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lucillelucillelucille's avatar

What veteran's charity do you recommend?

Asked by lucillelucillelucille (34325points) March 30th, 2020

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si3tech's avatar

This is a wonderful site on which you can look up charities and actually see how they are rated.
https://www.charitynavigator.org/

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

@si3tech – Gary Sinise’s is the one I’ve been looking into & that link enabled me to compare his against others easily. Thank you very much for this link.:)

si3tech's avatar

I think Gary Sinise’s site would certainly be really good.

josie's avatar

These Foundations
Fisher House
Sinise
Special Ops Warrior
The latter is significant because the majority of casualties in Afghanistan have been operators. And nobody discusses or even knows it until they kill a famous target with no or few casualties. And then the CinC makes political points from it.
President Obama was a promiscuous operator “abuser”.

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

@josie.-Interesting Thanks for your answer.

SEKA's avatar

A good friend of mine husband is enamored with the Wounded Warrior Project and I’ve heard very good things about Gary Sinise as well. The link that @si3tech gave you is an excellent place to start as you can find who uses your donation wisely and who basically squanders it

josie's avatar

Recommend No
to Wounded Warrior Project
They use too much of contributions to pay administrators.

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

@SEKA & @josie -As heart wrenching as their commercials are, Wounded Warriors is not on my list.

YARNLADY's avatar

We support DAV because they provided a lot of benefits to our Dad during his final years.

tedibear's avatar

I did a bit of research about this after my sister died. Several people asked about making a donation in her name. I came up with these three:

Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society
Fisher House
Wounded Warriors Family Support <—They are not affiliated with Wounded Warrior Project.

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