I guess you are right about the board. They should have known what was going on with the money. Why did it take a new report that exposed the misuse of money. Either they knew what was going on and let it happen, or they were not doing their job. Either way it seems that a number of board members should also be fired.

I would, if I were the state AG.

In that they tend to back "their" picks in management no matter what because they usually only hear from management. They rarely deign to talk to employees who know what is really happening.

IMO, asking operating officers "How much money did you take in and how did you spend it" is not too much to expect any board member to do.

Anyone except management. It is really easy to mislead if the crooks are the only ones at board meetings. It took five employee lawsuits at my last job before the board fired the CEO.

http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/mission/board-of-directors.aspx


I really suck at being a hard ass, but here's my view. Charities are collecting money from the public, often by manipulating emotions. Sometimes good people donate money they can't really spare easily. They do without so they can donate for cancer or wounded warriors or orphans in South America or water in Africa or whatever. That should occur to someone who sits on the board of a charity collecting money from the public. It's not information that outside the education or experience of any human. Most of us have probably donated more than we could easily afford to some organization or another.

Knowing that, someone who is really clueless and/or not willing to do much of anything to protect the public should maybe think twice before accepting a position on the board of a public charity. And, as my prior post said, asking the President and chief financial officer(s) "How much did you take in and what did you spend it on?" is not rocket science. Anyone who runs a home works with those concepts.

The directors of Wounded Warriosr knew Wounded Warriors was advertising a lot on TV for donations from the public because I know that much. Everybody knows TV ads cost, so they had to have known big bucks were involved.

Got stuff from these people all the time and figured this could be one of those outfits who have admin costs over 10%+ Try to give local and try to give to people who don't attract crowds of donors.

Guess my nose was right. And WHY DO these sorta organizations exist anyways??? Shouldn't the VA address any and all needs of our veterans? Obviously, when you have a tear-jerker of a "cause", you have a tool to take advantage of the gullible.

This one was always pimped by right wing radio hosts.

Peace

When I was camping in the grand canyon last year, we were coming down the bright angel trail past indian gardens, and encountered a WW team carrying a vet through the trail, and they had come all the way down from the north side of the canyon. Apparently they trade off to a fresh team at indian gardens.

So, they do some cool stuff that I haven't seen anyone else do.


That said, their opex efficiency is horrible. Their total revenue for FY14 was $342,066,114. Only 59.9% was spent on the people they help, and the programs they run.

he is a wilderness guide, and a nam era air force vet.
but like so many orgs, the top guys suck up the money, and the little guys give till it hurts.

I probably should have seen this coming. They had a number of major Hollywood stars doing ads for them. Maybe the stars did those ads for free, but it is possible Wounded Warrior Project had to pay large amounts of money to those stars.

golden parachute?

Many non profits are very profitable to the big shots. "Goodwill"... will hire your handicapped child, neighbor and friends for slave wages... and it's legal. > [Goodwill Pays Disabled Workers As Little As 22 Cents Per Hour] > http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/06/24/2201101/goodwill-pays-cents-per-hour/

The story you linked to is sad. The loophole needs to be closed. It is just wrong to pay someone 55 cents an hour because they are disabled. Yes, for that wage they might as well be unemployed.

Having worked in non-profits for many years. Line staff gets paid shit, while management overindulges themselves and their pals.

It's beyond outrageous that we need "charity" organizations to help Vets. It should be covered by the government, funded at the levels it needs to do the job right (by raising taxes on the Imperialist Class that sends us to war) and with oversight that isn't controlled by lobbyists.

They're not that great either...they're actually highly-transparent and they don't have terrible overhead, but they do spent the vast majority of their income (more than 2/3) on soliciting for more donations. That's problematic.

PVA's Charity Navigator page: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4295

Will check out that link.

Magritte!

V.A. doesn't have enough money. Do any of these agencies ever have enough money?
If not, why not?

Could it be the estimated $1,200,000,000 untaxed U.S. corporate income, parked offshore?

Nah.

…..sending them all off to war and at the same time lowering taxes on the rich? So Halliburton could offshore billions? Sure is a puzzler.

(I read somewhere it was 3Trillion hidden, but the rip-off is so complete, it's hard to keep straight.)

Not.

Instead of finding the money to treat veterans according to their sacrifice, this is yet another function of government
that gets outsourced - with predictable results.

Is he cleaning the egg off his face yet?

The bunch of crooks should lose their charter.

over a year ago refused to donate to Wounded Warriors due to what we were hearing about the organization. We send our money elsewhere.

...are scams pure and simple. Older Americans tend to be the main target.

Maybe one reason outfits like this may not make inroads with some older Americans is because a lot of 60+ are Vietnam era vets, their relatives or friends, and can smell a scam. I can buy a lot of t-shirts and blankets for less than $19 a month if I wish. Just the name confuses me. Being injured in 1968 I cannot wrap myself around this 'warrior' meme they tout. Makes it sound like some mercenary band-of-brothers thing. I must be getting too old and cynical.

My Dad, a World War II vet is 93, and we just discovered that he had been donating to every solicitation related to the issue of wounded vets that comes to his door. It was then that I discovered how many scams are out there. The Vietnam War generation, hopefully, is wise to scams, having been victims of the Great Vietnam War Scam. I agree about the "warrior" meme. Sounds like just another scam to me.

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potential revenue streams