{"id":72388,"date":"2017-05-29T10:24:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T14:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72388"},"modified":"2017-05-29T10:24:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T14:24:04","slug":"senate-report-on-wounded-warrior-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72388","title":{"rendered":"Senate report on Wounded Warrior Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AW1Ed sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/wounded-warrior-project-investigation-grassley-senate-report\/\">a link to the story<\/a> of Senator Chuck Grassley&#8217;s report on the Wounded Warrior Project. You might remember that they fired their Chief Executive Officer, Steven Nardizzi last year;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The charity had said it spent 80 cents of each donor dollar on programs for veterans, but Grassley says that included donated media, advertisements and &#8220;educational&#8221; fundraising solicitations to reach that number.<\/p>\n<p>And Grassley&#8217;s nearly 500-page report to the Senate Judiciary and Finance Committees found Wounded Warrior Project was spending only about 68 percent of donor dollars on programs for veterans.<\/p>\n<p>It also found the charity:<\/p>\n<p>    lacked &#8220;sufficient policies and procedures to manage the organization&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n    misled donors about more than $65 million placed in a long-term trust that had not yet been spent on veterans.<br \/>\n    spent &#8220;excessive amounts&#8221; of money on travel, as well as fundraising and staff events.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WWP responds that they have made necessary changes to their policies. A responsible veterans&#8217; charity probably wouldn&#8217;t need a Senate investigation to spur them into compliance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AW1Ed sends us a link to the story of Senator Chuck Grassley&#8217;s report on the Wounded &hellip; <a title=\"Senate report on Wounded Warrior Project\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72388\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senate report on Wounded Warrior Project<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72388","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=72388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}