{"id":60298,"date":"2015-06-10T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60298"},"modified":"2015-06-10T08:52:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T12:52:46","slug":"daily-beast-wounded-warrior-project-sells-your-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60298","title":{"rendered":"Daily Beast: Wounded Warrior Project sells your name"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve pretty much stayed out of this fight mostly because I don’t understand charities and the regulations that restrain them form doing certain things. I think we’ve had one campaign here wherein I asked for donations to help a youngster whose own charity was flim-flammed by a phony. Other than that, when you guys give donations to TAH, you know it’s going into my liquor cabinet or my humidor. However, according to Tim Mak at the Daily Beast<\/a>, the money you give to Wounded Warrior Project that you think is going to help, well, wounded warriors, is probably going into someone’s pocket at the upper echelons of management. Now, Mak also says that WWP will rent your personal information to other charities for a profit;<\/p>\n

[I]n another twist, [Wounded Warrior Project] is repackaging givers\u2019 personal information and selling it off to third parties, making more than $1 million in the process.<\/p>\n

The renting of private information is a betrayal of donors, argues Sandra Miniutti, the vice president of Charity Navigator, a group that rates nonprofits. \u201cWhen a donor gives to you there\u2019s a level of trust, that you\u2019re going to repay that with respect, that together you\u2019re working to make the world a better place, and that [the charity is] not going to flip and sell my personal information,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A top official for a another large veterans nonprofit was aghast when informed about the practice. \u201cWe have never rented out, sold, or shared our donor list,\u201d said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. \u201cOur donors would kill us if we did that\u2026I can\u2019t believe their big, midsize, and small donors would be too happy with that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess it’s bad enough that the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, the Department of Defense, the Office of Personnel Management are losing control of my PII, now WWP is selling my PII to other entities? That’s a little much.<\/p>\n

[Steven Nardizzi\u2014CEO of the Wounded Warrior Project] also argues that refusing to sell information limits charitable sector efficiency: \u201cDonor lists, which tend to include those individuals more interested in philanthropy than the average American, are both cost and mission efficient,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe misdirected privacy protections will limit the effectiveness of important charitable organizations.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, see that’s the beauty of a free market economy – it’s our choice which people get our donations and most of us want to remain anonymous. I give directly to people in need, not through a charity, and when I do give, it’s on the condition that they don’t tell anyone that I helped precisely because of this – I don’t want folks lined up outside my door with their tin cups rattling for every little thing that they want or need. in effect, that’s what happening with Wounded Warrior Project, if Mak is correct in his investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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