My Nonprofit Reviews

Hate group or charity? This nonprofit is a so called local charity, paid for membership group disguised as a charity, but really nothing more than a motorcycle kinda club that claims to help Veterans in the State of AZ, more specifically, the Phoenix and surrounding community areas.

While yes, helping vets is a noble cause, and they have done so for sure, at what cost and harm to others? They treat their members pretty bad, have engaged in libel, and have been accused of only helping veterans who seem to fit in the vision of what they think a patriot is. In other words, the leaders have engaged in and been witnessed being involved in bigoted and racist behaviors. Violent comments have also been overheard. They are down to three official members I have been told.

Locally they are achieving a very bad reputation around town and have earned the nickname the " Bully Belles." They remind me of the mean gals group in high school, but not as popular. If you try to call them out on their bad behavior they yell at you and spread lies around town and try to say it is your issue.

This is a very nice photo included here and a noble cause day but most of these members are gone now due to the hypocrisy, abuse, lies, and horrific behaviors involved while being active members of a group with a false sense of what real patriotism means.

I am a lawyer that lives locally. I was asked a while back when they were called something else before they rebranded, to look into them. Accusations of some sketchy business practices. It is okay to be new and learning but where they refuse help from local charity experts and poo poo federal regulations of Non Profit laws, that becomes a large concern. They also charge their members fees. Pay to do volunteer work? That is a. pretty strange concept we have never heard of. Do not pay on time? You get berated in public several ex members have reported.

On a personal level, I know many ex and current members and have attended many mutual events where Belles have been in attendance. I have witnessed some awful behaviors by the leaders and one member who is a piece of work. I overheard, I think it was their VP, actually yell a racist statement to a guest. I was shocked. While helping Vets is a very noble cause of course, racist comments, berating members and abuse is not. Being a member of a group that wants to help people in need then being hated on by your own member family is a horrendous sin.

It is great to do charity projects, and the Belles have done some charitable things, but being and earning nonprofit status is a whole new ball game. These ladies leading the pack are pretty clueless about what that means and refuse to learn. Also, what good is a charity if you are harming others in the process? Someone needs to audit this Non Profit for sure.

The Belles also have this odd Mission Statement of forced charity work. It seems cultish. I mean who forces people to do charity work? Can't make an event? Get berated, kicked out, libeled around town? Charity work should be given from your heart and soul willingly not forced upon you, not charged a fee for, and most certainly not mandated or get bullied for.

There are so many other. great charities in town. If you really want to help Vets avoid the Belles and search out other organizations.

This is a very hard review to write as a retired marine doctor but me must stop hate inciting in this country. And to be done in the name of a charity is quite shocking.

We must be very careful how we treat our veterans due to trigger points and high suicide rates. Know thy impact when you represent a non profit, even on personal media pages. You represent the charity you sponsor and people notice. Your behaviors must be supreme.

This charity has an admirable goal. How amazing to let our Greatest Generation, often a collectively forgotten group, soar. However with that said, I am disturbed by the recent information shared with me about racism and hate inciting spreading by one of your employees/pilots and maybe even the new CEO himself, which in and of itself is very shocking. Let me explain further.

I recently became aware of GNM through a Veteran Counseling group I donate my services and support. He is a friend of a business associate who ran an online charity fundraiser project for GNM. I donated heavily to the product outcome, and was happy to do so when I read what they do. Like I wrote before, no issues there. I would give that 5 thousand stars if i could.

Later, and as of this week, I saw several posts and received several calls from upset Veterans regarding, said employee. These posts were racist, incited hate, and made false, illegal accusations towards an innocent person. I was very confused by this since it seemed to contradict the charity's mission statement. These posts also degraded many of our current military members and our honorable fellow Americans.

In todays, "Shoot First and Ask Questions Later," we must not make negligent propaganda and Conspiracy Theory inciting posts online that can trigger violence. To be the actual representative of the charity doing so, makes this behavior even more mentally disturbing and outrageous.

Conclusion - Charity Mission- 5 stars
Racist employee/white supremacy pride posts- Zero stars

Lose the employee for a better rating.

How this charity deals with this situation will be interesting to see and closely watched by the military community. I implore them to fix it since it is such a great thing they are doing and this community should not and would not want it to stop.