{"id":36086,"date":"2013-06-07T11:48:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T15:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36086"},"modified":"2013-06-07T11:48:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T15:48:14","slug":"vet-charities-that-are-only-charitable-to-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36086","title":{"rendered":"Vet charities that are only charitable to themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preston sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2013\/06\/07\/report-little-given-back-by-6-veterans-charities.html?ESRC=eb.nl\">Military.com<\/a> which reports from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/\">Tampa Bay Times<\/a> that there are charities out there which are more interested in paying themselves than helping veterans. For example;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>National Veterans Service Fund, for example, which is No. 8 on the list, pulled in $70.2 million. The charity paid the solicitors $36.9 million, but spent just $5.5 million in cash aid to those in need, the paper reports<\/p>\n<p>Vietnow, a 20-year-old organization intended to help veterans and their families, raised about $18 million of which nearly $16 million went to the solicitors, about $2.2 million to the charity, and just over $527,000 in cash aid to individuals over that time, about $32,000 per year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>TBT lists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/americas-worst-charities\/\">the 50 worst charities<\/a> of all types.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2009, while faced with lawsuits by two states and hit with more than $100,000 in penalties, founder Sydney Young shut down Our American Veterans only to set up a new charity, American&#8217;s Helping Veterans Corp., operating from the same address in Georgia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preston sends us a link to Military.com which reports from the Tampa Bay Times that there &hellip; <a title=\"Vet charities that are only charitable to themselves\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36086\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vet charities that are only charitable to themselves<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-vet-charities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}