On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 10:55:26 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> On 2014-10-19 10:31 AM, Janet Wilder wrote:
>
> >> I looked them up in Charity Watch where I see they received an F rating,
> >> with 85% of the funds they received being spent on fund raising. What
> >> are they trying to do?
> >>
> >
> > Wow! I never bothered to look them up. I give them a small amount
> > every year. My son is a disabled veteran. I suppose that what I give
> > covers the cost of the mailing labels. :-)
> >
>
>
> I guess the point of it is that they are exploiting people like you
> would feel an obligation to disabled veterans. You should Google the
> "charity" and see what has been reported about them. It seems that
> Disabled Veterans National Foundation has raised millions and millions
> of dollars, which donors thought was being spent on programs for disable
> veterans, and almost all the money is being spend on fund raising.
> Almost nothing is going the the disabled veterans. In other words, it's
> basically a scam.

I looked up the one that advertises the most around here. It could be
better, but it's not bad
http://www.charitynavigator.org/inde...ry&orgid=12842
OTOH: I've never heard of the top rated (probably because they don't
advertise). http://www.charitywatch.org/toprated.html#veterans


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