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Review for Support The Troops Inc, Wesley Chapel, FL, USA
Bob Williams and his amazing team of volunteers provided outstanding support to me and my soldiers while deployed to Iraq in 2010. I was so impressed that my family and I visited their location in Wesley Chapel, Florida to personally thank them for their support and to see their operation. We were so humbled by their dedication to our deployed troops and the efficiency by which they carry out their mission, that we became donors to their cause. Fast forward three years and I find myself back in Afghanistan for the second time and they have continued to amaze me with the size of their CARE packages and the quality of the items that they provide. We continue to donate to their efforts so that more of our deployed troops will be able to experience the joy of receiving some of their packages. Our thoughts and prayers are with Bob as he works to recover from an injury suffered while building packages to send to our troops!
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If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
encourage the Department of Defense to embrace organizations like this one and provide greater mailing/postage support to reduce their postage costs and allow them to serve more service members!
How would you describe the help you got from this organization?
Life-changing
How likely are you to recommend this organization to a friend?
Definitely
How do you feel you were treated by this organization?
Very Well
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2013
Review for Boy Scouts Of America, Irving, TX, USA
I have been a Volunteer Scout Leader for the past eleven (11) years and believe strongly in the principles and values that Scouting teaches our young men. Over the past 11 years, I have donated thousands of hours of my time and tens of thousands of dollars to our Troop, District, and Council, which brings me to my primary concern. The Scouting Executives at the National Level and Council Level are highly overpaid and every dollar that is going to them is a dollar that could benefit a young boy. With the number of retired executives in this country that have the expertise to run an organization of this magnitude, I find it hard to believe the we can't find an all-volunteer group of executives to run BSA in a manner that exemplifies "A Scout is Thrifty". There are many executives in our great nation who have the personal resources to run their organizations without a salary, simply for their love of the organization. I would suggest a nationwide search for a wealthy retired executive who could run the BSA and keep the funding focused on the Scouts.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
Boy Scouts is a wonderful organization for teaching young boys the proper values and principles required to be productive citizens in the greatest country on the planet. It is completely dependent upon outstanding volunteers to execute the program at the local level and this needs to be expanded to the executive ranks of the organization. We need more executives who are willing to volunteer their time to maximize the resources available to the Scouts.
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
Hold National, Council, and District Executives more accountable for their actions, or inactions, as the case may be. If they are going to draw salaries commensurate with their for-profit counterparts, then they should be held accountable for the same standards of performance, growth, efficiency, etc.
