I haven't donated to Wounded Warrior for one simple reason: the government should be caring for us veterans, not the...

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I haven't donated to Wounded Warrior for one simple reason: the government should be caring for us veterans, not the generosity of people who believe they're helping. And now I'm glad I didn't send them any money. Seems the charity is about as good at not spending on their cause as Susan B. Komen's Walk for the Cure.

Two sets of investigative journalists ran two separate investigations into the "charity" and both found the same results: WWP spends over a hundred million dollars a year on their own parties rather than running lean and helping veterans wounded in selective wars.

Below is the The New York Times​​ article and here is the CBS​​ one: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wounded-warrior-project-accused-of-wasting-donation-money/

More: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wounded-warrior-project-on-charity-navigator-watchlist-cbs-news-investigation/
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/us/wounded-warrior-project-spends-lavishly-on-itself-ex-employees-say.html?referer=http://www.cjr.org/hit_or_miss/nyt_wounded_warrior_project_cbs.php

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Steve Thompson said…
I always use a site like this to get an idea of how many cents on the dollar makes it to the people it's meant to help. WWP is roughly 60%.


http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=12842#.VqwdLfkrJxA
January 29, 2016 at 7:19 PM
NINOX INTELLIGENCE said…
Two sets of paid investigative journalists as a coverup....
January 29, 2016 at 9:05 PM
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