I no longer support the wounded warrior project.

[AceArcher]

copy of email sent to WWH (which is basically same as the one i sent to Heroes on the Water)

Hello Wounded War Heroes organization,

I and a few other like minded individuals have been supporting the WWP for quite a while. Due to various reasons we are all agreeing that we cannot keep supporting that organization.

We are searching for a new charitable organization to give both our time and money to. We would mainly be interested in making events happen in the Southwest LA area (mainly Big Lake).

We can potentially do veterans tourneys and have wounded vets fishing them (while being guided by area guides / knowledgeable anglers) And/Or we can hold regular tourneys to help raise funds for an organization (we would potentially probably like to do a mix of both)

Would your organization be interested in our support in the SW Louisiana area?

If you are interested are you willing to be very transparent in what you use donations for? Our distrust of the WWP is in main part due to its commercialization, and the rather disgusting fact that less than .30 cents of every dollar donated to it ends up benefiting a vet.

Please let me know.

Thanks in advance,

Alex

[Duck Butter]

Nice letter AA


As simplepeddler touched upon, don't lump all charitable or nonprofit organizations into the same category. Nonprofits such as DU, Delta Waterfowl, CCA, etc. have a much higher percentage of projects vs 'overhead'. In order to raise money, you have to spend money to fundraise, you have to have some secretaries, got to pay the light bills, gas bills, benefits, and yes salaries. These organizations have to compete with the private sector for employees, so they have to offer competetive salaries. If you want the best or at least a good staff, you have to pay them or else they will just leave and go into the private sector and make more money. When an organization can say that 60% or even 75% of funds raised goes to on the ground conservation, they are doing very well with what they have.

not defending Wounded Warriors as I have no idea about them, just conservation nonprofits