore since they started those national TV ads. Those kinds of ads are expensive, and take away from the main mission of any charity.

I say mostly on the off chance there might be one boiler room phone operation that passes the money along and might not be pimping a charities name for new dubs on the boxter. *IF* such a one exists, then they *MIGHT* be exempt from the summary executions.

But even a totally legit fundraising operation will still be pretty expensive. People dialing phones is expensive, stamps are expensive.

Again. Mixed feelings.

Well one of MY anecdotes is about how I went to a small city council meeting, on helping the poor. There was ONE woman claiming to want to help, though she WAS politically placed, and only got people there. There was ANOTHER claiming to want to help that wasn't even there. HE was a long time politician. There was a person that was there apparently to antagonize everyone, and eat donuts. There was a nice cop talking of HIS experience, and the dire need to do something ABSURDLY SIMPLE! There was ANOTHER guy that claimed to plan to do what I had ALREADY DONE! EXACTLY what the cop wanted! And there was ME! I didn't want a political position, money, or any big assistance. ALL I wanted to do was HELP, and get info that would help me do that.

The cop spoke of how he recently had a small homeless family with a pet dog, and he found them early in the morning near midnight and needed to find a place for these people. They were just the type of people that were hard to place, and WHO do you call at MIDNIGHT!?!?!? This was BEFORE the internet was opened up! It was BEFORE the WWW and BEFORE html browsers.

So WHAT was MY plan? A simple database! You call a computer, via modem, enter the criteria, so HERE it would be a woman with kids and a pet, in such and such an area, and it would tell you how to contact places that fit. I only had several hundred places, and only in a few areas, but it was hard to find details. That is all I wanted. The woman I spoke of that got people there was a friend of mine, and she suggested I present my idea there.

So what of the guy that planned to do what I was doing? His REAL goal, and REAL job, was to PROMISE the kind of thing I was doing to get funding, and HE would get a kind of commission. I even gave him my card, and said I would even give him my code, and he NEVER contacted me!

I swear! For every person wanting to REALLY help, there have to be over a dozen that want to hurt, or unjustly benefit in some way. Of course MOST just don't care, or aren't firmly in any camp.

Steve

I see agc was banned.