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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wounded-warrior-project-accused-of-wasting-…
I had always heard they pissed away a very large chunk of donations while exploiting a few recipients. Being a small business owner, my phone rings off the wall with cronies calling for every kind of charity imaginable. First question I always ask before hanging up is "how much goes to the administrative costs". Had a few actually tell me 90%. Click...
I had always heard they pissed away a very large chunk of donations while exploiting a few recipients. Being a small business owner, my phone rings off the wall with cronies calling for every kind of charity imaginable. First question I always ask before hanging up is "how much goes to the administrative costs". Had a few actually tell me 90%. Click...
I have worked for a community based NPO for the last 15 years.
Fiscal year 2015 our total administrative cost was 6%.
Anything over 10% is irresponsible at best IMHO.
Its good to do a little research so you know where your hard earned dough is going.
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Too little, too late? Damn shame.
So many NPO's are run like Wounded Warriors it's crazy. My daughter is selling Girl Scout cookies right now. I looked into them and their top execs make more than $450,000 a year because they can convince parents to volunteer and little girls to sell over priced (mostly delicious) cookies for them.
There out there learning how to sell while the boys are setting snares and trying to get dry moss to burn. No wonder boys are falling behind.
All three branches in my area have remodeled or moved in the past 3 years and doubled in size. There was even a labor dispute where the employees struck to be unionized. Every town I go through has a remodeled store. They must have had a leadership change in the past 5 years or something that brought on all this expansion.
Edit to add...The wife and I were on a road trip to the coast a couple years ago and we like to stop in Goodwills in other towns just to see what funky stuff other comunities throw out. Anyways, I made the observation that in almost evry store I go in there is some person with down syndrome working there. How nice I thought, but I wondered, are they getting paid the same hourly wage as the non retard employees? No, not even close sometimes. Even people with mild forms of mental ilness who get jobs there might be paid 50 cents on the dollar. The article my wife found while we were on our way on our vacation painted the picture of Goodwill being another greedy corp working the system.
Anyways, carryon
And whats with Walmart always letting people do this? I cant go to my local store without getting accosted to buy/donate to something. They must be renting out the entries/exits to their store.
I used to pick a couple cratefuls, haul them down the grocery store in my wagon, check the store's price of avocados, and sell mine for half of that.
I could usually get away with it for a couple hours before they chased me away, then I'd sell the rest door to door.
Pit Row
Instead, we volunteer to actually work directly for the people who need the help.
Easier than hauling it to the dump, and I don't pay dump fees.
Plus, they employ a lot of people who otherwise may not have a job.
Not a bad business model. I mean someone's gotta organize it!
They actually have a relatively high percentage of revenue spent on actual programs as compared to most non-profits.
One of the craziest non-profit stories was the one where Bristol Palin was paid outrageous money by an abstinence education charity. Can't remember the actual numbers but it was something like her getting $300K and the charity only spent about $20K on actual programs. Meanwhile she's got 2 kids, 2 baby daddies, and never married.......
The part where lots of people get to go to work every day to haul, rehab, clean, organize and sell the stuff.
Or would you rather those folks were sitting home, collecting welfare?
I'd like everyone capable to have a decent job that pays enough to get ahead of the poverty line.
They were fighting for the industrial military complex/US policy of intervention and regime change IMO. History is proving this to be correct but warmongers still want the U.S. in Syria.
As for the hiring of special needs employees, goodwill doesnt pay them. It is a government job placement program that funds it. Grant money. If they are paying $7 an hour, the government is giving goodwill atleast $14 and goodwill is eating the other half as admin costs. Govt is fine with it as long as atleat half goes to the employee. Profit from labor and they get a good image in the community for employing the special needs. Its a sham.
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