Wounded Warrior Project's top execs fired amid lavish spending scandal | Fox News

I've got a couple of issues with how this worked out. First, the board was certainly also culpable. While these guys certainly deserved to get fired, it's looking like they're taking all of instead of their share of the responsibility here. Second, the lavish spending wasn't even the worst thing they were doing. That would be all of the lawsuits they were filing against other charities who were actually, you know, helping vets. They don't own the term "wounded warriors," that term has been around the military longer than WWP has been in existence. Last...they still don't do much to help vets. They mainly take their cut and give the rest to other agencies. They're only core competencies are marketing and fundraising. Helping people is not one of them. I hate that they're such a horrible organization, because they really have done a lot to increase awareness for wounded warriors. Unfortunately, they did it for profit by exploiting them, not to help them.

This isn't enough. A good Board of Directors accepts its oversight responsibility for whatever the organization's executives are doing. For years, WWP's Board have allowed the exact specific conduct to continue that they've now fired these executives for engaging in. They've sustained this conduct for too many years to be able to hide behind a claim of being caught unaware.

They can claim they weren't aware the executives were doing this, but all that does is demonstrate that the Board was shamefully out of touch. Or they can accept that the decisions made were ultimately their responsibility,and that they knew about it, or at least should have known. This problem did not appear overnight. It has been a subject of public discussion for a long time. In either case, WWP needs significant changes in the makeup of its' Board if they wish to deserve a chance to regain our confidence in WWP.

Unfortunate. This kind of press affects all nonprofits working in the veteran and military family space. Some of us actually HAVE programs creating DIRECT impact on those we serve, but continue to struggle to raise funding...our annual budget was probably less than what WWP spent in one month on copy paper.