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Failing to Serve America's Heroes on the Home Front
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| Last Edited | RP Nov 09, 2007 09:16pm |
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| News Date | Friday, November 9, 2007 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In the last two years, generous Americans answering appeals to help wounded and paralyzed veterans have given more than $464 million to charities that have been given an F in a new report card from a leading charity watchdog group.
Those failing charities include the National Veterans Services Fund, of Darien, Conn., which took in more than $6 million in contributions last year supposedly to help veterans' families.
It got a report grade of F from the American Institute of Philanthropy, which says the charity gave out only two percent of its money for charity.
Of the 27 military and veterans' charities reviewed by Borochoff's group, 13 were rated F, including the Amvets National Service Foundation, the Army Emergency Relief Fund, Freedom Alliance, the National Veterans Services Fund, the Military Order of the Purple Heart Services Foundation and the Paralyzed Veterans of America.
But it has meant six-figure salaries and prosperous lifestyles for some of the people running the F-rated charities.
As the founder of a charity called Help Hospitalized Veterans, which distributes craft kits to veterans' hospitals, Roger Chapin of San Diego pays himself and his wife more than half a million dollars a year in salary.
Charity is his business. Over the last three decades, Chapin has created more than a dozen different charities for cancer, kids and veterans. |
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