My Nonprofit Reviews
Donna02
Review for Coalition To Salute Americas Heroes, Williamsburg, VA, USA
An envelope arrived in our office the other day. It had the bulky, tawdry look of junk mail: pink and lavender Easter eggs, a plastic address window and a photo of a young man in fatigue shorts using crutches to stand on his only leg. “Thousands of severely wounded troops are suffering,” it read. “Will you help them this Easter?”
It was a plea for money from the Coalition to Salute America’s Heroes, one of the worst private charities — but hardly the only — that have been shamefully milking easy cash from the suffering and heartache caused by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I'm no longer donating to this Organization, Be careful with this Organization.
Thank you for the comment and also thank you for donating as you noted at the bottom of your post. We were really thrown by your message. Given it's August, you receiving an Easter package from us was odd. In addition the package you got was from 2008. So really late too. In any case we are sorry that you feel the way you do. We work very hard to supply emergency aid to veterans every day. We have saved so many from being evicted, having their electric shut off, cars repossessed and so on. And our performance and ratios continue to improve. The funding we get thanks to people like you (when you gave) is truly put to good use. That said we surely don't want you getting mail (especially that late) any longer- we have an opt out program, please contact our offices and let us know and we'll get you removed from our mailing list. Thank you.
