Sounds like they shot themselves in the foot with that move.One thing I had heard about them many years ago, Tom Gresham of GunTalk wanted to do a fundraiser for them. They told him no, they didn't want to be associated with any gun groups.
Sounds like they shot themselves in the foot with that move.One thing I had heard about them many years ago, Tom Gresham of GunTalk wanted to do a fundraiser for them. They told him no, they didn't want to be associated with any gun groups.
I've not read bad things about Wounded Warrior. Did you two have bad personal experience with them?
Our goal is singular and bold: to change the way people think about changing the world. To let them know that low overhead is not the way the world gets changed. That poor executive compensation is not a strategic plan for ending hunger or poverty or curing disease....
Note the large jump in revenues between 2013 and 2014, from $11,189 to $175,273. What happened? Based on the 2014 Form 990 return for the Wounded Warrior Project, WWP gave a $150,000 grant to the Charity Defense Council sometime between October 1st, 2013, and September 30th, 2014. The purpose of the grant, according to WWP’s Form 990, was to support CDC’s mission “[t]o change the way people think about changing the world by responding to and rectifying inaccurate reporting on charities and proactively educate the media.” The $150,000 grant was statistically insignificant to WWP—0.029 percent of its $342 million in 2014 revenues—but it was a transformative 85.58 percent of CDC’s $175,273 revenues in 2014.
Here's the deal. I like it when people make money, but it bothers me more than a little when the charity seems to become a means for execs to make very good money more than the original purpose. When they are using people's understandable emotions about injured vets to raise the funds, I have less patience about exec compensation than if it were private sector money based upon producing a good or service. They are selling us sympathy and using it for their own profit. It is almost as if they are doing enough good at just a high enough percentage to keep the charity in front of people so they'll keep giving.
Come'on, he's helping out.I agree too HM.
If you want to make a difference, take the helm of a charity. If you want to make big bucks, run a FOR PROFIT entity. You shouldn't expect to live the big life if you're running a NFP. Same for preachers like Osteen.
I heard there was a toilet paper shortage. Osteen is a problem solver:
1) See a problem.
2) Provide a solution.