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<blockquote data-quote="tRidiot" data-source="post: 2842024" data-attributes="member: 9374"><p>I hate to hear stories of waste and fraud in charity work almost as much as in .gov. Or more. What do you guys think? Anyone here have any direct experience with them? Trying to present some info from both sides here, in the hopes someone here knows more about the foundation. I despise the Red Cross, hoping WWP isn't in the same boat, although the PR nightmare with the church donations a couple years back really made me skeptical.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/us/wounded-warrior-project-spends-lavishly-on-itself-ex-employees-say.html?_r=0" target="_blank">Wounded Warrior Project Spends Lavishly on Itself, Insiders Say</a></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></strong><em></em></p><p><em>"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - In 2014, after 10 years of rapid growth, the Wounded Warrior Project flew its roughly 500 employees to Colorado Springs for an “all hands” meeting at the five-star Broadmoor hotel.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>They were celebrating their biggest year yet: $225 million raised and a work force that had nearly doubled. On the opening night, before three days of strategy sessions and team-building field trips, the staff gathered in the hotel courtyard. Suddenly, a spotlight focused on a 10-story bell tower where the chief executive, Steven Nardizzi, stepped off the edge and rappelled toward the cheering crowd."</em></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wounded-warrior-project-on-charity-navigator-watchlist-cbs-news-investigation/" target="_blank">Wounded Warrior Project on Charity Navigator's watch list</a></span></strong></p><p></p><p><em>"In another response to the on-going CBS News investigation of Wounded Warrior Project, Charity Navigator, a national evaluator of charities, put the country's most prominent veterans charity on its watch list."</em></p><p></p><p></p><p>Even Military Times is looking into it:</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/2016/01/27/report-wounded-warrior-project-overspends-on-its-staff-ex-employees-say/79412232/" target="_blank">Report: Wounded Warrior Project overspends on its staff, ex-employees say</a></span></strong></p><p></p><p><em>The Wounded Warrior Project, a national nonprofit organization that supports service members wounded in the line of duty, has been accused of blowing millions of dollars in donation money on spoils for its staff, according to a new two-part CBS News investigation.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The CBS investigation was reportedly inspired by Charity Navigator, a nonprofit organization that promotes fiscal transparency among charities. Its scrutiny of public records found that WWP spent 60 percent of its donations on veterans, the remainder of which the CBS News team set out to account for.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>....</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>" A June report by The Daily Beast criticized Nardizzi, saying he pays his executives too much.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>'Nardizzi is an advisory board member of the Charity Defense Council, an outfit with lofty ambitions,' The Daily Beast's Tim Mak wrote. 'The organization wants to remake the entire charitable sector to be more permissive of high overhead and high executive compensation, explicitly citing as its model the oil industry’s efforts to rehabilitate its public image.' "</em></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>WWP Response:</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tRidiot, post: 2842024, member: 9374"] I hate to hear stories of waste and fraud in charity work almost as much as in .gov. Or more. What do you guys think? Anyone here have any direct experience with them? Trying to present some info from both sides here, in the hopes someone here knows more about the foundation. I despise the Red Cross, hoping WWP isn't in the same boat, although the PR nightmare with the church donations a couple years back really made me skeptical. [B][SIZE=3][URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/28/us/wounded-warrior-project-spends-lavishly-on-itself-ex-employees-say.html?_r=0"]Wounded Warrior Project Spends Lavishly on Itself, Insiders Say[/URL] [I][/I][/SIZE][I][/i][/B][I] "JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - In 2014, after 10 years of rapid growth, the Wounded Warrior Project flew its roughly 500 employees to Colorado Springs for an “all hands” meeting at the five-star Broadmoor hotel. They were celebrating their biggest year yet: $225 million raised and a work force that had nearly doubled. On the opening night, before three days of strategy sessions and team-building field trips, the staff gathered in the hotel courtyard. Suddenly, a spotlight focused on a 10-story bell tower where the chief executive, Steven Nardizzi, stepped off the edge and rappelled toward the cheering crowd."[/I] [B][SIZE=3][URL="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wounded-warrior-project-on-charity-navigator-watchlist-cbs-news-investigation/"]Wounded Warrior Project on Charity Navigator's watch list[/URL][/SIZE][/B] [I]"In another response to the on-going CBS News investigation of Wounded Warrior Project, Charity Navigator, a national evaluator of charities, put the country's most prominent veterans charity on its watch list."[/I] Even Military Times is looking into it: [B][SIZE=3][URL="http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/2016/01/27/report-wounded-warrior-project-overspends-on-its-staff-ex-employees-say/79412232/"]Report: Wounded Warrior Project overspends on its staff, ex-employees say[/URL][/SIZE][/B] [I]The Wounded Warrior Project, a national nonprofit organization that supports service members wounded in the line of duty, has been accused of blowing millions of dollars in donation money on spoils for its staff, according to a new two-part CBS News investigation. The CBS investigation was reportedly inspired by Charity Navigator, a nonprofit organization that promotes fiscal transparency among charities. Its scrutiny of public records found that WWP spent 60 percent of its donations on veterans, the remainder of which the CBS News team set out to account for. .... " A June report by The Daily Beast criticized Nardizzi, saying he pays his executives too much. 'Nardizzi is an advisory board member of the Charity Defense Council, an outfit with lofty ambitions,' The Daily Beast's Tim Mak wrote. 'The organization wants to remake the entire charitable sector to be more permissive of high overhead and high executive compensation, explicitly citing as its model the oil industry’s efforts to rehabilitate its public image.' "[/I] [B]WWP Response:[/B] [/QUOTE]
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